The Denver Catholic Register

ANNUAL PRESS SUNDAY MAY BISHOP TIHEN Contents Copyrighted— Permission to Reproduce Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue COLLECTION TO ‘FATHER TIM’ DEMPSEY- APOSTLE OF CHARITY When the mortal remaipt of TO MARK 50TH BE TAKEN UP Montignor (“Father Tim” ) Demp- DENVER CATHOLIC »ey were interred in “ exiles’ rest” — a cemetery plot he founded for the down-and-outers he had helped YEAR AS PRIEST FOR REGISTER in life— the world lost a character who was one of God’s rare gifts to mankind. W e have heard of no Former Denver Ordinary Will Also Observe Vigorous Catholic Newspaper Is Possible individual who was a greater friend REGSTER of the poor, no man who was per sonally responsible for a finer Silver Jubilee in Hierarchy ; Only Through Whole-Hearted charity. The number of men, The National Citholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register, We Have women, and children who were This Summer I Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, and Seven Smaller Services. Co-operation of People beneficiaries of his charity is prac tically inestimable. The number of Sunday, April 26, will be the 50th annive of VOL. XXXI. Nol 35. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1936. $2 PER YEAR The annual press collection for The Register is to be people he 'influenced to return to the ordination of the Most Rev. J. Henry Tihen re- taken up in the churches of Denver and vicinity this year the Church and the number of souls tired Bishop of Denver, now titular Bishop of iBosana, on Sunday, May 3. On that day, the Catholics of this he saved from eternal damnation are known to God alone. residing at St, Francis’ hospital, Wichita, Kans. He was To Preside at Mass region will be given the opporunity to show, in a practical “ Father Tim,” we have declared, ordained April 26, 1886, His silver jubilee as; Bishop way, their appreciation of the work being done by their was one of God’s rare gifts to will occur July 6 of this year. He was consecrated Bishop FB. S i l l Mill paper in behalf of the Church, not only in the Rocky Moun mankind. The St. Louis prelate of Lincoln, Nebr,, in 1911, and was transferred I here as tain region, but throughout the entire country as well. As had bound up in that kplendid character of his more spirituality, Bishop of Denver Sept. 21, 1917, resigning Jan. ,6, 1931. in other years, an appeal is made for a generous response more humanity, than are ordina He served as Apostolic Administrator of the diocese, fol Sim III n i l on the part of our readers. rily given to ten men. He was the lowing his resignation, until July 16, 1931, when tjhe Most The history of Catholic journalism in this country is epitome of virile manhood. Kindly, Rev. Urban J. Vehr was installed. a story of struggle and sacrifice. Not more than a score of sympathetic, and generous to the point where no sacrifice was too Friday of this week is the fifth anniversary of the years ago, the continuation of nearly every Catholic paper great for his beloved poor, “ Father appointment of the MostI Rev. Ur in the United States was dependent ban J. Vehr, D.D., as Bishop of Tim” nonetheless could and would, upon the willingness of its editor Denver. The anniversary of his when the provocation demanded it, Honolulu, T. H.—As the result to carry on his work for a financial use his fists to good advantage. s i i s y y i s i consecration will occur June 10. of the recently-announced approval remuneration that was far less Once, when he saw a lodging house Bishop Vehr will be a priest 21 Former Provincial m Washingrton of $100,000 for the years May 29, 1936. than the amount he would have re keeper kick a man out of his door construction a new post chapel ceived for his efforts had he chosen and into the gutter, and then step Bishop Tihen, who wa:s born at at Schofield barracks here, Major the secular field of journalism. A forward to administer another Oldenburg, Franklin county, Ind., Edmund C. Sliney, Catholic chap balanced budget through regular kick, the priest clamped a vise-like but reared in Missouri, will be 75 lain at the military post and for advertiising revenue and subscrip Of Denver Nuns grip on the assailant’s arm. years old on July 14. He was mer chaplain at Fitzsimons hos tion income was almost an im “Who are you?” the angry man educated at S t Benedict’s college, >■ \ pital, Denver, has been requested possibility. Extraordinary efforts demanded. Atchison, Kans.; St. Francis’ sem m i to remain in Hawaii for another through special editions did, in “ Timothy Dempsey,” was the re inary, Milwaukee, Wise., and at tour of duty. Father Sliney will i * some cases; serve to balance the ply, “and, for fear you’ll forget, the Catholic University of Amer complete his regular two-year tour budget, but it was not the unusual Taken in D ea l! here’s a reminder,” and Father ica, Washington, D. C. (where ,> in October of this year, according thing for a Catholic paper to rely Dempsey knocked the man down Alamosa.— To see the sun rise he took postgraduate work as a to George Peavey, former Den upon subsidization by the Church, Mother Mary of the Holy Cro.ss, on the sidewalk. three times on Easter Sunday priest). From 1886 to Fej). 1, verite who is Hawaiian correspond after all other revenue-producing m former mother provincial of the Only an exceptional sense of morning was the unusual experi 1889, he was assistant at St. John’s ent for the.NCW C News Service. methods had been exhausted. humor and a ready wit could have ence of the John Steffens family church, St. Louis, Mo., whose pas Father Sliney cares for the spir St. Paul province of the Sisters In recent years, however, many of the Good Shepherd, to enabled him to carry on his work. on their way into the 6 o’clock tor, Father John Joseph Hennessy, itual needs of 2,500 Catholics at sections of the country have seen a Many of the anecdotes of the lively Mass from their home in Hooper. was appointed Bishop of Wichita, Schofield. Four Masses are said ■which the Denver convent belongs, decided upturn in the standards of died in St. Joseph’s hospital, St. repartee with lodgers at his hotel Mr. Steffens was driving 60 miles Kans. The young priest went to each Sunday, the chaplain being Catholic journalism, with resultant Paul, Minn., after a two-year ill show him coming off second best, an hour and caught the rising sun Wichita at the invitation of the X’ assisted over week-ends by a Marist progress from the standpoint of priest, the Rev. Leo Mock, from ness. She was 85 years of age, but, for the most part, he more on a low pass on the Sangre de new Bishop and served as pastor both subscriptions and advertising, Christo range. Hurrying south St. Louis’ college in Honolulu. and had been a member of her than, held his own. His sense of of the Cathedral and Chahcellor the latter course of income being order 62 years. Mother Mary humor is perhaps best brought out on their 16-mile trip, they again of the diocese from 1889 to 1911, Christmas and Easter services the backbone of any publication. saw the celestial orb rise in a de draw such large congregations that made many visits to the Good in the story of his brother, a police when he was himself made Bishop. In the field of advertising, the Shepherd convent ir» Denver while sergeant, who once vainly sought pression. of the serrated edgfe some Under his g;uidance, the Denver it is necessary to use the largest struggle is constant and terrific. what higher than the pass they theater in the post as a temporary she was superior of the province. his help in apprehending an old diocese saw a huge development This holds true even with the Funeral services for the former man, an intermittent lodger at the had just left. Again, and finally, in the number of parishes, schools, church. secular papers, but it is a fact of they saw the sun burst in Easter Father Sliney was one of the provincial were held in the chapel hotel who was suspected of stealing and in the upbuilding of institu almost nightmare proportions in of the House of the Good Shepherd an overcoat. “ Father Tim” was splendor over the majestic Mount tions. St. Thomas’ seminary se most popular chaplains ever sta the religious field. Catholic buy tioned at Fitzsimons. While in in St. Paul, and burial was made (Turn to Page i — Colum n 1) Blanca. cured its splendid new home. The ing power in the city the size of in Calvary cemetery. development of the Register as a Denver, he became intensely inter Denver is justification for a weekly ested in the Work of the Register, Mother Mary was born in Ire national institution also occurred paper with twice the bulk of the land, and her name before she under his guidance. the result being that, after his Denver Catholic Register. But co transfer to the Hawaiian islands, entered religion was Ellen McCabe. History of Parish Bishop Vehr’s reign in the Den operation of many of the leading When she was five years old, she he immediately ordered copies of industries of the city—industries ver diocese, already a ; third as the National Edition for distribu was brought to this country by long as that of Bishop Tihen, came tion in his parish.

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