Seek Young Man in Parish Thefts

t h e r e g i s t e r , D EN VER ARCHDIOCESAN EDITION Page Five #4aw. AuauSt 21# 1969 I A ll-W h ite THE Seek Young Man in Parish Thefts O >4 3 O Eagles A r e Apparently a brash young man es not covered by this one insurance in rectories and that Sunday collec wua responsible for at least two company. tions are immediately deposited in burglaries at church rectories in the The largest amount reported to the banks to avoid losses. But he also Uashed Denver area. local firm was $2,850 which included said that many people go in and out Both at Presentation parish and at cash, a color television set and per of rectories, apparently on business, .Minneupolis Sts. Peter and Paul’s in Wheatridge, sonal items. The insurance agent re and that it is often difficult to identi- When the Fraternal Oi'der of Eagles pastors or assistants talked briefly to ported that several churches had lost fy persons or to limit their access to held the annual convention in Minneap a young man posing as a workman. between $900 and $1,000. In addition the building. olis two weeks ago members voted to con In each case, the thefts were dis to cash, items taken recently included At Presentation parish, a staff tinue to restrict membership in the or covered shortly after the young man c coin collection, personal I^longings. member said the thief threw away ganization to white persons. A motion from the floor to eliminate the "whites was seen in the building. small amounts of cash, and items the checks he had taken, keeping only policy” was defeated. But that doesn’t account for ail the such as television sets. only the cash. Of the assembled delegates. 2.295 vot burglaries that have happened recent Because of the growing number of ed to keep the restriction, while 779 vot ly- burglaries. Archbishop James V. Cas THE ARCHBISHOP’S memoran ed to abolish it. and 764 voted for the ey issued a special memorandum to dum pointed out that because several option that would have allowed local ACCORDING to a local insurance pastors to be aware and take extra rectories in Denver and Colorado aeries to make their own decision on the firm which carries policies for about precautions against such incidents. Springs had been robbed within the matter. 80 archdiocese parishes, there have past month, "it would be well for our Editorials in two Minnesota Catholic been at least 20 thefts within the FATH ER ROBERT McMahon of priests and housekeepers to be aware publications denounced the organization past three months. And there have Sts. Peter and Paul’s, pointed out that of this possibility and to take the for retaining a policy of segregation. been additional thefts in other parish there are no large amounts of money necessary precautions.” The ,S’(. ('loud Visitor, organ of the Diocese of St. Cloud, said: "YO U ARE sick. sick, and .sick and the infection you spread across the land Integration in your million plus members can only be eliminiited by burying tne fetid corpse of your fraternal order- K e y Issu e "Fralernal Order of Eagles, you are not fraternal, you are n«jt patriotic, and F o r B o a r d surely you are not. by any stretch of the Tonight the Denver Public School board imagination. Christian." meets at 7:30 p.m. for a regular meeting Father Francis Fleming, pastor of St. OlaPs Church in downt<)wn Minneapoli.s. at West High School and the agenda is writing in the parish bulletin to be dis wide open. tributed at Mtesses there Aug. 10. criti But the prime issue is not likely to be cized. the Eagles’ "wicked business of ex anything new — it’s segregation and the cluding Negroes from membership." He solutions or plans to change it. added: For more than a month now the School board has been hassling with how to han "W E A L L KNOW, of course, that dle the problem. A court case brought by Eagles do not hiive a corner on discrimi a group of parents who claim that the nation. but when you see it fliiunted in a .schools are segregated de jure - by law manner so blatant, naked and raw. right - and should be changed. The board is here in our home town, it does come as a defending its position — that if segrega shock. tion exists at all it is de facto segregation for which they are not responsible. "As we watched part of the parade from our window and noted the units DENVER carrying signs advertising them.selves us ARCHDIOCESAN TH E BOARD Saturday requested that Mystery Design? being 'For God and Country ’ we couldn't District Judge William Doyle issue a stay help but wonder at what weird products EDITION of execution for his order from the U.S No, merely the open steel frame of the Church of the Risen Christ’s new are being sold sometimes under the brand THURSDAY, AUG. 21, 1969 District Court which required that the building combined with the circles for the colored glass chancel window of religion and patriotism. VOL. XLIV No. 3 school board put into effect three reso silhouetted against the cloudy summer sky. This and other churches are "On the encouraging side, there was a lutions which were aimed at changing the featured in a story on construction in the archdiocese on page six. (Mike singular lack of young people in the pa composition of schools in northeast Den O’Meara Photo) rade. This, of course, is a tribute to our ver. The resolutions, passed by the old younger generation which just isn’t buy school hoard, were recinded by the new ing this sort of thing anvmore .. .’’ O ffic ia l board which was elected this spring on an Avoid Civil War; The news editor of the (ireett Bay Hef’- anti-bussing — voluntary integration plat isler. Sue Kaufman, wrote an open letter form. to her father asking him to resign his The board votes have split consistently Pope Urges Irish membership in the Eagles. with James D. Voorhees Jr.. Mrs. Rachel She wrote: "Well. Dad. this Eagles Noel, and Dr. John H. Amesse voting as Castelgandolfo. Italy — (NC> — Pope justice and peace and urged that these thing is just one cell of the cancer that pro-integrationists. and William G. Berge. Paul VI has pleaded <Aug. 17) with rebel ideals be sought to avoid the scandal of spreads this sort of living death. And you James C. Perrill. h’rank K. Southworth. lious factions in Northern Ireland to Christians fighting among themselves. know what the doctors can do alx^ut can and Stephen J. Knight. Jr., voting in avoid the "fatal necessity’’ of civil war in The near civil war that has hit North cer if they get it where it starts." favor of voluntary bussing. the modern world. ern Ireland and resulted in British troops Appointments Following Doyle’s refusal to grant a being called in to maintain law and order Speaking to pilgrims and visitors gath Rt. Rev. Msgr. Eugene A. O'Sullivan, stay, the board then appealed to the U.S. followed about 10 months of intermittent ered at his summer residence here for his formerly Pastor. St. Vincent de Paul 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. But the strife over the Catholic minority s conten ‘Obscene’ Film usual Sunday noon blessing, the Pope Church. Denver, resignation accepted. three judges for that Court — Judge Jean told of the anguish he felt for "most be tion that it is discriminated against in Rev. Francis J. Syrianey. to be Pastor. Breitenstein of Denver. John J. Hickey of loved Ireland.” housing, jobs, and voting. Fight Moves St. Vincent de Paul Church. Denver. Wyoming, and Alfred P. Murrah of Okla Saying that his soul was filled with Meanwhile, Cardinal William Conway Rev. Herbert L. Banigan. to be Associ homa. have not yet met this week. It is "an immense sadness,” the Pope lamented of Armagh, North Ireland, has called for To Round Two ate Pastor, All Souls’ Church. Englewood. expected they will meet Friday. the outbreaks of trouble and strife in so an end to the violence that" has shaken \ Rev. Robert A. Freudenstein, to be Until that court hears the appeal. many parts of the w’orld and particularly Northern Ireland. Denver Dist. Atty. James D. (Mike) Pastor. St. Pius Tenth Church. Aurora, Doyle's injunction is in effect, and it in Ireland, "where the conflict assumes a In a statement issued here the cardi McKevitt won the first round in the I Am and to be in charge o f St. Joseph’s would appear that the three resolutions to character that we would not have imag nal. appealing to Catholics to do every Curious < Yellow) court fight with Grove Church. Deertrail. and St. Gertrude's integrate schools in northeast Denver ined and that we would not have wished thing possible to avoid further violence, Press when U.S. District Judge Hatfield Church. Strasburg. would be put into effect. to see ever again as a basis for conflict said that an extension of the disturbances Chilson denied Grove Press, distributor of Rt. Rev. Msgr. William H. Jones, to be The trial on the merit of the case is not between human relationships: that of reli would play into the hands of those who the film, a temporary restraining order Associate Pastor. St. James Church. Den slated until later this fall.

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