I 'Member of Awilt Bureau of ClreuXatiora Salina Is Named See City in Northwestern Kansas —----------------------------- - 4- + .+. + Content* Copyrighted by the'Catholic Press Society, Inc. 1945— Permission to Reproduce, Except on Articles Otherwise Marked, Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue Salina, be. Supplants Concordia Church of Sacred Heart I;;. dral of the diocese in the transfer o f the seat o f the diocese to that rily from Concordia in a change announced this week by Bishop As Diocesan Center; Frank A. Thill. The Rt. Rev. Monsignor Richard Daly, V.G., present DENVER CATHOLIC pastor. o f Sacred Heart church, becomes the rector o f the new Ca­ thedral. The transfer of the diocesan headquarters from Concordia to Salina was deemed necessary, chiefly because o f the more con­ Decree Bead Mar. 12 venient idlation o f the new headquarters. Salina is considerably larger than Concordia. The Bishop hat announced that all official Pontifical Holy Week services will be conducted in tbe Salina Cathe­ Transfer Authorized by Pius XII Dec. 23,1944, REG ISTER dral for the first lime this year. Reveals Bishop Frank A . Thill; No The National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplies The Denver CathoUc Register. We Have Also the International News Service (Wire and Mail), a Large Special Service, Seven SmaUer Changes Made in Officials Services, Photo Features, and Wide World Photos. (3 cents per copy) Salina, Kans.—At a meeting of the Diocesan Consultors VOL. XL. No. 28. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1945. $1 PER YEAR held in Sacred Heart church March 12, Bishop Frank A. Thill presented the decree of the Sacred (3onsistorial con­ gregation in which Pope Pius XII, under date of Dec. 23, 1944, authorized the transfer of the Episcopal See from Satchel Holds All Belongings the city of Concordia to Salina. The execution of the decree entrusted to the Bishop by the Apostolic Delegate,’ Archbishop Amleto G. Cicognani of Washington, D. C., effected the Of Missionary From China changing of the former jurisdic' Msgr. Mulroy Says tion to the newly established Dio­ cese of Salina and the designation of Sacred -Ficart church in this (By Rev. James B. Hamblin) flight over the Himalayan “ hump” ger to Americans, he had only two A thrilling story of a nine-month to Calcutta, and a two-month voy­ hours to prepare for the journey. city as the Cathedral. journey from his China mission sta­ age on a navy transport The It was not difficult though, because Following the promulgation of tion was told by the Rev. Louis whole journey was made with all he had little to bring. So dangerous the decree and its effects, Bishop Scheerer, O.P., a visitor in Denver his worldly possessions being car­ was it for the army transports to Thill announced that the appoint­ the past week en route to his Day- ried in.a small hand satchel. That pick him up, that they did not even ments and faculties held by pas­ ton, 0., home. The story includes is one of the amazing things about stop their propellors when they tors, chaplains, vicars, and confes­ flights in army transports with men who have done heroic things landed. He was told to be ready sors under his former jurisdiction fighter plane protection over Japa­ foi Uod. After eight years their when they came, and they did not remain in force. The services of nese lines to Kunming, another personal gain can be put into a care to do any waiting. Holy Week and the Pontifical hand satchel, and they may even From Kunming Father Louis Mass on Easter Sunday will be HIED liEVISIOII have to beg a pair of di.scarded went to Kweiyang to aid tne refu held in the Salina Cathedral. Un­ shoes from an American sailor, yet til further notice, however, all gees from Hong Kong. It seems Colorado's adoption machinery, they are perfectly happy. But that Kweiyang, a district where Archbishop Vehr Calls communications for the Bishop Father Louis comes from a re­ only Mandarin is ajioken, is under and the Chancery should be ad­ unfortunately, h a s not been markable family; he is one of 10 the care of Frenth missionaries dressed to the Bishop’s house fti streamlined, says the Rt. Rev. John children, all of whom are serving who speak only French or Man­ Secularism Great Curse Concordia. R. Mulroy, archdiocesan director God in religion, and four of them in darin. The Hong Kong refugees New Diocesan of Catholic Charities. As a re­ the foreign missions. know only English or Cantonese. sult, many prospective adoptive Father Louis labored in the mis­ Father Louis is grateful that the Headquarters Bought sion of Kuaten, Fukien, in Eastern arrival of four Maryknoll mis Of Modern Life, Thought In accordance with the require­ parents arc discouraged over ever China. This province was first sionaries made it possible for him ments o f the transfer of the dio­ obtaining a favorable reply to opened by Spanish Dominicans to leave the work in Kweiyang in cese, the residence of the Bishop their requests for the children who under Francis Capillas, the proto­ their hands. and the Chancery office will be have been denied them by nature. “ Without a doubt secularism is general apathy toward all things moved to the Bishop’s new house We can only hope that the move­ martyr of China, who died in 1648. From Kweiyang Father Louis religious. It is the widespread in­ Plans are being made to hold the The young missioner went to China flew over the “ hump” to Calcutta, the great curse of modem think­ in Salina at 421 Country Club ment for a children’s code commis­ difference to the moral values that sion will receive favorable con­ annual acies of the Legion of Mary shortly after his ordination in 1935 and then boarded a navy transport ing and living,” declared Arch­ road, recently acquired as dioc­ spring from the natural law and esan property. The Bishop an­ sideration in the 1945 session in the Cathedral Sunday, March and “ shanghaied” his brother, the that brought him home by way of bishop Urban J. Vehr at the an­ revealed law of God. Secularism Catholics of Denver will be 25. Every year this service proves Rev. Berchmans Scheerer, into nounced that the new diocesan (35th) of the Colorado Legisla­ Australia and the Hawaiian is­ nual corporate Communion of lives the life of the senses uncon­ privileged to attend a magnificent to be one of the largest attended going with him. Father Berchmans headquarters were purchased as a ture, For some inane reason the lands. trolled by moral safeguards. It musical commemoration of the legion functions sponsored by the is still there. When Father Louis Catholic men in the Pike’s Peak diocesan investment with the state of Colorado, as represented LACK OF COURTESY IN means living and doing for the Passion and Death of Our Lord on Denver comitium. The legionaries, was ordered by his superiors to region Sunday. About 325 men unanimous consent of the Council by its lawmakers, is willing to AMERICA NOTICED moment without any thought of Good Friday evening, March 30, spend additional funds and plan both active and auxiliary, gather leave his post because of the dan- attended the Mass in St. Mary’s for Temporal Administration and Not long after he arrived in the accountability before the when a sacred oratorio, The Pas­ with funds wholly free from trust progressive steps to improve live­ in the Cathedral to pay homage to the United States, he began to church in Colorado Springs, and tribunal of God and of right rea­ sion of Christ According to Mary, their Queen and their obligations. The property is not stock, ^sh hatcheries, roads, physi­ 3 Novices to Make notice changes and to feel a yearn­ about 220 were present at the son. Secularism will breed in the St. Mark, by Monsignor Lorenzo encumbered by mortgage or loan cal properties of the state, for Mother. As the active members minds and lives of the younger ing to be back in China. For one breakfast following. The annual Perosi, will be presented by the obligations of any kind and there almost anything but the most val­ approach the legion standards in thing, America’s speed and lack of Communion series, sponsored by generation a studied aversion and Cathedral choir and soloists under front of the main altar each mem­ Profession of Vows will be no assessment on the par­ uable asset of all, its children. courtesy are quite a contrast from the Knights of Columbus, 'ends repugnance of right values and the direction of the Rt. Rev. Mon- ishes connected with the transfer Statutes governing child welfare, ber pledges anew his fealty to China’s serenity and “ Have you with services in Lonm ont this an attempt to justify sin and signor Joseph J. Bosetti, V.G. The Mary, the patroness of the legion. of the Bishop’s residence and the particularly dependent and neg­ Three novices will make their eaten?” greeting. After a scour­ Sunday, March 18. ’ wrong doing as tnfe ordinary and part of the Christus will be sung lected children, are scattered m And in the name of the active mem­ necessary way of human existence. Chancery office. Plans are under first profession of religious vows ing of Dominican houses around “ Secularism means the annihila­ by Joseph O’Neil, baritone. Paul consideration for combining the many parts o f Colorado’s legal bers a spiritual bouquet is pre­ God, religion, and religious ideals in the Sisters of St Joseph of San Francisco,* a shoe stamp was tion of God and Godly standards Harrington, tenor, will be the first Bishop’s house in Concordia with compilations.