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Archdiocese Has 77 Studying for Priesthood T Seventy ■ seven young men est contingent from any one dition to Denver and from 17 The three, Lawrence M. Family, and Regis high by newcomers to the seminary THE L.ARGEST theology are studying this year to be see among the 250 students dioceses. Freeman, Charles L. Schmitt, schools. include Regis college, Den class is the third year, with come priests in the archdio who began classes the past A hopeful sign for the future and William J. Sulzman, all St. Mary’s high school in ver; St. Benedict’s, .Atchison, 11 students at St. Thomas’ cese of Denver, the arthdioce- week at St. Thomas’ sem is the enrollment of 21 arch entered the fourth year of Colorado Springs contributed Kans.; and Creighton univer and two in Rome. The second san Chancery office an inary. , diocesan seminarians in the college. two graduates to the class. sity, Omaha, Neb. year theology class has seven nounced the past week. first year of college. Public high schools in Ft. Col Others of the new students in Denver and one in Rome. Of these seminarians, 72 are REPRESENTED AMONG By contrast only two men SIX DENVER Catholic high lins and Leadville sent one have attended Colorado uni There are four students in attending St. Thomas’ semi- the capacity enrollment at the will be ordained to the priest schools are represented each. versity extension in Denver, first year theology.' pary, Denver; three are en- seminary are students from hood for the archdiocese in the among the first year college From outside the state. Colorado State college in In addition to the first year hoUed in the North American coming year. students at the seminary, led Cathedral Latin high school in Greeley, and Logan Chiro college Mudents, there are college in Rome; and two are In addition to the first year by Cathedral and Machebeuf Cleveland, 0.; St. Mark’s high practic in St. Louis, Mo. eight in fourth year college, studying at the Catholic Uni (See complete listing of college students, three other high schools with three stu school in Erie, Pa.; and Fa Twenty-four of the Denver twelve in third year, and versity of America in Wash students on page 11.) men were accepted by Arch dents each in the class. ther Ryan high school in. students at the seminary are seven in second year at St. ington, D.C. bishop Urban J. Vehr to begin Represented by one student Nashville, Tenn., are repre enrolled in the theology de Thomas’. The students for the Denver preparation for the priesthood each among the first-year sented by one student each. partment and the other forty- The men in Washington are archdiocese make up the larg four other archdioceses in ad this year. men are Annunciation, Holy Catholic colleges attended eight in the college section. in third and fourth college. Collegiality Main Issue, Pope Paul Tells Council I (More stories on Council are on page 2) Vatican City — Pope Paul VI opened the third ses sion of the Ecumenical Council with a ringing assertion of the role of the Church’s Bishops as “the teachers, rulers, and sanctifiers of the Christian people.” DENVER CATHaiC As if to back up his words by a striking action, he concele- his address opening the session, brated the session’s opening was a visible demonstration of Mass Sept. 14 with 24 (Council the collegiality, which is the Fathers, including two Ameri principal issue before the Coun cans, Archbishop Lawrence J. cil. REGISTER Shehan of Baltimore and Arch The Mass, according to Fa Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations bishop John J. Krol of Philadel ther Placid Jordan, O.S.B., in a phia. NCWC News report was a truly THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 1964 DENVER, COLORADO VOL. LIX No. 6 overwhelming experience for THE MASS, the Pope said in those privileged to witness the epoch-making event in St. Peter’s Basilica. Several times and In several ways the Pope said that the St. Joseph Joins Retreat Staff! principal task of the third ses sion will be the centi*al task of A huge granite statue of St. i driveway to the retreat house BEGUN ALMOST five years THIS RECRUITTHENT pro the Second Vatican Council It- ' Joseph was installed Sept. 13 at! is the first statue, that of the ago. Sacred Heart Retreat house gram, a c c o rc ^ to Father self — to round out the First Sacred Heart Retreat house for Sacred Heart. Farther beyond has had nearly 8,500 retreatants Kelly, has merited the gratitude Vatican Council’s incomplete men, near Sedalia. Its erection and near the first outdoor Sta since Nov. 1, 1959. of even the most skeptical men teaching on the nature of th6" completes a four outdoor statue tion of the CroBS is another one, It is situated on a 90-acre site who made a first retreat simply Church by explaining the na plan, according to Father Thom of the Blessed Mother. two miles west of Sedalia, some because they could not “get out ture and function of the Bishops as J. Kelly, 3.J., director. Ddnated by a retreatant, St. 25 miles south of Denver and of it.” as successors of the Apostles. At the top of the winding Joseph the Worker statue weighs halfway to Colorado Springs. “Without the leadership of Just as the Second Vatican about 550 pounds. Mr. Hogan, Father Raphael McCarthy, these parish captains,” he add Council will balance the First After Tyranny, Joy of Reunion another retreatant, donated two S.J., former president at Regis ed, “Sacred Heart Retreat Vatican council’s definition of days of service in buUding a college, Denver, and Marquette house today would not be aver papal primacy with a clarifica The end of a long separation comes for cesan Catholic Charities office brought to Something Needed: rock base for the Statue. university, Milwaukee, spear aging 42 men per week. Nor tion of the role of the Bishops Senora Consiielo Otero, left, refugee from Denver five other members of the Cuban Father John R. Padberg, S.J., headed the acquisition of the would the records show that 435 in the Universal Church, Pope Red Cuba, as she embraces her niece, Senora family, Senor and Senora Cardenas, their Trees and Shrubs assistant retreat house director, site and the building program. first-timers have come to the Paul balanced his own affirma Marla Fuentes, at Stapleton airfield. At married daughter, Senora Fuentes, and her cited two anonymous Lowry Air Some 52 men can be accom house from (our states since the tion of the authority of the right, Senora Otero's son, Ralph, welcomes two chiidren. Regia and John. Senora Car Continuing an outdoor beau Force men for donating their modated in the retreat house. first of this year.” Bishops with a forthright asser his aunt, Senora Blenvealda Cardenas, and denas is the sister of Senora Otero. The new tification program. Sacred time and labor in building a Each has a private room and tion of the Pope’s authority and his baby cousin, John Fuentes. Senora Otero Heart Retreat bouse Is in path from the chapel to St. Jo washing facilities, including all of the Church’s need for cen ly arrived Cuban exiles will live in Denver. need of trees and shrubs. and her children, Ralph and Anna Marie, seph’s shrine. the comforts of a "first-rate ho tralization. Senor Cardenas, who was manager of a sta They will be used around the Some 15 truck loads of have been living (or the past 18 months In tionery store in Cuba, is hoping to find work tel. outdoor shrines and for gen crushed granite were hauled to “IF OUR APOSTOUC duty Loveland, where she teaches Spanish in the here. Retreats are held each week eral landscaping. the site. The granite is used as end thronghout the year. Non- obliges us to impose restrictions pubiic Khooli. The past week the archdlo- Mercy Donors and volunteers who a base for a black-top walk ex Catholics always are welcomed to define terms, to prescribe wish to aid In this project tending from St. Ignatius Loy awd regalarly attend the serv modes of action, to regulate the may contact Father ’Thomas ola’s shrine to the Blessed ices with the other retreatants. methods which concern the ex J. Kelly, Sjr., at the retreat Mother’s, which adjoins the Father Kelly, a native of Den Hospital ercise of episcopal authority,” house in Sedalia or call 628- Priest-Writer To Head Workshop first station. ver, succeeded Father Mc the Pope said, “you realize that 3727. He promises to “dig, col St. Joseph’s statue is near the Carthy two years ago, when the this is done for the good of the lect, and transplant” these Lecturer and writer in the pamphlets written by Father signor William H. Jones will de end of the 14th station, and a latter was named spiritual di entire Church, for the (Jhurch field of religious education, the donations! Rites Set McBride. He will arrive Mon liver the workshop’s closing re black-top walk leads from it to rector for the community at St. which has proportionately great Rev. Alfred McBride, 0. Praem. day, Sept. 28, in Denver and is marks. the retreat house chapel. Louis university. er need of centralized leadership of St. Norbert Abbey, DePere, N«w clMip«l will hm scheduled to speak at St. Thom So far the retreat house has as its world-wide extension be Wis., will conduct the workshop as seminary.

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