I ' Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations ,1 Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1947— Permission to Reproduce, Except on WILL FLY FROM NEW YORK DEC 19 Displaced Catholics Articles.,Otherwi8e Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue. J e s u i t D e n v e r " T a n r S D E N V E R C A T H O L I C By Paul H. Hallett S e r v e “Das schoene Weinachtsfest [the blessed Feast of Christ- j mas] will be pinpeapinched tand cheerless for us. But in spite of V misery_:________ andj ______povejRyl_ -we__ 1— intend toM live___»» in the spirit of Christ.’ REGISTER So runs a c,cjjafacteristic sentence from a letter*of thanks for The National Catholic *Wel£are Conference News Service Suppiies The Denver Catholic Register. We a CARE package this writer received from a Silesian refugee, Have Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven Smaller E. Berndt, now a teacher in Kulmbach-Aichig, Bavaria. Services; NCWC and Religious News Photos. Price of paper 3 cents a copy. O r d e r R o m e Just 150 years ago Goethe The Rev. James W. Naughton, S.J., 32, son of MMjrs. penned what many think his finest helplessly on as we slowly weaken Intensely Grateful Mary C. Naughton, 3002 Federal boulevard in Denver, work, Hermann und Dorothea, an in mind and body. Our sufferings has been appointed secretary to the Assistant in charge idyl centering about a German girl will not let up; on the contrary who had been uprooted from her thev are growing worse and worse. For Peter's Pence of the American province at the Jesuit Curia in Ronie. Alsatian home by the nationalism We are crowded together into a He will fly from New York city to Rome on Dec. 19. of the French revolution, and found close, damp room, and vegetate in Father Naughton’s work will hospitality in the Rhine country a miserable, fruitless existence., . Pope Sends consist mainly of translating let­ amid a prosperous townspeople. We possess only our old, tattered ter# and other transcripts; prepar­ Catholics to Take From the opposite end of Germany clothing. , . ing letters which will be presented Herr Berndt and his family were “ But the worst of all our plagues to the General of the Society of driven from the farm his family is hunger. We cannot live on the Blessing to Jesus; filing official papers; and Legion of Decencf had occupied for centuries, like­ rations allotted to us. Our strength general secretarial duties. Official wise by a stupidnationalism, acti- is constantly diminishing; we are documents sent to Jesuit head­ rin\yialvated by a criminalrin\yialvated Soviet policy. completely undernourished. My quarters in Rome, and orders Pledge on Sunday He sought refuge in the Rhineland heart bleeds when I see my family Archdiocese emanating from Rome, ary written — hut how different the situation! being undermined in health and in Latin. The Pledge of the Legion bf Let him tell his story: The generous Peter’s Pence col­ Decency will be taken by the faith­ * • * myself unable to help them. We While in Rome, Father Naugh­ get 50 grams of fat and 400 grams lection of $10,000 from the Arch­ ful’ at all the Masses throughopt diocese of Denver is a “ source of ton will , live at the Jesuit Curia, the archdiocese on Sunday, Ddc. "DURING THE WAR we lived of meat per month per person. Be­ which is across the street from hours of death in a hail of bombs. cause of the drought in the sum­ intense gratification” to the Holy 14, the Sunday within the Octave Father in his work of relieving the Vatican City. At the headquarters of the Immaculate Conception, ac­ We cannot return to our beloved mer and fall the potato crop was so in Rome, the Jesuit Genera! super­ homeland. We have lost every­ suffering throughout the world. cording to an announcement l)y small that we received only one vises the far-flung activities of the thing: House, yarti, and little hundredweight of potatoes for the This is the theme of a letter re­ Archbishop Urban J. Vehr. | farm. Only what we had on our ceived this week by Archbishop order. To assist him in his work, The pledge is as follows: period ending August, 1948. We do each country maintains offices in bodies could we take with us. We Urban J. Vehr from Monsignor J. IN THE NAME OF THE not know whether we will last the Curia. have shed tears and tears. Now we through the winter. B. Montini, substitute Secretary FATHER AND OF THE SON have become beggars, and look of State at the Vatican. The letter There is an Assistant for South AND OF THE HOLY “ I am a teacher by profession, announces that the Apostolic America provinces; an Assistant GHOST. AMEN. serve in Kulmbach, and get only Benediction is bestowed upon the for Chinese provinces; an Assist­ “ 1 CONDEMN indecent Nearly 300 Youths a meager wage. We are only .Archbishop, the priests, and people ant for American provinces, etc. .nd immoral motion pictures, tolerated and— [Here the trend of of the Denver archdiocese. The Father Naughton will be the sec­ and those which glorify crime : thought breaks offl. The educa­ message follows: retary for the American Assistant, or criminals. tion of the young is very hard, for Segreteria Di State Being instructed Nazism lives on in its effects. I "I PROMISE to do-all that ' ■ di want only to return to my Silesian I can to strengthen public : SUA SANTITA home. opinion against the produc- | By Mission Sisters No. 161065 tion of indecent and immoral Vatican City, films, and to unite with all "MY TWO SONS, aged 17 and Nov. 27, 1947 Close to 300 public school chil­ 18, are studying at the Oberreal- who protest against them. dren of Denver are currently re- Your Excellency: “1 ACKNOWLEDGE my ; schule in Kulmbach and attending It is my honored duty, on the j' ceiving religious instruction from the upper classes. Real books there obligation to form a right I ' the Our Lady of Victory Mission­ are none. Even paper-bound vol­ instruction of the Holy Father, to conscience about pictures [ ary Sisters. The sisters, formerly umes ai'e almost unobtainable. acknowledge receipt of the offer­ that are dangerous to my ‘ • 'known as “ Catechists," are work- That is why my children are hav­ ing of Peter’s Pence for the year moral life. As a member of ' i ing with children who range in ing such a miserable time of it. 1947, in the amount of $10,000 the Legion of Decency, I ; age from 6 to 17. The democratic forces have been which has been forwarded to Vati­ pledge myself to remain away ' J The Parish of the Holy Ghost weakened by the catastrophic food can City through the good offices from them.' I promise, fur- j.' sponsors the religion courses, un­ situation, and the reaction w; of the Apostolic Delegate. ther, to stay away altogether der its pastor, the Rt. Rev. Mon- given new strength.’’ .—Drawing by Leo Canavan, Staff Artist Jlis Holiness deeply appreciates from places of amusement the sentiments of solid Catholic signor John R. Mulroy. One of Herr Bemdt’s sons + r -r -f-' which show them as a matter ' I At the present time, pupils from piety, true fidelity, and devoted at­ of policy.’’ throws additional light on the lot tachment to the See of Peter ; the Ebert and 24th street schools. of the German displaced persons, Cole junior high school, and Man- which animated Your Excellency in a letter written in good, though and your deyoted priests and peo­ ' uat high school are attending the occasionally halting, English: Collection for Food to Save Five of Hierarchy ple in making this really generous sisters’ classes, which are held “ The refugees had to leave a after .school from 3:30 to 5. Be- offering, and he would have me country where all their hope was express to each one of you his To Attend Jubilee •T cause of the large numbers, the that people can ever have on earth, periods of instruction for the special paternal gratitude. < where their grandfathers, their Starving Abroad This Sunday The fatherly solicitude of the lower grades are held on Mondays (Turn to Pages— Column 6) souls, lov- • • and Thursdays, and the upper I Supreme Shepherd of Of fr. J. S. Garcia .A few weeks ago with all thejlics to join in a concerted relief why Catholics should give to their:ingly embracing as it does the en- class children attend on Tuesdays Rev. Jamei W. Naughton, S.J. Trinidad.— Two Archbishops and '• and Wednesdays. Msgr. Bosetti to Give fanfare and reams of publicity that drive for immediate aid, especially.......fellow.................. men in........... Europe, many ofitire flock of Christ committed to usually accompany a promotion for the thousands of starving chil- ' V „ are flose to su.^iimhin’e- to^h's care, goes out in compassionate three Bishops will assist the Rev.: Rooms in the ba.sement of the the Rev. Vincent A. McCormick, Joseph Samuel Garcia, the oldest V,sisters’ convent at 2161 Tremont stunt, a train left California head­ dren in war-torn lands. In manyi'.................. ^ °itenderness. especially to the suf- 2 Operas Next April ed East. This train grew as it dioceses the drive was held If,:the blandishments or the insidious fering members of his fold. Your S.J., a member of the New York diocesan priest in Colorado, wheni street serve as classrooms.