Parishioners Are Building New Church in Roggen DENVER CATHOUC REGISTER
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'Member o f Audit Bureau o f Cireulationi' Parishioners Are Building New Church in Roggen Content! Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc. 194i — Permission to Reproduce, Except on Convert Asterts Labor of Gonerations ' Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue FAITi ECLIPSES Old Edifice Will Be In Missions Lost in DENVER CATHOUC FEAR OF OEATR School Conducted by War, Says Archbishop Precious Blood Nuns Generosity of Catholics in America Only Re REGISTER “ I was wounded twice, but Ghas. Buehiioltz in Charge of iionstrueiion; His neither time did I have any fear of death. There was something Daughter, Sister Regina, Will Aid course in Carrying on Work; All Should rhe National Catholic Welfare Conference Nows Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register. We about my new faith that carried Save Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven Smaller mo through enemy fire without a Aid by Prayers, Resources Services, Photo Features, and Wide World Photos. bit of worry.” ’That statement In Decoration came from a Catholic soldier, T, Sgt Charles T. Roper, 26, of Plans for another new church in the archdiocese were The labor of several generations in the mission fields VOL. XL. No. 9. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, NOV. 2, 1944. $1 PER YEAR Steamboat Springs, who wears the is undone by the war, declares Archbishop Urban J. Vehr Purple Heart and Oak Leaf cluster revealed this week, when it was announced that work is al in a letter announcing the annual collection for the missions and is now convalescing in the ready progressing on a new Sacred Heart church in Roggen. in the archdiocese Sunday, Nov. 12. “ A new start must armv’s Birmingham ^neral hos The Rev. Charles P. Sanger is pastor of the Keenesburg and Msgr. Robinson Saintly Prelate Who pital, Van Nuys, Calif. Roggen parishes. The new church, which was designed b y be made with impoverished and bewildered peoples,” hi says. He became a Catholic just be “ There seemingly is no recourse except to the generosity of fore entering the army in 1942. John K Monroe, ■will be a 36x90-foot structure built of cinder the Catholic American heart, which loves the Church and "My brother became a Catholic blocks. Father Sanger estimates the cost at less than appreciates its present position of influence and interest Did Heroic Work in Pioneer Days some time ago,’ ’ he said, “ and he $10,000, since all the labor will be done by the parishioners became a new and different per ------------------------------------------------- in the salvation of souls. All of us themselvea. The foundations have should be mission-minded, aiding son. When I saw what wonders already been laid, and the comple by our prayers and resources to state capital. For the next 12 in his missionary labors. When a it had done for him, I decided to tion of the structure awaits only Convert Owns Minor Orders bring souls to Christ.” The entire tide in the Denver Catholic Regis years he ministered to the miners famous strike was called and blood look into it.” delivery of necessary lumber. It was being spilled freely, the only letter follows: ter, reproducing the account from and their families in the whole Sgt. Roper fought in the North is expected that the building will vast mountain-top area. He acceptable mediator between min Pacific and in Europe. His prized be entirely finished by next Oct. 22, 1944. the Denver Catholic in 1903 of the To Be Given in investiture of the Rt. Rev. Heniy brought the Leavenworth Sisters ers and employers was Father ossession is a medal given him spring. Souvenir From Reverend dear Father Robinson, the first Domestic of Charity to Leadville and opened Robinson. At still another time y an Italian nun, who nursed him A member of the Sacred Heart and Beloved People: Prelate in the Rocky Mountain re a hospital and school, and when the city was visited by an epidemic in a hospital near the Anzio beach parish, Charles Buchholtz, is in Our annual collection for the gion and for years Vicar General the congregation outgrew the first of smallpox. The fatalities were head. The medal has never left charge of the construction work. Noted Congress Seminary Dec. 8 church he erected a second in 1880, terrific, and after an exhausting his person since it was given to world-wide missions of the Church of the Denver diocese, has brought Mr. Buchholtz is experienced in requests for detaHs of the life schedule of ministering to the af him, reports the Los Angeles Tid church building, having worked on It was announced this week at will be taken Sunday, Nov. 12. If of this pioneer prelate, one of the flicted the priest fell a victim of ings. churches in Carlsbad, N. Mex., and A souvenir napkin of the 19th St. Thomas’ seminary that Arch each adult wage-earner of the saintliest and most useful priests pneumonia. Late one night some Srt. Roper was first injured in in Kansas. His son and daughter. annual international Eucharistie miners arrived at the rectory to battle at Coppagno in Italy, when bishop Urban J. Vehr will confer United States would become an to work in Colorado. The follow Sister Regina of the Sisters of the congress held in London in 1908 ing is from a yet unpublished story inform him that an old man was he received concussion from an Precious Blood, will decorate the minor orders on a group of 36 annual member of the Interna' dying in a cabin considerably re exploding shell. is among the treasured possessions tional Society for the Propagation of the Church covering the years interior of the completed Roggen seminarians on Dec. 8, Feast of 1913 to 1938 (prepared largely moved from the city. Weakened After convalescing in the hos edifice. of Mrs. Lillian Wadsworth of 1501 of the Faith by contributing one by fever and unable to ride or lital under the care of the sisters, the Immaculate Conception. Sev dollar, where possible, many of the from Register files): Of equal importance in the plans Pennsylvania street in Denver, a The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Henry walk. Father Robinson compelled e went back to duty. He wore convert. The Eucharistic congress, enteen of these students will re mission problems at home and the men to construct a litter and the medal, given him by the sister- for the expansion of the Roggen ceive tonsure from the hands of Robinson, pastor of Annunciation abroad could be effectively met. carry him to the sick man. (A nurse, and went through 87 days parish is the announcement that held from Sept. 9 to 13 of that the Archbishop on the preceding Forty per cent of this collection is church, Denver, and Vicar General pioneer priest in Central City was of intense bombardment at Anzio, year, was a momentous event for evening. distributed to the missions in our of the diocese, died May 3,1913. the old church building will be His early life was typical of that also once carried this way when where, although he was wounded the English Church. For the first It was also announced that Sol own country; 60 per cent is sent to transforaed into a parochial witnessed in any Illinois rural ill to care for a dying man.) again, he came out, as he described time since Pre-Reformation days, emn Pontifical Vespers will be the International society with (Turn to P a get — Column 5) school some time in the near fu headquarters in Rome and allo communinty. He was bom in Nee- In 1889 Father Robins<>n was a Papal Legate, H. Em. Cardinal chanted in the seminary ch^el nah, Waukegan county. Ilk, April ture. It is large enough Thursday evening, Dec. 7. The cated to all foreign missions named Vi<»r General, and in 1890 Vincent Vannutelli, paid a visit to 10, *1844. His father was Wil give room for two or tiiree class splendor of this ceremony will be throughout the known world. was appoin'ted pastor of St. Anne’s England. The dedication of West liam Robinson of County West parish, Denver. When he had rooms. Negotiations are under way enhanced by the use of the new The universality of the Church Col. Woolford minster Cathedral, in the senior meath, Ireland, and his mother's erecte(i a new church in the parish to bring Sisters of the Precious gold vestments which were given is daily becoming more apparent Archiepiscopal See of the restored maiden name was Jane O’Hara of it was dedicated under the title <>f Blood community to Roggen to recently to the seminary. to us and our fighting forces, who Hierarchy of England and Wales, County Armagh. After attending the Annunciation in 1903. His teach the 30 or 40 children who also took place during this coU'* The seminarians represent 12 find mission chapels and mission the district schools in Neenah, tenure in Annunciation parish also Directs Vast would be enrolled at the beginning ary priests and sisters, long since gress, which was the &st Eucha dioceses and the Viatonan congre Henry Robinson became a school witnessed the building of a new of the school. working in lands and islands, of ristic congress ever held in a Prot gation. Those in the third year teacher. Convinced that he had school, and his designation as The Keenesburg-Roggen parish whose existence we were hardly estant country. of their theological course will be a vocation to the priesthood he un Domertic Prelate by Pope Leo was at one time part of the vast advanced to the minor orders of conscious.