The collection consists largely of primary sources from 1958 to the 1990s, assembled between the 1970s and 1990s and used by Sister Janice McLaughlin, an American Catholic nun of the Maryknoll Sisters, for her book, On the Frontline: Catholic Missions in Zimbabwe's Liberation War. Harare: Baobab Books. 1996, and her dissertation, "The Catholic church and Zimbabwe's war of liberation :1972-1980", Thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Zimbabwe, 1991, on which the book was based. Includes original and copies of correspondence, internal reports, church diocesan newsletters, and other primary sources of the Catholic Church and other organizations, press clippings and BBC transcripts, Rhodesian government propaganda pamphlets, and materials by other organizations and individuals in Zimbabwe; and numerous handwritten transcripts of oral interviews with African nuns and others in rural mission stations. Also includes DVD recording of interview with Sister Janice, color photographs taken ca. 1998-99 at a camp for displaced people in Gorongoso Park, Central Mozambique, and other materials. Subjects include political violence, church affairs, and assessments of the political situation. Church correspondents and authors include Bishops Donal Lamont, A. Haene and Tobias Chiginya, Fathers J. Wyss, John Berrell, E. Fughe, E. Rojek, N. Gille, Anthony Gwatiringa, and others.