DENVER CATHOLIC on the Warehouse, and Next Week Faces Federal Blvd
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r I Church School in Denver's Christ the King Parish Will Be Dedicated Aug, 18 Parishioners Donate Labor! Rectory ReadV At Fort Logan The Rev. Anthony Weinzapfel, who has been pastor of St. Patrick’s parish. Fort Logan, since 1942, finally has a rectory of his own. Built entirely through the efforts of the parishioners (estimated to number 250), the new rectory-hall began as a war surplus a)imy warehouse, which was purchased for $1,000 from an investor in Brighton. The parish has been without a rectory since its establishment in 1895. Father Weinz^fel, who has been living with Father Edward ■ Leyden at Loretto ^Heights college, said that approximately $15,000 has gone into convertii^ the warehouse, now a more-than-adeqdate residence and meeting nail. i Measuring 108 by 25 feet, the structure has a concrete founda tion with a full basement, part of which will be used for a garage, a vestibule, two offices, two bedrooms, dining room, kitchen, land housekeeper’s quarters. Half of the building will serve as a ]j)ar- ish hall. ; ON THURSDAY, AUG. 18, at 10 a.m. Archbishop to the chapel the building contains five classrooms and a I the new chapel is shown, and the picture at the right shows Toward the end of the last century, before Denver had taken Urban J. Vehr will officiate at the dedication of the Christ library. Plans for the future include the conv*ersion of the the other end of the building and the entrance to the class- permanent shape, the small but thriving community of Logant()wn.ntl^wn the King church-school building, Eighth and Elm streets, chapel into four classrooms. This change will be made rooms. The Rev. John Scannel is pastor. (J. K. Monroe, (now Fort Logan) was considered by one and all to be on its way |up. Denver. The chapel will seat 450 persons. In addition when the parish church is built. At the left the entrance to[ Architect; Elder Construction Co., Builders; Wunder photos) Situated near the fort itself, the village was to become a humming center of activity in South■ Denver.‘nyi His Excellency, the Most Rev. Nicholas Matz, at that time Bishop of Denv?r, approved the founding of St. Patrick’s parish and a church was built. The parish .ex tended to Santa Fe drive. : St. Dominic’s Parish to Buiid New Schooi For 40 years the late Monsigpor Richard Brady served S t Patrick’s Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Seeing Is Believing? from Loretto Heights collegej in Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1949—Permission to Reproduce, Except on Twelve Classrooms addition to his duties as college Articles Otherwise Marked. Given After 12 M. Friday Foiiowing Issue. chaplain. The parish population failed to come up to expectations. Father William Mulcahy took dyer the pastorate in 1940, and still Are Planned; Site no permanent residence near the ' I church was forthcoming. In June, 1948, work was started DENVER CATHOLIC on the warehouse, and next week Faces Federal Blvd. Father Weinzapfel will move into his new home. Plans are now being; drawn for a new 12-class- A parish school will undoubtedly be the next project at St. Patrick’s, rooin grade school for St. Dominic’s parish, Denver, according to Father Weinzapfel. the Very Rev. Peter O’Brien, pastor, announces. Two rooms in the new buildingiare being reserved for the purpose,,but REGISTER The school will be erected adjacent to the right now it is impossible to get^ The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register. We church, which is located at Federal boulevard and sisters to teach, he said. t Have Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven Smaller The St. Patrick buildings-are Services, NCWC and Religious News Photos. Price of paper 3 cents a copy W. 29th avenue. The new edifice will give a paro situated at Mansfield and S. jlrv- chial plant that will c.vtend almost three-quarters of ing street j VOL. XLIV. No. 51. THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1949 DENVER, COLORADO the block toward Speer boule-|'^'^ 7~ Yard and will include the rec-i L tory, the church, and thejf If jC Jno. Carroll DOWNTOWN DIVISION DISCONTINUED school. i It is hoped to have the school ready by September, 1950. August 14 in Opposed t6 Evening Classes to Be Given Construction will begin as soon as final plans are approved and the families move who are living in the two houses on the site of the Hew Parish Barden Bill new school. The property was On Campus of Regis College purchased some time ago by the The first Masses in the Another Colorado Congress For the first time in its history, Regis college will offer parish. It is hoped to keep the lot Mother of God church, Speer man, John A. Carroll, Repre between the church and the school boulevard at Logan street, its full facilities to evening .students this fall with all evening free and to continue to use it as sentative from the Colorado Chicagoans classes to be held on the Regis campus at 50th avenue and parking space for church-goers. Denver, will be offered Sun First district, has expre^ed The new building will also pro day, Aug, 14, according to an opposition to the Barden 1 ed- Lowell boulevard, Denver. announcement by the Rev. John The desire to serve a larger number of students than vide space for the primary and eral aid to education bill in a form kindergarten classes, office space, Regan, pastor. Time of the .Masses letter sent in reply to letters 1 rom To Stop for could be accommodated in the and quarters for a school nurse. will be 7:30, 9, 10, and 11:30. The constituents. Letters from tliree rather cramped quarters down new Federal boulevard bus will following day, the Feast of the prove handy to those living on the John K. Monroe is the architect. other Congressmen were pri:ited town and the wish to provide a Assumption, Ma.sses will be of in the Register last week. more studious atmosphere away south and west sides of the city. The edifice will be constructed fered at 6, 7, 8, and 9 o’clock. Shrine Visit from the noise of the business sec Arrangementi have been com of brick with stone trim. There Regular weekday Masses will be A copy of the letter, receive 1 by tion were among the comfielling pleted for those who with to will be a partial basement to be offered at 7 and 8 o’clock. a Denver woman^ follows: factor* that b’robght about the have dinner before attending used chiefly for storage. Included The church, the inside of which John A. Carroll , .. Members of a Living Ro i.i the proposed expansion of the. sary pilgrimage that left Chi move, according to the Very Rev. clatt to make use of the college ha* been colnpletely rebuilt since Iffduse of Representative* i Raphael C. McCarthy, S. J., presi dining room where mealt will be parish buildings are plans for an the building’s purchase this spring, THE “VISUAL VIVISECTOR” invented by the Rev. Washington, D. C. j cago Monday will arrive in dent of Regis. served before the first classes auditorium to be erected at some will be dedicated Tuesday, Aug. 16, Aug. 1, 1949 time in the future. As yet it has Charles K. Hayden, S.J., is being demonstrated above by Denver Sunday evening and Evening itudentt will thus be of the evening. at 10 o’clock by .Archbishop Ur its inventor. A student of magic nearly. 30 years. Father Hayden gave Mrs. Charles Saavedra not been determined whether to ban J. Vehr. The new parish, es 3301 W. 54th Avenue attend Mass Monday morning, enabled to make use oT the The Rev. Louis G. Mattione, make the auditorium an addition to several demonstrations of his skill in the art in the Denver area Feast of the Assumption, at the Refit library which, with itt'^’SsI., dean of the college, has ar- tablished last spring, was found in this summer. He is dean of men at Creighton university, Omaha, Denver 11, Colorado the school or to construct a sep the course of a parish census to mountain Shrine of St. Frances 60,000 volumes, it one of the ranged a varied and comprehen arate building. -X- -f- + • + , + Dear Friend: Xavier Cabrini in Mt. Vernon best among the smaller colleges sive class schedule with courses contain some 450 Catholic families. Thank you for your recent <»m- New Convent Planned Officiating in the Solemn Mass canyon. of the country, and all other being offered by the departments Also under dLscussion is a new munication regarding federal'aidfederall facilities for study, research, of accounting, business adminis- following the dedication of the to education. In view of the ‘act Denverites and visitors in the convent for the sisters who teach church will be the pastors of four 'Visual Vivisector Bisects city are invited to attend the Mass and social activity that exist t?ation, economics, English, his ill the school. Either a third floor that my office has received hun on the campus. tory, music, philosophy, psychol parishes that gave territory to the dreds of letters on this issue, it ha* to be offered at the shrine grotto will be added to the school to new Mother of God parish. They at 10 o’clock .Aug. 15 along with Ample parking apace exists on ogy, religifm, sociology, Spanish, serve as a convent or a separate Without Cutting; Invented become physically impossible for and speech.