HP mm LEGION OF DECENCY IS LAUDED BY PONTIFF Yearly Report Given fh t R tfisttr H it thi InUrnitional N tv t Strvicl (Wiri and Mail), tin N. C. W. C. Newt Service (Includiaf Radios and Cables), Its Own Special Service. AH the Smaller Catholic Services, IntematloBai Illustrated News, and N. C, W. C Picture Service. SAYS CRUSADE DE PAUL MEN Local Local The Michigan Catholic, Edition Edition Detroit, tells us that *‘mem- SHOULD SPREAD bers of the Black Legion used EXPEND CLOSE to borrow chairs for their THE meetings from a Catholic un­ dertaker." TO ALL WORLD TO 6 MILLION 4 Father Charles E. Cough­ lin’s weekly, “Social Jus­ Encyclical Asserts ‘Painstaking Vigilance tice," just a few months old, Great Charity Work of Group Reveals Over Motion Pictures’ Is Necessary REGISTER(Name Registered in the U. S. Patent Office) has passed the million mark Fine Spiritual Achievement as To Protect Morality in circulation, with relative­ VOL. XII. No. 28 DENVER, COLO., SUNDAY, JULY 12,1936 TWO CENTS ly few free copies. Well as Material Aid Vatican City.— Utilizing the formal and impressive Leaders to Attend medium of an Encyclical letter. Pope Pius XI has bestowed “Washington Merry-Go- Washington.—^The annual report of the Superior coun­ Priest-Scientist at Field Work high praise on the crusade against immoral motion pictures Round,” a syndicated col­ cil, Society of St. Vincent*de Paul, shows that the amount conducted under the leadership of the American Hier­ of relief distributed by the organization in the year ended umn, not long ago carried an archy; has expressed a wish for its continuance; and has item about a cousin of Roose­ Sept. 30, last, was $5,797,060.19, of which $5,365,670.04 Annual Program called upon the Bishops of the entire world to take similar velt who it said is a Catholic was for conference work and $431,390.15 for special works. action, exercising “painstaking vigilance over the motion priest. “This misleading re­ In the giving of material aid the number of families pictures” for the protection of the morality of their people. port," says The Michigan assisted totaled 115,966, representing 560,538 persons. His Holiness has then laid down “certain practical indica­ Catholic, “was rehashed in Members of the organization made 1,129,033 visits to fami­ Is Announced lor tions” which are to guide them in this work. several anti-Catholic jour­ lies and 80,372 visits to institutions. Situations were pro­ He begins with a high laudation of the efforts put for­ nals. It is positive, on the cured for 8,382 persons and transportation to homes and ward by the Hierarchy of the United States for the promo­ highest authority, that Presi­ relatives in other cities was provided for 7,183. Clarities Meet tion of clean motion pictures, particularly the successful dent Franklin D. Roosevelt The report of spiritual aid lists 2,337 irregular mar­ crusade of the Legion of Decency. He con^udes by outlin­ does not have a cousin who is riages validated, 4,468 Baptisms ing a method of procedure in all nations th^t parallels the arranged, 9,152 children induced Mother Shows Love Seattle.—The tentative program a Catholic clergyman.” to attend parochial school, 11,272 steps taken by the American Bishops. It is too bad for the Presi­ children induced to attend Sunday of the convention of the National 1. As often as the occasion has dent that he does not. Priests school, and 6,580 persons brought Conference of Catholic Charities, Vatican City.— (NCWC Cable) presented itself. We have consid­ have a habit of remembering back to their religious duties. Re­ OFFOSSOyS to be held here Aug. 2 to 6, reveals —Following is the complete of­ ered it the duty of Our high office theif kin constantly in the ligious books, papers, and articles, that speakers and participants will ficial English text of the en­ to direct to this condition the at­ and secular reading distributed to include more than a score of mem­ cyclical letter issued by His Holi­ tention not only of the Episcopate Mass. the poor, to the sick in hospitals, bers of the Hierarchy and other ness, Pope Pius XI, in which he and clergy, but also of all men who and to the inmates of prisons to­ SliE III REIUIIN outstanding leaders in the field of warmly praises the work of the are right-minded and solicitous Montignor M. S. Garriga taled 1,800,163. social welfare. Legion of Decency, counsels un­ for the public weal. There are 15 provinces of the Following preliminary sessions ceasing, universal vigilance, and In our encyclical, Divini Illius of San Antonio, who has been bespeaks the necessity for the named Coadjutor Bishop of organization in the United States, of diocesan directors of charities Magistri, We had already deplored one Superior council, nine Metro­ FORHISCyilE and the conference of religious, the Bishops in each country to set up that “potent instrumentalities of Corpus Christi, Texas, is part politan Central councils, twelve The Rev. T. Emmett Reynolds, convention proper will open Sun­ permanent national reviewing of­ publicity (such as motion pic­ day, Aug. 2, with Solemn Pontifical fices dependent on the Hierarchies; tures), which might be of great Irish and part Spanish in an­ Diocesan Central councils, 108 S.J., professor of psileontology at cestry, and is the first native Particular councils, and 33 isolated Mass at St. James’ Cathedral, with ENCYCLICAL LETTER advantage to learning and educa­ conferences. The total numW of Kongmoon, South China.—Solo­ St. Louis university, who is re­ the Most Rev. Edward D. Howard, To our venerable Brethren, the tion were they properly directed of Texas to be nominated to conferences is approximately 2,- mon was right. He contended that suming his first-hand study of Archbishop of Portland, as cele­ Archbishops and Bishops of the by healthy principles, often un­ the Hierarchy. He is, per­ 500. The active membership of 2,- a true mother will give up her child fossils in the San Juan basin of brant. The sermon will be preached United States of America, and fortunately serve as an incentive rather than see it come to harm. by the Most Rev. Gerald Shaugh- to other Ordinaries enjoying haps, the only member of the 201 conferences reporting was 27,- Northern New Mexico, where to evil and passion and are sub­ 778. There are 6,216 honorary A woman recently offered her nessy, S.M., Bishop of Seattle. peace and communion with the ordinated to sordid gain.” American Hierarchy with water shortage is always a threat, Apostolic See, Spanish blood, although members and 7,183 subscribers. son to Maryknoll doctors as a slave The Most Rev. Edwin V. O’Hara, In August of 1934, addressing for life, if he could be cured of a where the temperature hovers At Bishop of Great Falls, will address ON MOTION Ourselves to a delegation of the Spain contributed largely to jaw infection. 115 degrees, where there is con­ a meeting of representatives of PICTURES International Federation of the Catholic Culture Is POPE PIUS XI our Bishops’ ranks in the The mother and grandmother stant danger from sand driven by Catholic women’s organizations. Motion Picture Press, We pointed Called Curb to Crime brought the ten-year-old boy to the The conference of religious will Venerable Brethren, greetings and out the very great importance past. The prelate, outstand­ high winds, and where mountain Apostolic benediction: ing in leadership, is state Sacred Heart hospital at Toi Shan hold a session at which the topic which the motion picture has ac­ Cambridge, Mass.—jSpeaking at with osteomylitis of the jaw caused lions and reptiles increase the will be “Care of the Physically and In following with viligant eye, quired in our days, and its vast in­ chaplain of the Lone Star the religious conference at Har­ by an infected tooth that had not hazards. The picture above shows Mentally Handicapped.” Bishop as Our pastoral office requires, fluence alike in promotion of good the beneficent works of Our State Knights of Columbus vard university, the ReV. Michael been treated. Both women said Father Reynolds in the desert Shaughnessy will be honorary and insinuation of evil. We called J. Ahern, S.J., of Weston college that they wanted to give up the chairman of a general meeting of brethren in the Episcopate and of and has been active as a country examining a fossil bed. to mind that it is necessary to pointed to the low crime rate in child for life so that doctors could the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, the faithful, it has been highly apply to the cinema a supreme member of the K. of C. His­ New England and attributed it in treat him. They said they had no The inset gives a close-up of the at which George J. Gillespie, pres pleasing to Us to learn of the fruits rule that must direct and regu­ torical commission. He is fa- part to the Catholic cultural con­ money and were unable to hire a scientist. ident of the Superior council, will already gathered and of the prog­ late even the highest art in order (Turn to Page 4 — Column 1) tribution. doctor. The hospital was to keep be executive chairman. Both will ress which continues to be made that it may not find itself in con­ the boy as a slave when the infec­ speak. A paper on “The History by that prudent initiative launched tinual conflict with Christian mo­ tion subsided.