DENVER CATHOLIC Lies in Gifts from Catholics in the United States, the Archbishop Urges Generous Dona Tions to This Work of the Church
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Gifts From U»S. Only Hope of Foreign Fields U I I V ■ ' I ■ ■■■ I Missions’ CoiiectioniMission Clwrch EfBCtsd in FIngIsr Member of Audit Bureau of Circulations I: Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1947—Permission to Reproduce, Except on T0 Be Taken Up Nov. 9 Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Folfbwing Issue. School Is Converted Archbishop Urban J. Vehr announces that the annual collection for the home and Into Arohdiocese’s foreign missions will be taken up in churches of the Denver archdiocese. Citing the de struction wrought by war in the foreign mission fields, whose only hope fqr alleviation DENVER CATHOLIC lies in gifts from Catholics in the United States, the Archbishop urges generous dona tions to this work of the Church. His letter follows: Latest Parish Center ------------------------------------------ Oct. 26, 1947 Flagler.—Mass was celebrated for the first time on Oct. Rcverend Dear Father and Beloved *People: 26, Feast of Christ the King, in the Denver archdiocese’s P Our annual collection for home and foreign missions will be taken newest mission church, St. Mary’s of Flagler. on Sunday, Nov. 9. Forty per cent of the collection is given for dis The new church, originally a 30-by-22-foot school build REGISTER ing, is a mission of St. Charles’ church, Stratton, whose pas tribution to the home missions in the United States, and 60 per cent The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register. We is apportioned by the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the tor is Father Henry Ernst. Last March, Father Ernst se- Have Also the Intertiational News SerVice (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven Smaller m P I T O T S Faith in Rome to all foreign mission fields. This congregation, with its tured permission from Archbishop Urban J. Vehr to cele Services, NCWC and Religious News Photos (3 cents per copy) intimate information, knows the conditions in all foreign mission fields brate Mass at Flagler in “a suitable place.” and attempts to make as adequate a distribution as possible. May I ask VOL. XLIII. No. 10. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1947. $1 PER YEAR. On his first trip to Flagler, I----------- ^ -------- r each wage earner to become a member of this great international mission Father Edward Dinan, assistant I 4 DRiS PRRISP "7" at Stratton, was approached by 4UU III vnCVGIHIG ary society by contributing $1.’ The national magazine will be sent six of the 13 Catholic families in For six years the NCCS—Cath- monthly to each member. the area. “We want to have a 'olic branch of the USO—has re We can only partially appreciate the destruction wrought by the Hooray for Everybody! church of our own,” they told the priest. Extend Welcome ceived the applause of the thou war in foreign mission fields. Many missions in foreign lands have lost sands of service men aind women everything, oftentimes the results of generations of work and sacrifice. 6 Familiei Raite $2,300 who were stationed in Denver. Al Permission to build was se To Bishop Newell though the need for large-scale The generosity of American Catholics is their only hope. cured from Archbishop Vehr. The USO activities has diminished, the May 1 again appeal to our good Catholic people to remember the six families raised a total of Cheyenne. — Coadjutor Bishop Catholic unit, now in its last year missions of our own archdiocese in their last wills and testaments? $2,300 for the project. A school Hubert M. .Newell was officially of operation.', is still taking cur- tain calls Frequently a relatively small sum is the incentive for our small mis- building was bought for $1,750, welcomed to the Diocese of Chey and four choice lots in Flagler enne at a reception Saturday The most recent praise has,eome; ^ionary units to erect a mission chapel, or a much-needed rectory, or to were purchased for $750. The lots night, Oct. 25. The event was held from the army and veterans’ hos continue missionary activities for children or adults. Any funds left already had a cement base, large in St. .Mary’s school hall, and was pitals who.se patients voted the by bequest to the Archbishop or to the Archdiocese of Denver will be enough to serve as two-thirds of attended by .some 400 Catholics service entertainment “the best to used to develop many needed missionarry enterprises in the state of the church foundation. In addi and non-Catholics of the Wyom come to the hospitals." The variety tion, the lots are bordered on the ing capital. of entertainment given and the Colorado. ^ . entrance side of the church by Chairman Vincervt Mulvaney of friendly interest shown by the vol Wherever souls are to be saved, there the Church should be with 18 full-grown pine trees. Cheyenne introduced the speakers untary workers fill a definite need her anointed priests to administer the sacraments and to teach the truths As the harvest season neared, on the program, and made the for these veteran.s- of the wars. of Christ. There cannot be any distinction of color or race or origin. work on the church was delayed presentation of a purse to Bishop The present program of action till the first part of September. Newell on behalf of the clerg.y of Is threefold. It is the variety Pray for all missions and all missionaries throughout the whole the diocese. In addition to the Catholic world. Theirs is a self-sacrificing life. We can assist them Then another meeting of the shows, however, that are the high Flagler parishioners was held. check for $1,000 a spiritual bou lights of the week. With talent by our prayers and our sustained financial help. They in reality repre After that meeting, work on the quet was also tendered the prelate. that includes junior hostesses from sent us in Christ's mandate to bring all souls to His loving Heart. church was steady. The church Speakers on the program in Denver and veterans who still cluded Bishop Patrick McGovern, Faithfully yours, foundation was completed. Next a want to help their buddies, the in vestibule to the edifice was con U. S. Senator Joseph O'Mahoney, formal entertainment is as popular ^ URBAN J. VEHR. structed. Then, the interior of the who flew here for the occasion; as Broadway productions. $ome Governor Lester Hunt, Mayor Archbishop of Denver. church was completed, with the volunteers devote as many as 10 exception of the construction of John . Mclnerney, Archbishop Ur hours a week, and even many non- a confessional and sacristy. These ban J. Vehr, and Bishop Newell. Catholics are offering their tal Dutch Padre Has Unique Career will be built in the near future, The Very Rev. James .A. Hart ents for the Catholic cause. and the exterior will be finished. mann, pastor of St. Mary’s Cathe Area Workeri Direct dral and Chancellor of the diocese, The church seats 84 persons and the Very Rev. Jerome Denk, .John P. Curry and Margaret Most Colorful Character comfortably. At present, there are pastor of St. .Toseph’.s narish. Chey Culverwell, area workers, are the 16 Catholic families in and around enne. represented the diocesan huh of the entertainment machine, Flagler. Both the Flagler mission clergy at the reception. Priests of supplying one of the two essential and Burlington mission are cared the Archdiocese of Denver were provisions for success—supervi In Korea’ Denver Visitor for from St. Charle.s’ parish, Strat represented by the Rev. Elmer sion. Both workers have had ade ton. Also stationed at Stratton Kolka and the Rev, David Maloney. quate experience in directing. Mrs. By Paul Hennesssy assigned to Korea. He was allowed besides Father Dinan is the Rev. Preceding the public celebra Culverwell was director of the Charles Salmon. At present Father And -now meet the little Dutch a short vacation, and after a long tion a private dinner was given in NCCS club in Tooele, Utah, for journey he arrived in Korea Oct. Ernst is convalescing in St. Fran the home of Bishop McGovern for two years before coming to Dcn- padr? whom an American general cis' sanatorium in Denver. described in an official letter as 23 1938. the distinguished guests and speak A r in February, 1946, and, prior He had no knowledge of the Under present conditions, St. ers. to her service in Tooele, she had a “the most colorful character in Korea." Korean language, which is the moat Mary’s church of Flagler will have In observance of Bishop Mc similar position in Pryor, Okie. difficult in the Orient—a language Sunday Mass on the fourth Sun He was writing about the Rev. Govern’s birthday, postponed from Mr. Curry took over the Denver more difficult than Chinese but day of the month and on the Tuesday, Oct. 14, in order that NTCS area work in November, Reinier Snel, 37-year-old mission richer than French. And for a second Saturday of the month. ary of the Society of Foreign Mi.s- .Archbishop Vehr and Bishop 194.5, after directing Fort Smith, priest who had to begin his studies .The Denver Tabernacle so Newell might attend, a dinner was Ark., and Salt Lake unks. Before .sions from Paris, who prides him six times because he had “a little ciety has aided the church .sub self on what is probably “the moat held in the Ordinary’s home Sun (T xvti to Page S —.Column 6) trouble with Latin," the future stantially.