Air Force Chaplains Map CCD Program B y Datk H illon of the CCD in the Diocese, of S t Paul, Minn. The retreat was with its national and diocesan organization, is well suited to Some 40 Air Force chaplains from bases in the conducted by Father JoseiA Green, C.PP.S., of Sacramento, assist the service chaplain in his difficult task. He urged the Western U.S. mapped plans at Sacred Heart Retreat Calif., who stressed the missionary rd e of the service chafdain. unification of CCD texts throughout U S. Air Force bases. house, Sedalia, this for a coordinated program During the two-day srorfcshop ftdhnring the retreat, the This, he said, would enable children of frequently transferred chaplains n nt for conferences and discussions on the problems service personnel to receive an uninterrupted series of religious that would help mobilize a Confraternity of Christian of the growing need for new methods of spreading the teaching instructions. Doctrine force, composed of apostolic laymen serv­ M Christ in a "mission area” where: He also stressed the importance of dose and frequent con­ ing in the “largest mission area in the world.” • ^equently each priest must care for as many as 5,000 tact vdth the local CCD director. He said the diocesan CCD The minion area is the United States Military Ordinariate, a souls. leaders are willing and eager to lend their assistance. vast "diocese” that embraces aH countries where American • Lack of teaching Sisters throws an extra burden on the Project director for the catechetical workshop was Father forces are found, and includes all military personnd and gov­ priest-chaplain to provide religious instruction for children of Frank McConnell, chaplain at the U.S. Air Force Academy, ernment employes. The apostolic of action is centered servicemen. Cdorado Springs. The Rev. (Brig. Gen.) Edwin R. Chess, dep­ about a vitaUzed and unified CCD pn^ram . • Catholic chaplains, on remote bases, are practically iso­ uty chief of chaplains, spoke at the first workshop session. lated, some traveli^ nearly 100 miles to visit another priest. Fathers Francis X. Murphy and Francis J. Statkus of the LEADING THE WORKSHOP, which foUowed a five-day Military Ordinariate headquarters in Washington assisted in ar­ retreat Sept 11-15, was Father Raymond A. Lucker, director FATHER LUCKER POINTED OUT that the CCD program. ranging the planning sessiem for the catechetical program. Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations Contents Copyright by the Catholic Press Sodety, Inc.. 1962 — Permission to Reproduce, Except On Artides Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue 7,146 U.S. Missionaries Serve in Overseas Posts Washington, D.C. — United States mission-sending Boast CCD in Military DBO/ERCXTHOIIC societies sent more than 700 of their members to mis­ + + Leaders at the Confratenrity of Christiau Doctrine work­ shop that fidlowed a five-day retreat (or 42 Air Force chap­ sions outside the continental U.S. in tiie past year, lains at Sacred Heart Retreat heate, Sedalk, were the Rev. bringing to 7,146 the number of U.S. Catholic mission­ Volmteers (Capt) Frank McConnell (at left), duO kin at tbe U. 8. AF aries serving overseas. Academy at Cdorado Springs, aad Father Fraack J. statkin These figives are contained in a new report on U.S. of the Military Ordinariate headquarters, irashlagtoa, D.C. The REGISTER CathoUc missionary activity issued by the Mission Sec- Spark TitaP workshop program was aimed at mobilizing a force t t apoeteUc retriat, a clearinghouse of mis-' layaMB ie serve the tar-finag U.S. military t—tanpHim.^ vUch sion information and services. sionary groups. It shows a total comprise “one of tbe largest miisloa anas k the world.” VOL. LVIl. No. 6 THURSDAY, SEPT. 20, 1962 DENVER, COLORADO The figures were made pub­ of 736 mission assignments dur­ ing the past year, compared Awakening lic in connection with the 13tb with a figure of 550 in a similar annual meeting of U. S. mis­ r ^ r t issued at this time last Lima, Peru — A growing sion-sending societies, which year. number of Papal Volun­ Consignor Kolka Elected was attended by an estimated Ihe breakdown of the figure teers for Latin America- Liftleton Church 339th Edifice 1,000 priests, religious, and lay­ •f 7,146 missionaries now serv­ most of them from the ing overseas shows that this fig' National Charities Head men. Statistics on mission work United States—are joining ure includes 3,203 priests, 276 Catholic efforts to achieve sock are contained in the new edi­ Brothers, 2,764 Sisters, 152 scho­ justice through “« vital reawak­ The Rt. Rev. Monsignor El­ To Be Blessed by Archbishop tion of the booklet U. 8. Catho­ lastics, and 397 laymen. ening of the Church in Latin mer J. Kolka, archdiocesan di­ lic Overseas Missionary Person­ On a geographical basis, the America.” rector of Catholic Charities The dedication of the new RECALLING BUS own pastor­ worthy traditions of those de­ number of U. S. missionaries in­ since 1955, wu elected presi­ ate in Littleton from 1941 to voted souls who laid the foun­ nel. This is the observation of Fa S t Mary church, Littleton, creased in Africa during the dent of the National Council of 1947, Bish<H> Newell declared in ther Victor R. Fernandez, S.J., marited “the 339th building dations of tbe Church in this 93 Gre«|M past year from 781 to 901; in Catholic Charities Sept. 17 at his sermon: community.” of Chicago, national director of dedicated by Archbishop Cw v m m I hi R *|M rt Asia from 2,070 to 2,185; in Mid­ the annual convention in At­ “It stiU comes as something PAVLA, who has made a tVvo- Urban J. Vehr and the 109th The report on miwon as­ dle America from 433 to 537 lantic City, N J. of a surprise that a parish month tour of Latin America. edifice destined specifically for signments in the past year and in South America from 981 Monsignor Kolka for the past which I knew as a small con­ divine services, a remarkable covers 50 communities of men, to 1,247. About 260 PAVLA workers will several years has served as first gregation of little more than 100 be at mission posts in 19$3, Fa­ record of accomplishment for 45 of women, and three lay mis­ (Turn to Page 2) vice president and chairman of tbe 31 years of bis Episcopate families, worshipping com­ ther Fernandez said, after the the executive committee for the in Coloardo.” fortably in tbe old but revered candidates now studying at national Charities organization. This was the message of Bish­ church, must now have an edi­ training centers complete thdr He succeeds the R t Rev. Mon­ op Hubert M. Newell of Chey­ fice seating 1,000 people, with courses. signor Michael J. Doyle, di­ enne, a former pastor of St. seven Sunday Masses, and Archbishop Vehr Urges “There is a vital reawaken­ rector of Cktholic Charities in Mary’s parish, in his sermon at boasts a parochial school that is ing of the Church in Latin tbe Diocese of Toledo, 0. the dedication of the new Little­ the largest in the archdiocese.” America,” he declared during The new president is the sec­ ton church Sept. 13. “This is a vivid iUustration,” Support of United Fund his stay in Lima. ond priest of the Archdiocese of he asserted, "of the extraordin­ “The Church is hot dead or Denver to bold the presidency ARCBBISHOP VEHR dedicat­ ary growth that has character­ Orphan homes and other in­ Fund “by their personal efforts dying here; it is on the move. of the NCCC. Tbe R t Rev. Mon­ ed the two-level, $311,000 edifice ize Denver and tbe suburban stitutions under Catholic aus­ and generous contributions.” Amd in this vibrant action of signor John R. Mulroy, pastor and presided at the Solemn areas in the last IS years. pices benefit directly from the With the current campaign of Hdy Ghost parish, Denver, Mile High United Fund. This reconstruction to meet modern Mass, offered by the Rt.. Rev. “It is also a great tribute to the MHUF celebrates the 75th and former archdiocesan direc­ single campaign raises funds anniversary of federation in progress, the PAVLA volun­ Msgr. Elmer J. Kolba Monsignor Gregory Smith, PA., Father Frederick McCallin, the teers are contributing valuable tor d Catholic Charities, w u V.G., another former pastor d pastdr, that the parish has been for 113 agencies providing America. The first federated elected to the same post k health, welfare, and recreation fund-raising organization w a s assistance in these new religious tended Cathedral grade and the parish. able to meet so effectively the gains.” 1949. services in a five-county area. founded in Denver in 1887. There high schools and was graduated Present in the sanctuary was challenge fiiat expansion has As president of the NOCC, from Regk in 1930. Auxiliary Bishop David M. Ma­ presented.” Archbishop Urban J. Vehr have been 74 consecutive united THE JESUIT NOTED that Monsignor Kolka heads an or­ stressed these facts in asking campaigns since then. He studied theology at St loney, a native son of the LitUe- Latin American Bishops are ganization that advises, coordi­ Thomas’ seminary and was or­ the faithful to support whole­ The Archbishi^i’s letter fol asking for more PAVLA ky ton pariah. Some 90 members PAVING TRIBUTE to the sac­ nates, and advances Uie work dained in the Cathedral May John J. Sullivan heartedly the Mile High United lows. missionaries. of the clergy attended the dedi­ rifice and generosity of parish­ of Charities offices in every dio- cation and were guests at a Jla.iiM -that.