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ONVERT WORK FOLLOW ENCYCLICAL ARISH SCHOOLS BISHOP,VEHR IN 0 PLAN HONOR PASTORAL URGES 0 WASHINGTON RENEWED EFFORT jshop Names Rev. F. G. Smith Chairman of Adds Prayers to Mass for Welfare of Our Committee in Charge of Bicen People in “These Trying tenary Fete Days’’ The Most Rev. Urban J. Vehr, D.D., Bishop of Denver, this The new Encyclical Letter of Pope Pius XI, in which he ^ek named the Rev. F. Gregory Smith, pastor of St. Mary’s invites all Christians to return to unity under the Holy See, is The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register and The Register. to be followed up by a pastoral letter from the Most Rev, Urban brch, Littleton, as chairman for the Catholic schools of Colo- We Have Also Our Own Extensive Special Service, the R. of C. Service, the Central Verein Service, the lo in the celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of George Fides Service and the California Catholic Press Service J. Vehr, D.D., Bishop of Denver, who urges upon the clergy of ishington. Father Smith will co-operate with the State pub- Colorado renewed and organized interest in convert work. jeducational authorities and the national commission that has VOL. XXVII. No. 20. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, DEC. 31,1931. $2.00 PER YEAR Bishop Vehr at a conference several months ago encouraged the fen making plans for the proper observance of the bicenten- pastors to form convert instruction classes, and, as a result of r. Washin^on’s birthday, February 22, is one of the days Vatican Building Scene of Roof Collapse the Holy Father’s appeal, he now reiterates his suggestion. The fablished on Bishop Vehr’s calendar .for the parish schools pastoral, which is to go out froTn the Chancery office of the [a flag day, when patriotic exercises must be held. The State diocese this week, deals with the seminaristicum and other rperintendent of Public Instruction this week asked for and diocesan collections, and then takes up the question of convert [•eived a complete list of the Colorado Catholic schools to work. It also establishes the prayer “Pro quacumque neces used in connection with the Washington bicentenary. sitate” as an imperata, to be added to the Mass when the rubrics irhe current K. of C. national was left to a later generation. The m permit, “for the spiritual and temporal welfare of our people Irs service announces that the of- Virginia project fared better. Gov during these trying days.” The same prayer was used as an |al bust of Washing^ton, selected by ernor Harrison, acting in accord with imperata during the Bishop Tihen regime. George Washington bicentennial the resolution of the legislature, Inmission, was made by the Cath- placed the matter in the hands of Following are excerpts from the Bishop’s letter; sculptor Jean Antoine Houdon. Thomas Jefferson, who was then in CONVERTS I3n June 22, 1784, the lawmakers Paris on official business for Uncle I take this occasion to urge our priests to renewed, conscientious efforts in gaining converts to the Church. The recent Christmas letter of |the state of Virginia directed that Sam, and incidentally feasting upon , : executive be requested to take the esthetic fare which that center our Holy Father to the world is a direct invitation to all who are not lasures for procuring a statue of of art afforded. Catholics to join the Church, the center of unity. As local conditions per ] leral Washington, to be of the fin- Governor Harrison and the gentle mit, pastors and assistants might form regular convert classes, or a series marble and best workmanship. A men of the Virginia legislature knew of special apologetic sermons, and intructions might be arranged to which Ir previously Congress itself voted little about sculpture, and were no non-Catholics as well as Catholics may be invited. Any plan born of zeal and [erect an equesti’lan statue in the way bashful in admitting it. Less ; > i i interest in the spread of the faith will have the blessing of God upon it. leral’s honor. But American cash than ten days after the legislature Our priestly interest in the work of conversions must be continuous and Li not yet learned to sing so eharm- had acted, the governor wrote to persevering. A Christ-like fervor and anxiety for souls will impel us to i:ly as it does today. Uncle Sam’s Charles Wilson Peale, the artist, di exert every effort to make our Holy Faith known to those outside the fold. PI May God bless the humble part we, as His instruments, play in the Propaga lasury was on an enforced diet, recting him to put General Wash- A view of St. Peter’s Basilica 'f*-'_ |i the rearing of this monument {Continued on Page 8) tion of the Faith. It is our earnest hope that the number of converts in and the Vatican, with an arrow the diocese will be considerably increased this year. pointing to the roof which col PRAYER The oration “Pro quacumejue necessitate,” No. 12, should be said in lapsed and crashed through the fa Holy Mass, whenever the rubrics permit, for the spiritual and temporal mw PASTORS TAKE mous Sala Sistina. The roof cov welfare of our people during these trying days. ered that portion of the Vatican I ask God’s choicest blessings upon you and your people. May His library which was constructed by Blessed Mother be our constant intercessor to win for us during this year POSTS NEXT WEEK the spiritual and temporal favors we need. Pope Sixtus V in 1588. To the Faithfully yours, Irhe Rev. Manus P. Boyle, new right: A view of the Sala Sistina URBAN J. VEHR, litor of Presentation parish, Bar- (Sistine hall), famous for its mag December 29, 1931. '____________ ' Bishop of Denver._________ |m, Denver, will leave Salida next LIBRARY GIFT nificent manuscripts and books. lidnesday to assume his posi- The roof of this section of the In in Denver. The Rev. Francis I Cawley, new pastor at Salida, will Vatican library fell through the Ive Denver Tuesday to begin work TO SEMINARY ceiling of this room and plunged FAILURE OF YOUTH ISalida. He has been assistant to Announcement has been made through the floor into the consulta Jther William M. Higgins at SL tion room beneath. Five laymen lilomena’s church, Denver. Father that the valuable library of the late Rev. James Gibbons, pioneer priest were killed.— (Vatican photo by BLAMED ON SECTS Iwley, accompanied by the Rev. fnes P. Flanagan, pastor of St. who died recently as pastor of Pres Underwood and Underwood.) try Magdalen’s church, Denver, entation parish, has been presented New York.—Failure of the family jurious thing to which youth is ex l-ly this week visited Salida, where to the library of SL Thomas’ semi as a factor in education, together posed, no doubt presented an extreme W were guests of Father Boyle. nary. Father Gibbons made the gift with the “substantial collapse of the point of view, but it is one which in person a day or two before his educational influence of the Protes increasingly finds expression. death, when he sent for Father Wil tant Churches,” has combined to put “The truth is that the school liam M. Brennan, C. M., president Ghastly Suffering for Faith upon the school a burden which it draws upon itself criticism, not so of the seminary. The pioneer priest LISTENING IN. cannot bear and should not be asked much by reason of what it fails to was extremely well read and the li ====================1 to bear. Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, offer or accomplish in its own REGISTORIALS brary was splendidly selected. It in in Russia Told by Figures president of Columbia university, proper sphere, but by reason of its cluded approximately 1,500 books, Dr. A. J. Sulleni of Denver, tuper- declared in his annual report. inability and incapacity to do the acording to the Rev. Maurice Hel- intend^nt of the work of the Congre A considerable portion of the re work of the school, the family and Imitate Montana! manri, subdeacon, one of the librar (Every week the Eastern Montana Minneapolis.— In a report deliv Historical association at .its twelfth gational Church in Colorado, i* port was devoted to a pessimistic the Church combined. If the fam ians at the seminary. fction of The Register’s chain of ered before the American Catholic annual meeting here Dec. 27, the quoted in The Fort Collins Express- analysis of the younger generation. ily cannot and will not meet that Jiwspapers carries at least one story. Rev. Edmund A. Walsh, S.J., vice Courier, December 28, as saying: ‘‘I Its marked characteristics, he said, ■Responsibility which belongs to it, I'd sometimes more, of Catholic Ac- president of Georgetown university, interpret the call of Pope Pius XI for are bad manners, carelessness and: and if the Church continues to fail l.n and zeal which, if pven more presented the most authoritative the union of the Christian Churches inconsiderateness in dress, in speech in its educational duty, nothing will [de-spread publicity, might serve and latest figures on the present as a cry from a Church in distress; and in personal habits, and lack of be more certain than the gradual but what is true of the Catholic an example for the entire coun- 0 1 ROLL OF HONOR status of the Catholic Church in interest in political life and public disappearance from society of those m Church is true of all organized re traits and influences in education, '.

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