DENVER CATHOLIC I^G IS T E R 17 to Begin Preparation for Woric As Priests in Denver Archdiocese
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> Member of "Audit Bureau of Cireulatiom Contenti C o p y rig h t by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 194&^Penni8sion to Reproduce, Except on Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue. 17 to Begin Preparation for Woric DENVER CATHOLIC As Priests in Denver Archdiocese I ^ G I S T E R St.'James' New School Applicants, Largest The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register. We Have Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven Smaller Services, NCWC and Religious News Photos. Price of paper 3 cents a copy. Number at OneTime] VOL, XLIV. No. 2. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1948. II PER YEAR. Cana Leader Father Hughes Transferred to Chicago To Enter St. Thomasi Fr. O'Brien Appointed Seventeen young men have been accepted to Will Deliver begin preparation for the priesthood in the Archdio-- r cese of Denver and will enter St. Thomas’ seminary' Special Talk Pastor at St. Dominic's this fall, it has been announced by Archbishop Urban There is a difference between a J. Vehr. ^ This is the largest number of applicants good marriage and a marriage be i - The Very Rev. Peter tween good people who are trying O’Brien, O.P., has been named ever received by the archdiocese at one time, and will* to be good separately. in a few years provide priests acutely needed by the; Marriage is a vocation, a special pastor of St. Dominic’s church way of life, and a sacrament. Its hi Denver, according to an an rapidly expanding Church in the Archdiocese of goals can best be reached and its Denver. _|_ + problems be.st solved in an atti nouncement by the Chancery Of the 17 applicants, 14 arc resi tude of prayer and worship. office, succeeding the Very Rev. dents of the archdiocese. Eight of These fundamental postulates of Vincent R. Hughes, O.P., pastor at them have attended Regis college, 165 Students the Cana movement will be ex the parish for the past six years. four are graduates of Regps high Father Hughes has been as THE NEW lO-CLASSROOM element nounced. It is expected that about 75 more will be en school, two of Holy Family high panded and explained in Denver rolled before classes start. The building is located on Thursday 'night in a talk by the signed to a teaching post at the school, and two of St. Joseph’s high ary school of St. James’ parish, Denver, is the east side of Newport street, between E. 12th and Expected atj Rev. Edward Dowling, S.J., one Dominican house of studies in school, all in Denver. shown above. Already 380 children have been reg 13th avenues. The basement auditorium of the school of the prime movers in the Cana River Forest, 111. In addition to his Following are the applicants; istered for the classes, which are expected to open building will be used as a church, and will seat plar for rescuing modern mar duties as pastor. Father Hushes William Andrew Beye, 2730 about Oct. 1, pending the completion of the work on approximately 550 persons. Sisters of St. Joseph of St. Thomas' riage. also was superior of the priests Elliot street, Denver. Graduated the edifice, Father Wm. V. Powers, pastor, an Carbndelet will teach in the school. stationed at the parish and, in from Westininster high school. At An unprecedented enroll-* ■ Father Dowling, here to give a tended Regis college for one year. course of lectures in the Summer accordance with canon law gov ment of 165 students will be' Now Stationed in Denver John Joseph Downing, Jr., 3417 School of Catholic Action now be erning superiors, he is assigned to W. 38th avenue, Denver. Gradu on hand for the opening of St/ ing conducted in the Cathedral another ^ s t after completing two ated from Holy Family high school. Thomas’ seminary Tuesday, schools, will deliver his address in terms of office. Daniel Joseph Flaherty, 3115 the Cathedral grade school cafe Sept. 7. This represents an, A strange set of coincidences Priest Received Last Rites West Denver place, Denver. Grad teria at 8 o’clock. increase of more than 35 student* marks the transfer of superiors at uated from Rems high school. At The talk is open to all interested iSt. Dominic’s. Father O’Brien, who over last year’s student body. In-' tended Colorado School of Mines eluded among the new’ enrollees, in the subject of marriage; no ad I has just completed two terms of for one year, and Regis college for mission-will be charged. i office as Provincial of the Chi are 17 candidates for the Arch-, Three Times in Mission Work one-half year. diocese of Denver, and nine for cago province, appointed Father The philosophy of marriage ex John Michael Garvey, Spring- the Pueblo diocese. Students from pounded by Father Dowling and Hughes as pastor in Denver. field, Mass. Graduated from St. Father O'Brien By D a v id I. R y a n When Father Schaefer first 24 archdioceses and dioceses arc other Cana leaders received wide Meanwhile, Father O'Brien In his 20 years in the mission took up his mission assignment he ^ Charles’ seminary, Catonsville, Md. represented in the record enroH-' attention recently when an article successor, who wos elected in July,ytPupils Come field the Rev. Michael A. Schaefer, started with four mission outposts. Robert Greenslade, Chicago, 111. ment. j in Look magazine, written by is the Very Rev. Edward L .' Attended Quigley and Mundelein S.J., was anointed for death three In his years in the field he estab Important changes tn the faculty, Gretta Palmer, explained the aims Hughes, O.P., a brother of Father! times; Once for black water fever lished 27 more, and so was oper seminaries, Chicago, 111. Joseph Harding, 555 E. 8th ave of the seminary were announced' and methods of, the Cana move From East and fa tropical disease); a second time ating a total of 31 mission out this week by the Very Rev. Francis, ment. angle has re.sulted in this .situation: ^ ^ . nue, Denver. Graduated from Ca for malignant malaria; and a third posts by the time he left in 1947. Keeper, C.M., rector. The Rev, According to the Look article, Father Hughes was appointed to time for gangrene. The gangrene Prefacing his remarks about thedral Preparatory seminary, the Cana leaders are interested in Denver by his former superior and West to bbCA New Yopk. Attended St. Joseph’s James O’Sullivan, C.M., professor was contracted from infected pioneer mission work in general of canon law and moral theology at the whole of marriage— its every present successor, and is removed seminary, Yonkers, N. Y. bruises, received in swimming a and his own adventures in British St. Thomas’ for 18 years, is being day obstacles as well as its spir from Denver from his brother and Twenty-one states, Canada, In- George Willard Kearney, 3373 Honduras in particular, Father transferred to St. Mary’s seminary, itual aspect. For example, the present superior. dia, China, and Hawaii have’beenl?“ ®’‘‘f W. 36th avenue, Denver. Gradu represented thus far in the Den-|‘®"’. debns-laden nver and back Schaefer says; "A missionary has Perryyille, Mo., mother-house of Christian attitude toward sex is Fathers O’Brien and Hughes (Turn to Page 7 — Column 3) ated from North Denver high ver session of the Summer School the Vincentian Western province. succinctly phra.sed:^Sex is good in have been intimate friends for In addition. Father Schaefer school. Attended University of of Catholic .Action, which opened Replacing Father O’Sullivan will", itself but not by itself." many years. They were classmates was stung by scorpions 12 times. Colorado and Regis college. Monday at the Cathedral schools. be the Rev. John Danagher, C.M., Father Dowling does not attempt and studied in Rome together And many times, he says, jungle James Anthony Keelan, 4119 The school will continue until Fri Estes Park Church who has been teaching the same to present the Christian ideal of where they received their doctor mosquitoes gather so quickly and Navajo street, Denver. Graduated day of this week. from St. Joseph’s high school, Den subjects in Perryville. marriage as an easy one. "Fifty ates. After their return to this heavily that smudge pots have to ver. Attended Regis college. Another veteran professor at St.' years of marriage are not too country, both became philosophy be set around an altar so that a W o rk Proceeds 635 Enroll Harry Kelsey, 4630 W. 34th Thomas’ who is being transferred much to approach the Christian professors. Father O’Brien in priest can say Mass. ideal,” he says. But the rewards of For Classes Although construction work on street, Denver. Graduated from’ is the Rev. Thomas F. Schmucker,. Washington and Father Hughes in Just one year ago Father Schae C.M., who is going to St. John’s' adhering to the Christian philos River Forest. the new Church of Our Lady of Holy Family high school. Attended A total of 635 persons enrolled fer returned to this country after the Mountains in Estes Park is Regis college. seminary, San Antonio, Tex. Re ophy are worth all the effort a for the varied courses of the school couple can put forth. Father O'Brien, who celebrated almost 20 years of pioneer mis progressing, the edifice will not be Richard Thomas Koory, 815 placing Father Schmucker as pro in its first two days. Of this num sionary work in the "green hell In answer to modern propagan his 25th jubilee in June, was pres ready for dedication until some Worthington street, Omaha, Neb.