Importance of Church Archives

Abstract

Archival records may comprise miscellaneous contents, from those related to everyday pecuniary, property, possession records to the disciplinary, penal, incentive, spiritual, theological, even poetical, literary and similar records. Considered together, they all depict the life of an institution or community whose activity created them. Also, they represent a trace of religious life of a certain community; in fact, as we were taught by Pope Paul VI, they represent the trace of the passage of Jesus through the world in space and time in which a particular Christ’s community operates. It is, therefore, important to appraise archives and treat them in an authentic manner, as in this way, among others, we can prove the authenticity of our Christian life.