In an article entitled "Panel: Archives of religious orders tell history of U.S. church," Rhina Guidos writes about the Fate of Catholic Religious Order Archives conference hosted by Catholic University on March 29, 2017.
CARA member Malachy McCarty of the Claretian Missionaries Archives USA-Canada participated in this panel and talked about the importance of religious order records: "... if historical materials contained in religious order records are not made available, an inaccurate story will get told..."
The complete article can be read here. Special thanks to Joan Sweeney for bringing this article to our attention.