COUNCIL OF CATHOLIC EXPANDS 90 PER CENT Tl^e Hat the International Newt Service (Wire and Mail)» the N. C. W. C. Newt Service (Including Cablet), Itt Own Special Service and All the Smaller Catholic Servicet; aito Internationa) lUuttrated Newt and N. C. W. C. Picture Service. Listenm In FALLEN-AWAYS 6-MONTH SCORE Local Local It would be difficult to T U C imagine a better planned or WON BACK TO Edition Edition IS ANNOUNCED more beautiful celebration mm than the consecra­ I ini tion of Bishop Ger­ ald Thomas Bergan PATHS OF FAITH IN WASHINGTON t Moeaw of Des Moines, Iowa, at Peoria, Illinois, June 13. The presence of Cardinal 1,107 Reclaimed in Drive of Prayer and 92 Dioceses Are Now Represented; June Mundelein, three Archbish­ Work Just Ended in Diocese REG ISTER Will See Doubling of Size at ops, twenty-six Bishops, (Name Registered in the U. S. Patent Office) two Abbots, thirty-five Mon­ of Mobile Year’s Beginning signori and about 300 priests VOL. X. No. 25 DENVER, COLO., SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 1934 TWO CENTS made the ceremony out­ Mobile, Alabama.— A total of 1,107 persons were Washington.— An increase in membership of 90 per standing in ritual beauty. brought back to the sacr^iments by this year’js crusade for cent in less than six months was announced at the head­ fallen-away Catholics in this diocese, the Most Rev. Thom­ As New Bishop of Des Moines Was Consecrated quarters of the National Council of Catholic Men, when After the consecration, as J. Toolen, Bishop of Mobile, has announced. Those the total number of affiliated societies passed the thous­ and its subsequent clerical brought back to the practice of their religion had been and mark. The council is now represented in 92 dioceses dinner, the writer found he away from the sacraments from two to 45 years. Fifty- of the country. had just missed the last train six had been away nine years, 20 for 30 years, and 20 for Henry L. Caravati, N. C. C, M. business secretary, said that this to Chicago that evening. So 35 years. In the course of the drive, 320 persons received was the most striking growth in a limited period of time ever ex­ perienced in the 14 years of the council’s existence. “ This has been he took a bus. A rattling the sacrament of Baptism, and all the churches of the diocese an­ an average of more than 20 new affiliations per week,” ’ Caravati time was had by all on the visits were paid to 1,700 indi­ nouncing the opening of the drive. added, “ and if present indications are any reliable gauge, we shall vidual families in which there Public prayers were said, and the double that average within the month.” journey. Our idea of a bus were a total of 7,623 persons. priests of the diocese made a me- ride is j^mething to fall back A total of 14,000 pledges for mento in their Masses each day. upon fn “ extremis.” Four the Legion of Decency, the mem­ Novenas were made by the sis­ and a half hours of it are bers of which volunteer to remain ters and children in the Catholic away from evil motion pictures, schools, and it is estimated that Catholic Schools Win in just a trifle too much. As were received in the course of the millions of prayers were offered the time grew late, some of drive. up this year for the success of the the passengers slept. They “ There is a changed feeling work. Bishop Toolen character­ could probably rest comfort­ toward the Church in the Diocese ized the work of the children in 13 States in Essay Contest ably hanging on a hook. of Mobile,” said Bishop Toolen, the drive as that of “ real apos­ who administered the sacrament tles,” saying that they are the of Confirmation to more than 600 means of bringing fathers, Washington.— Students in Cath­ Delhomme, Jr., St. Thomas’ col­ When the trip came near adult converts between Dec. 1, mothers, brothers and sisters back olic high schools in thirteen states lege high school, Houston; Wis­ its end, and we were spin­ 1933, and May 1, 1934. “ Great to the sacraments after long ab­ have been declaned. the winners of consin, Thomas J. Makal, Mess- interest is being shown in our sences. mer high school, Milwaukee. ning down Chicago streets state prizes in the sixth annual The subject of this year’s essay at midnight, at breakneck Church. Bigotry and prejudice While it is impossible to esti­ are on the wane, and the time mate the whole good done by the Gorgas memorial essay contest. , was “ Past Benefits and Future Im- speed and the chauffeur ob­ seems ripe to make the Church drive for fallen-away Catholics, In announcing the state win­ ortance to Man of the Control of livious of side streets whence better known and better under- one phase that should be notei^ ners, Rear Admiral Cary T. Gray­ g'isease-Bearing Mosquitos.” A other traffic might dart in, a der stood.” said Bishop Toolen, is the fact total of 18,500 manuscripts were son, president o f the Gorgas Me­ submitted. country pastor from Iowa, The drive for fallen-away Cath­ that the crusade turns the thoughts olics began, as usual, on the first of all the Catholic people to the morial institute, called attention our traveling companion, Sunday in Lent and closed on necessity and importance of bring­ to the fact that Messmer high said: “I’d prefer being a Trinity Sunday. On the first Sun­ ing the black sheep back into the school, Milwaukee, again has won day of Lent, a letter was read in fold. the'^honors in Wisconsin. Joseph tenderfoot and riding a Brendler, a student of the same HOLLYIOD G[T8 bucking bronco.” So say school, won the national contest we. last year and came to Washington to receive his award from Presi­ Signs everywhere in Chi­ CENTER OF U. S. PIETY dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, who cago remind one of the is honorary president of the in­ Sc#n# at the conaacratlon in Peoria, Illinoia, June 13, of the Moat Rev. Gerald T. Berran, Bishop of Des Moines, stitute. World’s fair, held over from Iowa. Laft to riaht; The Most Rev. J. H. Schlarman, Bishop of Peoria, one of the co-coneecrators; center. Bishop Bergan; FOUND IN MOSCOW right, the Very Rev. Joseph P. Morrison, rector of the -Holy Nome Cathedral, Chicago, who acted ae master of cere­ • The names and schools of the last year and considerably monies. Ths Rev. Patrick J. Hayes of the Chicago Cathedral acted as master of ceremonies for Cardinal Mundelein, the Catholic students winning state improved. The attendance consecrator. It is said that this was the seventh Bishop Father Mprrison has helped to consecrate and the ninth for Father 10 6lim [ BUCK Berlin.— The Catholic members English-speaking faithful join Hayee. Present at the consecration, in addition to 300 priests and 38 monsignori and a vast crowd of the laity, wore prizes are: Arkansas, Cecilia M. is good although the number them in unison. Archbishops McNichoIas, Cincinnati; Murray, St. Paul; Bachman, Dubilque; Bishops Rohiman, Davenport, one of the co- Easier, Sacred Heart high school, of the small American colony in consecrators; Lillis, Kansas City; Morris, Little Rock; McGovern, Cheyenne; Althoff, Belleville; Byrne, Galveston; Hoban, Morrilton; Illinois, Marcella Huss, of out-of-town visitors is not Amon^ those watching the re­ Moscow, comprising a few of the Rockford; Barry, St. Augustine; Shell and O’ Brien, auxiliaries of Chicago; Mahonay, Sioux Falls; Griffin, Springfield, 111.; Notre Dame academy, Belleville; Hollywood, Calif.— Hollywood large yet, because of the ear­ ligious situation in Russia, consid­ Smith, Nashville; Welch, Duluth; Kelly, Winona; Albers, auxiliary of Cincinnati; Kucera, Lincoln; Vehr, Denver; Bona, embassy personnel, are quite fer­ Grffn^ Island; Ritter^ Indianapolis; Winkslmann, auxiliary ol St. Louis; Lucey, Amarillo; Heelan, Sioux City; Spellman# Indiana, John Donnelly, St. Mary’s motion picture producers are rais­ liness of the season. Con­ erable- astonishment was caused auxiliary of Boston: Donahue, auxiliary of New York, and Abbots Wirth and Hubar of Peru, III. The sermon was by high school, Michigan City; vent, according to reports reach­ by a report in the American secu­ ing a fund of $2,000,000 to com­ trasting strangely with the ing here from Moscow. On Sun- Bishop Bernard J. Sbeil, auxiliary of Chicago. Tbs photo above was taken, as the procession entered the Cathedral, by The Kansas, Dorothy Ann Lauer, bat the movement to clean up the lar press that the Rev. Leopold Peoria Star. Bishop Bergan was Installed in tha Des MoineMoines Cathedral June 20. dayk as well as on week days Mount St. Scholastica academy, bawdy peep shows, there Braun, A.A., of Worcester, Mas­ movies. They feel that the pres­ there are two Masses at St. Louis’ Atchison; Massachusetts, Kath­ ent campaign is “ endangering the are many evidences of Cath­ sachusetts, who is now assigned church. At the 9 o’clock Mass on leen Ann Burke, St. Gregory’s existence of the industry.” “ Cen­ to St. Louis’ church in Moscow, olic art to be seen in the fair. Sunday, the Americans as a rule high school, Boston; Michigan, Jo­ sorship,” they declare, according Last year, and again this, one had .celebrated the first Easter Ex-Actor, Now Priest, sephine O’Connor, Cathedral Cen­ attend, and* prayers are said for Mass -in a Catholic church there to a press correspondent here, “ is of the most popular conces- them after Mass in English, to tra high school, Detroit; Nebras­ perfectly all right.