190 MEXICAN FAMILIES TO RETURN TO OWN LAND DENVER TO KEEP Contents Copyrighted— Permission to Reproduce Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue HUGE EXODUS IS 75TH BIRTHDAY TO BE FINANCED OF HOLY FATHER THRU CHARITIES Te Deum to Be Sung May 31 at Great Service Denver Movement to Be Followed by Similar in Cathedral, by Many Priests One in Other Colorado Towns Denver is one of the first places in the country to announce Arrangemwits were made this week by Community Chest, a program in honor of the seventy-fifth birthday anniversary of Citizens’ Unemployment Relief and other charity workers for His Holiness, Pope Pius XI, on Tuesday, May Si. It is expected the transportation of large groups of local Mexicans back to that celebrations will be held in every diocese. Father Hugh their native land. One hundred and ninety families from Den­ L. McMenamin, rector of the Cathedral, announced today that The Netional Catholic Welfare Conference New* Service Snppliea The Denver Catholic Reaiiter and The Register. We Have Also Onr ver and vicinity will leave this month, and the opportunity will all the priests of Denver and vicinity will be asked to assemble, Own Extensive Special Service, the K. of C. Service, the Central Verein Service, the Fides Service and the California Catholic Fress Service be given to those in other Colorado towns to return. The first with a large concourse of the laity, at an evening service in the trainload will go from Denver May 15. Some will be trans­ Cathedral. The Te Deum will be solemnly chanted by the VOL. XXVII. No. 38. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1932. $2.00 PER YEAR ported to the international border by automobile. Seven hun­ priests and the Most Rev. Bishop Urban J. Vehr, D.D., will dred and fifty to a thousand persons are included in the groups give an address on the Papacy and Pope Pius. Solemn Benedic­ Ordained Thursday to go first. tion will close the program, with the Bishop presiding. The The Rev. John R. Mulroy, director religious turmoil at home a few years music will be under the direction of the Rt. Rev. Monsignor PRIESTS TO STUDY of the Catholic Charities, Denver, ago. He said that these conditions Joseph Bosetti, Ph.D., chancellor. Bishop Vehr next week will and.the Rev. J. P. Trudel, S. S., pas­ are now removed. It may as well tor of the Holy Family Spanish issue a letter urging all the parishes to have general Communion be known by his government that CAPITAL PUNISHMENT church. Fort Collins, attended the American Catholics are anything but and High Mass Sunday, May 29, for the Pope’s intention. meeting Tuesday at which it was satisfied witti the treatment being voted to send the Mexicans home. given to the Church in Mexico. They Father Geisert^ Who Accompanied Several to Gallows, Will The Mexican government will take fearfully resent the enforced limita­ Lead Discussion at October Conference care of the.travelers from the inter­ tion of clergymen, the vicious anti- 39 to Get Degrees from national border to the places where (Continued on Page 10) The next semi-annual conference interesting. It will discuss “ Super­ they wish to settle. They can re­ of the Northern Colorado priests, to fluous Goods,” and will deal with the turn either to their native places or Regis, Loretto Heights be held the first Tuesday of October, teaching of the Church, renewed in go to government land, which is to will have papers of unusual interest. the Quadragesimo Anno of Pius XI, be turned over to them. Forty thous­ HELEN BONFILS I The Most Rev. Urban J. Vehr will to the graduates, the Most Rev, The Rev. Henry A. Geisert, pastor that the wealthy are gravely bound and acres are available. Each fam­ preside at the commencement exer­ Bishop Urban J. Vehr. The Regis or­ of St. Theresa’s church, Aurora, will in conscience to distribute to charity ily will be given land, as well as food cises of both Loretto Heights and chestra, under the direction of the discuss capital punishment. Inasmuch and religiou their income above what and seed for six months. MAKES GIFT TO Regis colleges this year, delivering Rev. A. S. Dimichino, S.J., will fur­ as he served for years as chaplain .they need for sustenance of them­ Face Pauperism Here selves and those dependent on them an address at each occasion and con­ nish the music. of the Missouri state penitentiary at The people are going of their own in a .state befitting their place in life. CHURCH SHRINE ferring the degrees at Loretto The candidates are from eight Jefferson City and accompanied vari­ volition, but would not return were states: Colorado, Montana, Nebraska, The Rev. Achille Sdmmaruga, pastor Heights. Fourteen students at Lo­ ous condemned criminals to the gal­ it not for the difficult conditions in New Mexico, Arizona, Illinois, Mis­ of St. Patrick’s church, will have this retto Heights and 2& at Regis will lows, he will be able to throw a the beet fields. Always inadequately Several -votive stands have been receive their degrees on June 1 and souri and Florida. They are Thomas light on the subject that few men paper, with the Rev. William V. paid, they are facing the worst sea­ installed iri the Holy Ghost church, 10, respectively. A. Fortune, A.B.; Matthew A. Gra- can give. It is known that he is op­ Powers of St. John’s and the Rev. Nineteenth and California, each at brian, A.B.; Laurence M. Guilford, posed to capital punishment. The­ Charles H. Hagus, pastor at Sterling, son they have ever known in the Loretto Heights will hold its com­ industry this summer and if they stay a cost of $200. That for the St. A. B.; John W. Reddin, A.B.; ologiansRay­ all teach that the State has as objectors. mencement exercises in the evening they can live only on charity. Fa­ Rita’s shrine is the gift of Miss Hel­ this year, a departure from the cus­ mond A. Schueth, A.B.; William T. the right to practice it, but Father An innovation will be introduced en Bonfils, daughter of F. G. Bonfils, Henderson, B.S.; John D. Shea, B.S.; ther Mulroy served notice on Tues­ tom in recent years.- The ceremony Geisert is opposed on grounds based in having each priest come with a publisher of The Denver Post. Al­ Thomas F. Darcy, B.S. in commerce; The Rev. Maurice Helmann, native day that Catholics will not tolerate will be held in the college chapel. on his own personal experience. written paper on a moral subject to though her father is not a Catholic, James J. Delaney, B.S.C.; Joseph T <>f Hastings, Nebraska, a graduate of having these people forced to go back The baccalaureate sermon will be de­ Bishop J. Henry Tihen, who as a be assigned at the time of the clergy­ Miss Bonfils is. That for the St. Jos­ Dinan, B.S.C.; Joseph A. Dryer, young priest also attended several St. Thomas’ seminary, Denver, or­ by refusing them necessary charity livered by- the Very Rev. Joseph A. men’s retreat in June. Any one is eph’s shrine is the gift of Antonio B. S.C.; J. Paul Feyen, B.S.C.; Sidney condemned criminals and saw them likely to be called upon to read his dained to the priesthood Ascension if they do not go. They were brought Herbers, S.J., at a High Mass at 10 to Colorado to do necessary work in Picone, Jr., of 777 Ogden street, and o’clock Sunday, May 29. The gradu­ D. Jones, B.S.C.; Franklin Landauer, die,on the gallows, likewise opposed paper. This paper will supplant the Thursday by Bishop L. B. Kucera, an industry that has brought wealth his mother. They are the brother ates at Loretto Heights are as fol­ B.S.C.; Arthur J. Lucy, B.S.C.; Paul capital punishment, admitting the general discussion. The' same pro­ D.D., in the Cathedral at Lincoln, Nebraska, for that diocese. Father to many stockholders, and they will and mother of the late Dr. Joseph lows: Louise Bessler, Louise Chesire, J. McSwigan, B.S.C.; Joseph M. right of the State to practice it, but gram as is used in the Denver con­ Helmann left Denver Tuesday. His be needed again just as soon as con­ W. Pecony. The parish has bought Mary Collins, Helen Gallagher, Char­ Musso, B.S.C.;L^ward F. Beaudette, denying its usefulness today. Father ference is followed also in the other first Solemn Mass will be at Hastings ditions pick up. They have become a new votive stand for the Blessed lotte Hamburger, Frances McCarty, Ph.B.; J. L ou is^. de Baca, Ph.B.; Geisert is widely recognized as an ex­ conferences held throughout Colo­ Sunday. an integral part of the local com­ Virgin altar. Mrs. Maurice Dolan has Anna McGlone, Helen McGraw, Eliza­ William R. Dolan, Ph.B.; Joseph J. pert on criminology and is the author rado, with different priests handling Henry, Ph.B.; Robert E. Jordan. of a book dealing with the subject. munity, which has obligations to­ presented a beautiful new missal to beth O’Meara, Lucille Riede, Marie the papers. the church, and Mrs. Enders of the Ph.B.; Robert B. McGregor, Ph.B.; The Rev. Michael Harrington of St. Bishop Vehr spoke Tuesday, out­ wards them as a result. The atti­ Stillhammer, Helen Sullivan, Marie Kelly Coffee company has given a Trenchak and Mary Agnes Galvin.