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- J X o m o O J Schools Expect 30,000 z C/) dcniaer ^catholic It's Tim e OJ «C CD 3 C/J 33 rv3 r For S tu d y By Jack Bacon m o COLORADO'S LARGEST WEEKLY X o and church, Thirty-thousand children are expected to enroll in 33 X ir to this is Catholic elementary and high schools in the Archdiocese 3p asking it Thursday, August 25, 1966 VOL. LXI No. 3 of Denver this month — a total that would reverse a slight loss in enrollment last year and establish a record », in family, high. belongs also They will register Aug. 29 at 67 elementary schools he bulk o f and 18 high schools, a list that includes one new sch(»l ich the arts Pope Urges Canon Law — Notre Dame in Denver, being opened this fall for an t time, estimated 240 pupils in grades one through four. r is an im- Another elementary school. Holy Trinity, Westmins ilism which Trudy Fulugrudy: "I think ter, is expected to enroll 250 in grades one through six od cornered you should talk to me while To 'Stay U p to Date' for the first time. Holy Trinity has operated only a kin Supervisor »r.** I sew.” dergarten the past four years. Ernie: "Why don't you "W e must be careful to 'stay up to date,’ an they say, Rebuking those who would abolish law becau.se it is sew to me while I read?” concerning innovations in Church law” explained Pope opposed "to spontaneous expressions of their own special IF E N R O LLM E N T hits 30,000 a.s- predicted, it will Of Schools Paul recently. charisms,” the Pope urged instead that, as regards the exceed the previous record of 29,398 set in 1964-65. Last Lost Friend . • In address to the Aug. 19 general audience at Ca.s- laws o f the Church, "w e try to understand their spirit, year, 1965-66, the total slipped by 593 to 28,805. Both telgandolfo, the Pontiff exclaimed that the post-conciliar to observe their precepts, and appreciate their pastoral It is noi the end, this slccp- elementary and high school enrollment dropped slightly Appointed iti;; period is "the beginning of a new and grand legislative convenience.” last year — elementary from the 1964-65 record of 23,- Beneath the green, mended period in the history of the Church.” 280 to 22,785, and high school from 6,118 to 6,020. Sister Mary Patrick of sod. Decrying the past abuses of "juridicism” within the Stressing that negativism ’’demolishes the More than 1.600 teachers — Religious and lay — are I shull find him and keep him Church, the Pope said that the first remedy for the Church in practice,” the Pope maintained that the Cure d'Ars parish commu employed by the Archdiocesan schools. nity, has been named as forever situation is "not the abolition of ecclesiastical laws, but new epoch of law was initiated by the Council. In its annual report issued last month, the Archdio So help me God. the substitution of better formulated canonical prescip- "The aggiornamento demands it. Plans for the re successor to her colleague, cesan school office made special note of the economic Sister Mary Carmencita, as tions for those which are imperfect or anachronistic.” vision of the Code of Canon Law necessitate it.” impact o f the Catholic school system on the state. Dur When the bugles rouse for re Denver archdiocesan ing the 1965-66 term, 36,637 children attended Catholic schools’ supiervisor. union The Holy Father deplored the .spirit of antipathy schools in Colorado (7,832 in the Diocese of Pueblo). We shall meet where the old Nuns, Girls Risk Lives Sister Carmencita was for law; he illustrated that, since the Church is elected third councilor of teams play "bound to a mission of salvation which admits only in Heaven, in football weath "Based upon a cost average of $550 per student the Precious Blood Sisters’ er. of a univocal and determined realization,” the Jungle Hike Proves if they were to be educated in the public schools of congregation, at its moth- ('arissime. Church is in need o f laws. the state, the Catholic schools saved the taxpayers erhouse in Dayton, O. dur Interest, last year more than 20 million dollars in operating’ ing the past week. lily, with The laws are to be "law.s which are drawn with con Viet Cong Liars expenses,” the report said. Announcing the appoint The chief assertion of sistency from Revelation and from the con.stantly arising ment of Sister M. Patrick, nds. And "T h is does not take into consideration the cost of religious m orality is that needs of (the Church’s) own life, both interior and ex Tan Mai. South Vietnam Small babies were left be capital construction that would be needed to house this the Rt. Rev. Monsignor id carries white is a color. Virtue i.s terior." — Vietnam ese nuns and hind with some of the additional group.” William H. Jones, superin not the absence of viees or chbishop, The spirit motivating law’s formulation must never eight handicapped young nuns; two nuns headed In a special message "to the friends of Catholic educa tendent of schools for the the avoidance o f mitral dan he one o f a simple servility to law; rather, said the archdiocese, said; of a Re- gers: virtue is a vivid and women who help them run south with 10 orphan girls tion” included in the annual report. Archbishop Urban J. Pontiff, "W e must school ourselves to recognize in the "Sister Mary Patrick Catholic separate thing, like pain or a an orphanage near U.S. — crippled and blind. Vehr of Denver hailed the "parents who sacrifice so legislative activity of the Church a congenial manifesta army headquarters here generously” to maintain the school sy.stem. has been for several la t prin- particular smell. Mercy does not mean not being cruel or tion o f its mission." are living proof of the They were forced to "The presence of Catholic schools within the commu years an administrator and teacher. She has ] be paid sparing people revenge or Vietnamese people’s desire flee in secret, because nity is a living witness to the generosity of our Catholic acted as assistant to Sis }. For a punishment: It means a to be free from the Com the Communists, con laity who graciously bear the burden of constructing and plain and positive thing like m u n ists. T h e nuns and ter Carmencita for the z Church trary to promises made (Turn to Page 2} past three years, and is the sun. which one has ci girls proved it at the risk n below. in the Geneva accord, fully familiar w'ith the ther seen or not seen. Chas of their very lives. tity does not mean absten were using a’l means to programs established by tion from sexual wrong; it keep Vietnamese from her predecessor.” 1 which the T H E N U N S had inher m oving to the South. may legally means something flaming Women’s Retreats Boston-born Sister M. tike doan of Arc. In a word, ited an orphanage founded Patrick was raised in (•od paints in many colors, some 90 years ago by The nuns and girls dis A special supplement on w'om- Phoenix, Ariz. She was l>ut He never paints so gor Spanish Dominicans at Bui guised themselves as beg en’s retreats held at El Pomar re professed in the presence of geously — 1 had almost said Chu in the north. When gars and traveled mostly treat house, Colorado Springs, ap the then superior general so gaudily — as when He the Communists took over, at night. After covering 50 of the congregation, the pears in this edition. Information paints in white. the Reds seized part of the miles in several weeks Rev. Mother Mary Aqui — Trfiin*r»dou* Trifle* facilities for military head they reached a camp, and on retreats, purpose of the laywo- nas, at the motherhouse of quarters, pushed the al then made their way to men’s retreat movement, and pic the order, in 1956. Very few men are wise by ready crowded orphanage Haiphong, where they tures highlight this section. (Turn to Page 2) their own counsel, or learned into half its original space. boarded a boat headed by their own teaching: for he It was then the nuns de that was only taught hy him south. self had a fool for his master. cided to move to the South. — .Johniton SISTER Barbara, one of Sr. Carmencita Elected to High Post the nuns who escaped, is Uncle Gus had gon«> to one o f four directors of the the funeral of a friend and, orphanage. The other Sis Top Educator Leaves after the ceremony, sat in Q m i n a k u ter is now one o f four gen the chapel of the undertak eral counsellors of the con B y C. J. Zecha tion. This, o f course, she ing parlor until the crowd vent which sponsors it. An outstanding worn- emphasizes, is included : had thinned out. The mor Sister Barbara is aided by in the youth’s right to : tician sat beside him and >•; an ed u cator who has eight of the girls who fled ; devoted more than 12 live as a human being. began passing the time of The Denver Archdiocesan w ith them; they are now i No one is more aware : day.