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OLD CATHOLIC LAHDMARK IS BEING TORN DOWN DENVER NATIVE Contents Copyrighted— Permission to Reproduce Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue CENTRAL CITY WE PUNCTURE LOCAL CONVENT BUILT CANONIZATION BALLOON ASSIGNED TO DENVER C A TU aiC W e receired a. letter from a non- Catholic woman this week, vigor- ouily proteiting the name, “ Camp Saint Malo,” of the Cathedral camp MISSION FIELD 63 YEARS AGO in Allentpark. “ The impression given,” the woman writes, “ is that Oscar Malo, who presented this Glories of Church in Pioneer Mining Days gift to the Church, has been cre Rev. John Newell, S. J., Whose Twin Brothers ated a ‘saint* by the Pope because Are Recalled With Passing of Once of the money bestowed.” Now Os Are Denver Diocesaij Priests, to REGISTER car Malo is a very fine man, but The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Ser^ce Supplies The Denver Catholic Register. We Have Flourishing School the fact of the matter is that the Work in Honduras Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, and Seven Smaller Services. Church does not canonize people (By Charles J. McNeill) while they are still on this earth. In two weeks, another native son of Denver will be on VOL. XXXI. No. 47. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1936. $2 PER YEAR As preparations are going forward for the fifth an The Malo family name does happen a foreign mission, a member of that growing band of to be that of a saint, who was born nual feopening of the historic opera house at Central City in Wales in 520. Educated in Ire American priests who are going into the far corners of the for the showing of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “ The Gondoliers," land, he became a Bishop in Brit earth to spread the Gospel of the Master. The Rev. John Treasury Head Reports workmen are demolishing the town’s outstanding land tany. Another St. Malo, a soldier Newell, S.J., who was born and reared in this city, will mark, the old convent that has stood high on the mountain of the Theban legion, suffered leave New Orleans July 14 for British Honduras, where he martyrdom in the third century. side above the old mining center for 63 years. By the Hence Mr. Malo, rather than as will join the Jesuits of the Missouri province who are time of the opening o f this year’s opera festival on July suming sanctification for himself, laboring in that country. He will be the first Denver na 18, little more than a pile of crumbling red bricks will be has consented to the naming of tive to work in the Honduras missions. left of the building that was for years the center of Cath the beautiful camp at the foot of Father Newell was born Dec. 17, 1902. He made his Mount Meeker for the glorification olic education in the once thriving parish at Central City. of saints who have been honored primary studies in Annunciation and Sacred Heart grade The old convent is being razed by the Sisters of St. Joseph in the Church for centuries. schools. He was graduated from Regis high school, and of Carondelet, who conducted a school in the building entered the Jesuit order in 1921. ‘ lElO IS POIFSI from 1877 to 1917. The sisters are After receiving the degree of Mas Father Maurice W . Helmann, a retaining possession of the prop ter of Arts, he taught at Regis erty, but the building had reached priest of the Diocese of Lincoln, high school, here, and at Creighton The Most Rev. Anthony J. Msgr. Mulroy to 'who completed his seminary course Schuler, S.J., who was pastor of such a state of dilapidation that it university, Omaha, Nebr. He was B1 was considered impossible to main at St. Thomas’ in Denver and who ordained in June, 1935. Father Sacred Heart church in Denver later spent a year in The Register when he received his appointment tain it. Newell was the third member of When Father Machebeuf, later Give Address at office here, gave us a graphic de his family to be ordained priest. as Bishop of El Paso, has just ob scription of the drouth-stricken served the 35th anniversary of his the first Bishop of Denver, came to The Rev. M. Hubert Newell, as Colorado from Santa Fe in 1860, areas in Nebraska this week, where sistant at the Cathedral, and his POPE TO WOi OF ordination to the priesthood There Charities Meet farmers stand by helplessly as an was no special celebration marking Central City was one of the first twin brother, the Rev. Raymond L. places he visited. The first Sun unmerciful sun withers their crops. Newell, who is studying at Colum the anniversary. The Bishop of fered a Mass of Thanksgiving in day Mass there was said in the The Very Rev. Msgr. John R. W e hear much of the grasshopper bia university. New York city, are the private chapel of his home and Sons of Malta hall, with about 200 Mulroy of Denver will address the plague, but those of us who have priests of the Diocese of Denver. J. later in the day received the greet men and a few women in attend meeting of the diocesan directors never witnessed one can scarcely Father Newell’s mother and fa ings of his clergy and people. ance. Women were scarce in the of Catholic Charities at the Na visualize the destruction wrought ther are both dead. Besides his mining camps in those first days. tional Conference of Catholic by these pests. Father Helmann Bishop Schuler was born in St. priest-brothers, two sisters and a Wichita, Kans. — (Special)- Mary’s, Pa., Sept. 20, 1869. He The first White woman in Central Charities July 31, at Seattle. Wash. told us of driving through sections brother reside in Denver. Pope Pius XI, through Cardinal City was Mary York, a Catholic, His subject will be “ Co-ordination of his diocese where the hoppers received his higher education at The young Jesuit volunteered Pacelli, the Papal Secretary of St. Stanislaus’ seminary, Floris who came in 1859 and whose mar in Catholic Charities.” The Rt. were so thick that they reminded for the foreign missions after his riage Dec. 30, 1860, was the first Rev. Msgr. IThomas J. O’Dvvyer, State, has sent a cordial cable sant, Mo.; St. Louis university, (Turn to Page i — Colum n 1) (Turn to Page 2 — Column 6) and Woodstock college in Mary witnessed by Father Machebeuf in executive director of the Catholic gram of congp*atulations to the land. He entered the Society of Northern Colorado. “ Marriages Welfare bureau of Los Angeles, Most Rev. J. Henry Tihen, retired Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau ii shown at Wash Jesus in 1886, being ordained to •were not frequent then,” wrote Fa- will speak on “ Education” at the Bishop of Denver and former ington as he delivered his report on the condition of the nation’s the priesthood in 1901. (T u m to Page 4 — Colum n S) same meeting. Catholicity Booms Bishop of Lincoln, who on July 6 finances. He painted an optimistic picture of the fiscal situation He was stationed at Regis (then observed his 25th anniversary as a despite a further federal deficit of more than four billion dollars. Sacred Heart) college from 1893 to 1898 and again from 1902 to Bishop and on April 26 marked his 1906, serving as president of the In Mining Centers 50th jubilee as a priest. Bishop Adventure Is Lot institution in three years of his Tihen gave up the administration second assignment. He was at Catholicity is booming again in tion schools this year. Other fa of the Denver diocese July 16, BEET WORKERS ARE Sacred Heart church from 19W to many of Colorado’s famous mining mous camps that have managed to 1931, being succeeded by Bishop Of Leadville Youth camps, leading parishes of the gold 1915, when he was consecrated Urban J . Vehr. He lives here at Bishop in the Denver Cathedral. rush days, as a result of vacation keep their churches going, such as St. Francis’ hospital. DEPICTED IN MURAL One of Bishop Schuler’s big When Ed Levin was attending unknown lands of the most north school activities this summer. Cen Aspen, Leadville, Cripple Creek, works in his Texas see has been the ern possession of this country and tral City, Blackhawk, Ouray, Tel- and Idaho Springs, are also promi Following is the Vatican cable St. Mary’s school in Leadville a gram: "On the occasion of the From 6 o’clock in the morning of Colorado. He walked through erection of St. Patrick’s Cathedral. has traveled where man had never luride, and Silverton, all of which nent in this year’s vacation school few years ago he^ad no idea that double jubilee, the 50th of your until 6 o’clock in the evening, all the factories, spoke to the sweating The Diocese of El Paso consists of he would be the ^rst White man before set foot. He has looked have been without the ministration lineup. field workers as they rested their 33,316 square miles in Texas and down into the boiling, seething of a resident pastor for several ordination and the 25th of your through the heat of the day, men, to see some of the scenic wonders The Rev. F. Gregory Smith, dioc Episcopal consecration, the Holy women, and children hoe, weed, and sun-blackened hands on rusty hoes 29,595 square miles in New Mex mass of lava in Aniakchak’s crater years, because of the economic re of the Alaskan peninsula.