EVERY PRIEST ASKED REUGIOUS VOCATION Pray lor the Pray lor the CATHOLIC CHURCH SHOWN BY POPE TO OFFER A SO PRECIOUS FLOWER Success of the k. Coming of a FOUNDER OF MORE SCHOOLS MASS FOR PEACE ON GOD P L A N T S SEEDS Catholic Press Just Peace OF HIGHER EDUCATION THAN SATURDAY, JUNE 29 HIMSELF SAYS BISHOP ALL SECTS PUT TOGETHER Full Text of Motu Proprio of Beauty of Convent Life, When Holy Father Reaches Properly Lived, Told to America. Sisters. First Free Public Institutions Were Started B O M B A R D M E I^O F PRAYEFT AT ST. ANTHONY JUBILEE by Her Popes and Bishops, Shows Church to “Do Violence” to the Franciscan Order’s Hospital Father T. P. Smith Marks Anniversary; Corner­ Sacred Heart That War VOL. XIII. NO. 45. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY. JUNE 20, 1918. $2 PER YEAR. May End. stone Laid for Annex. GIVES STATISTICS OF PAST, PRESENT Saturday of next week, the feast of Not to bring honor to themselves, but SS. Peter and Paul, is the day set by to add to the glory of God, was the rea­ REV, M. F. CALLANAN His Holiness, Pope Benedict XV, for son why the Poor Sisters of' St. Fran­ .‘^trangc as it seems to Catholics, who o<ls, held in the year 859, formulated “doing violence” to the Sacred Heart cis of. the Perpetual -Adoration cele­ TO CELEBRATE 25TH The Catholic World hear t>ducation preached from their pul­ enactments, calling upon the parish with a genuine bombardment of prayers brated the silver jubilee of St. An­ MOHAMMED GETS AFRICA MIRACLE THRU ST. RITA? pits more than anything else besides re­ priests to erect and mantain public ligion itself, enemies of the Churcli have from all over the world that God will thony's hospital, kh-nver. last Thursday, False prophets are coming to be more A person who last year made a novena schools, public in the true sense of the send a just peace. Full copies of the showed the Rt. Rev. J. Henry Tihen, D. JUBILEE AS A PRIEST of a menace to the spread of the Faith to St. Rita in St. Martin church, Wash­ repeated, so often, the libel that the word. I call attention to those two Motu Proprio issued by the Pope for this 1)., Bishop of IX'tiver, in the sermon than the false gods and fetishes of the ington, D. C., and applied to a malignant Church is opposed to education that Dioceses because the towns in which occasion have come to America only re­ given at the Solemn Pontifical Mass Annunciation Pastor Will Sing ignorant heathens. These the mission­ cancer some roses blessed in the saint’s many outside the fold actually believe the Bishop’s Sees were located are or cently. The text follows: which o|)cned the celebration. Calling Solemn Mass Morning aries can combat with a certain amount honor, was completely cured. it. The Very Rev. Thomas P. Smith, should be familiar to us at the present 4 Chancellor and Vicar General in Curia of The fourth year is nearly ended since attention to the beautifully decorated of July 4. of success, for the ngtive mind is not So the Rev. Eugene A. Hannah, the day; the towns of Toul and Metz, in the Altoona Diocese, who visited here a the flames of war began to burst forth altars and the great number of priests, slow to see the uselessness of the super­ pastor, now testifies: “ Tlus cure, mira­ whose vicinity our gallant soldiers are in Europe and the burden of the supreme si.sters and laymen present, with an at­ BISHOP TIHEN TO PRESIDE stitions that cloud his mind. But the culous as it may seem to the average couple of years ago and spoke before doing valiant service now in the cause Colorado audiences, showed in an ad­ Pontifleate was laid on us. As in all mosphere of joy pervading, he said that false prophets have t subtler hold. Mo­ person,” he says, “is to me only a mani­ of liberty and democracy. that time the fury of the war has never the spirit of the occasion was expressed Parishioners to Give Reception hammed, even now, is winning such a festation of God’s unlimited power, and dress a few days ago at St. Francis’ Thruout France and Italy and io college commencement in .Johnstown, slackened, but, on the contrary, has kept by the words: “Xot to me give glory, at Hall That Evening or host of followers in Africa that he is the result of a strong and abiding every land in which the Cfiiurch held Pa., that the Church is “the Jlother of increasing, our paternal heart has not but to Thy name be honor and praise.” Following Sunday. threatens to rule the continent with the faith by the beneficiary. I have no hesi­ sway, were established common schools Education” for it was under her aus­ had a moment of relief from anxiety and The renunciation of self, he showed, is exception of Uganda, which is largely tancy in vouching for the efficacy of in which Imth religion and the liberal The Rev. M. F. Callanan, irremovable pices that the first free schools were distressing care in view of the frightful essential for a successful religious life. Christian. In India, both Catholic priests faith in God in matters of this nature, arts, grammar, mathematics, history, rector of the Annunciation church,_ Den­ established, and she today has far more evils that were accumulating. For, in The less renunciation there is, the less and Protestant ministers complain bit­ and I am sure that the faith which the literature, painting and music were ver, will celebrate his silver jubilee as a universities than the combined Protest­ considering the tragic entanglement of perfect is the religious. The more per­ terly of the sway of theosophy, which Catholic Oiurch inspires is the basis of taught. Colleges for advanced courses ant churches. In part he said: events we have not only endured the fect the renunciation, the more perfeet priest on Thursday, July 4. There will owns Madame Blavatsky and Annie Be- this Apparently supernatural accom­ and universities for complete education The Catholic Church, the pillar and sorrows of all, so as to be able to say the religious. On a day like this, mark­ l)c a Solemn High Mass in the church at .«ant as its prophets and has enshrined plishment. The patient, whose name I received not only the approbation but ground of truth, has always been, is at with St. Paul, “Quia infirmatur et ego ing the close of a quarter century of 10 a. m., with the Rt. Rev. Bishop .1. them in its temples. Theosophy is am not at liberty to give, was pro­ the aid and practical assistance of Henry Tihen, D.D., and many priests present, and will in the future l>e the non uror?” but, at the same time, as far endeavor, it may be pardonable from a claiming millions of India’s people, who nounced beyond the aid of medical or the churchmen in every land and to leader par excellence as well in religious as we could, we have omitted nothing human standpoint to expiH't a little in- present. Fhther that evening, or on the seem to find it an easy step from Hin­ surgical science by some of the most their doors came students from every as in secular education. She has been that the consciousness of our apostolic cen.se. But this i.s not so of a true re­ following Sunday evening, the members duism. The English government, for reputable physicians and surgeons in walk of life and the only requisite for said to be the enemy of enlightenment duty prescribed or that the charity of ligious. She deprecates praise, lest the of the Annunciation parish will hokt a political rca.sons, looks with great dis­ this city.” admittance was the desire for advance­ especially as far as secular education has Christ suggested to us. words might he said of her that Christ reception for the jjibilarian in the school favor upon Madame Besant, but her ment in learnijig. The brightest lights, l)ccn concerned and of her it has been Our condition today is such that of •said of the hyjrocrites: “ Amen, f say to hall. away is undoubted. In Japan, a wor­ TRANSLATION OF SUMMA in those days, consequently, were not F'ather Callanan is one of the best written that she discouraged investiga­ found among the families of wealth or itself it reminds us of King Josaphat you. they have received their reward.” ship of the emperor and his ancestors, Slowly but steadily, despite the war, known priests of the Denver Diocese, tion particularly in the realm of the sec­ (Continued on Page 4, Column 0.) when, in his anguish, he prayed in these The Bishop told of the advantage of now practically become a civil law, the English translation of the “Summa having spent his entire quarter of a cen­ ular sciences. ,The Dark Ages, Galileo, words: “ 0 Lord God of our fathers, Thou such a jubilee, in order to remind the causes the missionaries great vmeasiness, Theologica” of St. Thomas, by the tury in the priesthood here—a rather Savonarola, the Spanish Inquisition, art God in Heaven and rulest over all world that there are other lives besides and so the story runs. But the battle is Fathers of the English Dominican prov­ unique record in this new country.