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Member of 'Audit Bureau of Cireulationi Contestt Copyrighted by the Catholic Preee Society, Inc. 1947—Permission to Reproduce, Except on Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 H. Friday Following Issue Charities Compiete 20 Years’ Work DENVER CATHOLIC College Given Mountain Home Social Welfare Help REGISTER Grows Tremendously, Ihe National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register. We Annual Report Shows Have Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven Smaller Services, Photo Features, and Wide World Photos.. (8 cents per copy) 1946 Expenditares Reach 6762,911.96;Aid to VOL. XUI. No. 35. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1947. $1 PER YEAR. Homeless Children and DIsriptod Families, Health Services Major Demands Care for orphaned and homeless children, aid to fam ‘Register’ Collection ilies disrupted by the lack of housing, and the demand for healjh services were the major questions faced by the Cath olic Charities in the past year. The annual report was issued at the meeting of the officers and board of directors April 21. Will Be Sunday^ May 4 The Charities completed their 20th year of organized work in 1946. The agency was organized by the then Father John R. Mulroy at the request of the late Bishop J. Henry Tihen and covered the The annual collection for the Dtnver Catholic Register will be whole state of Colorado until the setting up of the Diocese of taken up in churches of the archdiocese Sunday, May 4. As Archbishop Pueblo in 1942. 1st Ordinations Urban J. Vehr notes in his letter announcing the collection, labor and A summary of figures from the major divisions of its work in newsprint costs are constantly rising. Despite this fact, Register readers the Denver archdiocese in 1946 shows to what a huge extent it has get more in the paper than ever before. The staff has been augmented grown. Charitable expenditures by Catholic hospitals and health services, the largest item, were $376,963.64. Next in line was the In 1947 Class since the close or the war; local pictures are used more liberally; and a sum spent for child welfare, $333,225.89. Youth work done by affili sparkling sports page has been instituted. Tbe present shortage of news Thu beautiful mountain homo near Tiny Town program at the college. Groups of students will be ated societies cost $27,032.14. The sum of $25,700.28 was spent on Occur May 3 ,4 print prevents a larger paper. hai been acquired by Loretto Heights college, Den allowed to spend week ends there to take part in family welfare. The total charity expended reached $762,911.95. The subscription rate is extremely reasonable, and only one appeal ver, through the generosity of an anonymous donor. skiing and ice-skating. Facilities for these sports are The home will be used to expand the winter sports available nearby. CHILDREN CARED FOR IN 1946 totaled 2,470 as compared The first ordinations among is made yearly for assistance. Generous donations, as means permit, with 1,928 in 1946. Applications for placement in 1927 were only members of the 1947 class in St. will assist the Register greatly in furthering the apostolate of the press. 209, as compared with 1,093 applications in 1946. In the 20-year Thomas' seminary, Denver, will be period 7,008 children have received foster home care and approxi those of the Rev. William Doran Archbishop Vehr’s message concerning the collection follows: April 21, 1947 mately 17,403 institutional care. Since American society is becom Curtis and the Rev. Sherlock Paul Ignorance of Christian Principies ing more conscious of the obligation to provide an adequate home Weir. Both will be ordained by Reverend Dear Father and Beloved People: for every child, the Charities are being called upon to care for more Bishop Leo Bins for service in the ‘ Once each y w we ask your kind co-operation in the work of the children than at any time in the 20-year period. Diocese of Winona, Minn. The or The serious housing shortage in Denver caused more demands dinations will occur May 3 and 4 Denver Catholic Register. You receive each week a copy of the National Caiied Worst Threat to Democracy Edition of tliie Register carrying news of international and national for child care and at the same time limited facilities. Parents unable to find a home were forced to ask placement of their youngsters in interest to all Catholics. Likewise each week a copy of the archdiocesan By J ack Heher If Communism were destmyed, proving the practicality of positive institutions and foster hpmes simply to have a roof .over their heads. Solemn Mass May 11 in St. Peter’s edition is mailed to you, chronicling the news of importance in the “Communism is not the greatest would the world then be Chris principles than in destroyingyli the The lack of housing has limited the number of foster homes. The archdiocese and its various parishes. You appreciate the importance of threat to religion and democracy tian?” Proposing this question and opponents to them; INTERCIP is total cared for in foster homes in the year was 1,351. today. It is the lack of understand answering it with a firm negative, championing the cause of truth • * • the Catholic press in presenting news of Catholic interest and developing ing of Christian and democratic Mrs; Brady asserted that it is only and thus is more powerfully op IN THE YEAR, 103 CHILDREN were placed in adoption homes. a Catholic attitude toward events of national and international import. principles that constitutes a more through the practice of Christian posed to Communism. Since 1939, when the Charities began the adoption program, 614 The Qtholic press is a real apostolate of the Church. potent menace.” With these words, principles in daily living that the Pope Pius XII, in his interview children have been placed In permanent adoption homes. The' high The Register is read from coast to coast and assists the Catholic Mrs. Anna M. Brady, director of threats against world peace will with the American director of rate in family breakdown has also resulted in the increase in ^ e the American Center of Informa be destroyed. ‘‘Where democracy press in foreign fields. INTERCIP, said: “When I was in number of giris placed In the Good Shepherd home, where 302 were tion Pro Deo, pojntcd out the crux lives. Communism dies,” she said. America I met many wonderful cared for. The cost of publishing a paper is constantly mounting. Labor and of the situation in the world today, In June, 1941, the American people—and not only Catholics.” The year saw the organization of the Infant of Prague nursery, newsprint costs have considerably increased over previous years and and at the same time exposed riie branch of INTERCIP (Inter It is in keeping with this point of where 45 volunteers helped care for the 57 babies that were ad are constantly rising. problem which her organization is national Centers of Information view that INTERCIP strives to en- mitted from March 17 to Dec. 31. Nearly 400 needy children bene striving to unsnarl. We are striving to have a Qtholic paper in every Qtholic home Pro Deo) was founded by Mrs. age in the “Apostolate of Public fited by the reopening of Camp Santa Maria. Brady and her late husband, Frank St. Vincent’s, St. Clara’s, and the Queen of Heaven orphanages; as far as possible. The annual subscription rate is $1.30. Those better Mrs. Brady, who passed through Ipinion” not only Catholics but Denver last week, is at present Brady. The headquarters of this “men of good will” of whatever the Convent of the Good Shepherd, the Infant of Pragpie nursery, circumstanced might wish to give something additional for those who lecturing in cities throughout the creed. St. Joseph's baby annex, the J. K. Mullen high school, and St. cannot afford to subscribe. Our aim is to serve the Church and the United States and Canada for the In the foundation of our coijn- Coletta’s school, Lonraont, cared for 1,229 boys and girls in 1946. interests of the Church. This annual collection is our only appeal. Kindly promotion of local Committees try will be seen the positive Chris The grand total of children who have found a home in these eight institutions since their founding is 27,093. assist us as your means permit. Pro Deo. These committees are tian principles of which I speak,” formed with the purpose of carry * « * May God bless you, your homes, and your loved ones. said Mrs. Brady. “We (INTER- ing out the “Apostolate of Public CIP) are attempting to bring the THE EIGHT CATHOLIC HOSPITALS in the Denver arch- Faithfully yours in Christ, Opinion”, a phase of the modem people of the country to the diocese have 1,183 beds and the average daily occupancy for the ^ URBAN J. VEHR, apostolate that attempts to Chris awareness and practice of these year wm 1,138 or 96 per cent. The total case load again recorded Archbishop of Denver. tianize modem thought through principles.” an all-time high— 45,588 cases, contrasted with 39,631 in 1946 and the penetration of religious ideas 37,246 in 1944. Blue Cross cases were 13,040, as against 12,205 P.S.—^The* collection is to be taken on Sunday, May 4, and sent by means of press, radio, and film in 1945; free patients went from 2,205 in 1946 to 2,686 in 1946. directly to the Register, 938 Bannock street, Denver, Colorado.

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