SOVIET RECOGNITION BRINGS NOTHING TO AMERICA The Regiater Hat the International Newa Service (Wire and Mail), the N. C. W. C. Newa Service (Including Cablea), Ita MILLIONS OF Own Special Service and All the Smaller Catholic Services; also International Illustrated News and N. C. W. C. Picture Service. ALL PROMISES Local Local The Church, always alert against the introduction of Edition Edition MADE FOUND TO novel doctrines, has sternly SIGNATURES IN llti^ condemned a prac­ THE tice that sprang up in Minor Poland, FILM CAMPAIGN BE MEANINGLESS where Patres Mi- nores, known as Bemardini, widei’y published that if for- 50 Archdiocesos and Dioceses Lined Up So Trade Has Not Materialized; Debt Problem ty-four Masses were said for Far— Massachusetts Plans REG ISTER Evaded; Red Propaganda Goes On a person in his lifetime the (Name. Registered in the U. S. Patent Office) person would be freed from Great Drive Washington^— The Russian enigma is causing perplex­ purgatory on the third day VOL. X. No. 27 DENVER, COLO., SUNDAY, JULY 8, 1934 TWO CENTS ity both in and out of Washington, with the result that the after his.death. It was pre­ Washington.— With the Catholic drive for cleaner benefits that were to follow recognition of the Moscow tended that this had been motion pictures manifesting itself in more than 50 arch­ Teaches Indian Sign Language government by the United States have become more ob­ confirmed in a divine reve­ dioceses and dioceses of the United States to date, the scured than ever. lation. The Sacred Congre­ Most Rev. John T. McNicholas, O.P., Archbishop of Cin­ ORDIIIITIOII RUE The official negotiations which were to give practical gation of the Holy Office has cinnati and chairman of the Episcopal Committee on Mo­ effect to the promises expressed by M. Litvinoff have, it decreed ipso facto suspen­ tion Pictures, outlined the role which diocesan superin­ is reported, been transferred from Washington to Moscow. sion for any cleric who ac­ tendents of schools can play in combating the evils of the There is no indication, as yet.IS cepts or solicits Mass sti­ motion picture. BIRRRRIIIIIL IS that the first difficu.ty, the pends for this purpose and Speaking in Chicago, where the place the number who have signed adjustment of the Russian debt to National Catholic Educational as­ the pledge of the Legion of De­ the United States, has been met. the deprivation of the sacra­ In the meantime, the hope of a OiMII AT S2i sociation was holding its 31st an­ cency at nearly 2,000,000, and ments for laics. nual meeting. Archbishop McNich­ these same publications state that large and profitable commerce olas, who also is Episcopal Chair­ there is every likelihood that with Russia has not materialized. The Supreme Council man of the N.C.W.C. Department 5,000,000 will have signed the The second and more disturb­ Thirty-third Degree Bulle­ of Education, appealed for the co­ pledge in a relatively short time. Paris.- So that the public, espe­ ing aspect of the situation is the [ operation of the more than 100 cially persons not well versed in persistent report of Communistic tin, published by the Scottish As the attack at home was inten­ activity in the United States, car­ diocesan superintendents of sified, the motion picture industry liturgical cerembnies, might ob­ Rite, devotes most of the first schools throughout the country, serve in greatest details the rites ried on with the tacit sanction, suffered a serious blow from if not the direct initiative, of the page of its June 15 issue to but made it plain that the de­ abroad. While apparently not of ordination. Cardinal Verdier, an attack on recognition by termination of action In the vari­ Archbishop of Paris, consented to Communist intemationale in Mos­ based on the quality of the films, cow. These activities center at the United States govern­ ous dioceses rests with their re­ it struck at income. France dras­ allow a motion picture camera to spective Bishops. the moment in California and the ment of Vatican City tically restricted importation of be set up in the Church of St. Ossining, N. Y.— Fulfilling a Sulpice for many hours. He also Pacific coast states. It has been Expressing determination- “ to foreign — which means chiefly asserted that the Communist plan life-long ambition, the realization through an exchange of duly take every possible step that will American— pictures. a^eed to be ready in person with of which was delajied by illness accredited ministers. It ob­ his vicars general,' masters of is to demorali^ the fruit indus­ protect the youth of this country One of the most interesting de­ try, because fpf the perishable and other difficulties, the Rev. viously believes that recog< from the evil influence of unclean velopments of recent days was the ceremony, seminarians and any­ Hugh Ryan at the age of 62 has thing else that the film techni­ character of the product, by crip­ nition is near at hand. The motion pictures,” Archbishop Mc­ announcement by Joseph M. Kir­ pling shipping. just been ordained to the priest­ by, state deputy of the Knights of cians might require. hood at the Maryknoll seminary arguments it advances for Nicholas said that there are 2,600,- 000 children in the Catholic Columbus of Massachusetts, that It was not a real ordination, but The Communist activities here by the Most Rev. James E. this belief are, however, schools, and that, “ while we do not plans for a specific boycott against the ordination ceremony for the thrughout California are said to Kearney, Bishop of Salt Lake. very odd: First, that Colum­ wish to destroy or injure any in­ producers of indecent motion pic­ archdiocese, which was to be held be directed from a head office in Father Ryan, who, in the years San Francisco and carried on by a bus day has been made a na­ dustry, their welfare is more im­ tures, in which it will be sought on the Feast of St. John, was en­ in which he yearned to enter the acted and recorded in the film. “ travelling office” equipped to tional holiday; secondly, portant to us than that of the to enlist the co-operation of the priesthood, engaged in teaching, movie producers.” 1,690,000 Catholics in Massachu­ Thus the spectacle which will be distribute revolutionary propagan­ war work as a Knights of Colum­ that there has been agita­ 2,000,000 Signers Estimated setts, have received the formal ap- presented to the people will not da wherever disturbances arise. bus secretary and bookkeeping in tion for tax aid to parochial Estimates in some publications (Turn to Page 2 — Column 3) be, as is too often the case with Just how much of the prevailing the office of the Cathedral of the unrest may be attributed to Com­ schools. Just what the con­ movies, pure fantasy, but will have Madeleine, Salt Lake City, had as actors 80 young men who short­ munistic initiative and leadership nection is, the writer of Lis­ studied for the priesthood when a ly will have become priests, dea­ it not certain, but it is reported youth. He received the degree. tening In is too obtuse to see. cons and subdeacons. Although that state and local authorities Bachelor of Canon Law, from the Catholic Educators Again the film will run only a half-hour, are preparing to take a more ag­ Catholic University of America, it required all of an afternoon to gressive stand in suppressing dis­ but, because of difficulties, was Postmaster General James orders and isolating the Commu­ A . Farley, in an address at photograph. forced to abandon his ecclesias­ It is remarkable how many secu­ nistic element from the labor sit: tical studies. Detroit, gave t h ^ evidences Name Bishop Howard Leader lar papers expressed the same nation. Last year, however, he was of business recovery: A re­ thought, that the showing of this Continuation of the present dis­ enabled to resume his studies duction of over $100,000,000 picture might awaken in hearte turbances might have an embar­ broken off so many years ago and Chicago. — (N.C.W.C. Special history of the association, was vocations for the priesthood. This in the post office department General Scott presenting the peace pipe to an old Indian friend. rassing effect upon the negotia­ he went to Europe to attend the Wire.)— Bishop Francis W. How­ hailed by many as the most suc­ is the hope the Cardinal had when tions between the United States Albertinum college in Freiburg, deficit, with an approximate ard of Covington was re-elected cessful held to date. Instead of he gave not only his consent but and the Moscow government, espe­ Switzerland, and Beda college in president general of the National the large conventions with edu­ balance predicted for the his personal assistance for the ---------- cially if the revolutionary activi­ Rome. Last spring he returned to end of the fiscal year. In­ Catholic Educational association cational exhibits and public meet­ making of the film. ties in this country are linked with the United States to prepare for at its 31st annual meeting here. ings held heretofore, the meeting creased newspaper and ra­ the Communist intemationale, his ordination. Father Ryan, who Bishop Howard enters his sixth was executive throughout. Pres­ College Foundress Once Richard Sanderville, 70-year-old Blackfoot brave, has gone to which operates from Moscow and has been ordained for the Arch­ dio advertising. An aver' successive term in office. Other ent were Archbishop John T. Mc­ Washington to teach the intricate and obsolescent Indian sign lan­ is virtualy the dominant force in diocese of San Francisco, was bom age rise of 26 per cent in the officers re-elected are: Bishop John Nicholas, O.P., of Cincinnati and Honored by Pope Dies guage to the scientists at tbe Smithsonian institution.