I AMPAIGN SOLICITATION SUNDAY GIUE VOUR FAIR SHARE 6,000Workers ^II + ie >n Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations Solidfotion ia Contents Copyrigrht by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1953— Permission to Reproduce, Except on To Seek Goal Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday follow ing Issue By Pledge Card Only A reproduction of the pledge - card properly filled out ap­ pears in this edition of the Register on page 12. There is Of $1,500:000 a pledge card for each prospec­ tive subscriber in the archdio­ DENVER aTH aiC cese. There will be no solici­ tation made except by pledge Catholics Asked to Remain card. This will be done by two-member units of the re­ spective parish organizations. Home to Speed Work When the workers call at 4 Climaxing weeks of preparation, an army yoor home, be sure they pos­ sess the pledge card bearing of more than 6,000 workers will carry Arch­ REGISTER your name. Upon your subscrib­ bishop Urban J. Vehr’s “ crusade in Catholic co­ Press Run, This Issue, 46,714 ing to the campaign fund, your card will be properly filled out operation” into the homes of all faithful in the VOL. XLVIlll. No. 39. THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1953 DENVER, COLORADO and you will be presented with archdiocese Sunday, May 17, to raise a minimum a receipt. $1,500,000 for .the expansion o( St. ’Thomas’ seminary and estab­ lishment of a fund to assist new parishes and missions. Parish and mission team workers will start the intensive so­ licitation following Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament in each CATHOLIC CHARITIES GIVE parish and mission at 1:30 p.m. Archbishop Asks Courteous Welcome The Archbishop asks that all Catholics in the archdiocese re­ $ 1,116,727 DURING YEAR main home Sunday afternoon to receive the volunteer workers. "I hope the faithful will give the same courteous welcome they By Jack Heher Chalice to Memory Bishop John C. Heenon of Leeds, Englond would give me if I were to call in person.” Famed British Churchman Visits Denver. The importance to a community of charitable welfare programs is stressed in the Of Father Walsh 'The entire period of solicitation is expected to last only a preface to the 26th annual report of the Catholic Charities of the Denver archdiocese. + + few days and it is likely that many small parishes and missions will The report covers activities for the year 1952, in which $1,116,727.13 was expended in have completed their work by Sunday night. Bigotry on Way Out charity. institutions for children. Admis­ cost of the free care was With the co-operation of the faithful in remaining at home Charitable works,” the report sions to the institutions num­ $227,802.02. Sunday, an overwhelming percentage of the calls will be completed states, "are the ways of fulfil­ Sunday afternoon and evening. No Longer Unfashionable ling every citizen’s personal obli­ bered 392, an increase of 44 over 'The family service section of the previous year. the Charities office reported 1,- gation to exercise the virtue of Sacrificial Giving Necessary One hundred thirty-one chil­ fraternal love.” 459 applications for assistance. John J. Sullivan, archdiocesan chairman of the campaign, said: dren were placed in adoption The office was able to find em­ To Be Catholic in England "Charitable works are neces­ "W ith the start of solicitation for funds for our drive, the crusade homes, the highest number of ployment for 44 more persons in sary for the community consci­ has been placed in the hands of the laity. From this point forward, By Rev. Robert E. Kekeisen adoptions in the experience of 1952 than in the previous year. “ It is no longer unfashionable in England to become ence,” it goes on, "since, by help­ the generosity and sacrificial giving of each Catholic will determine Catholic Charities. “ The most en­ JSee story/ on page 3.) ing the poor and needy through the success it deserves. a Catholic.” couraging note over the past experienced and farsighted wel­ "Only by the 'Fair Share’ giving of all will the $1,500,000 This hopeful commentary on the present situation in years,” the report said, “ is the in­ C. fare programs, a greater number Lourdes School Grows minimum goal be surpassed. ” his native land was made by Bishop John Heenan of crease in the number of adop­ Leeds on a visit to Denver. Famed everywhere as a dy­ of the poor and needy will be­ From 125 to 400 Pupils Following Benediction, workers will receive the pledge card* tions of Spanish-American chil­ namic ecclesiastic, the prelate is come contributing members of During Only 4 Years of prospects they selected. And then, working in teams of two, they dren and of children over four completing a tour that took him society.” will make their calls. On Monday, Wednesday, and Friday nights, halfway around the world. years of age." Our Lady of Lourdes school, Burse Gifts Honor Ib a foreword to the report, report meetings will be held in each parish and mission. The steady trend in England, The hospital section of the Denver, which will graduate its Archbishop Urban J. Vehr paid first class of eighth graders Sun­ Bishop Heenan said, is “ away report shows that the nine from the Church of England.” tribute "to our self-sacrificing day, May 31, opened four years Mother of Priests hospitals in the Archdiocese The people are not becoming volunteer Catholic m e n a n d ago with four classes, and has The total of the Guardian An­ antagonistic to Henry VIII’s sect; of Denver, with a bed-capac­ added one class each year since Parish Report Meetings women, who carry such a con­ m m gels’ burse— Denver archdiocesan they are just “ no longer inter­ ity of 1,369, treated 60,364 then. The school on its opening siderable portion of the burden" date had an enrollment o f 125. fund for the education of priests ested in it.” patients in 1952. Of these, 5,- A memorial chalice in — rose to $3,328 in the past week. of the charities work. In the fall of 1953 the enroll­ The Leeds Ordinary was in­ 017 were free patients. The honor of the late Rev. Nor- Scheduled May 18,20,22 The sum of $37 was received in ment is expected to reach 400. tensely interested in the work of His Excellency singled out for bert Walsh (above) will be given donations. conversion long before his ele­ by “ his class,” the g;raduation Meetings to report the amount pledged to the Sem­ Contributors to the burse in the special accolade the staff of the vation to the Episcopacy in 1951. class of 1946 from Holy Family past week, with the amounts they Charities office, the sisters in hos inary Building Fund campaign will be held next Mon­ As the national director of the St. Mary'-s Academy Holds high school, Denver. gave, follow: E ngli^ Legion o f Mary, h« laid pitals and child-caring institu day, Wednesday, and Friday, May 18, 20, and 22, by Father Walsh, who died March A. R., Leadville, $1 for favors the groundwork for a career of tions, and the Rt. Rev. John R. every parish and mission in the received; anoninhous, Denver, $1; convert work; and the legion is 8 this year, came to Holy Family Archdiocese of Denver. Mulroy, Catholic Charities direc­ Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Kvaa, still the “ biggest factor” in favot Classes in New Building parish‘ in the summer of 1942 The parish organizations will after his ordination, and left in Workers to Pledge Denver, $10; and anonymous of conversions in Britain, he tor; Monsignor Elmer Kolka, as­ Classes were held in the Mary’s is the former Hicker- meet in their respective parishes, 1946 when he was put in charge Denver, $25. said. sociate director; and Father W il­ new school building in St. son estate, purchased in 1951 and give the reports of the of St. John’s parish, Stoneham, May is the month of Mary, the The then Father Heenan’s Mary’s academy, 4545 S. Uni­ by the Sisters o f Loretto, who amounts pledged. These will be liam Monahan, assistant director. and missions. He was named pas­ Own Fair Share at Mother of Christ. The interests fame as the “ radio priest of versity boulevard, for the first conduct the academy. The tabulated on special report forms tor of St. Anne’s parish, Arvada, of Mary are identical with those England” began to spread. He At the end of 1952, 1,016 time Monday morning. May 4. residence itself was converted and forwarded to Archbishop in September, 1951. of her Divine Son. And He desires proved himself able, in a long children were under the care or Classrooms were completed into a temporary classroom Urban J. Vehr, Box 2900, Den­ Kick-Off Dinners the salvation of the world. The series of broadcasts, to speak supervision of the Catholic Char to accommodate both grade building, ^ when the school He was teacher and confessor ver 1, Colo. most effective means for saving and high school students. The to the -class of 1946 during its Pastors are asked to keep all The 6,000 workers o f the Sem­ convincingly to the ordinary ities, with 612 in institutions, 247 moved from its former site on Bouls in the world today is the listener on the truths of faith. library, cafeteria, and extra Pennsylvania street on Capitol four years in Holy Family high cash, checks, and pledge cards inary Building Fund campaign priesthood of Jesus Christ— insti­ And he still does.