r Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation Mission Appeal Nov. 9 Contents Copyrigrhted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1952 — Permission to Reproduce, Except on Msgr. Wegner to Address Denver Clubs Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue At a luncheon to be held Thurs­ gan, the famed "Father Flan- X -L -U day, Nov, 13, by the five Denver agan.” The institution is 10 miles rr< Optimist clubs and 'the Denver west of Omaha on a 1,000-acre ijO V S 1 OW fl U ire C tO l* site. It was begun by Father Optinpist council, the featured Flanagan on $90—which he had speaker will be the Rt. Rev. Mon- borrowed. DENVER CATHOLIC sigi>oT Nicholas H. Wegner, di­ It was in 1948 that Monsignor rector of Boys Town, near Omaha. Wegner took ove^ the leadership The luncheon will be a feature of of the home’, after the death of Optimist week, to be held from Nov. 9 to Nov. 15 throughout the its founder. Monsignor Wegner, a U. S., England, and Australia. native of Humphrey, Neb., was Monsignor Wegner directs the born in 1898, and was ordained REGISTER home and school fo f neglected in 1925 in Rome. He studied at and underprivileged boys of every St. Paul’s seminary, St. Paul, race, color, and creed which was Minn.; the Gregorian university, founded in 1917 by the late Rt. Rome; and the Catholic Univer­ VOL, XLVIll. No. 12. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1952 DENVER, COLO. Rev. Monsignor Edward J. Flana­ sity of America, Washington, D. C. South Boulder Benedictine Sisters Open Rest Home for Women The Benedictine Sisters of St. tion of ' fulfilling a need for wholesome meals, and the. op­ found successful, may be ex­ Mother Gertrude reveals that Walburga’s Convent in South such accommodations. portunity for prayer and quiet. panded. ' the Lady Abbess Augustina, Boulder announced this week The sisters emphasize, how­ Those who want further in­ 14 Nuns in Community former superior of the convent, that they have opened facilities ever, that they are not prepared formation are asked to contact There are now 14 members who is now head of the mother- on a small scale for a rest home to accept convalescents or bed­ the superior of the convent. of the South Boulder commu­ house of the Jlenedictine com­ for women. One of the build­ ridden patients, since their own Mother Gertrude, box 234, nity and Mother Gertrude ex­ munity in Eichstaett, Germany, ings on their property has been schedule does not permit them Boulder, or to call Boulder pects several additional appli­ is recuperating in Wurttemburg completely remodeled, newly to provide necessary nursing. 0118J2. At present the sisters cants after the first of the year. from the effects of low blood outfitted, and provided with a They will welcome those women are prepared to receive six ap-., The new convent has facilities pressure. She is now expected M»gr. Nicholas Wegner new heating system, in anticipa­ who seek a restful atmosphere. plicants, but the program, if for more than 20. back at her post in Eichstaett. Succetaor to Father Flanagan St. Bernadette’s Starts Drive for School Members of St. Bernadette’s parish, Lakewood, Recall How Family Became Catholics Because of Parochial Schools who have been planning for a school since the parish was established in 1947, began this week to put their CONVERT COUPLE NEAR 60th WEDDING JUBILEE dreams into writing. By Bill Warner I Francis, who spells her name like] An informal canvassing team is seeking pledges ■SIXTY YEARS AGO Nov. 10 ^^‘her’s. of financial aid from fellow pa- we were married in Lexington, After the family moved to Den-| rishioners to discover whether or THIS LITTLE SUPPLIANT is begging the Catholics Mo., by a Methodist minister,” said ver, the younger children contin­ not the school can be built imme­ ued their education in the Cath- of the United States for help on Mission Sunday, to be Francis M. Pe'ery, speaking for diately. At a meeting held Oct. 30, Scour Attics Now observed in the Archdiocese of Denver Nov. 9. The hammer and himself and his wife, who live at oKc schools. And yet, none of the sickle that oppress her as she says her beads are stark symbols of 2814 Eliot street, Denver. Though family had ever received any in­ an enthusiastic group of workers the antireligious force of Communism, which has strained every they had a Protestant wedding, struction in the Catholic faith met with the Rev. John Doherty, effort to keep millions of souls from God, both* in Europe and in Asia. they now have a daughter who is other than Catholic example. The pastor, to discuss the .project. The To Find Clothing a nun. With a bit of prying it was Peerys first lived in St. Joseph’s Archbishop Urban J. Vehr, in his pastoral letter announcing (Redehiptorist) parish and later reaction of the parish to the can­ the collection to be taken in all the churches of the archdiocese this learned that the entire Peery fam­ ily, plus a son-in-law, entered the moved into Holy Ghost parish. The vassing will be decisive in the fate Sunday, pointed with pity to the dreadful conditions wrought by children, however, continued to For War Sufferers war. He noted Ihe tremendous need for finances to implement the Church as a unit in 1917. But of the school plans. their first contact with the Church make St. Joseph’s the center of “For the Korean War Sufferers” spreading of the faith, and especially the necessity of prayer to their interest.^. The deadline for the pledge .sur­ the Catholics of the Archdiocese of sustain the strength, spiritual and physical, of the missioner as he goes back much further than that. * * ♦ vey has been set for Sunday, Nov. Denver will scour their basements spends himself among pagans for Christ. In about 1901, daughters Anna ONE EVENING, while the fam­ 16, when another parish meeting and attics between now and Sun­ The annual Mission Sunday collection is the only fund campaign Hehth and Jenny Mary were going day, Nov. 23, saving their old to the public school in Lexington. ily was attending a party at St. will be held and reports will be in the year that is earmarked for all the missions, both home and Joseph’s, they met the Rev. Ed­ clothing for the one-day drive foreign. Two other mission appeals are made in the parishes yearly, Anna had some difficulty with one given. The tentative school plans sponsored by Catholic Charities of her teachers one day and let it ward J. Madsen, 'C.SS.R. It is but these are for more specific needs: The Missionary Co-operation often the case that some person­ call for a four or six-room build­ and NCWC War Relief Services. Plan appeal, in which a parish devotes one Sunday to an appeal for be known that she would not go “ For the Korean War Sufferers” back to school. ality first attracts prospective ing that will be enlarged as often a particular mission community; and the Indian and Negro mission converts to the Church. And so it as possible to meet growth in en­ will be the message written on the plea, used for these races in the United States. * * * tags affixed to the bundles which was that Father Madsen became rollment. AFTER INQUIRING into the the Church’s magnet. A fast the parishioners will bring to Imprisoned 11 Months by Chinese Reds situation, the father and mother friendship ensued, and the priest Since its establishment in June, church on Sunday, Nov. 23. Trucks refused to send either of their was often invited to the house for 1947, the Lakewood parish has set will be stationed at the curbs in front of the churches that morn­ children to that school again. A dinner and conversation. As their a fast pace m its building pro­ Catholic neighbor woman sug­ knowledge of the Church in­ ing, and after the Masses the do­ Noted Maryknoller Priest gested that the children be sent to creased, all the members of the Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Peery gram. Work on a church and a rec­ nations will be taken to the St. the Catholic school. Mr. Peery ac­ family showed a desire for further tory began one year after the par­ Vincent de Paul Salvage bureau cepted the suggestion with the information. Eventually, the fam­ ish was set up, and the debt in­ warehouse at 1625 Wazee street same enthusiasm one accepts a “For the Korean War Sufferars” ily, and Jenny Mary’s husband, en­ curred in the paogram was paid off To Give Lecture in Denver case of measles. Only when the rolled for formal instruction. will be the way faithful who are U.S. Clearing Away Debris completely July 1, 1951. A Maryknoll missionary-veteran of 23 years in South nuns at the school informed him As time went on, all were bap­ unable to take their bundles to church or to the warehouse will China, who was driven from his paris*h by Japanese troops that the children would not be tized, made their First Commun­ The church, dedicated Feb. 10, taught religion unless so requested ion, and were confirmed together label their donations before they in World war II and was imprisoned by Chinese Commu­ did he reluctantly give his consent. 1949, will serve eventually, when call and ask for the material to in 1917. The father and mother Of Injustice, Expert Says a permanent church is erected, as nists for 11 months, will be in Denver to deliver a lecture Anna and Jenny continued on renewed their marriage vows be­ be picked up at their homes.