USO-NCCS CLUB IS MOVING to K. of CJIOME ARCHBISHOP GERKEN DIES in SANTA FE Increased Facilities

Colorado*i Largest Newspaper; Total Press Run, "All Editions, Far Above SOOfiOO; Denver Catholic Register, 23^3 USO-NCCS CLUB IS MOVING TO K. OF CJIOME ARCHBISHOP GERKEN DIES IN SANTA FE Increased Facilities Content* Copyrighted by the Catholic Prese^ociety, Inc., 1948— Permission to Rep:roduee, Except on /urticles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following lissue To Meet Demands nf Requiem Will Be Offered DENVER CATHOUC Greater Attendance On Saturday Deavsr Gouscil Will Meal Twice Menihly in Hall and Reiain One Roam for Denver Ordinary to Offi< , Permananl Office date; End Comes The USO-NGCS club is moving from its present location The NationalI^ Catholic Welfare G Conference IST News Service Supplies E The Denver R Catholic Register. We Have Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven Smaller at 222 E. 17th avenue to the Knights of Columbus clubhouse, Suddenly Services, Photo Features, and Wide World Photos._________________________ 1575 Grant. The approval of the new location of the club came from the USO national headquarters in New York. VOL. XXXVin. No. 28. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, MARCH 4, 1943. $1 PER YEAR The transfer was made possible by the action of mem A Solemn Pontifical Mass bers of Denver council 539, K. of C., several weeks of Requiem will be celebrated New York Priest Says in Seminary Address ago, when the need for larger accommodations for the for the Most Rev. Rudolph A. USO-NCCS was learned. 'The local council voted unanimously Gerken, Archbishop of Santa to relinquish its spacious home to Fe, in Sari Francisco Cathe Need for Missionaries to dral, Santa Fe, by the Most the USO-NCCS for the duration of Rev. Urban J. Vehr, Arch the war. The knights reserve the Junior Newman Livme eiLLiRi right to use the council hall twice bishop of Denver, at 10 Be Huge Post-War Problem a month for meetings and retain o’clock Saturday. Many members one room for a permanent office. Clubs Will Hold of the Hierarchy from the Rocky The new club facilities will fill Mountain and Southwest areas “ One of the greatest post-war Speaking before the faculty and •mre expected to be present, includ a long-felt want of the local USO- problems of the Catholic Church students o f St. Thomks’ seminary. NCCS club, whose facilities were Annual Retreat ing Bishop Sidney M. Metzger, will be the need for priests to Father Coogan pointed out that, former Auxiliary of Santa Fe and not adequate to meet the needs of carry on its world-wide work.” until the present war, Europe fur the more than 12,000 service men now Bishop of El Paso; Bishop ’The chaplains of the Junior That was the message brought nished about 95 per cent of the (By Paul H. Hallett) who use it each month. ’The in Bernard Espelage, O.F.M., of Gal Church’s mission personnel, and Newman clubs of the metropolitan lup; Bishop Laurence J, FitzSimon to Denver by the Rev. Aloysius F. About 3fi years ago a nun teach crease in the army camps in and Coogan of New York, editor of America supplied five per cent. ing English in Loretto Heights, near Denver has made for a jump area will meet in Holy Ghost hall of Amarillo, where the late Arch France, he said, which once pro bishop served as Ordinary for six Catholic Miationt, who is making Denver, wrote a thesis for her of more than 160 per cent in at Monday evening at 8 o’clock to a tour of the principal seminaries vided 16 per cent of foreign mis Master’s degree. Entitled “ Living tendance over the totals for the plan the third annual retreat for- years; Bishop Joseph C. Willging sionaries, now faces a serious of Pueblo, and several others. in the United States to further the Catholic Essayists,” it became the first four months of the club’s the Catholic students attending the Academia of Mission Studies, shortage of priests. Before the germ of an idea that in 1932 cul operation in late 1941 and early junior and senior public high ' The Archbishop’s body will lie sponsored by the Society for the fall of France, 17,500 priests were minated in the Living Gallery of 1942. schools o f the city. The retreat, a in state Friday night in the Cathe in the army and 2,000 parishes Propagation of the Faith._______ Catholic Authors, the only organi According to Franklin Sullivan, two-day session, is scheduled for dral with the Knights of Columbus were without priests. Every sem zation in the world that has for its the week of March 29 in St. Francis forming a guard of honor. inary in Germany, once a fertile club director, the added work in purpose the systematic collection operating, maintenance, and pro de Sales’ church. The retreat-, Death came to Archbishop Ger field for mission vocations, hw of relics of and information about gramming will be met by an in master will be a priest who is an ken on Tuesday, March 2, at 1:15 Father Ordinas been closed by the Nazis. Spain contemporary Catholic writers. outstanding leader in youth work. lost at least 5,000 priests in ^ e crease in the senior and junior hos p.m. in St. Vincent’s hospital, A few minutes’ talk with Sister Nearly 300 students from the massacres of the Civil war, which pitality corps and volunteer work Santa Fe. His Excellency was Mary Joseph, who passed through metropolitan area are expected to left half its parishes without pas ers who are active in USO-NCCS found unconscious on. the floor of Closes Tour in Denver on her way to her head attend the services, which will be- - his Episcopal residence Tuesday tors. activities. Several entertainment quarter:^ the Lorettines’ Webster features will be added in the gin at 9 o’clock each morning and morning after he had been the vic Despite the war, the missioners college, Webster Groves, Mo., is new quarters, among them the end at 3 p.m. tim of a stroke. arc carrying on their apostolate War Bond Drive worth, so far as stimulating in showing of first-run motion pic In a message endorsing the re all over the world— some o f ^e m The Archbishop would have cele terest is concerned, any number tures several nights a week. The treat movement for the members in internment camps and prisons; brated the 56th anniversary of his of hours spent in reading any club facilities that are now offered of the Junior Newman clubs Arch others in totally devastated lands. birth Sunday, March 7. The Very Rev, John Ordinas, amount of literature about the will be augmented. They include a bishop Urban J. Vehr declared to. Tbe New York priest, who was Dr. Robert 0, Brown, who at superior of the Theatine Fathers Catholic literary revival. Her en dark room for the developing of the Very Rev. Joseph O’Heron and accompanied to Denver by the tended the prelate following the in Colorado and pastor of St. thusiasm, which stirs the most pictures, the “letter on a record” the Rev. Hubert Newell, co-di Rev, John A. Fleming o f Chicago, stroke. Laid death was caused by Cajetan’s church, Denver, has sluggish literary conscience, is not that is an exclusive USO-NCCS rectors: "This is one of the most cerebral thrombosis. The Arch closed a speaking tour that took declared that “ American mission the effervescence of a momentary feature, roller skating, dancing, important activities o f our archbishop was stricken while dressing him to 12 Colorado cities, -where aries all over the globe are up ardor but the deep undertow of a games rooms, shower facilities, diocesan program o f religious edu holding the same ideals for which In the morning. He had suffered he addressed Spanish-speaking au conviction that is strong because it spruce-up room, writing lounge, cation. I hope that the Catholic for several years from high blood diences and appealed to them - to U. S. fighting men are giving their knows the value of its cause better check room, and snaok bar. Special public high school pupils ^11 take, lives. American, soldiers, scat pressure and had known that buy war bonds. He spoke in Wal- than any one else. classes are held in current events advantage of the opportunities af-. (TnmtnPaff4i — Column t) Archbishop Rudolph A. Gerken, Santa Fe senburg, Gardner, San Luis, Ala tered across the world, are learn' The nee^ tl\at brought into be each week and an expert in leather- forded by the retreat to advance mosa, Del Norte, Capulin, Antonito, ing from heroic priests and reli ing the Living Gallery of Catholic work teaches all who are interested in the spirituality so needed in In Entire State La Jara, Trinidad, La Junta. Rocky gious tbe extent and the import Authors was this: The current every Wedrmsday evening. Music these times.” of foreign mission work.” appreciation, radio entertainment, Ford, and Fort Collins, all of Catholic literature of 10 years ago Speakers in Monday evening’s which have many Spanish-speaking “ America,” Father Coogan con was not appreciated as it deservM, and reading rooms, with a well- meeting in Holy Ghost hall ■will be stocked library, are also featured. Marriage Regulations to Catholics in their precincts and cluded, “ is preparing for the role and potential Catholic writers were the Rev. Gregory Smith, pastor o f .vicjiiities. Elmer Tenorio, who is it must play after we wai^, when not being given the encouragement The new club has three floors St, Francis de Sales’ jiarish, and Connected with the Denver juven it must be ‘the arsenal o f tbe mis that they riceded» because.-forTone (Turn toYageX — Column i ) Fathers O’Heron and Newell.

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