Catholic Schools Growing Faster Than Public Ones

Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations Catholic Schools Growing Faster Than Public Ones Contentn Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc. 1945—Permission to Heprodnee, Except oo Church Renovation Done Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue Steady Gain Is Shown I In Parochial Classes; At Loveland; Cost $3,500 More Room Is Needed When he administered Confirma lins; the Rev. John Fullana, C.R., ilatform, and new floor coverings tion to a class of 42 in St. John the Holy Family parish. Fort Collins; lave been placed in the sanctuary and body of the church. Increase of Church Figures Seen Over Beneral Evangelist's church, Loveland, the Rev. James Mahrer, O.S.B., and On the exterior a new roof of Sunday, Sept. 23, Archbishop the Rev. Augustine LaMarche, weather-treated shingles has beerf REGISTER Pupil Population Slatistics; Lack Facili Urban J. Vchr of Denver paid his O.S.6., Longmont; and the Rev. laid, and the wood trim of the brick The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register. We first visit to the church since it-has church has been painted. been completely renovated and re Martin C. Arno, O.S.B., Frederick. Have Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven Smaller ties for FifHi of Youngsters finished. Approximately $3,500 The girls’ choir sang at the Services, Photo Features, and Wide World Photos. (3 cents per copy) has been expended in improve services. With a net gain of 151 elementary school pupils and ments on the church in the year The improvement program for since the Rev. Francis J. Kappes the church has resulted in the com VOL. XLI. No. 5. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, SEPT. 27, 1945. $1 PER YEAR 210 high school students, Denver Catholic schools are show assumed charge of the parish ,as plete renovation of the interior and ing a sharp increase over general pupil population statistics administrator in October, 1944. exterior of the building. Through for the community as released recently by the Denver public Eleven members of the class of the generosity and co-operation of schools. Catholic elementary and high schools in Denver, 42 confirmed were adults, three of the parishioners, $2,500 of the cost eivm CHAmis them being soldiers stationed in -has already been paid. The ceiling Irish Missionaries in Philippines exclusive of the orphanages, have a combined enrollment Denver who journeyed to Loveland was covered with ivory weather- for the new term of 8,783, as contrasted with 8,422 in the to receive the sacrament The wood and Vails were painted; the fall of 1944. priests who took part in the cere lighting system was changed, with Though public school enroll mony, the first Confirmation held the lighting fixtures now being ment gains in elementary and in the Loveland parish since 1919, hush with the ceiling, and the senior high schools are offset by included, beside Father Kappes, his hoors were sanded and sealed. A Miss Agnes K. Quinlan, former losses in kindergarten and junior new confessional and some new brother, the Rev. William E. Kap- supei-visor of the family and child high............................................... school classes, practically11: all of Columbus, 0.; the Rev.pes pews have been installed, and the welfare department of the Cath divisions of Catholic educational Frederick McCallin of the Cathe other pews have been refinished. A olic Charities of the Archdiocese of institutions in the city are operat dral, Denver; the Rev. Bernard J new Communion railing was in Denver, has been appointed execu ing with capacity student-groups. Cullen and the Rev. Dr. David Ma stalled, and new vestment cases tive secretary of the new Cath Late registrants, composed prin COmillBIlIED ID loney, assistant Chancellors; the were built in the sacristy. olic Welfare bureau of the Diocese cipally of children whose fam Rev. Eugene A. O’Sullivan and the In addition the altar has been of Columbus. She left Denver two ilies have been at work in harvest Rev. Cornelius E. Flynn, Fort Col repainted and placed on a lower months ago, after working in the fields, are expected to add 50 to Charities office here for three 75 more pupils by Oct. 15. OF years. According to the Rev. Hubert Denverites Go to St. Louis Miss Quinlan is the first profes M. Newell, superintendent of sional social worker to be assigned Catholic schools, enrollment data After four years’ service with reveal that we still lack facilities to the Central Diocesan Welfare the National Catholic Community bureau of the Coumbus diocese to to take care of 20 per cent of the For De Paul Centennial assist the-Rev. Leo Brehm and the Catholic population that desires Service in Denver, Miss Catherine Rev. William Kappes, diocesan di religious education for the chil Maloney, known fondly as “Miss rectors of charitable and social dren. In spite of the capacity USO” to thousands of GIs who Representing the Society of St. The centennial celebration marks work. registrations, Father Newell said, have trained in Denver, will go the glorious fulfillment of a pledge estimates of the number of chil into private business next month. Vincent de Paul Particular council M.A. From Catholic U. USO-NCCS officials last week paid of Denver at the centennial cele to care for the poor made a hun A graduate of Coshocton high dren turned away by reason of bration of the society, which be dred years ago by a handful of men lack of facilities range from 1,200 official tribute to Miss Maloney, school, she attended Kent State to 1,800 pupils. attributing much of the success of gins Friday in St. Louis, will be at the Old Cathedral in St. Louis, university, Kent, 0., where she re the Very Rev. Joseph P, O’Heron, Prelates of the Church, with other Cath(»lic schools in the arch the Denver club, located a t E. ceived the Bachelor of Science de 16th avenue and Grant street, to spiritual. director of the Denver religious and civic leaders, will go gree. Later she received her Mas diocese outside the city of Den to St. Louis in large numbers from ver show a slight over-all in the personal efforts of the Little council; Leo E. Keleher, secretary ter’s degree in social science at ton woman. of the society and manager of the the four corners of the country to the Catholic University of Amer crease over last year with 2,023 Salvage bureau; and Fred Musser, be present for the four-day event, pupils enrolled in elementary Miss Maloney came to work for ica, Washington, D. C. Members of the community of Japanese occupation. Father John after reaching the United States. former secretary in Denver and predicted to bie the largest religious Chief among the social welfare schools, and 436 students in high the NCOS regional office three one-time De Paul executive in St. celebration ever held in that city. the Redemptorist monastery at Byrne, C.SS.R., fifth from the left, Seen in the picture are, left to school for a total student group months before Pearl Harbor, when positions which she has held are: Cebu City in the Philippines are right. Brother Jarlath, Brother Louis. Thousands of members of the so Child welfare worker at St. Vin was a visitor in Denver in the past of 2,459 as compared with 2,411 the organization began to set up shown here in front of theiV Gerard (first native Filipino last year. recreational centers for men tak ciety, with tens of thousands of cent’s institution, Santa Barbara, week with the Very Rev. Alphon- brother), tiie Rev. Patrick Murphy, school children, and more than Calif.; supervisor for the Balti church. Although the marks of ma 5 SCHOOLS HAVE ing selective service training. Den chine gun bullets are visible, the O’Connor, C.SS.R. Anothersus Brother Gall, the Rev. John Byrne, ver was a logical place for such a 100,000 men and women will par more Emergency Relief commis member of their party. Brother the Very Rev. T. Mac Hugh, rec JUNIOR HIGH PLAN ticipate in the centennial celebra sion; ca.se supervisor for the de building was not severely dam The addition of ninth grade center, since Lowry Field was aged. It housed all the White Jarlath, C.SS.R., who started with tor; Brother Charles, and the Rev, classes by St. Cajetan’s school, turning out hundreds of men for tion of the foundation of the so partment of public welfare, Balti them from the Philippines, died T. Roche. ciety in the United States, for more; director of the women’s di priests of the island during the Denver, and St. Joseph’s school. the air forces every week, Buck- which Archbishop John J. Glen- vision of the USO-NCCS, Pulaski, + + + + + + Fort Collins, each with 31 pu ley Field was in the process of con non of St. Louis is host. The cen Va.; and supervisor of the family pils, brings to five the number of struction, and Fitzsimons General tenary program will last until and child welfare departments of schools in the archdiocese re hospital was training service men Monday, Oct. 1. organizing their schools on the for medical aides. When the the Catholic Charities of the Arch Redemptorists From Philippines Visit NCCS club was started in the The climax of the religious and diocese of Denver. junior high school plan. Other Did Special Research schools using the program in building that is now the Catholic civic events will be the immense Charities annex, Miss Maloney be outdoor religious gathering sched Miss Quinlan also found time clude Our Lady of ML Carmel [s s iy c o n e in these assignments to do special and St.

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