SEMINARY BUILDING FILLED TO CAPACITY iiRinop m IMS UE SECOND YEAR OF OPERATION IQ IMES’BOISTllI C CH jB fn n et la tb o lif FOR NEW STRDCTORE TO SEE IIERED ! oneico IS now m ITS EVERY ROOM INHABITED . • ChairmaB of U. S. Bishops’ Committee Unusual Number of Male Vocations for Has "Accurate bformation” M s U t Diocese This Year San Francisco.— ^The pnblicf state­ were suffering in exile, because they The new residence building at St St. Thomas' is going to find itself ment of P i^ d en t Calles that the re­ refuse to accept the anti-religious Thomas’ seminary will, it appears, be greatly handicapped this year by the ligious struggle in Mexico is at an end program of Mr. Calles. Hundreds Tim N atieu I CatheUe Watfara Coafataaca Naw* SaraUa SuppUaa Tha Daafvar Catholic Ragistao aad Tha filled to capacity this term. While lack of proper chapel facilities. The and that the Catholics of Mexico have more are languishing in pestilential Ragiatar. Oar Naw* U Carriad to U* hy Airplaaaa—tha Only Aaroaantie Nawi Sarviaa That Cotaa* to C<dorado. The Register announced only two proposed cnapel for the seminary accepted his anti-religiooa laws and penal colonies and in noisome under­ » _______________________________ - - ■ ._____________ _ ____________ _______ . weeks ago that there would be an en­ must, it seems, be an individual gift. have ^ w n indifferent toward their ground cells in Mexico. rollment of 60 to 66, applications re­ Nobody has come forward with an faith, is labelled as plain nntmth, in “The martyrs who laid down their VOL. XXIII. No. 4. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY. SEPT. IS, 1927. $2.00 PER YEAR ceived since that time Indicate that offer, but a novena will be«n shortly a 'vigorous statement given out here lives in Puebla, in Zamora, in Leon, when all the students who have asked at the seminary to hasten the coming by Ihe Most Rev. Edward J. Hanna, in Guadalajara, in Durango, in Mich- for admission reach school there will of the chapel. Nothing is more needed Ajxhbishop of San Francisco, as oacan, in Jalisco, and a thousand be seventy-five enrolled. by the diocese than good chapel fa­ chairman of the Administrative com­ Mexican villages; the hundreds of A particularly gratifying feature cilities at its priests’ training school. WARNING AGAINST of this year’s enrollment is that eight mittee of Bishops of the National priests who, hunted by spies and as­ Builder o f Nationally-Famous The collection of pledges made in FRAUD SOLICITORS new students have been received from Catholic Welfare Conference. sassins, at the risk of their lives are the Seminap’. Crusade has made gobd Complaint has been made the Denver diocese itself, to prepare Asserting that CaUes* statements still faithful to the duties of their process this last summer, when sem­ that one Kathaleen O’Keefe for the priesthood of the diocese. are “ at variance with facts of com­ roinist^ in Mexico; the thousands of Grotto Is Visitor in Denver inarians have worked all over the dio­ mon knowledge,” Archbishop Hanna Catholic men and women who are has been obtaining new and re­ After long years, Colorado is actually relates scores of generally known newal subscriptions for The coming into its own in the production cese; but there are still many thou­ risking everything to attend religions sands to collect. A debt of $80,000 facts to prove that ^ e faith of Cath­ services in hiding; the homes that Denver Catholic Register in of native vocations. Pour boys from Wyoming and has been using the Cathedral parish, one from St. is carried on the new building. The olic Mexico still shines brightly, even have been searched, the property that seminary priests and Bishop nope to obnoxious methods. This paper Joseph’s (C.SS.R.), Denver, and in the face of CaUes’ iHthlesa and has been confiscated, the lives that have this debt wiped out as soon as inhuman persecution. Furthermore, have been taken, all in 'violation o f has never had a solicitor by three from Pueblo applied for admis­ that name. She is an impostor. possible through the redemptiop of he declares, this is a conflict of “ the the law, even in Mexico; the women sion. In addition tb these local vo­ pledges. conscience of men,” and “ executions, who, because they refused to deny Solicitors sent out by The cations, the diocese has just furnished confiscations, suppresaionB, no mat­ their faith, have been delivered to the Register always "carry credent­ three vocations to the Society of The old- building at the senainary ter how ruthless, have, not in all his­ lust of scoundrels and cowards, these ials from the Bishop of Denver. Jesus, two to the Paulists, two to is used as a recitation building. As tory succeeded in overcoming such a and a thousand more are the evi­ A person unable to produce the Vincentians, and one to the Re- the enrollment grows, it will be used credentials- with the signature conflict.’,' • dences 'with which the people of Mex­ demptorists. These are all new vo­ again for living quarters, where about ico defend themselves against the of the Bishop or a Diocesan of­ cations. Sixteen male vocations twenty-five more students can be He adds that Justice alone is the ficial and the seal of the remedy and that the whole Mexican charge that they have forgotten their in one year from a diocese of this cared for. The proposed chapel will religious traditions and abandoned Chancery Office is an impostor size is a splendid sign. Unquestion­ stand between the new and old build­ people would give wholehearted loy­ and should be turned over to alty to any government which guar­ the defense of liberty and justice. ably, the interest aroused by the St. ings. The old building is old only in the police. Thomas’ Seminary Crusade has had anteed justice, but that they stand Martyrdom* Still Continue Never give money t6 any so­ a comparative sense; it is thoroughly in solid opposition to a government “ The very day before Mr. Calles a great deal to do with this glorious modem and well constructed and is licitor, for The Register or any record. which scorns it. •_ read this message, his agents at To­ other publication, unless he or not yet twenty years of age. Coles’’ Claim* Refuted luca, not many miles from Mexico she can produce credentials. “ In giving wide publicity to his City, put to death, under conditions Always examine these cre­ recent message to the Mexican Con­ most revolting, a large number of dentials with care. gress, President Calles again ai^eals Mexican citizens for no other reason Chinese Jesuits Visit Denver to world opinion in defense of his ad­ than their Catholic faith. ministration,” says Archbishop “ Mr. Calles declares that his decree Hanna. of last .year is nothing more than a On Way to Mission Field “ As an American Bishop who has restatement of Article 180 of the accurate sources of information con­ 1917 institution. He makes no reply IMNINGIN cerning Mexican affairs, I am in a to these who challenge the validity The Rev. Simon Tang, S.J., the tion broke ont, but, within three position to state that it is not possible of A/ticle ISO, because it is incom- Sixteen Old Mexico Mexican* were first Chinese priest to be ordained in months after, he joined the Jesuits in for any one fully acquainted with patmle with other provisions of the di*charged Ia*t week from C.F.&l. the United States, was a visitor at 1910, he was forced to "undergo the situation to accept Preudent same constitution. He makes no reply mine* at WaUenbnrg becan*e of Regis college qn Monday. With great hardships because he was fol- Calles’ interpretation of the religious to^ the millions of Mexican citizens their affiliation with the I.W.W., and another native Chinese, the Rev, lo'wing his vocation. It was at the conditions as they now exist in Mex­ who, in petitions to Congress, have it i* predicted that the weeding ont James Ley, S.J., who was ordained time of the Portuguese revolution in ico. sought by legal methods to bring proce** will continue at *ucb a rat* in Spain, Father Tang is on his 'way China, and he was one of more than “ Referring to the religious situ­ about the amendment of that article, that when the date for the *trike ar­ back to the Orient for missionary eighty Jesuits who were arrested by ation, Mr. Calles makes statements which they hold to be tyrannical and rive* there will he no I.W.W. mem­ work in the Jesuit province there order of the Portuguese government, which are strangely at variance with arbitrary, a violation of natural rights ber* left. The operator* have *pot- among his countrymen. Both Father for no other reason than that they facts of common knowledge. He which every law-making body is ter* among the I.W.W. member* who Tang and Father Ley are of fam­ were Jesuits, and cast into an under­ says, for instance, that the religions bound to respect because they are the betray everything that goe* on, oven ilies which were converted to the ground dungeon, where they were con ^ ct in Mexico is at an end; that inalienable endowment which man in the *ecret meeting*. The official* Faith some two hundred years ago. confined for a month. On their the decree of July 31, 1926, is being holds from his Creator. of the I.W.W.