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Enhone* to Rtgii Cioiireom Building Cana Couples Find It Helps to Talk About Marriage Problems By Ed Miller John Regan, the moderator, had MEETINGS, held every two weeks, Member of Audit Bureau of Circulation ^•1 DON’T BELIEVE IN joint asked for opinion on that sub Father tosses out the topic for the activities for Catholic couples out ject. evening, wrapped in a few words Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1961— Permission to Reproduce, Except on s it the home,” said a young man All over the hall you could hear o f explanation. Then he lets the , Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following lijsae. at one of the Cana Conferences in backbones snapping to attention. couples go at it. He figures that Denver’s Mother of God church There was a low, angry roar from they know more about the prob hall last year. the women. “ Oh, he doesn’t, lems o f marriage than he does, The discussion was a warm one, doesn’t he?” one murmured. “ Well, and so he lets them fihd the solu with the more rugged males stand tions in their own minds. ing up for their rights. They did There is never a dull moment. not want to have any woman tag Occasionally Father R e ^ n has to ging along when they went hunt step in with a quick quip to ease DENVER CATHOLIC ing or fishing or golfing—natur the tension, or to keep the talk on ally. the track, or to give the Church’s But up to this point no male stand. But for the most part he had been intrepid enough to say stays in the shadows, like a good that he was against taking his wife referee. oui^to dinner or to a dance occas Cana topics cover everything in ionally. 1 family life from the selection of And then the naive young man REGISTER the proper comic books for chil threw his bombshell. dren to how to avoid family fights. “ I don’t believe in joint activi Often the ablutions are ingenious. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1951 DENVER, COLORADO ties for Catholic couples outside VOL. XLVM. No. 9. the home,” he said, after Father One couple came up with a good system to head off pitched battles in the family. They had found, they said, that when mama was in tough temper, it was best for her to don an apron— but back wards— as a signal to one and all that she was in a bad mood. And Dedication of Two Buiidings Oct. 21,22 when dad came home at the end of a trying day, ready to kick the dog .+ + • + + + + and push the children’s faces into their yogurt, the best solution, they Archbishop Vehr New St. Dominic's School St Dominic's School said, was for him to take his shirt nuts to him,” snapped another. o ff and put it on backwards as a Everyone strained to get a storm warning. * * * look at this two-headed monster. lo Dedicate New * ** * IDEAS LIKE THIS POP UP all Holds 12 Classrooms "WELL, IF YOU DON’T be over Father Regan’s Cana meet lieve in joint activities for Catho ings. Some are good; some are The dedication of the new grade school of St. Dominid^ lic couples outside the home, then wonderful and inspired; some are Building at Regis not. But at least the married cou parish, Denver, will take place Monday afternoon, Oct. 22, why did you come to jthe Cana Archbishop Urban J. Vehr conference ■with me tonight?” his ples involved are trying. And that at 4:30 o'clock. Archbishop Urban J. Vehr will officiate, wife asked quietly, sparks jump effort, says Father Regan, con will officiate at the dedication assisted by priests of St. Dominic’s and neighboring par ing the gap between them. stitutes more than half o f the of the beautiful new Regis ishes. “ I didn’t mean that,” the young battle. college classroom building in Immediately following the serv man said, placatingly. “ Whrt I A new technique is being tried Denver Sunday afternoon, ices, which will be held outdoors, ‘Register’ Employe meant was that I don’t believe out at Cana meeting;s this year. Oct. 21, at 3 o’clock. The Very weather permitting, a buffet sup Catholic couples should go to With the aid of Father Frederick Rev. Raphael C. McCarthy, S.J., per will be served to the clergy Enters Seminary joints.” Mann, C.SS.R., who has had ex president o f the college, will be in the church auditorium. There was a moment o f stupid tensive experience with Cana in master of ceremonies, and Joseph One distinctive feature o f the silence all around, followed by the East, a new variation o f the Craven, Denver attorney, will de new school is the kindergarten, wall-cracking laughter. group dynamics theory is being liver the main address. which is thoroughly equipped with Another Cana conference had tried. After voting on the sub Also taking part in the formal a lunch room and other features. started. jects to be discussed, the confer ceremonies will be members of Both morning and afternoon ses Not all .Cana participants miss ence breaks up into small groups the Fourth Degree Knights of Co sions are held for two separate the point so widely as did the so that everyone may have his say. lumbus, and the Capre-DeCanio- groups.' young man in the incident above, The evidence is not in yet, but it Gioia-Tezak VFW post. The St. In all there are 12 classrooms but some o f the questions raised looks as though the new technique Francis de Sales high school band in the modem school, which ad and some o f the solutions sug maji be even better than the old— will play for the occasion. joins the church, with a play gested are as humorous. Father which was plenty good. Following the dedication cere ground in between. A fence is Regan, no slow customer with the In any event, even if you do not mony, the new hall will be opened being constructed on the front quick retort himself, does not mind believe in joint activities for Cath for inspection, with the K. of C. o f the lot to prevent possible ac the injection of humor, considering olic couples outside the home, you acting as guides for groups or in cidents to pupils en|;aged in play. it essential leavening in the wed ought to investigate Cana. It. is dividuals who wish to inspect the The front of the building, ding cake. fun; it is constructive; and refresh structure and view its main fea which faces on Federal boulevard, * * * ments are always served. Enough will be landscaped to present a AT THE START OF THE said. tures. next to the parish church facing Federal boulevard THE NEW ST. DOMINIC grade school pleasant appearance on the ptomi- The new hell it one of the between 29th and 30th avenues. The old school, most beautiful of itt kind in the is shown above in a frontal view. The nent thoroughfare. Promineht Speakers Heard which was originally used as a church, was at W. Cost o f the new (chool build- ttate. It contains 16 clattroomi, school, which will be dedicated Monday, Oct. 22, 25th avenue and Grove street, several blocks from offices of the dean and registrar, inf it tome $260,000, betidet by Archbishop Urban J. Vehr, is situated on a site the church. ' furnithingt. There are 475 pu- rest rooms, fireproof vaults, pilt enrolled, in eontratt to tha 2,500 Students Attend and counseling and faculty 300 that could -bo accommo rooms. Pueblo Vicar GenerdI Given Papal Honor dated in the old tchool. Two The imposing entrance, which tecond gradot ara nacattarjr, faces toward the mountains, is Mission Crusade Masses w ith' more than 30 pupilt in Raymond A. Hutchinson the building’s most striking fea each taction, and two lay teach- ture. It is beautifully embellished Msgr. Miller Is Protonotary Apostolic art have been hired to augment (above) entered St. Thomas' Approximately 2,500 members of the Catholic Students’ with contrasting squares of Bel the teaching ttaff ,o.f Sitter^ of seminary, Denver, on Oct. 13 to Mission Crusade, Denver archdiocesan conference, attended gium blue and Colorosa marble, General of the Pueblo diocese, lower officers, and the' pastoral The Rt. Rev, Monsighor St. Dominic. begin studies in preparation for the Masses o ife f^ in the Cathedral, Holy Ghost, and Loyola a native stone. original organizer of the Pueblo staff or crozier is not used. There Aloysius J. Miller, Vicar Gen The architect for the new school ordination to the sacr^ priesthood churches Oct. 12 as youth’s participation in the mission ob Hundreds of special invitations Catholic Charities, diocesan di is only one lavabo (ceremonial iii the Denver archdiocese. eral of the Pueblo diocese, has rector of displaced persons; and is John K. Monroe, and the con have been sent to all clergy and washing of the hands in the Mass) Mr. Hutchinson, a son of Mr. and servance by the archdiocese. The students represented the diocesan director of the Confrater tractor is Jack Gys. religpous in the archdiocese, state been appointed a Protonotary and the final blessing is worded Mrs. E. B. Hutchinson of 107 S. seminary, college, and high school nity of Christian Doctrine, the Le There were two double houses tough, a former Denverite, just re educators, civic leaders, members Apostolic ad instar partici- like that of a simple priest, not o f on the site of the new school.