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CORNERSTONE LAYING AT BRIGHTON THIS SUNDAY 800 ITTEND CONVENTION ISHOP WILL OFFICIATE AT HELD AT DETROIT FOR SERVICE TO CELEBRATE PROHOTINE LAY RETREATS $37,000.00 Structure Hoped to Be Ready by Papal Encouragement of Movement Will Easter Sunday Greatly Increase It, Says Priest The cornerstone of the new church the outside dimensions will be. 44x91 Detroit.— A banquet attended by ing was the Rev. Ignatius Smith, O.P., for St. Augustine’s parish at Brighton feet. The exterior will be o f red brick. The total cost o f the building distinguished clergymen and laymen of Washington, D. C. In discussing will be laid at 3 o’clock this Sunday will be about $37,000, equipped. M. from all parts of the United States “ The Future of the Laymen’s Retreat Movement,’’ Father Smith said that afternoon. The Yit, Rev, J. Henry McEachern is in charge of the con­ brought to a close the third annual the' recent pronouncement of Pope The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Ser'v'ice Supplies The Denver Catholic Register and The Tihen, D.D., Bishop of Denver, will struction and Charles D. Strong is the conference of the Laymen’s Retreat officiate and .speak, and the follow­ architect. Pius on laymen’s retreats guarantees Register. Our News Is Carried to Us by Airplanes— the Only Aeronautic News Service That Comes to Colorado Movement here January 5. The din­ ing priests will be officers; Deacon, A fine feature of the church will their future. He then made a stirring - . ........................... ............................. — I , ner -was in the Book-Cadillac hotel appeal for the co-operation of secu­ the Rev. B. J. Proegel, vicar forane be a large parish hall in the basement. and was attended by almost 800 men lar and religious order priests in the VOL. X XV . No. 21. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, JAN. 9, 1930. $2.00 PER YEAR o f the Greeley deanery and former This will be 76x43 feet, with a lOVs- and women; promotion o f retreats. He said that pastor at Brighton; subdeacon, the foot ceiling. Kitchen faci'.ities will Among the speakers were Bishop the ideal would be to have trained Rev. A. Sommaruga, Denver; master also be provided in the basement for Michael J. Gallagher of Detroit, diocesan or secular priests as well as of ceremonies, the Rev. William M. social affairs. Bishop Joseph Schrembs of Cleve- religious order men to serve as re­ Higgins, Denver. The chanting will be Father Verschraeghen has invited lan<n Archabbot Aurelius Stehle, treat masters in every diocese. in charge of the Rt. .Rev. Monsignor the mayor and city councilmen o f O.S.B., of Latrobe, Pennsylvania; Sunday morning a Pontifical Mass Joseph Bosetti, Ph.D., chancellor of Brighton, as well as the head of the William H. Albers of Cincinnati and was chanted by the recently conse­ the Denver diocese. The Rev. E. J. Chamber of Commerce, to attend the [the Rev. William E. Cogley, SJ., of crated Auxiliary Bishop Joseph H. Verschraeghen, pastor of the parish, exercises Sunday. 1 Detroit. James Fitzgerald, executive Albers, o f Cincinnati. The sermon extends an invitation to both the Inasmuch a^ the Brighton parish i secretary of the third conference, was preached by Bishop Schrembs, priests and the laity of Denver and had a good-sized building fund on I acted as toastmaster. who made a strong plea for enclosed surrounding towns to attend the serv­ hand and has been generous toward Prior to the dinner the final busi- retreats. ices. the proposed church, the building will tness session was held at the Sacred At one of the sessions 6. A. Sey­ It is hoped to have the church ready be finished with no more debt than [Heart seminary, the headquarters of mour read a paper sent by the Rev. for use by Easter Sunday It will can be handled within two or three the conference. At this meeting Pitts- Louis LaLande, S.J., of Montreal, have a seating capacity of 380 and years. 1 burgh was selected as the meeting which said that it was extremely dif­ [place for 1931 and William A. Ryan ficult to obtain correct information I of Pittsburgh was chosen chairman. regarding the retreat movement in I Other officers named were B. A. Sey- the United States. The earliest rec­ Soldier Who Played Christmas Imour of D e ^ it, honorary chairman; ord of a laymeh’s retreat in America, C. Nesbitt Duffy, San Rafael, Califor­ according to the paper, is found nia, vice chairman; D. M. Martin of in the Jesuit Relations, which state “ Papa” Finds God Liked This Pittsburgh, executive secretary, and that in 1639 an Indian came to Sainte [James Fitzgerald of Detroit, corre- Marie in Georgian bay for an eight- An interesting story of theYieart- a snubby little nose made more (sponding secretary. day retreat under the direction of a strings comes to light in the Christ­ snubby against a window pane watch­ The only speaker at the final meet­ Jesuit missionary. ing for him. He left ten dollars in mas accounts of St. Vincent’s home, the little fellow’s pocket and said he A new scheme was tried this year would be back on Christmas day. whereby the boys of the home who But he came back sooner than he ex­ had never been asked for on visiting pected and had a broad grin light­ REGIS PLANS DEBATING day, or, to put it in their own words, ing his sick-sobered countenance. In had never had a papa, were called on one hand, he held a copy o f the TEAM; NEW GLEE CLUB and cared for, at Christmas time, by novena of prayer which the sisters outsiders kindly disposed. As soOn and boys offer each year at Christ­ as The Register carried the story, mas for their benefactors. In the (Regis College) W. Smith, S.J., professor of Sacred a lady phoned Sister Angela, intro­ other hand he clutched a check for At the general assembly of stu- Eloquence at the Seminary of St. duced herself and told of an ex­ $6,000 back compensation which he I dents of the college Wednesday, Fa­ Mary’s of the Lake, Mundelein, HI. soldier who had been gassed and who, had almost given up hope of ever re­ ther F. J. Mahoney began preliminary Father Smith's long experience with though not any too well himself, had ceiving. “ It came the day the n,o- arrangements for a glee club and boarding school students and his rep­ expressed a desire to “ take a kid’’ vena started and the day I called on [choir. Father Mahoney, who teaches utation as a preacher are expected for .Christmas. At least, to provide the kid. Here is a hundred dollars I the classes in vocal expression, in- to make the retreat a noteworthy his toys and to call on him. to fill his stocking. You know better I tends to try out the voices of all the event in the college year. When he went to the home he found than I how to go about it.” 1 students in the near future. After The semi-annual examinations will [the tenors, baritones and basses begin on January 24. Jbeen selected Father Dimichino Will The Study club resumed its ses­ Stake charge of the organization. sions on Wednesday evening. The S Several trips for the glee club were club was organized by ten of the col­ Noted Pioneer, Sister Mary Rose, “mentioned as probabilities. Father lege students for the study of Cath­ iC. H. Morrison spoke on;behal£ o f a olic Action. Its slogan is “ Our 9 debating team. Regis has not had Catholicism should be the most in­ Dies; Was Superior at Canon la team for public debate for several teresting thing in our lives,’’ Once Sister Mary Rose, pioneer sister of gling community had once more to I years. This year many colleges have they have made Catholicism o f living Mt. St. Scholastica academy, Canon seek a temporary shelter from the tasked for debates at Regis and interest to themselves they intend to City, died at the Benedictine mother- elements, with no prospect of finan­ ^ present indications point to the de­ study the means of interesting others house in C hioa^'on January 5. cial aid for rebuilding. Hereupon velopment of a team at Regis that in it in conformity with the Pope's the undaunted foundress betook her­ wU begin meeting opponents in the program of Catholic Action. One o f tie ceremonies:that markpA the siivier Jubilee the ;Episa>pal (^onaecratidh o f the Rt. Rev. Sister Mary Rose canie to Capon Thomas1 F. Lillis,. Btehop'Of, Kinsas City,_______________ i#aa the brcakiirgrof________ ■ground'_ for the. new^ $50O,OOO___ _ _______________ Kansas City__________ diocesan City in 1890 as the superior of Mt. self to the state legislature and re­ i'spring. Father Bergman, professor qf ------- - — . 1.- ___ ___ a.' S_'___ ____ _______ ' «--------------------------- L- -xt. ^ T^xt _•__ A _________1*____ T . e t Junior seminaTy. The* pioturei here,-takenyon this occasionr shoira the Et;,'Ttey. Augustus John Schwertner, sorted to the very American tactics < The annual retreat of the college philosophy, Tecently gave a retreat St. Scholastica’s. There was prob­ Bishop-.of, Wichita, turning a spadeful o f earth-while the Mosfc Rev. John J. Glennon, Archbishop of St. Louis ably not a more •widely known sister of lobbying. During the height of ^'students will be given the last three of three days to the nuns at Chey­ the A.P.A.

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