Inventory of the Daniel O'Hanlon - Vatican II Collection, 1962-1969
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Inventory of the Daniel O'Hanlon - Vatican II Collection, 1962-1969
Accession number: GTU 89-5-02
Shelf location: 2/C/1-4
The Graduate Theological Union Archives
Berkeley, California
Contact Information:
- Graduate Theological Union Archives
- 2400 Ridge Road
- Berkeley, California, 94709
- Phone: (510) 649-2523/2501
- Email: archives@gtu.edu
- URL: http://gtu.edu/library/information/special-collections
- Processed by:
- Lucinda Glenn Rand
- Date Completed:
- October 15, 1992
- Cataloged:
- October 12, 1994
- Encoded by:
- James Lake
© 1998 Graduate Theological Union. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Daniel O'Hanlon - Vatican II Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1962-1969
Accession number: GTU 89-5-02
Shelf location: 2/C/1-4
Creator:
O'Hanlon, Daniel S.J., 1919-1992
Size: Number of containers: 11 boxes
Linear ft.: 8 1/2
Type of material: Papers, correspondence, newspapers, books, photographs
Repository: The
Graduate Theological Union
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Source and Date
Daniel O'Hanlon, March 1992
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Copyright has not been assigned to The Graduate Theological Union. All requests for
permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the
Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Graduate Theological
Union as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Daniel O'Hanlon -Vatican II Collection, GTU 89-5-02, The
Graduate Theological Union Archives, Berkeley, CA.
Access Points
Subjects
Vatican Council (2nd: 1962-65)
Vatican Council (2nd: 1962-65) --History --Sources
Names as Subjects
O'Hanlon, Daniel, 1919-1992
Biographical/Historical Description
Daniel O'Hanlon, S.J. (1919-1992) entered the Jesuit Order in 1939, and was ordained in
1952. He studied in Rome and Tubingen, receiving his S.T.D. in Fundamental Theology from
the Gregorian University, Rome, 1958. Post Doctoral work included a semester with Rudolph
Bultman at Syracuse, and a semester with Paul Tillich at Harvard. He began teaching at
Alma College in 1958. He came to Berkeley when Alma College moved to join the GTU and
became the Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley in 1966. He was Professor Emeritus at
JSTB at the time of his death in a car accident in 1992.
In 1963, he worked as a journalist, writing a weekly column for America Magazine, a
Jesuit publication. In 1964-65, while working for the Secretariat for Christian Unity, he
was assigned to be the interpreter/guide, the "ciceroni", for the Protestant and Orthodox
English speaking observers at the Vatican Council, living with them and attending daily
proceedings. He did simultaneous translations for them from the Latin proceedings. At
first he did this by just listening over the regular sound system and speaking into a
microphone for the observers wearing headphones. Later, he had special headphones himself
to hear the proceedings. He tells that is was a particularly arduous job. They had,
however, the "best seats in the house", high up looking directly down on the chair of the
Council. (interview with Fr. Daniel O'Hanlon, March 23, 1992)
Fr. O'Hanlon wrote an article in the September 28, 1963 issue of
Americaentitled "Vatican II: A Look Ahead." In that article he stated: "it is of supreme
importance that the Council address itself to concrete realities and structures in the
life of the Church. Could not this be what Pope John meant when he insisted that the
purpose of the Council was not the definition of dogmas but a pastoral adaptation to the
needs of our time? The Church, especially when she acts through her bishops assembled in
Council, responds to the guidance of the Holy Spirit in a living and concrete situation.
She does something. To conceive the Church as above all a compiler of abstract
theological propositions, as no more than the author and protector of a system of
doctirne, leads to a false concept of the Council and its work. Only if it has the
courage to actually do something can the Council produce lasting results. ...(a)
wall-building mentality is at cross purposes with the direction and spirit of the Vatican
Council. The tearing down of some of these walls may be the Council's most fruitful
task."
Hans Kung wrote an article for the January 21, 1966 issue of
Commonwealentitled "What has the Council Done?' He gives this summary: "The Council has
certainly not done everything which it could have done from the point of view of the
present situation. But is has done a great deal more than we expected at the time. At
that time (1960) I wrote: 'The Council will either be the fulfillment of a great hope or
its disappointment. Mediocre results in the face of the seriousness of the world
situation and the needs of Christianity would be a great disappointment.' Today I can
say: despite the real disillusionments, the Council has been the fulfillment of a great
hope."
Scope and Content
The collection was given to the GTU Library in the late 1970's by Daniel
O'Hanlon. It was not officially deeded to the GTU Archives until 1992. Originally in
cardboard cartons, the collection was reboxed and moved at least twice by different
library staff persons when the library was moved, and again during a later construction
phase of the library. Because of the moves, the original order of the collection was
destroyed.
The archvist began discussions about the papers and his organization of and intention for
them with Father O'Hanlon, but his sudden death left me to reconstruct an organization as
close to his as possible. He had labeled several file folders, but also had great amounts
of loose material without any headings. Wherever possible I have retained his file folder
headings. The loose unheaded materials are organized as closely as I could to the common
subject any given stack presented. The daily proceedings begin with Session II, 1963. I
have made the overall organization of the collection chronologically: beginning with 1)
1962, 2) moving through the sessions II-IV, 1963-1965, 3) then the collected material
about each "document" for discussion and action at the Council, and 4) finally, all the
material having to do with post-conciliar issues and follow-up.
In the container listing is included with each file folder description various
letters which indicate the language of the items in that folder. The code is as follows:
- E -English
- L -Latin
- v.l. -various languages
- I -Italian
- G -German
- F -French
- S
-Spanish
Box Box 1 , Folder ff 1
L'Osservatore Romano, 10/11/62 (on the opening of the Council). L
Folder ff 3
America on Council (Jesuit journal), 1963
Folder ff 4
Blessed Virgin Mary, 1963. v.1.
Folder ff 5
Chronolog Notes, 1963. L & E
Folder ff 6
Correspondence, 5-9/63. E
Folder ff 7
Lay Apostolate, 1963. F & E
Folder ff 9
Opening Talk, Paul VI, 9/29/63 (Session 2). v.1.
Folder ff 10
Italian Press Releases, 7-11/63. E & I
Folder ff 11
De Regimine Dioces (on Episcopal matters), 1963. F & E
Folder ff 12
S.J. Meeting, Bellarmino, 10/63. L
Folder ff 13
Summaries and Clippings, Pre-Council, Council, 1963. E
Folder ff 17
August 18-Sept. 17, 1963. v.1.
Folder ff 19
Sept. 29-Oct. 6, 1963. v.1.
Folder ff 23
Oct. 28-Nov. 3, 1963. v.1.
Folder ff 27
U.S. Bishops Press Panel, c. 1963. v.1.
Folder ff 28-29
Documents Miscellaneous, 11-12/63. v.1.
Box Box 2 , Folder ff 1
Documents Miscellaneous, 1963. v.1.
Folder ff 2
Stampa Italiana Sul Concilio, 10/63. I
Folder ff 3
Stampa Italiana Sul Concilio, 11/63. I
Folder ff 4-10
Unnamed File Folders, 10-12/63. v.1. (ecumencial questions, communiques, news bulletins)
Folder ff 11-12
DO-C (Documentatie Centrum Concilie) Series III, 1964. v.1.
Folder ff 15-17
Printed Drafts of Proposals and Decrees, 1964
Box Box 3 , Folder ff 1-4
Printed Drafts of Proposals and Decrees, 1964
Folder ff 5
September 14-30, 1964, Council Digest for Council Fathers, USA. E
Folder ff 9-13
Various daily news documents, 1964, v.1.
Folder ff 14
Sept. 14, 1965, Opening Day. v.1.
Folder ff 15
Sept. 15-30, 1965, Council digest. E
Folder ff 18
1st week. Sept. 12-18, 1965. v.1. (this series of file folders contains various documents collected during the week as well as hand-written notes and calendars)
Folder ff 19
2nd week. Sept. 19-25, 1965. v.1.
Folder ff 20
3rd week. Sept. 26-Oct. 2, 1965. v.1.
Folder ff 21
4th week. Oct. 3-9, 1965. v.1.
Box Box 4 , Folder ff 1
5th week. Oct. 10-16, 1965. v.1.
Folder ff 2
6th week. Oct. 17-23, 1965. v.1.
Folder ff 3
7th week. Oct. 24-30, 1965. v.1.
Folder ff 4
28 October 1965. 5 documents
Folder ff 5
8th week. Oct. 31-Nov. 6, 1965. E
Folder ff 6
9th week. Nov. 7-13, 1965. v.1.
Folder ff 7
10th week. Nov. 14-20, 1965. v.1.
Folder ff 8
11th week. Nov. 21-27, 1965. v.1.
Folder ff 9
12th week. Nov. 28-Dec. 5, 1965. v.1.
Folder ff 10
Last 3 days, Dec. 6-8, 1965. L
Folder ff 11-15
English 1965 (this series of file folders contains daily published news documents in the language listed)
Box Box 5 , Folder ff 1-5
Folder ff 11
Observers (3 photographs) c. 1965
Folder ff 12-16
Observers (includes some corresp.) c. 1965-66
Folder ff 17
Study Days for Observers c. 1965
Folder ff 18-20
Misc. Documents 1965. v.1.
Box Box 6 , Folder ff 1
Misc. Documents 1965. v.1.
Folder ff 2-3
Bishops, 1965. G & L (this series of file folders contains materials surrounding the church documents decided at Vatican II)
Folder ff 4-5
Christian Education/Catholic Schools, 1965. v.1.
Folder ff 6-13
Church and the Modern World, 1965. v.1.
Folder ff 14-17
The Church/De Ecclesia, 1963-64. E & L
Box Box 7 , Folder ff 1
The Church/De Ecclesia, 1964 (con't.)
Folder ff 2
The Church's Relation to Non-Christian Religions, 1964-65. v.1.
Folder ff 3
Divine Revelation, 1964. E & L
Folder ff 4
Divine Revelation (Notes for an English translation).
Folder ff 5
Eastern Churches, 1965. E
Folder ff 6-8
Decree on Ecumenism, 1965. E & L
Folder ff 11-12
Apostolate of the Laity, 1965. L & E
Folder ff 18-19
Priests (On the Ministry and Life of Priests), 1964-65. v.1.
Folder ff 2
Religious Freedom, 1965. v.1.
Folder ff 5-6
Roundtable on Counciliar Issues, "How to Implement the Vatican Council, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 1965.
Folder ff 7
IDO-C/WCC Consultation of Journalists and Broadcasters, Geneva, 7/27-28/66.
Folder ff 8
Encyclical, "Mysterium Fidei", 9/11/65
Folder ff 10
Hugh Donohue, Bishop of Stockton, CA, 1964
Folder ff 11
CCCC (Centrum Coordinationis Communicationum de Concilio), 1965 (on the closing of the Council). v.1.
Folder ff 12-13
Articles, Pre and Post Council, c. 1962-66. E
Folder ff 14
Press Clippings, c. 1965. E & I
Folder ff 15
IDO-C (Information Documentation on the Conciliar Church), Correspondence, 1966-67
Box Box 9 , Folder ff 1-2
3 books:
Council Daybook, ed. Floyd Anderson (National Catholic Welfare Conference, Washington D.C.)
Session I, 1962 - Session IV, 1965.
Box Box 10 , Folder ff 1-3
Newspapers, 1964 (con't.). I & E
Folio Box 11 - folio
Book:
The Book of the Gospels at the Oecumenical Councils, Romeo de Maio (Biblioteca Apostolica, Vaticana, 1963).
Folder
Periodical:
l'Osservatore della domenica, "Il Concilio Ecumenico Vaticano II. 1966.
