Everyone Is Irish on St. Patrick's

Everyone Is Irish on St. Patrick's Day Three Dedication Dates Announced Dedication dates of three new buildings in the Arch diocese of Denver are announced this week by Archbishop Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations Urban J. Vehr. They are 1;he new St. Rose of tiima church Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1952 — Permission to Reproduce, Except oa building, which will be dedicated Saturday, April 5, at Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue 10 a.m.; a new cafeteria and auditorium at the Mullen Home for Boys, Fort Logan, which will be blessed Thursday, May 1, at 4 p.m.; and St. Walburga's convent. South Boulder, where ceremonies will be held Monday, June 9, at 10:30 a.m.; DENVER CATHOUC St. Rose of Limeys Church with brick veneer. The walls and The new building at St. Rose ceilings are plastered, and the floor of Lima’s parish, Denver, on whicfi is of smoodi cement, 'Which, will a complete story was carried in the later bq. covered with tile. Denver Catholic Register last week, is intended for eventual use as the St. Walburga’s Convent REGISTER auditorium of the parish school. It The beautiful winter weather has will be used as a Aurch, however, lent wings to the construction of seating some 430 persons, until another archdiocesan structure VOL. XLYII. No. 30. THURSDAY, M ARCH 13, 1952 DENVER, COLO. other arrangements can be made. which will be dedicated this spring The building was erected at a cost —the new convent and novitiate of of $68,000. Four classrooms will be the BeflWlictine Sisters in South added as a second story as soon as Boulder. Begun only in November, Generosity Is Urged 9 Wyoming Units possible. tKe 30-room, one-story brick build The parish campaign to raise ing will be finished in May. $38,000, thus diminishing the par The Lady Abbess Augustina, who lo Attend All-Day ish debt by one-half and hastening left Denver by air March 12,-after For Victims of War the day when the parish school can a prolonged visit, was able to make An appeal for generosity in the collection for the be opened, has met with splendid her departure for Germany, where Bishops’ Fund for Victims of War, which will be taken up CPTL Conference response so far, according to the she is head of the 900-year-old St. in churches of the Archdiocese of Denver on Laetare Bishop Hubert M. Newell, Rev. Barry Wogan, pastor. The Walburga’s abbey in Eidistaett, Ba Sunday, March 23, is made by Archbishop Urban J. of Cheyenne -will open the first 79 pledges totaled $10,107.50. varia, with the knowledge that her Vehr in a letter to be read in all the Masses March 16. 15th annual all-day conference All wage-earners of the parish are nuns at St. Walburga’s convent in The plight of many thousands of homeless and suffer of the Catholic Parent-Teach being asked to give a day’s wages Boulder will now be well housed ing people “is pathetic and a matter of great concern ers’ league March 20 with a a month for 15 months. with sufficient room for forseeable Low Mass at 9 o’clock in Holy to all freedom-loving men and women,” says Archbishop Ghost church, Denver. Bishop MuUen Auditorium future growth. Vehr. The letter follows; Newell, who served as first mod The Abbess also had the great ARCHDIOCESE OF DENVER erator of the league, also will be A students’ mess hall that will the principal speaker at the con joy of seeing the first two novices Chancery Office accommodate 150 boys, a chapel received in her Colorado house ference. 1536 Logan Street Well known in educational with seating facilities for 230 per while she visited in America. N a Denver 5, Colorado circles. Bishop Newell, for a dec sons, a full stage, and a faculty din tional publicity was given to the ade before his elevation to the ing room are included in the new feoulder nuns in U fe magazine for March 9, 1952 Episcopacy in 1947, held the post cafeteria-auditorium of Mullen high of superintendent of Catholic March 10, which showed the Bene Reverend dear Father and beloved People: schools in Colorado. His school ad school, Denver. dictine Sisters hard at work in the On Laetare Sunday all dioceses of the country will take a collec ministration program was marked 'The 104-foot-long building, + + + + fields they have tilled since they tion for the Bishops’ Fund for the Victims of War. This is a once- by a growth of the school system which will be completed in about The 76th annual St. Patrick’s marimba, and bass violin, respec held every year since Colorado be came to the U. S. 17 years ago as a-year appeal by the Bishops of the country for funds to continue in its extent and its effectiveness, day charity ball will be held in tively. A promising young tenor, came a state, first under the super two weeks, was erected at the ap winning wide recognition among refugees from Nazi Germany. the world-wide relief of the Catholic Overseas Agencies; The NCWC educators. the Lincoln room of the Shirley- Scotty Engel, will sing a number vision of the Ancient Order of Hi proximate cost of $50,000. The Savoy hotel, Denver, on Monday, of Irish ballads, followed by a nov bernians, and in later years under The new permanent brick con War Relief Services and the Bishops’ Emergency Relief Committee. Pastors and officers of nine new unit extends to a width of 32 feet March 17, with Chuck Bennett and elty song and dance team, the Eck- this specific committee. Among the vent will take the place of frame We are told that the plight of many thousands of people still parish PTA units in Wyoming will in its mess hall-auditorium section, be guests at the conference, which his orchestra supplying the music. hardt Sisters. An impromptu com many agencies of the Charities structures, some built by nuns homeless and suffering in Europe is pathetic and a matter of great With the discontinuance of the munity song-fest led by the M. C. that will be helped this year are and 56 feet in the two-story stage- will be held in the Shirley-Savoy themselves over the years. As the concern to all freedom-loving men and women. Eleven million ex hotel. Programs forthe conference opera this year, the ball is the will round out the special program. the Infant of Prague nursery, lo chapel portion that is attached to major benefit in aid of the Catholic The hall will be decorated by cated at 3720 W. 27th avenue, on Life article pointed out they have pellees in Germany and Austria and untold numbers of refugees in are being printed i(i red honoring the end of the cafeteria. "The cafe the Bishop, and ai special “Wel Charities. Mrs. Mary Alice Casey, Denver de the grounds of St. Clara’s orphan also built with their own hands a the Near and Far East, and now in Korea, are deiperately in need teria proper, equipped with 25 fold come Wyoming” greeting will be One of the outstanding features signer, and a crew of helpers who age, and Our Lady of the Rockies 12-stall barn, two chicken houses, a of the bare essentials of life, 'Their situation is acute. of this year’s social will be an all- have carried on this project for camp, near Evergreen. The nurs ing tables, can readily be trans printed on the cover. brooder house, a silo, a hog house, The goal of our relief agencies this year is twofold: First, to The Rev. Regis F. McGuire, Irish intermission program under several years. Miss Catharine Ma ery, 'Which houses adoptable babies formed into an auditorium. the direction of Misses Margie and loney, treasurer, assisted by Miss from nine months to two years of a tool house, and a dormitory for continue the shipment of foodstuffs, clothing, and medicine to vic assistant pastor of St. Patrick’s A complete kit±en forms part church, will give the invocation at Jerry O’Neil of the O’Neil Person Margaret Lynch, ticket chairman, age, is in constant need of extra the young children who attend their tims of war, particularly to children, the aged, and the sick. Distri ality school, with Joe Flood, well- of the new structure, as well as 10 o’clock. will take care of ticket returns. food and replaceable supplies. The summer camp. bution is made without regard to race, creed, or color. Secondly, to The St. Vincent de Paul color known radio entertainer, as master Ed Floyd will have charge of the camp hopes to open its doors this dining hall for the faculty. The 'The new convent will cost the continue the program in rehabilitation of displaced persons who are guard will present the flag. In of ceremonies. The program will door committee. Several members year to the hundreds of under stage at the end of the cafeteria has cluded in the Brownie troop 138 consist of a novelty instrumental community aboqt $79,000. A large assisted in settling in new homes in our own country, in South Amer of the Denver Fire department privileged children who count on two contiguous rest rooms. Beneath are Misses K. O’Brien, S. Hoyt, number by three Irish lasses, Anna will be on hand to assist Mr.

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