Five Pastors, Two Administrators, Assistant Appointed Evergreen Receives Resident Priest Fr. Norbert Walsh to Arvada, Fr. Ailen to Holy Family Parish (See copyright notice over P. 1 masthead) Appointments of five pastors, two administrators, and one a^istant are announced by Archbishop Urban J. Vehr. The pastors are as follows: Holy Family parish, Denver, the Rev. Forrest Allen of St. Anne’s parish, Arvada; St. Anna’s parish, Arvada, the Rev. Norbert Walsh of St. John’s parish. Stone- ham; St. Joseph’s parish. Golden, the Rev. Andrew E. Warwick of St. An­ thony’s parish, Julesburg; St. Anthony’s parish, Julesburg, the Rev. Albert E. Puhl of St. Joseph’s parish. Golden; and St. John’s parish, Stoneham, the Rev. John Canjar, assistant in Holy Family parish, Denver. The Rev. Joseph Bosch of St. Peter’s parish. Crook, is named adminis Rev. Norbert WaUb Rev. Albert E. Pukl Rev. Charles Salmon trator of Christ the King parish. Evergreen, and the Rev. Charles Salmon, assistant in Our Lady of Lourdes parish, Denver, is named administrator of St. Peter’s parish. Crook. The Rev. Nicholas Walsh, chaplain in Mt. St. Vincent home, Rer. Forrest Allen Rer. Andrew E. Warwick Denver, is named assistant in Our Lady of Lourdes parish, Benedictine Nuns Pian Convent Denver. Announcement was ma^e The appointments are effective Friday, Nov. 16. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation this week by the Lady Abbess Rev. Forrest Allen + + + Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1951— Permiss’on to Reproduce, Except on Augustina that construction The Rev. Forrest Allen, newly Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue. will begin immediately on a named pastor of Holy Family par­ new convent for the Benedic­ ish in Denver, succeeds the Rt. Official Rev. Monsignor Deo M. Flynn, who tine Sisters in South Boulder. The died in September. A veteran of erection of suitable facilities was revealed to be the real purpose the army chaplains’ corps in World of the Abbess’ return from Ger­ war II, Father Allen has been pas­ many, where she presides over the tor of the Shrine of St. Anne in DENVER CATHaiC 900-year-old St. Walburga’s abbey Arvada since January, 1948. In in Eichstaett, Bavaria. that time he has completed and dedicated the parish rectory, re­ Archbishop Urban J. Vehr has ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER approved plans and given permis­ decorated the church, and begun a Chancery Office fund for a parish school. sion for the construction to pro­ 1336 Logan Street ceed on a $79,000, one-story brick A native of Blanca, where he Denver 5, Colorado building on a 12-acre site south of was born Dec. 10, 1911, Father The following appointments are the present buildings of St. Wal­ Allen was reared in Pueblo, where announced by the Archbishop: R E G IS TE R burga’s convent in South Boulder, he attended St. Patrick’s grade PASTORS where the Abbess herself was su­ school. He was graduated from Holy Family church, Denver, Rev. Pueblo Catholic high in 1929 and perior until her elevation in 1950. Forrest Allen that same year entered Regis col­ VOL XLVIl. No. n . THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1951 DENVER, COLORADO The light red brick building will St. Anne’s church, Arvada, Rev. lege, Denver. be constructed 'in an L shape fac­ Norbert Walsh ing the mountains. The smaller After a year’s study at Regis, St. Joseph’s church, Golden, Rev. he entered St. Thomas’ seminary, wing will be given over to a large Rev. John A. Canjar Rev. Nicholas Walsh Andrew E. Warwick New St Catherine's Church in Hiff room suitable for use as the chapel Denver. He was ordained to the St. Anthony’s church, Julesburg, priesthood May 22, 1937, in the of the community until such time Rev. Albert E. Puhl as a regular chapel can . be built. Denver Cathedral by Archbishop St. John’s church, Stoneham, Rev. Vehr, and was appointed assistant The larger wing will be completely Contains New Chapel John Canjar equipped to handle a community in St. Catherine’s parish, Denver, of 20 sisters. It will contain in­ where he served three years. ADMINISTRATORS Christ the King church. Evergreen, dividual cells, a refectory, a kit­ In June, 1940, Father Allen be­ Rev. Joseph Bosch chen, community room, and quar­ Wing Is Completed came administrator of St. Mi­ St. Peter’s church,' Crook, Rev. ters for a novitiate. chael’s parish. Delta, and in Jan­ Charles Salmon uary, 1941, he w as^ansferred to Novitiate to Open St. Paul’s parish, Idaho Springs, ASSISTANT PASTOR For Group of Three as administrator. He held that Our Lady of Lourdes church, Den­ On Sterling Hospital ver, Rev. Nicholas Walsh The Lady Abbess reveals that it post until May, 1943, when he was Mt. St. Vincent’s home will be is hoped to have the building fin­ commissioned in the chaplain ished by next May and announces Archbishop Urban J. Vehr will preside at dedication corps of the U. S. army. cared for by the Jesuit Fathers ceremonies in Sterling on Sunday, Nov. 25, for the new ad­ Appointments effective Friday, that a novitiate will be opened im­ He was separated from the serv­ Nov. 16. mediately, There are at present dition and chapel in St. Benedict’s hospital. He also will ice in 1946, after some three years two postulants ■with the South dedicate the new St. Anthony grade school and gymnasium in the army, including a tour of St. Mary’s mission house, Techny, Boulder community and a third the same day, in addition to conferring Confirmation duty in the Pacific theater. He en­ 111., from Sept. 23, 1921, to June, will come from England. Three ad­ tered the Catholic university in ditional professed sisters from in St. Anthony’s church. 1923. His theological course was Washington, D. C., in the fall of Germany are already registered for The new building at St. Bene­ taken in the same institution, and that year, and sp«nt a year and emigration, and it is expected that dict’s hospital, conducted by the he was ordained May 26, 1927, a half in the ^aduate studies in they will be in Colorado by next 2 L^ion of Mary Benedictine Sisters o f Sioux City, by Bishop Edward F. Hoban in canon law until he was named to summer. la., is a three-story wing that con­ Techny. the Arvada parish. - The new church in Julesburg, The principal impetus for the tains, beside the chapel, more' construction of the new convent rooms for patients, clerical and re­ Rev. Andrew E. Warwick which seats approximately 325 Units Arrange 30 persons, is of brick and steel con- was a gift o f $20,000 from a long­ ceiving offices, a large laundry, th e Rev. Andrew E. Warwick, '(Tunito Pages— Column 3) time friend and benefactor of the and a boiler room. A new entrance new pastor o f St. Joseph’s parish', Officers have been announced Maiiy donations from friends structural weakening soon became South Boulder nuns, their neigh­ constructed where the two wings Golden, succeeds the Rev. John for the Solemn Mass that will fol­ of the parish outside Iliff have evident Now, after many long bor, Miss. Elizabeth Sheeby. From Baptisms in Year join gives the building a strik­ Kelly, who has been incapacitated Movie Industry Plans low the dedication on Monday, Nov. helped in the task of copverting years of struggle the parish finally the beginning, when the refugee ingly new appearance. for some time by ill health. Ad­ 26, of the jiew St. Catherine of the parish hall into a new church. has a new church. Benedictine Sisters began to build At least 30 Baptisms in the ministrator of St. Anthony’s par­ Siena church in ■ Iliff (pictured Father Leite said. Among tha Father Leite assumed charge in their humble quarters close to the A High Mass offered by Father Aid to Loretto Heights above) by Archbishop Urban J. donations were $1,500 from May of 1935. In seven years, in past year were among the re­ Dominic Sclafani, O.S.B., hospital ish since June 1, 1941, Father Sacred Heart of Mary church. Miss Warwick directed there the erec­ Announcement is expected to Vehr. Archbishop Vehr and $500 from spite o f a depression, drought, Sheeby has been their most loyal sults of work by 20 members chaplain, on the Feast o f Christ Officers of Ceremonies Helen Bonfils Somnes. floods, and grasshoppers, the par­ the King, Oct. 28, marked the tion of a beautiful new church be made in Denver today (Thurs­ friend and willing press agent. of two Denver Legion of Mary costing approximately* $110,000 day, Nov. 1) of a huge motion The celebrant of the Mass will The dedication day will be a ish paid o ff an $18,000 debt, made Her assistance and generosity to opening o f the new chapel. On be the Rev. Herman J. Leite, pas­ great event for the parishioners of considerable improvements oh the praesidia in St. Catherine’s Oct. 29 Father Sclafani offered a that was dedicated June 1, 1949. picture benefit for Loretto Heights these sisters and to other worthy and Blessed Sacrament parishes, it There remains a debt o f only some college, arranged through national tor; deacon, the Rev., Joseph Lane St. Catherine’s, who have over­ rectory and church, and in March causes won for her in 1948 the Solemn Mass ■with Father Joseph of Burling;ton; a'ubdeacon, the Rev. come many obstacles to bring the of 1939 purchased six lots, the re­ was learned on Thursday, Oct.