NEW BISHOP ADMINISTERS CONFIRMATION FIRST TIME FATHER JOSEPH HIGGINS T PROMOTES VOCATIONS i t TO' ORDAIN TWO IN OHIO GREAT HOSPITAL RALLY IN FIRST WEEK OF JOLT / Pueblo Pastor in Charge of Session St. Paul Archbishop McNicholas Describes Character o f Convention Denver Prelate Father Joseph F, Higrins, pastor gram which at least will render the The Most Rev. Urban J. Vehr, the side of the sanctuary, not in a, pf St. Patrick’strick^s parish,D8 Pueblo, has problem of vodhtions in regard to J.C.L., D.D., new Bishop of Denver, rear loft. The sanctuary is very left for St. Paul, Minn., to attend the hospital work less acute. v/ho sang his first Solemn Pontifical spacious and all the Archbishop;, annual meeting of the Catholic Hos­ Mass last Sunday at Holy Trinity Bishops and Monsignors present sat pital Association of the United States A general/meeting, under the di­ The National Catholic Welfare Conference Newt Service Supplies The Denver Catholic Register and The Register. church, Middletown, Ohio, which he within the gates, together with the and Canada, which is being held rection of Father Higgins, was held We Have Also Our Own Extensive Special Service, the K. of C. Service, the Central Verein Service, the served as assistant pastor before numerous officers of the consecration there from June 16 to 19. on Wednep^ay, June 17, devoted to Fides Service and the California Catholic Press Service going into educational executive and Mass ind the chaplains of the Father Higgins for the past nine the disc^ion of “Religious Prob­ work, officiated, after Mass, at his prelates. Far more than 200 priests lems.” Ehpers were read by Sister first Confirmation service at Holy sat in the front center aisle pews, years has been regional director of Mary o,£' Good Samaritan hospital, VOL. XXVI. No. 44. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1931. $2.00 PER YEAR the Mountain States unit of the as­ Trinity church, and in the afternoon robed in cassocks and surplices. sociation, and has taken a leading Cincinnati, and the Rev. P. J. Mahan at 4 o’clock gave Confirmation at St. The ceremony began-at 10 a.m. and of Loyola university, Chicago. It is John’s church, Middletown. In the part locally and nationally in the hopecf'that some practical and con­ lasted until about 1:10 p.m. Mrfst of furtherance of the vocational efforts Bishops Vehr and Tihen Pictured Together Archbishop Daeger evening, he was the guest of honor the officers, outside the three con­ of the association. The question of structive ideas for the solution of at a celebration given by the Mid­ secrating prelates, were chosen from vocations in all its phases in relation these problems will be arrived at as a dletown Knights of Columbus. the faculties of St. Mary’s and St. tb Catholic hospital ideals is one of result of the meeting. Wednesday of this week. His Excel­ Gregory’s seminaries, the major and supreme importance at the moment, ^Arrangements are at present being lency was present at the consecra­ preparatory ecclesiastical training and one which has been compara­ „|^ade for a meeting of the Mountain tion in Toledo, Ohio, of the Most schools of the Cincinnati archdiocese. tively overlooked. Father Higgins; Estates branch of the association, to Rev. Karl J. Alter, D.D., LL.D., the Mt. St. Mary’s has been among the has devoted much time and energy irf be held in Denver late in SeptSmber, new Bishop of Toledo. In the first leaders in training students in the experimental work along these line#> at which local problems and their week of July, at St. Mary’s church, rich liturgical music of the Church, and hopes to devise a working pjtd implications will be discussed. Dayton, Ohio, Bishop Vehr is to .^on- and the program given at the conse­ duct his first ordinations, giving cration and Mass was of extraor- deaconship and priesthood to two stu­ dinary beauty. The seminarians took dents of Mt. S t Mary’s seminary, an intense interest in the consecra­ Translation of P^pal Bull Read Cincinnati, who are to go to Europe tion of their beloved superior. for postgraduate study. They are Great numbers of 'sisters, repre­ the Rev. Messrs. James Sherman and senting ' many orders, were present', at Conseg^tion of Denver Bishop Albert Shreck. ■ It is fitting that stu­ and they also took a special interest dents of Mt St. Mary’s should be the in the rites because Bishop Vehr w’as first ordained by the Bishop, as he the official designated by Archbishop Following is a translation of the politan Church of Santa Fe in North has been rector of the seminary. McNicholas to look after their bus.- Papal Bull naming the Most Rev. America, is without a pastor, owing Coloradoans returning from the ness in the archdiocese. Urban J. Vehr, J.C.L.,^E).D., Bishop to the transfer of our venerable consecration ceremonies at Cincin­ The banquet after the consecration of Denver, and read pi Latin and brother, John Henry Tihen, to the nati declare that they were delighted was served in the refectory of Mt. English at the consecr^ion ceremony titular See of Bosana, we, in council with the beauty of the rites. Bishop St. Mary’s. The seminary building in Cincinnati by the Vbry Rev. Msgr. with our venerable brethren, the Car­ Vehr was the twenty-first Bishop con­ is a large and imposing edifice, but Frank Thill, Ph.D., ^Uincinnati, na­ dinals. of the Holy Roman Church, secrated in that city (the actual num­ it is not as beautiful as St. Thomas’ tional secretary of the Catholic Stu­ elect you to that see and appoint you ber of ceremonies being seventeen, as an architectural specimen. It was dents’ Mission Crusade and well its Bishop and pastor. as more than one man was conse­ built by the late Archbishop Moeller. known in Colorado because of lec­ “And we also commit to you in crated on several of the occasions) The ihassiveness of the building and tures here on behalf of the Crusade: full the care, government and ad­ but Cincinnati showed last week that its splendid location make it strik­ “Pius, Bishop, Servant of the Serv­ ministration of the same church in is has lost none of the thrill that ing. The new St. Gregory’s prepara­ ants of God, to our beloved son. both spiritual and temporal matters, comes from seeing one of its sons tory seminap', like the new Denver Urban John Vehr, Roman prelate with all the rights and privileges, raised to the position that makes him institution, is an architectural gem. and rector pfythe Theological sem­ burdens and obligations belonging to a successor of the Apostles. 'The In its telegraphed repdrt of last inary of ,,tpi city of Cincinnati, that office. After you have observed large outpouring of priests and laity week. The Register gave a resume of Bishop-elect ^ f Denver, health and all other requirements of the law, and the distinguished attendance of what occurred in the banquet, but Apostolic blessing. The office com­ and before you receive episcopal con­ Archbishops and Bishops proved thn readers will probably be interested mitted to our lowliness by the eternal secration, we direct and command great significance of the occasion in in a more extensive report of some Prince of Pastors, by which we pre­ that, in the presence of any Catholic This excellent picture of Arch­ the eyes of the Church. of its features. side over the entire Christian world,' prelate of your choice, enjoying bishop A. T. Daeger, O.F.M.. D.D., St. Peter’s Cathedral, Cincinnati, is Archbishop McNicholas, in his ad­ imposes upon us the burden of pro­ favor and communion with the Apos­ of Santa Fe, New Mexico, Metropol­ a very old building, but it has been dress, thanked Bishop Vehr for the viding rpbst carefully that such rulers tolic see, you make profession of the itan of the ecclesiastical province kept in excellent condition and its work His Excellency had done in be chosen for all the churches, who Catholic faith, and that you take the- that includes the Diocese of Denver, interior Was most attractive on the the archdiocese. It was quiet, con­ shall know how to feed, rule and custpmary oaths according to the pre­ was taken by The Register at Cin­ consecration morning. To the side, structive work, for which the new govern, and in a salutary way. scribed formulas, copies of which, cinnati immediately after the con­ at the front, sat the great choir of Bishop preferred no credit. The “Now, since the Cathedral church signed with your hand and attested secration^ of Bishop Urban J. Vehr. seminarians. The pipe organ is to (Continued on Page 7) of Denver, a spffragan of the Metro­ (Continued on Page 4) Archbishop Daeger will enthrone Bishop Vehr July 16 in the Denver Sister M. Crescentia Appointed Cathe^al., , k -Local Jesu ib Oedamed- m Same Msgr. D. T. O’Dwyer Class as Noted Novelist’s Son Superior of St. Anthony’s Hospital This photograph, showing the Most Rev. Uffcan J. Vehr, new Bishop of Denver, in full Pontifical robes, and the Most Rev. J. Henry Tihen, retir­ Three Coloradoans and a Wyoming Sheridan, Wyo. These four gentle­ An executive of long experience Nebr.; Hammond, Ind., and other ing Bishop of Denver, was taken in front of St. Peter’s Cathedral, Cin­ man were included in a class of men are Jesuits and are former stu­ and assured capabilities is the new places for the last sixteen yeatfs.