Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations ST. JOSEPH'S CONVENT TO BE DEDICATED DEC. 14 + + + 4- Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1943— Permission to Reproduce, Except + on Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 Bi. Friday Following Issue Decency Pledge Typical of the Beauty o? Archbishop Vehr Will Si. Francis Seraph in .North Denver are the “ Vision of St. Francis” in St. Francis* shrine (lop) and the sanctuary of Christ the King chapel, To Be Taken at which are shown here. Tlie convent will be dedicated on 'Thursday, Officiate at Rite in Dec. 14, by .4rchbishop Vehr. DENVER CATHOLIC Masses Sunday The following pledge of the Le- Nuns’ Mother-House ion of Decency, by order o f Arch- fishop Urban J, Vehr, is to be read ' ! "■ ■ by the priests and taken by the futhful at all Masses in the arch­ Solemn Mass Will Be Offered at 10 by Father diocese this Sunday: REGISTER PLEDGE OF THE LEGION OF The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register. We Crispin Pfirman, O .F.M .; Attendance DECENCY Have Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven Smaller Pope Pint XI Maid in hit En­ Services, Photo Features, and Wide World Photos. cyclical on Motion Pictures; “ Ml , By Invitation Only patlort of m o u I m shall undertake VOL. XXXIX. No. 15. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, DEC. 9, 1943. $1 PER YEAR to obtain each year a pledge sim- [ (B y M ax Greedy) ilar to the one already alluded to, ' St. Joseph’s convent, mother-house and novitiate of St. ichieh it given by their American: Some 160 Men Can Be Accommodated brothers, and in which they prom­ Joseph’s province of the Sisters of St. Francis Seraph of ise to stay away from motion pic­ Through K. of C.-NCCS Project the Perpetual Adoration, will be dedicated on Tuesday, Dec. ture plays offensive to truth and 14, by Archbishop'TJrban J. Vehr, assisted by the Rev. Vin­ Christian morality." cent R. Hughes, O.P., and the Rev. Gregory Smith. The Bishops in their annual Dormitory for Servico Men to meeting in ITashington requested Masters of cetemonies for both the dedication cere­ all Ordinaries to have the Pledge I monies and the Solemn Mass, coram Archiepiscopo, will be of the Legion of Decency taken '■ the Rev. David Maloney, the Rev. Jerome Weinert, and the by all the faithful at all Masses, in i Be Open for Use This Saturday Rev. Roger Hoehn, O.S.B. I all churches and chapels through-\ The Solemn Ma.sa will be Cathedral Choir Gives ou tjh e United States, on the Snn-i offered at 10 a.m. Chaplains to day within the Octave of the. Im- ; the Archbishop will be Father maculate Conception, December 12. \ The NCCS-K. of C. dormitory dormitory. New wash-room facili­ State Teachers’ college in Greeley Hughes and Father Smith. The 38 Members to Armed IN THE NAME OF THE: for service men will be opened for ties, which will include several last year and arrangements were celebrant of the Mass will be the F.\THER AND OF THE! (iailv u.se on the third floor of the showers .and shaving and wa.shing made to purchase beds, blankets, Services of America i:SO-NCCS club at E. 16th and and bedding for 60 double units. Very Rev. Crispin Pfirman, O.F.M. SON AND OF THE HOLY facilities, are being installed on the The deacon will be the Rev. John Grant this Saturday. Remodeling second floor. They will be ready Personnel will be .secured this GHOST. AMEN. work on the top floor of the build­ R. Vidal, C.M.; and the subdeacon for use next Tuesday. week for operating the dormitory, will be the Rev. Thomas P. Barry. Thirty-eight members of the I condemn inderent and im-1 ing, which had been in progress for which will be open for the use of moral motion pictures and several months, was completed this The opening of the sleeping fa­ The sermon' will be preached by famed Cathedral male vested cilities will meet a long-felt need in service men every night. The heav. the Rev. Joseph R. Kane, O.M.l.,- those which glorify crime or week. Double-deck beds that will iest load is expected over the week­ choir have entered the armed accommodate approximately 160 Denver, where there is an acute of Colorado Springs. services of the country since the criminals. I promise to unite shortage of rooms for the service ends, when the USO-NCCS club is men were purchased from Colorado Sisters’ Choir to Sing outbreak, of the war, it was an­ men of the nearby army posts, and used by hundreds of service men. with all who protest against State Teachers’ college in Greeley For the past several weeks the cen­ The sisters’ choir will provide nounced this week by the Rt. Rev. them. and are being set up in the new represents the result of months of the music both for the dedicatorj’ Monsignor Joseph J. Bosetti, planning by a joint NCCS and ter has remained open on Satur­ ceremonies and for the Mass. Mrs. V.G., who has directed the choir I acknowledge my obliga­ - f + Knights of Columbus committee. days for use by men who could not secure sleeping quarters elsewhere H. Magnani is director of the since its inception 30 years ap;o. tion to form a right con­ The first step in the project was choir, and Sister M. Ema Louise The ex-choir members are in science about pictures that are begun last Rummer with the annual in the city. As many as 260 sol­ diers, sailors, and marines have is the organist. virtually every branch of the serv­ dangerous to my moral life. New USO-NCCS Silver Dollar days, the proceeds of ice and are stationed in this coun­ which were allocated for a service utilized every available cot, sofa After the dedication services, As a member o f the Legion and chair, and even floor space on a dinner for the clergy will be try and the war fronts of the men’s dormitory. It was found world. Nearly all of them cor­ of Decency, I pledge myself necessary to install new heating these occasions. From this Satur­ served in the convent dining room Director’s Son day on at least 160 of them are as­ at 11:30 a. m. respond with Monsignor Bosetti. to see only good pictures. I equipment in the K. of C. building, ’The present members of the to build additional lavatory facili­ sured of a comfortable bed in ideal Because of the limited promise, further, to stay away surroundings. seating capacity of the con­ choir are to sign letters, express­ altogether from places of ties, and to remodel the entire third ing holiday greetings, after choir Missing in War floor of the edifice, which is used The special committee that ar­ vent chapel, participation in amusement which show pic­ the dedication services is by practice this Thursday evening. as the local USO-NCCS club, be­ ranged and directed the project in­ tures that can be an occasion cludes the Rt. Rev. Monsignor John invitation only. The letters will be sent to the These are anxious days for Cecil fore the dormitory could be put former members later this week. of sin. into operation. And then came the R. Mulroy, diocesan NCCS moder­ Invitations to be present for the Jolley, new director of the USO- question of securing beds and bed­ ator; J. kernan Weekbaugh, Wil­ dedication ceremonies have been NCCS clu at E. 16th and Grant in ding. With the co-operation of the liam McGlone, Thomas Nevin, Mrs. extended to the Ordinaries of the Denver, who arrived here Monday local FS.A agent, Howard Beres- John T. Tierney, Raymond T/ dioceses in which the Sisters of St. to replace Franklyn Sullivan, who ford, priorities were secured on Young, J. Franklyn Sullivan, the Francis Seraph of this province was named association regional di­ equipment that had been used by Rev. Elmer J. Kolka, and the Rev, have institutions: Archbishop Ed­ win V. Byrne of Santa Fe, Bishop rector of the NCCS. Mr. Jolley’s the service men who attended the W. J. Canavan. Bernard T. Espelage, O.F.M., of eldest son, Jay, 20, has been miss­ Gallup, Bishop Stanislaus V. Bona ing in action since the raid on the of Grand Island, Bishop Louis B. Schweinfurt, Germany, ball-bear­ Kucera of Lincoln, Bishop Paul C. ing plants on Oct. 14. Young Jol­ Fighting Men Admit Need Scnulte of Leavenworth, and ley, who was a ball turret gunner Bishop James H. Ryan of Omaha. ori a Flying Fortress, had com­ The sisters operate 23 schools, pleted about 15 missions over Ger­ many before the action in which Of Religion, Flier Asserts nine hospitals, and two orphanages in the states of Colorado, Ne­ his plane was shot down. He en- braska, Kansas, and New Mex­ ii.sted in the air forces in January, ico. 1942, and had been attached to a (By T. Sgt. H al K anter) you’re out there fighting, waiting, A cordial invitation is extended, bombing squadron in England since Maj. Harold T. Hastings, 25- sweating. Whoever said that there however, by Mother M. Basilia, last .August. He held the rank of year-old veteran having more than are no atheists in foxholes knew 300 hours of combat flying in the provincial, for the public to par­ staff sergeant.