Colorado's Largest Newspaper; Total Press Run, All Editions, Far Above SOOfiOO; Denver Catholic Register, 28^92 PARISHIONERS BUY HOME FOR LOYOLA C ^ E N T Contents Copyrighted by the Catholic J^ress Society, Ino., 1948— Permission to Reproduce, Except PRIEST WHO STUDIED IN ST. THOMAS’ on Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue Some Money Donated; 1ST CATHOLIC CHAPLAIN IN PANDO DENVER CATHaiC Committee 1$ Raising A priest who made a portion of training center in which men are the Rev. John Cavanagh of the his'studies in St. Thomas’ semi­ being taught mountain fighting, RegUter staff. nary, Denver, has been named the including skiing, snow-shoeing, and Skeptical About Camp first Catholic chaplain of Camp all the arts of the Alpinist. Funds for Remainder Hale in Pando, near Leadville. He Father Bracken is a native of Concerning Camp Hale, the Rev. is Chaplain Thomas Bracken, a St. Louis, Mo. After making col­ Robert A. Banigan, assistant pas­ tor o f . Annunciation parish in captain, who has been on active lege and philosophical studies in duty with the armed forces since St. Thomas’ seminary, he went to Leadville, this week wrote: F ^ G IS T E R Nine-Room House Will Enable Charily Sisters Last spring yhen the rumor March 3, 1941. the North American college in The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register. We spread that an army camp was be­ Camp Hale is a specialists’ Rome. He was ordained in the Have Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven Smaller ing considered at Pando, most of To Live Near Schooi; House-Warming Eternal City by the late Arch­ Services, Photo Features, and Wide World Photos. bishop Palica, then vicegerent of the people of Leadville were skep­ tical. To their minds Pando was Rome, on Dec. 8, 1934, for the VOL. XXXVin. No. 20. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, JAN. 7, 1943. $1 PER YEAR Wiil Be Heid Sunday Diocese of Sacramento. Father not a city or even a town. It was a place where the trains stopped to Bracken’s first diocesan assign­ Loyola church, Denver, has received the gift of a house ment was to St. Patrick’s parish take on a load of ice; a spot in the 'T'h/? A YlYtlSIPVQ/IY'KJ of the canonical erection of the Archdiocese of Denver occurred in Angels Camp, Calif. He served mountains from which one could H o l ' x x I l l i t v C I J' Wednesday, Jan. 6, the Feast of the Epiphany. A Vicariate for the Charity Sisters who teach in Loyola school. The obtain a view of the Mount of the Apoaiolic, headed by a titular Biiihap, was set up in 1868. Tlie Diocese of Denver was erected Aug. 16, house was bought by a committee of parishioners headed Holy Cross lifting its head above 1M7. The archdiocese was created Nov. 15, 1941, and canonically erected with magnificent ceremony Jan. by James Bramer. The money was'raised partly through the mountains in the foreground. 6, 1942. The Diocese of Pueblo was created Nov. 15, 1941. It was canonically erected Jan. 6, 1942, in the It was a .swampy place in which the ceremony in which the archdiocese was formally set up. The first Bishop of Pueblo, the Most Rev. Joseph donations and pledges from friends. The balance was bor> Eagle river spread itself lazily C Willging, was consecrated in Helena, Mont., Feb. 24, 1942, and installed in Pueblo March 12, 1942. The rowed by the committee so that the house could be handed over the whole valley, making little anniversary of the canonical erection of the archdiocese and the diocese was celebrated Wednesday evening over to the parish immediately. Any further donations will SiOUS ILLIIESS pools that were choice fishing spots in the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Pueblo, with .Archbishop Urban J. Vehr presiding. The picture below, be welcomed. for Leadville fishermen. The upper taken at the time of the installation of .Archbishop Vehr, shows, left to right. Archbishop Amleto Giovanni end of the valley was a beautiful tlicognani. Apostolic Delegate to the United States, officiating preUte; Archbishop Vehr, and Archbishop _ The house is known as the Pel- tier home and is located on the cor­ News of the Catholic army chap­ spot in the springtime— a golden John T. McNicholas of Gncinnali, who deiivered the sermon on the occasion. lains in the archdiocese was high- sea of waving dandelions. Laity Joining ner of E. 23rd avenue and Vine lighted this week by word from street. It is a nine-room house and To convert this swampy and is well adapted for the use of the Camp Carson, near Colorado rough ground into a place suitable sisters. Hitherto, the nuns have - Springs, of the improvement of for a camp seemed a project that Chaplain Curtis J. Sharp, S.J.-, of In Communion lived in the convent near Sacred would take years to complete, but Heart school and have been obliged a general hospital unit, who un­ the construction companies soon derwent a serious operation; for a to travel back and forth each day. began their work, and the place Of Reparation Now they will live near the school time army medical doctors de­ was changed in a short time. and can give more time to the chil­ spaired of his recovery. Hospital Larger hills were leveled and dren. The committee wishes to attaches said Wednesday that he dumped into the watery lower was expected to recover. Before In Pittsburgh, Pa., laymen are thank all those who assisted in the levels; a course was dug for the answering the appeal of Mary of being commissioned Father Sharp buying pf the house. the Immaculate Heart, reveal^ in was dean of men in Seattle college, (Turn to P a g e s— Column S) Sunday, Jan. 10, there will be a the apparition of Our Lady of Seattle, Wash. house-warming from 9:30 a.m. till Fatima, that Communions of repa­ 5 p.m. so that the parishioners may Chaplain Christian A. Wacbter, ration be offered on the first who was regimental chaplain in College to Give visit the sisters’ new home. A sil­ Saturday of every month. Joseph ver offering will be taken. Camp Carson, and prior to that Breig, a Pittsburgh newspaper was stationed in Lowry Field, has Chaplain Bracken man, in the interest of furthering been promoted from major to 3-Hour Course devotion to Our Lady of Fatima, lieutenant colonel and transferred in several other parishes and was wrote to his friend, Barron B. Be- to Camp Bowie, near Brownwood, an assistant pastor of St. Joseph’s shoar, minority groups representa­ Tex. ^ church in Auburn, Calif. Before On Youth Books tive of the War Man Power com Chaplain Edward A. Leyden, an being commissioned he was as-sist- mission in Denver. , assistant pastor of Holy Family ant chancellor and secretary to Recently, on the 25th anniver­ church in Denver until he was com­ Bishop Robert Armstrong. A course in children’s literature sary of the Fatima, Portugal, ap­ missioned last summer, left Den­ will be given for teachers, par­ ver Wednesday to return to Camp His military service has in­ paritions, Pius XII announced in a ents, and other interested adults Butner, N. Car., after spending a cluded a year as chaplain of the broadcast the consecration of the California national guard. Father during the second semester in the world to the Immaculate Heart of leave here. Loretto Heights college Saturday Chaplain A. H. Menarik of Buck- Bracken’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mary._ This fulfiljed one appeal J. H. Bracken, live in Chic^o. In morning classes, which are held made in the 1917 apparitions; an­ ley Field is attending the chap­ in St. Mary’s academy, 1370 Penn­ lains’ training school in Harvard St. Thomas’ seminary Father other concerned the Communions Bracken was a classmate of the sylvania. The course will open for reparation. university. He is expected to re­ Saturday, Feb. 6, and will be held Washington. — (Special NCWC turn to Buckley Field in February. Rev. John Kelly, pastor of St. Mr. Breig wrote: “ . As you each Saturday from G a.m. to W ire)— The Very Rev. William T. Chaplain Cletus E. Snyder of Peter’s church in Fleming, and of probably read in the Register. noon. It will carry a three-hour McCarty, C.SS.R., provincial of Buffalo. N. Y., who arrived in Our Lady told the children [to college credit to duly registered tne Redemptorist Fathers’ Balti­ Lowry Field No. 2 last month, has whom the Virgin appeared] that if K LZ to Broadcast and qualified students. The class more province, has been named begun instruction classes. Classes what she asked were granted Rus­ Titular Bishop of Anea and ap­ will be in charge of Sister M. sia would be converted and man­ Cathedral Program; Helene, who has just completed pointed a Military Delegate of the kind would be given an era of U, S. Military ordinariate. the teaching of a practical and peace. On reading this our helpful course in primary meth­ As Military Delegate, Bishop- Rector Will Speak study club decided that, whereas elect McCarty -will assist the Moat ods in the Loretto Heights Satur­ the Holy Father had done his part, day sessions. Rev. Francis J. Spellman, Arch­ it was up to us to do ours. We are, bishop of New York and Military On Sunday morning station KLZ The newly planned class in therefore, promoting the first Sat­ will broadcast a program from the Vicar, in the spiritual care of the children’s literature will offer a urday Communions.