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DENVER SEMINARY HAS PRODUCED 243 PRIESTS Contenta Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 19.38— Permission to Reproduce, Excepting on Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue Registorials Denver Pilgrims Ordination Class TRAFFIC WATCHMEN AT SCHOOLS NEEDED Hear Holy Father This Year Second Vigorous protest should be eu' DENVER CATHOLIC tered against the threatened dis' continuance of the school-crossing watchmen project o f the Works Largest in History Progress administration. This par Praise Am erica ticular activity o f the WPA has contributed more to making both First Golorado-Born Seminarians FinisheiJ motorists and pedestrians traffic­ Pope Galls U. S. ‘Bulwark of Catholicism’ conscious than has any other pro' Gourse in 1920; Great Development gram undertaken either by the pa As Father Woeber and Party Visit REGISTER lice department or by civic organi' Gastelgandolfo * The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register. We Have Made Since 1926 zations that have endeavored to les­ Also the International News' Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, and Seven Smaller Services. sen the toll o f automobile acci' dents. The Rev. Edward Woeber, vice Chancellor of the The 1938 ordination class of 21 students at St. Thomas’ We have admired the WPA Diocese of Denver, and 15 members of his pilgrimage to VOL. XXXIII. No. 42. DpilVER, COLO.% THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1938. $2 PER YEAR seminary, the second largest in the 30-year history of the workers whose duty it has been to the International Eucharistic congress in Budapest were institution, brings the total number to be ordained from the guard the street crossings near our in the group of 120 Americans who heard Pope Pius XI seminary to 243. In the first 18 years of the seminary’s schools. Few o f them have been existence, only 78 students received all or at least the com­ officious, but practically all of laud the United States as a “ bulwark of Catholicism” in Mountain Trails at Camp Santa Maria ‘gS** prat.e“’'caSr“6J them have been efficient. Their an audience at the Papaf summer homo in' Castelgandolfo. miles west o f Denver will resound to the hoofbeats o f a dozen horses this summer. A stable o f 12 well- pletion of their priestly training at St. Thomas’. Not until presence at buly intersections has The Pope used the occasion to trained horses, three o f which are pictured below at the Mullen home for boys, was provided this week, 1920 was a (ilolorado-born seminarian ordained. In been the means of guiding thou­ denounce German Catholics who in time for the opening o f camp Monday, June 13, . when the first group o f 120 boys w;ill begin a that year the Rev. Aloysius J. Miller, pastor of St. Francis sands and thousands o f children refused to attend the congress. By three-week vacation. The camp is conducted by Mr. and Mrs. John L. Dower for the undernourished and Xavier’s parish, Pueblo, and the Rev. John P. Moran, pastor safely throush heavy traffic. Their remaining away, said the Pope, underprivileged children o f Denver. See page 2 for other pictures. absence might be the signal for the the Germans “ condemned them­ of St. Joseph’s parish, Golden, were ordained. Up to the ever-present reckless motorist to selves to darkness.” opening .of the ne,w building in fall back into his ways o f disre­ “ You are a truly imposing 1926, there had beeri only eight garding the rights o f the pedestrian. group,” the Pontiff told the Amer­ Fr. Sliney to Visit native vocations and a total of 32 priests ordained for the diocese The WPA project at school cross­ icans. “ Although you come from ings has meant more to the safety different parts, you ar^ all 100- Denver en Route to from the local se,.iinary. o f the city than merely at the per-cent A m erican s. Although Since the opening of the new intersections it has served. It has your country is geographicajly dis­ New Post in Texas seminary building in 1926, a sig­ certainly been educational for the tant, it is not so spiritually. We nificant development has taken children, since it has been an e f­ place. In the past 12 years an can affirm that spiritualfy Amer­ The Rev. Edmund C. Sliney, fective method of teaching them ica has always been as near our average of 14 students have been the value o f watchfulness at inter­ hearts and our thoughts as she is who spent a number of years as ordained annually, 48 of whom are sections. You see no intersection geographically distant and great in chaplain at Fitzjimons hospital Denver diocesan priests, "rhe rapid increase in the number of jay-walking around our schools and expanse. She has great Christian here, has made tentative plans little o f the formerly prevalent treasures from the past, and more to visit Denver within the next practice o f street-crossine in the will come in a Catholic Christian Priests, People Are middle o f the block. The chil­ life in the futui'e.” few weeks. Father Sliney, who dren who learn the need o f c^re Turning to Germany, the Pope holds a commission as major in Invited to Ordination at schools will practice that same continued: “ The Eucharistic con­ the United States army, left his care when they are near their gress witnessed a gathering of the station at Fort Hancock in New homes. The WPA watchmen, it faithful from all over the world— Jersey on Wednesday of this Ordinatipn to the sacred seems to us, have been fitted ad­ with a few most unhappy excep­ week on an auto tour that will priesthood will be held at the mirably into the educational sys­ tions; unhappy because they were take him to his new post at Fort Cathedral Saturday, June 11, tem. They are not formal edu­ the exceptions of those who, in the Bliss, Tex., by July 10, at 9:30 o’clock. Six young cators. but they are teachers. And full light, renounced the faith and men will be ordained to the the lessons that are learned condemned themselves to dark- priesthood. The Most Rev. througli them are far more im­ ness. Unauthorized Agents Bishop Urban J. Vehr especially portant than those that are taught Selling Subscriptions urges all priests to attend the in some of the frill courses offered ______ X- ceremony and to impose hands in the present-day school. on the newly ordained. Mem­ Entrance Exams at A report has come to the Regis­ bers o f the laity also are invited It is no secret that, despite the Seminary Monday ter office that young women ar& fine work that has been accom­ canvassing Catholic homes of Den­ to attend and participate in of­ plished by the Works Progress ad­ ver for subscriptions to a pur­ fering up the first Mass of the ministration, all WPA projects Entrance examinations for priests. prospective candidates for the portedly Catholic magazine. The have not been both useful and Chancery office has issued no necessary. Probably all o f them priesthood will take place at 10 o’clock Monday 'morning, June authorization for this activity, and native vocations in this same pe­ can be justified in that they b^ve the magazine is not listed among riod, from one every other year to furnished work to men and women 13, at St. Thomas’ seminary, Denver. Candidates must fill Catholic publications. approximately five annually,, re­ who were in need. An argument veals the dominant influence of the in that direction, though, could out application blanks pro­ No solicitor for Catholic pub­ vided by the Chancery office, lications is to be recognized unless sem.inary and t h e marvelous probably be used with more tell­ growth of the Church in Colorado. ing effect in behalf o f the watch­ 1536 Logan street. he has a letter of authorization from the Chancery office. At the present time 30 seminarians men than it could be in favor o f are enrolled for the Denver dio­ most other WPA workers. The cese. watchmen are for the most part 335 High School Graduates Get Diplomas 50 Priests, 600 Lay Persons Present men who are not physically fitted The ordination to the priesthood to dr> hard work. Hence, if their of this year’s five students for project is discontinued, it means work in the Diocese of Denver will CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL be held at the Cathedral Saturday, (Turn to Page 4 — Column 1) BISHOP VEHR PRAISES June 11, at 9:30 o’clock. The Rev. Arthur Lucy, native Denverite and a -member •of-fiti'-Dominic’s parish, FR. LICIOTTI ON JUBILEE will celebrate his first Solemn Mass June 12 at 10:30 in St. Dominic’s church, Denver. The Rev. Matthias J. Blenkush is a native of Minne­ Rev. Lawrence Lutz, O.S.B. AOAINST RADICALISM IS IHJCnilAS WALSENBURG PASTOR sota and came to St. Thomas’ in 1932. He will sing his first Solemn s t n i n F M Among the many Colorado Mass on the Feast of Corpus youths being ordained to the Socialism, Communism, and existence is proved by reason; the After 14 years in office. Mother ■ IValsenburg.— Fifty priests and At 8 p. m. a civic reception was Christi, June 16, in St. Stephen’s priesthood this year are these two radicalism will never develop un­ other group’s thought begins with Lucy Dooley, superior of the more than 600 members of the held in St.

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