Loyola University (Chicago): "Priest in the Modern World"

These papers, which date roughly from the mid-1930s to the early 1980s, capture that commitment to religion, scholarship, and social justice. They contain a wide range of material-primarily correspondence, manuscripts, transcripts of interviews, organizational minutes, questionnaires, and printed material. They have been arranged into six series: Correspondence; Research Projects; Civil Rights; Subject Files; Printed Material; Photographs and Personal Effects. Three of these series-Research Projects, Civil Rights, and Printed Material-are further divided into subseries. Arrangement within each series or subseries is usually either chronological or alphabetical by folder title.

The remainder of this guide consists of the Biographical Sketch, which outlines major points in Father Fichter's life; the Series Description, which provides an overview of the size, arrangement, and contents of each of the six series; the Container Listing, which gives the title of each folder within each box; and the Index to Correspondence, which locates selected correspondence.