Funeral Masses Being Sung for Msgr. O'ryan

National Circulation, 468,603; Denver Catholic Register, 21,262 FUNERAL MASSES BEING SUNG FOR MSGR. O’RYAN 7 Bishops to Attond Regioasl C. C. D. M ootingpiii'S of Beloved Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic Press Society, Inc., 1940— ^Permission to Reproduce, Excepting Bishop O’Hara to . on Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue Prelate Is Mourned Outstanding Catholic Attend Congress By Many Thousands Conference of Year in DENVERCATHOLIC Colorado Is Feb. 22-24 Won Oiolindion in Varied Fields; Was One of Colorado’s Trnly Great; Bnrial Is Session in Pueblo Feb. 21 Will Precede This Friday Morning 3*Day Denver Program; Large REGISTER (By Millard F. Everett) Monsignor O’Ryan is dead. Attendance at Congress Asked •The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register. We Have Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven Smaller Services, That simple statement brings sadness to thousands of (By C. J. McNeill) Photo Features, and Wide World Photos. Western folk, for the pastor of St. Leo’s church in Denver Colorado’s outstanding Catholic meeting in 1940 will was truly one of Colorado’s great. An eminent Churchman, be the regional congress of the Confraternity of Christian VOL. XJCXV. No. 26. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, FEB. 15, 1940. $2 PER YEAR a towering figure in civic life, he brought the quintessence Doctrine, which will have a preliminary session in Pueblo of Irish scholarship, and the tenderness of Irish love, to Wednesday, Feb. 21, and will then move to Denver for a America and contributed uniquely to the building of the three-day conference on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, Mpnsignor O’Ryan West. Feb. 22 to 24. In a letter sent to priests and people of the m m u i Small wonder then that the keen of an Irish wake seems diocese this week, the Most Rev. to penetrate the solemn services of the Church as her final Urban J. Vehr, Bishop of Denver, The death o f Monsignor William F. O'Ryan removes one o f the ministrations are being paid to the prelate this Friday called for a large attendance at most picturesque characters the West has ever known. Learned to morning. For something has passed that can never be re Judge Walsh all sessions of the congress and AT an almost appalling degree as a result o f generations o f constant placed— a living institution that instructed pastors to appoint the reading piled on top of a thorough classical and theological educa leaves an imperishable monument required officers and chairmen for tion, eloquent as another Chrysostom, possessed o f analytic and syn' in the annals of Colorado. President of parish units of the confraternity, thetic intelligence, he was a scholar o f startling attainments. 'The St. Leo Parish which is now being formally or average university professor is a specialist intensely trained in one Recurrent illness of several T field; Father O’Ryan was a specialist in at least six fields— canon law, years finally conquered the great ganized on a diocesan basis C. C. D. Board Seven Bishops, dozens of priests, theology, philosophy, history. Scripture, and literature. His fellow Will Continue heart of the aged prelate Tuesday, a large crowd of sisters, hundreds Seven hundred seventy-five men priests were given constant reminders o f his profound learning through Feb. 13, at 4:40 p. m. Present at of lay adults, and all of Denver’s observed the Knights of Columbus- his presiding as moderator o f the Northern Colorado clerical con the deathbed in St. Joseph’s hos pital were the Rev. F. Gregory Judge Joseph J. Walsh, an out Catholic college students are ex Catholic men’s annual Communion ferences. For two generations, when great celebrations were held In Operation here and it was desired to make a good showing before noted guests. Smith of St. John’s parish, the standing lay leader in Colorado pected to take part in the congress Sunday held in Walsenburg and Members of the Hierarchy, be Fort Collins Feb. 11. Similar reli Father O’Ryan was always put on the program and shone in a way Rev. W. F. Parry, S.J., and Mr. for years, has been named .presi sides Bishop Vehr, who are sched gious rites will be sponsored by the that we knew could not ^ surpassed, indeed could rarely be equalled, St. Leo’s parish will not be dis T, P. Maher, S.J., both of Regis dent of the diocesan governing uled to come to Denver for the K. of C. in TMnidad Sunday, Feb. anywhere in the nation. His mind was original, shedding a delightful continued. Monsignor William F. collegt; Mrs. Mary Kinsler and board of the Confraternity of congress are Archbishop Rudolph 18; Denver, Feb. 25; La Junta, light o f its own on whatever he touched, and his fund o f information O’Ryan, who died Tuesday, often Frank Loffreda, the prelate’s was unlimited. declared in late years that the Christian Doctrine. His appoint Feb. 25; Pueblo, March 3, and Colorado Springs, March 10. The His contemporary clerics sometimes surpassed him in the drabber church would have to be closed ment was made known at a meet C.C.D. Board Will Most Rev. Bishop Urban J. Vehr affairs o f business administration or organizational ability, but it after his _ death. In the later ing of committee chairmen making The Most Rev. Edwin V. O'Hara, must be admitted that for sheer intellectualism he towered above nearly years of his life, he had a private chairman o f the American Bishops’ celebrated the Communion Mass plans for the regional congress of in Fort Collins and was the prin all. income of perhaps $150 a month Meef Friday Nighi committee on the Confraternity of arranged for in the wills of his the C.C.D. ii> Denver Feb. 22 to 24. cipal speaker at the breakfast We were often amazed at his knowledge o f current literature. Christian Doctrine, will play a lead Not only in what pertained to the Church, but in science and the arts close personal friends, Verner Z. ing role in the regional congress served by the women of St. Jos In announcing the selection of Members of the newly ap he kept fully abreast o f the thought o f his times. When he spoke Reed and John K. Mullen. It was o f the confraternity in Denver Feb. eph’s parish in the church audi Judge Walsh and other officers. pointed diocesan board of the at the various colleges or universities o f the state, he bowled the pro on this money that he lived, rather 22 to 24. He will also speak at torium. Three hundred and sixty Confraternity of Christian Doc fessors over with his knowledge. Even in old age, when most men than on the income of the parish. the preliminary meeting in Pueblo men attended the breakfast. trine and committee chairmen have put the brakes on teeming intellectual activity, he kept up his He doubted that another priest Feb. 21. Bishop Vehr was introduced at the for the regional congress next breakfast by Grand Knight Law vast reading. He never took a formal post-graduate course, but so could get a living at St. Leo’s. But week will meet in the confer rence Southworth, toastmaster. shining was his knowledge that two non-(Iatholic institutions, the Uni Bishop Urban J. Vehr, acting with ence room at St. John’s school The Bishop discussed “ Thoughts versity o f Denver and the University o f Colorado, conferred honorary the advice of consultors, has de Friday evening, Feb. 16, at Institute for Versus Bullets.” Other speakers doctorates on him, the former giving him the LL.D. and the latter the termined to keep the parish oper 8:30 o’clock. The Rev. F. to appear on the program were the D.D. Any outstanding Catholic intellectual who visited Denver, ating for at least two years and Gregory Smith and Miss Miriam Rev. Eugene O’Sullivan, District whether he was an Archbishop or a layman, deemed it necessary to will endeavor to have it continue Marks will met with the lay Teachers Will Deputy John Curran, Chancellor call at the old-fashioned rectory at Tenth and West Colfax, where the permanently. leaders. D. F. Costello, and State Deputy very atmosphere was one o f books. The last to go to that shrine to The church is within just a few George 0. Kelley.. pay her respects was Maisie Ward Sheed. minutes’ walk of two other large In his civic leadership. Father O’Ryan was unsurpassed. He Catholic churches— St. Elizabeth’s A. Gerken of Santa Fe and Bishops Feature Meet The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Hugh Edwin V. O’Hara o f Kansas City, L. McMenamin, rector of the Ca knew every adult worth knowing in Denver, Catholic or non-Catholic. and St. Cajetan’s. St. Elizabeth’s, Louis B. Kucera of Lincoln, Duane thedral, celebrated the Commun We have heard him speak in the most familiar fashion o f all the im conducted by the Franciscan Fa G. Hunt of Salt Lake, Robert E. One of the outstanding features ion Mass at St. Mary’s, Walsen portant people who have ever lived, say, in a Colorado city or district thers, was founded for the Ger Lucey of Amarillo, and Frank A. of the regional congress of the burg, and addressed the 150 men as far away from Denver as Sterling. Business men o f all faiths, man Catholics; with the passage Thill of Concordia.

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