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$253,000 Project of Theotine Fathers Prep Seminary Building Starts DENVER CATHaiC Contracts have been Quetglas said, until the com may be used for meetings, ban Both classrooms measure 32 tect for the building. Eleven con-| signed, and construction is plete four-year high school pro quets, and benefits. by 24 feet. They open onto a struction firms submitted bids.j under way on the Theatine gram is in effect. corridor, which will lead to a Matson 4 Mulhausen Construe-: Fathers’ new preparatory Excavation is progressing on ADJACENT TO the recreation promenade garden, where a tion Co. of Denver has the gen REG ISTER seminary building at St. An the northeast section of the room is another room, 20 by shrine is planned. Landscaping eral and electrical contract for drew Avellino’s major seminary, seven-acre site on which the 48 feet, which may be divided and roadways are to be made. $206,350. Slattery 4 Co. was Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations 1050 S. Birch street, Denver. It major seminary was built in by folding partitions to serve as Henry J. DeNicola is archi (Turn to Page 2) THURSPAY, AUG. 1, 1963 is the first minor seminary in 1955. The fireproof building will classroom space. The gym play DENVER, COLORADO VOL. LVIl No. 51 Colorado. be of brick reinforced masonry ing floor will be 84 by 50 feet Father Bartholomew Quetglas, and will be directly behind the and will have ^ix cage back C.R., Provincial, said the seminary. stops. ' $253,387 project, including In the design, the building will Kitchen^ facilities, restrooms, classroom wing and full-size match in cream brick and white a storage cooler, service closets, gymnasium, is expected to be lueder limestone trim St. An and storage rooms are included completed in February, 1964. drew Av'etlino’s seminary build in the area below the gym. Of Church in U.S. Close ing. The structure will contain fice space is provided in the TO OPEN THIS September, 20,750 square feet, and the cost front entrance section on the the minor seminary can accom per square foot Is $12.20. ground floor. modate 35 eighth grade grad The gymnasium, rising more The classroom wing extends uates in the freshman class. than two stories high, will in southward from the gym. Two Father Ramon Lopez, C.R., is clude a stage, locker rooms, garden - level classrooms arc To 100% Integration principal at the school. film projector room, bleachers, planned at present with provi Another class is to be added and storage area. A 90 by 59-foot sion for adding additional rooms and a second-story section. Washington — Father John F. Cronin, S.S., told a each succeeding year. Father recreation room below the gym House judiciary subcommittee that the Catholic Church has achieved almost a total pattern of integra tion. In a response to a question by subcommittee chair Cardinal, Hierarchy, Throng of Faithful man, Rep. Emanuel Celler of New York, Father Cronin said: “Our pattern is almost total integration, except for scattered areas in Alabama, northern Pay Final Trihute to Archbishop Byrne Louisiana, and Mississippi. Father Cronin, assistant direc One Cardinal, two Archbish Auxiliary Bishop David M. cern with social problems and tor of the Social Action depart ops, and more than 20 Bishops Maloney of Denver and the Rt. as a champion of social justice. ment, National Catholic Wel led hundreds of priests and re Rev. Monsignor John B. Cava- fare Conference, was one of ligious and thousands of the nagh, editor of the Register, at HE WAS NAMED Bishop of Ponce, Puerto Rico, June 23, three clergymen who presented faithful in paying their final tended the funeral ceremony. a joint statement to the sub tribute to Archbishop Edwin V. Archbishop Byrne was shep 1925. He once complained to visit committee on behalf of three Byrne of Santa Fe. herd of the Santa Fe archdio cese for 20 years. He was named ing President Franklin D. Roose i major agencies of the Catholic, Solemn Pontifical Requiem to this post June 15, 1943, by velt that the “miserable” wages Protestant and Orthodox, and Mass for the beloved Archbishop Pope Pius XII and was in paid to rural workers were far Jewish faiths. stalled as Ordinary Sept. 23 of below the standards of Christian The statement supported the that year. justice. One result was an in administration’s civil rights pro- Spiritual leader of ‘ some crease in the federal aid effort g r a m and declared that 300,000 Catholics in this 113-year- to the island. churches and synagogues are old see, covering most of New On March 8, 1929, Bishop united in their determination to Mexico, the prelate had achiev Byrne became Ordinary of the bring about equal opportunity ed recognition for his keen con (Turn to Page 2) for all people in this country regardless of race. Eoumenital Rally Exemplilies Cordiality WILLIAM FOLEY, a counsel Novitiate Opens Aug. 1 for the judiciary subcommittee, Growing cordiality and understanding among dox Church in Canada; Cardinal Paul-Emile said a section of the adminis Protestants, Orthodox, and Catholics was ex Leger, Archbishop of Montreal; Dr. W. A. tration’s civil rights bill might In Glenwood Springs emplified at Montreal, Que., through a mass Visser’t Hooft, WCC general secretary; and Dr. bring in the Church-State issue. ecumenical rally held in conjunction with the George Johnston, principal of the United The (This section would give the Rev. John Cronin, S.S. Ten young men of college age. Beginning Jan. 1, 1964, Fa- World Council of Churches’ Fourth World Con ological college, Montreal. The WCC Faith and U.S. Attorney General authority will form the first group of ther Murphy continued, the Holy ference on Faith and Order. Major speakers at Order meeting at McGill university drew 270 to insititute suits on behalf of bama) a printed copy of your novices at the Holy Ghost Fa- Ghost Fathers newly designated the gathering of more than 1,000 at the Catho delegates and more than 200 others, including race discrimination victims in testimony with my compli thers’ new novitiate to open I Western province will be offi- lic University of Montreal were, from left. five official Catholic observers appointed by the public school and public ac ments.” commodations area.) Aug. 7 in Glenwood Springs. dally recognized. Geographi Metropolitan Athenagoras of the Greek Ortho the Vatican. Dr. Eugene Clark, state Father Joseph B. Murphy, cally it covers the arpa west of Mr. Foley asked Father Cron clerk (chief executive officer) in: C.S.Sp., superior at the Holy the Mississippi river to the of the United Presbyterian coast. “Suppose you have a Catholic Ghost novitiate, said they will 'Christians Cannot Leave Heligious Unity Church in the U.S., represented spend one year studying the A 1,200-acre site was aquired school problem and it becomes the National Council of Church a community problem. If nego- Archbishop Edwin V. Byrne meaning of religious life, reli by the congregation in Glenwood es, and Rabbi Irwin M. Blank gious vows, and the high goal .tlations fall and the Attorney was offered in St. Francis’ Springs for its first house in represented the Synagogue they seek in becoming priests. Entirely to God,* Canada Cardinal Urges General takes action, could it Council of America in present Cathedral, Santa Fe, July 31. After their novitiate, they will the Archdiocese of Denver. not he' said the government is Montreal — Cardinal Paul- ing the joint statement. Bishop Sidney M. Metzger of El continue their studies at the About 300 acres are at the Thc key to Christian unity, is My beloved Son, in whom 11 giving support to religion?” Emile Leger said that Chris the Cardinal told the group, is am well pleased’.” Paso, who had served as Auxil Holy Ghost Fathers’ St. Mary southern boundaries of the city. Father Cronin replied that the tians cannot leave religious un the Holy Eucharist. iary of the Santa Fe archdio seminary in Norwalk, Conn. Some 900 acres include forest The Faith and Order discus situation could be compared to cese, was celebrant of the Mass. ity entirely to God but must "It is through communion sions show that the different a strike by cemetery workers. and grazing lands. seek it themselves with all their St. Jude Burse FATHER CLEMENCE F. with His Eucharistic Body that Churches do not have identical “We are not concerned here strength. CARDINAL JAMES F. MeIn Lachowsky, C.S.Sp., is the nov THREE BUILDINGS were in the Lord truly brings us unity Interpretations of the Eucharis with religious belief as such,” Reaches $1,665 tyre of Los Angeles presided in ice master at the Glenwood eluded in the $250,000 transac He addressed a bilingual ecu by giving us Ris Spirit, who tic mystery, he noted. "It is he answered, “but with a civil the ceremonies and gave one of Springs novitiate. Previously he tion. menical rally in conjunction shapes us in His image so that because of these differences that disturbance arising from a re- S'* contributions, two of five absolutions. Archbishop with the fourth international the Father may say in all truth we cannot celebrate the Euchar ligious situation.” iwhich came from donors out was master of novices at the The main house, which has Byrne, 71, died July 25 following meeting of the World Council to each of the baptized; “This istic prayer of unity.” side of the archdiocese, were Holy Ghost novitiate in Ridge 20 rooms fully furnished, will be “Generally speaking," he add surgery -in St.