n 'll limn rmiiii POCUMENTS CASE SEALED (U,362.25 G IV E N Contents Copyrighted— Permission to Reproduce Given After 12 M. Friday Following Issue CANONIZATION aUT IN YEAR BY PROCESS SENT MISSION OFFICE TO POPE’S COURT I ^ine Report Made Despite Economic Depres­ Hearings of Denver, Paterson and Cologne sion— Both Home and Foreign Examinations Are Reported Fields Benefit to Vatican Disbursements amounting to $4,362.25 in 1932 were an- According to a letter dated December 31, Thursday, Jan­ lounced this week by the Rev. F. Gregory Smith, diocesan di- ''‘■fk- uary 5, was set for the formal sealing of the documents in the ector of the Home and Foreign Mission society. The distri- T ie Nationil Catholic Welfare Conference News Service Supplift The Denver Catholic Register and The Register. We Have Also the Father Leo Heinrichs canonization case at St. John’s church, )ution is truly representative of both the home and the foreign International News Service (Wire and Mail), a I*rge Special Service, and Seven Smaller Services. Newark, New Jersey. The documents now go to Vatican City. I iiission fields, with $600 going to the American Board of Cath­ The hearings in Denver, Colorado; Paterson, New Jersey, and olic Missions; $360.26 to vacation schools in Colorado; $170 VOL. XXVIII. No. 21. DENVER, COLO., THURSDAY, JAN. 5, 1933. $2.00 PER YEAR Cologne, Germany, where ecclesiastical courts examined into f :0 priests of the Denver diocese, gifts of the Junior Tabernacle the life o f Father Leo, were covered by these documents. S'iociety; $147.21 to the Catholic Students’ Mission Crusade; Father Stanislaus Woywod, the fa­ Monsignor McLaughljn, head of the i '600 to the Society for the Propagation of the Faith; $144 to mous Franciscan canonist, who is committee in the Newark diocese, has he Catholic Near East Relief; $1,267.98 to the Uganda Mis- New Chapel at St Elizabeth's Qift vice postulator of the case, wrote had to go to Europe twice on dioc­ about the session of this week. In esan business. f,.ionary Sisters; $150 to the Catholic University of Peking; addition to the prmiesses in the It was estimated, when the Denver lilOO to Maryknoll, and $100 (designated) to the Francisan three dioceses inquiring into the life hearings started, that nearly a quar­ bisters, Chii\a. of Frank Kirchhof and His Family of the Servant of God and_ facts ter of a century would elapse before I at about answers to prayers seeking his beatification, provided all went well. Ian intercession, there has been a for­ Another Denver inquiry, it is uflTder- (try mal examination of all his writings. stood, will be called before the Father Leo was assiduous in the beatification, but only after a lapse Catholics Are Represented preparation of sermon manuscripts of years, and with different individ­ and hence a great deal of work was uals composing the court. entailed in this process. More than Father Leo Henrichs, O.F.M., pas­ in Both Senate and House a year was required, also, for the tor of St. Elizabeth’s church, Den­ bols court in Germany to finish its work; ver,- was shot and killed February Gal- it inquired into the life of the Ser­ 23, 1908, in that church while dis­ por- of Colorado Legislature vant of God before he came to Amer­ tributing Holy Communion, the mur­ The ica and entered the novitiate of the der being committed by an anarchist ilop- The Catholic population of Colo- the war, cnli.stcd in the marines for Franciscans at Paterson, N. J. Like­ who acted in hatred of Divine faith. tis." fado is well represented in the 29th the World war and took up his wise, there was some delay owing to The priest had led an extraordinarily I "olorado State legislature, which studies at the South Bend institution the fact that Father Woywod has holy life, and, folldwing his death, ;onvened in the State capitol this after the armistice. He was a mem­ been stationed in Washington, D. C., heavy penitential chains, that dug |veek. A check of the rolls of the ber of the football squad in his last for two and a half years, and because into his flesh, were found on his body. enate and house revealed the names two years in school. Prior to com­ It ■>f nine well-known Cawolics, three ing to Colorado he was a flying in­ n the senate and six in the house structor on the Pacific coast. He is representatives. Five of the nine (Turn to Page 8 — Column 3) Methodist Minister's Son it ■ire from Denver, In the senate are Senators John t<', Healy, Jr., Denver; CuVtis P. First Candidate to Enter tor iitchie, Pueblo, and J. M. Madrid of Trinidad. Representatives arc Bert irSTENING m seating, William E. Cullen, Jo.scph Christian Brothers* Order V Newman and Joseph Constantine if Denver; H. J. Atencio of La Jara, When, on Jan. 3, he made a plea suing studies there that he heard the , onejos county, and Joseph Barron for “ adequate federal legislation’’ to • The Christian Brothers in charge if Walsenburg. Another representa- meet unemployment needs before of the J. K. Mullen home for boys, call to the brotherhood. His period ive, Walter Hoag, is the son of a the senate manufactures committee. near Fort Logan, announce the re­ as a novice will cover three years, Ireek Orthodox priest. There may Senator Costigan (D .) of Colorado ception into their novitiate of the the last two of which will comprise le other Catholics, but because of so declared the time has arrived for first Denver boy since they began whaf is known as the scholasticatc. uany new faces, it was impossible to congress to abandon “ penny-pinching caring for boys of the vicinity. The Bitkop Vehr Visits Home . earn of them in the two days the relief compromises.’’ The committee novice, Ernest Tompson, was invest­ The brothers and the twenty-six ''gislature has been in session. heard Costigan outline an unemploy­ ed in the garb of the brotherhood at boys at the home were gratified to Se\'cral of the successful candi- ment situation described as “ desper Lousiana, on Christmas eve. He has receive a visit the first of the year iates are still in their twenties and ate.’’ He is co-author of the La Fol- taken the name of Brother Bertrand from His Excellency, Bishop Urban arly thirties and are experiencing lette-Costigan bill for $500,000,000 Edward. He is the son of a Methodist J. Vehr, Denver. The Bishop extend­ heir first plunge into politics. Only for direct aid to the destitute. “ The minister living in Bellevue, Colorado. ed wishes for the continued success most startling development of this All the other members of the family, of the institution. Through the ef- Senator Madfid and Representative lers- darron are veteran legislators. M®’ depression,” the senator ., declared, inelading » brother living in Denver, •forts o f Mr.-and Mrs, John L. Dower, “ has been the unwillingness of a are non-Catholics. Ernest’ s interest the home is making rapid progress. /not irid, who retired from political life she n 1913, was drafted into running large part of our national leadership, View of Remodeled Vestibule in the Catholic faith was born Tools and farm implements, includ­ both industrial and political, to face through acq,uaintance with a Denver ing a tractor, wagons, plows, binding lany .'or office this term. He has been opa- prominent in civic affairs of Las Ani- the facts.” family, made while he was attending machines, silage machine, bailer, etc., The same charge has often been 5?': high school in this city. The Sisters became the property of the brothers Sen- na.s. county for over thirty years, gree ihd served in the house for one term, made in this column. The depression, of St. Dominic instructed him in the last October. A 185-foot shed is now so far as America is concerned, could ;om- I 1902 to 1904. Barron Is serving his Catholic religion and he was later being constructed a.s a storage place have been cured by this time if it baptized. for the tools and farm implements. With |(<ccond consecutive term in the house. € liata were not for the selfishness of forces . t’ After being graduated from high And as Christmas gifts, Mr. and Both Senators Healy and Ritchie, that control many of the politicians. ■lave risen to their positions in a school, the lad entered the Abbey Mrs. Dower presented a piano, a pool omparatively short time. Healy school. Canon City. It was while pur- table, and a pair of skates for each las been a practicing attorney lew Dilly-dallying tactics will cost the of the 26 boys. han four years. He was reared in government far more in the long run Among the latest additions being I Denver and attended the local paro- than a courageous facing of the prob­ contemplated is the purchase of a lem. Our economic situation is a HONOR R O LL motor bus. It will be used to convey [ ‘rhial schools and Regis college. He good deal more desperate than any fiwas graduated from Colorado uni- the boys to their various athletic war we have ever been in. In war contests played outside the home, \ersity law school four years ago. The following list of firms used a times, it is taken for granted that and also on excursions and scenic He is" the son of Denver’s veteran minimum of forty inches in The there must be huge expenditures.