IN DEiV VER AREA Architect's Sketch of Church-School-Hall for Westminster Parish 450 Are Received By Church at End O f Convert Series By Rev. D aniel J. F laherty Approximately 450 persons have completed in­ structions and been received into the Church in the past three months in the parishes of the Denver metro-' politan area. This figure is arrived at following a survey of the 62 churches and mission chapels in the immediate Mile High City area on the conclusion of the annual fall con­ vert classes. The fall series is believed to be the largest ever held in the archdiocese. The cbureh portion of the buildinc U at the left and the hall at the right. Not vinible i« Of the 62 parishes and chap­ the classroom section, at the left rear. Doy ei Prayer r els, nearly 40, or three-fourths, Sunday, Dec. 29 conducted regular 10-week classes running from the middle of September until the first Persecution week in December. As a direct result of these classes, 360, per­ sons were received into' the Church-School for W estminster Church. In the remaining ^ Is Suffered parishes, which did not hold ^ pervised classes, approximately Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations 100 persons were instructed in $250,000 Building Contents Copyright by the Catholic Pres* Society, Inc., 1957—Permission to Reproduce, Except 'Rome Eternal' private sessions and heve re­ By Millions On Articles Otherwise Marked. Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue ceived Baptism. By Paul H. H allett As nost parishes hold two Unique Project THE U.S. BISHOPS chose classes aad a few sponsor For Young Parish; Sunday, Dec. 29, ai a day of three in the course of a year, i|>ecial prayer fo r the per­ the surrey yeraals that ap­ For Television secuted peoples of the world proximately 1,100 persons DENVER CATHaiC because that was the day, here haen haptixed into the Starts This Spring “Rome Eternal,” one of Church in the year 1957 hy in the year 1170, on the first special projects of which St. Thomas a Becket means of the recular convert B y R ev. R obert E. Kekeisen class. the 1958 TV season, is was martyred in his Cathe­ Just four months after the naming of its first dral. The Archbishop of Add to this figure the nearly unique in the annals of tel­ Canterbury's murder was oc­ 250 persons who have been in­ pastor, Holy Trinity Parish, Westminster, an­ evision production. The casioned by his resistance to structed in private throughout nounced plans for the construction of a new REGISTER two-hour him presents for the the interference of the Eng­ the past year and this brings to VOL. L ll. No. 20. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1957 DENVER, COLORADO first time on TV a historical lish King Henry II in Church 1.350 the number of converts quarter-million-dollar elmrch-school building. portrait of Rome and Vatican affairs. Under an infinitely baptized in the Denver area The pastor, the Rev. Albert E. Pulil, reported City. worse regime, more than 200 churches in the year 1967. This th^t it will be three months be­ 'REGISTER' SPOT CHECK INDICATES It will be telecast in four of St Thomas a Becket's is an increase of nearly 200 over half-hour segments on the fore final specifications are block between 72nd and 74th brothers in the Episcopate the past year, when 1,162 were Catholic Hour, NBC-TV net­ baptized. Avenues. have been murdered or im­ drawn up, and another month work, on the consecutive Sun­ prisoned. Far Above Notional before the bids have been sub­ Tour Clossroomsr days of January, 1958. C^ St Thomas a Becket op­ Average per Priest m ined and studied and that ac­ Coieteria in Plans produced by the National Coun­ posed Henry on the particu­ cil of Catholic Men and NBC- lar ground that he usurped Since there are 121 priests tual work can be expected to The initial phase of the pro­ H ig h School Science engaged in active parish work TV and written by Pulitzer Church domination over the stare on the project next spring. ject will include a onc-stotjf unit in the metropolitan area, the Prize-winner Paul Horgan, the clerj^. In a vastly more sci­ Present plans envision a T- with only enough excavation be­ film was made on location in entific m a n n er, “people’s 1.350 persons received into the Church would allow for 11 con­ shaped structure, with the church neath for the custodian's apart Rome this past summer. courts" in Communist lands verts per priest, and near seven I d Denver, KOA-TV, Chan­ are hailing clergy before forming the vertical bar and the meat and boiler and storage B e lt e r Than Adequate per priest for the 206 stationed nel 4, will carry the series their docks to answer charges classroom-hall section,, the hori­ rooms. The north arm of the T within the area, a remarkable at 11:30 a.ID. on Sundays, of “conspiracy" against the By B ill K ilk en n y “ No one has shown that there ing to what Russia does; it is average in the light of the fact zontal transept. The church will will enclose four 24 by 39-foot Jan. 5, 12, 19, and 26. government. A spot check of Catholic is really a need for us to change based on sound educational face west on Irving Street in the • • • ^Tum t o P a g e S — C o lu m n 8 ) classrooms, boys’ and girls' lava our curriculum,” he said. “Our principles. It would be a mis- Laid onto the film canvas of and secular educators by the modern TV camera in pan­ IN HUNGARY a large tories, and storage space. The system is not geared accord­ fTttrn t o P a g e t — C o lu m n 6 ) the Register indicates gen­ oramic strokes is.the brilliance number of priests, headed by TO BEGIN AFTES JAN. 1 south arm of the-T will house eral agreement that* Cath­ AT MINNESOTA COLLEGES o f Rom e, past and present. In Monsignor Egon Turcsanyi, a spacious parfsh hall, opening the artwork, monuments, and secretary to Cardinal Mind- olic high schools in the onto the south sNe of the sanc­ buildings extant in Rome, szenty, are undergoing this Archdiocese of Denver are do­ Construction Bids Opened tuary when needed for overflow ing a better than adequate job which yearly draw millions of mockery of a trial. This prel­ Parochial High Grads travelers from all parts of the ate is reported to be in com­ crowds at Mass; an annexed cafe­ in training youths for careers in science. world, is told the great, some­ plete mental and physical On New School in Boulder teria expansion, a complete kit­ The survey was made in times tragic, past life of the collapse after a year of tor­ >pe der was the successful bid­ chen for parish functions, and the wake of wideepread eon- Do Better in Chemistry Eternal City, In the' faces and ture in a Red prison. Four new Sacred Heart Parish der for the mechanical work activities of mid-20th century additional storage space. plaiaU that Anerican high Graduates of parochial high nesota had a grade index of Bishops are kept from the School, Boulder, on Thurs­ with a figure of $50,528. Romans is depicted the story school* ara failing to equip schools get better grades in 2.63 in chemistry, compared exercise of their office. day. Dec. 19. There were 10 Contract Is Signed The back of the building, be­ of the Rome of our time. tceo-agers with a sound chemistry courses in Minne­ tofa grade index of 2.62 for In Eastern Germany Com­ bidders for the general and The building will cost hind the sanctuary, will include background for higher stud­ sota colleges than public high public high school graduates. munist agents are in the electrical work on the struc­ $9.60 per square foot for Significance of an office, a sisters’ lounge, a school ipaduates, according to At Catholic collens, the kindergartens, to insure that ture, to be located at 1.3th construction, and $10.35 per ies in seienee. Rome and Popocy priests' sacristy, a work saaisty, an article in the November parochial high school gradu­ the seeds of Communism will and High Streets, and five square foot completely fur­ Despite the fact that a na­ Jottmal of Chemical Educa­ ates had a grade index of The .significance of Rome be planted in the minds of for the mechanical work. and a conference room. Father tional survey indicatea that nished. The general contract tio n . 2.72. and the Papacy in the history ‘ the tenderest children. N. R. Nielsen & Son, 76 was signed Dec. 23. It is ex­ fewer than two per cent of the Puhl explained that the unit is The article, written by Rob­ Catholic high school grad­ of Christianity and Western • • • S. Elati street, Denver, with pected that work wflf nation’s leading scientists are so arranged that two additional ert C. BrastM of the Univer­ uates formed a larger per Civilization and the contem­ IN CZECHO-SLOVAKIA, a bid of $226,731 was soon after the first of Jan­ Catholics, graduates of Catholic sity of Minnesota, reports on cent of the best chemistry porary importance of the Vati­ low for the general and elec­ uary, according to the Rev, classrooms can be provided, high schools in this area do as the leading prelate,.