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- ^ ~ T T Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations Contents Copyright by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1955— Permission to Reproduce, Except on Confession Seal Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue Power of Women Noted in Annals World Theme Of Fact, Fiction REGISTER Robber's Action Spotlights For Cenventien Church's 'Miracle o^ Trust' V O L L. Na. 35. THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1955 DEI^VER, COLORADO By Paul H. Hallett The romance of the confessional seal, so strictly Archdiocesan Council to Hold and inexorably guarded, made the Denver headlines when it was revealed that $6,850 out of $7,780 robbed from the Colorado State Bank Feb. .17 was returned by 29th Annual Meeting M ay 17 a Denver priest, at the behest of the penitent robber. The man is reported as handing over the sum to the priest at The average woman’s power over the world and its de.stiny will be the keynote Confession. idea of the 29th annual convention of the Arch^iocesan Council of Catholic Women, to The priest is assigned at Denver. U. S. Attorney Donald be held Tuesday, May 17, in the Shirley-Savoy Hotel, Denver. E. Kelley said he would respect the priest’s request to keep his The theme of the meeting, for which a formal program was announced by pro name and parish secret. The priest was fingerprinted by FBI agents in the U. S. gram chairman Mrs. Fred Gus- Marshal’s detention cell so that his finger markings could be hurst, is taken from the address eliminated from consideration during laboratory tests of the of Archbishop Richard J. Cushing returned bills. No stigma was attached to this. at the national convention of the Attorney Kelley was reported as saying that the priest promised to relay his message that partial return of the money women's council in Boston in would not absolve the bandit of “ criminal liability,” and that November, 1954. he hoped that now he would clear his conscience entirely by "The average woman at the coming to the proper civil authorities. posts of control” is the phrase No Moral Duty to Surrender In the confessional, contrition is not possible, and there selected "as the dominating idea fore the Confession is invalid, if restitution of damage done is for the Denver meeting. In his not taade or sincerely promised. The robber may have spent the address Archbishop Cushing said missing $930, or he may have it in hiding to be surrendered at that the "average woman resolves another time. In any event, to be sincere he would have to have the great issue of the hour in a firm purpose of returning the sum as soon as possible. In case This is the Robert •interest in Catholicism. of theft or robbery, a moral obligation extends only to restitu favor of Christ or against Him." New Catholic Family Neal Evans family, Left to right, back row, are Mrs. Lucy Agnes tion. There is no moral obligation to surrender oneself to the Potter, sister of Mr. Evans, who was a sponsor; "She does so,” he said, "by her received into the Church on Holy Saturday by the authorities. Elaine Gaynelle, 13; Mrs. Evans and Mr. Evans; Rev. Daniel Flaherty in St. Anthony’s Church, enormous political power as a It is a duty of the law enforcement officers to do what Myron Reed, 16; H. .M. Floyd, sponsor; and Father Westwood. In the foreground is Anna Maria, 6, voter in the modern democracies. they can to catch the criminal; but the duty is not reciprocal; Flaherty; in the front, left to right, are Lucy whose near-fatal accident was the first step in a The criminal has no duty to give himself up, although he may Helen, 9; Patrick Martin, 7; and the heroine of the She docs so by her enormous cre series that ended with the family’s conversion. Her not resist arrest by violent means. tragedy that turned into a happy ending, Anna ative power in the professions, Inviolability of Seal Baptism in a Catholic hospital led to the Evanses’ Maria. the businesses, and public ca The inviolability of the confessional seal derives from two - f + + [-------------------------------------- ^------------------------------------------------------- 1------ reers to which , the 'average chief heads; 1) The natural law and the divine law. It is the latter law that makes no exception possible. Revelation is against- woman' now has access. the natural law because it violates an implicit pact between' NeorTragedy Fr. George W. Roach, "She does so by the sheer in Migr. John R. Mulroy Rev. William J. Monahan confessor and penitent, and falls into the same class as secrets fluence she exercises as a mem ACCW Chaplain Ast’t ACCW Chaplain confided to a doctor or lawyer, which the civil law respects. ber of the half of all the race But, more importantly, revelation is implicitly against the divine Brings Family law of Christ, for, though He said nothing explicitly on the sub which gives humanity its mothers, ject, He w'ished the sacrament to be administered in such a way Acting St. Dominic's its sisters, its sweethearts, its $47,138 Addition Begun that the faithful should not be deterred from resorting to it. Into Church teachers, and the innumerable They would be deterred if divulgation could be feared. Canon Law (Canons 889-890) merely restates the obliga By F rank Morriss other groups which do, in a wom tion of the divine law. THE BAPTISM of a family Pastor, Dies at Desk an's way, and on a vast scale, On Loyola Parish Convent The fact that the robber returned the overwhelming bulk of eight in St. Anthony's what once was done by a good of the money testifies to his sincere repentance, and incidentally Church, Westwood, on Holy Father George William Aquinas College, Columbus, 0., queen like Helena or an evil one Construction of a $47,138 for $11,288. John F’. Connell is adds one more testimony to the immense social value of Con Saturday morning was the Roach, O.P., 59, acting pas and attended the Dominican the architect. Houses of Study at Somerset, 0., like Cleopatra; a rebel for God addition to the sisters’ con fession. Wfere it not for an institution in which even the worst joyful climax to a series of tor of St. Dominic’s Parish, Father Murphy, pastor since ________________ (Turn to Page S — Column i) events that started with a Springfield, Ky., and Washing like St. Joan or enemies of the vent of St. Ignatius Loyola’s 1951, pointed out that repairs in near tragedy. Denver, was found dead at ton, D.C. He was ordained June Christian commonwealth like the Pari.sh, Denver, begun the convent building will put the his desk in the rectory 4, 1926, in Washington by Arch misguided women who so fre April 2, is expected to be com structure in first-class condition. Received into the Church by bishop Michael J. Curley of Bal the Rev. Daniel Flaherty was Wednesday, April 13, by Father quently dominate sections of the pleted no later than August, Although the convent has a Theatines Make Strides, W. H. Albertson, O.P., an assi.st- timore. chapel, it lacks a sacristy, but the Robert Neal Evans family Red regimes and prove the fier Father Edward P. Murphy, S.J., o f 0405 Morrison Road— Mr. ant pastor. He served as an assistant at pastor, announced. It will contain this will be added on the south and Mrs. Evans and six chil Father Albertson administered St. Patrick’s Parish, Columbus, cest of the foes of faith and free- n rooms, side of the convent. Superior General Reports dren, ranging in stJepladder the Last Sacraments. Death was 0 ., from 1927 until 1929; and at dom. " I In the past four years over-all Lived in Small Quarters believed to be caused by a heart Holy Rosary Parish, -Minneapolis, fa-«hion from the eldest, a boy So long as the "average woman" in Loyola Parish, Throughout the past 12 years. of 10, to little Anna .Maria, 6. attack. Minn., from 1929 until 1939. In not including the convent has, p^tj,er Murphy added, the nuns Father Roach was assigned to 1939 he was appointed chaplain tolerates the evils that plague -Anna Maria was the real zoomed to about $325,000, under numerous sacrifices On Visit to New Seminary St. Dominic’s in October, 1954, o f the Dominican Sisters’ Con mankind. His Excellency said, Father Murphys supervision. Ajrgqujj-ed by living in small quar- heroine of the unusual conver when the pastor, F'ather J. G. vent at Rosaryville, La., and sion. In the fall of 195,3 she only so long will they exist. nine-classroom school, ranked p , _ Column 6) Forquer, O.P., left for'a pilgrim served there until 1943 when he By Paul H. Hallett bership o f the Clerks Regular, toddled into the street and into 'The convention will open with among the best in the state, was —^ age to Europe. Father Forquer was assigned to a Houston, Tex., The proud order of the Father March explained that it the path of a ton-and-a-half completed last Augu.st and accom-l ^ ■ ■ is in Madrid, Spain. Parish. From 1945 to 1954 he was Mass for the living and deceased Theatines (Clerks Repular) is no part of their purpose to of onrushing steel. Her badly modates more than 355 pupils. Father "Roaca was born in an assistant at St. Anthony’s members of the Denver Archdioc serve only those of Romance battered body was rushed to Since 1943, Father Murphy has been advancing in the Food du Lac, Wis., July 16, Parish, New Orleans.