Sunday, November 2, 2003

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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS

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'NZ Catholic' No 173, October 19-November 1, 2003 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz

Prayer in local bodies can lift the debate by Peter Grace WELLINGTON - Public prayer has some high profile and sometimes unexpected supporters in New Zealand, despite efforts to banish it...

Art and Faith contest won by Southland artist by DOROTHY COUP AUCKLAND - Beautifully painted and a fine piece of work indeed is how the judge described the overall winner of the NZ Catholic and Erin Dwyer Draper Art and Faith Competition...

Ecumenical movement under review by Dorothy Coup CHRISTCHURCH - Those who organised the Worshipping Under Southern Skies conference in Auckland last month might have ended the weekend exhausted, but could also feel satisfied. ...

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The Marist Messenger (Society of Mary in New Zealand) November 2003 http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz

Full text:

* 'Focus' by Fr Carl Telford sm. "What do we mean by Christ's Second Coming?" "November is a time to reflect and pray about the ultimate realities: death, purgatory, heaven and hell. This is reflected in the readings of the Liturgy in these final days of the Church’s year...."

* Trust in providence, by St Vincent de Paul: Wisdom from a much loved Frenchman * A remarkable friendship, by Sue Seconi: Sue recounts her friendship with Dr Kevin Roach sm, a marist scholar * Sr Flora Walsh dolc 1917-2003: She was an ordinary extraordinary person * Marist Spirituality, by Fr Thige O'Leary sm * The way things are is the way things are

Also: Daily Reflections ... Daily Mass readings and devotional prayers... Surf's up - this months recommended Websites to visit ... Extra reading - a selection of articles from online Catholic journals, magazines and papers ... Daily News from the Catholic world ... E-Cards Easter, Birthday, Baptism, First Eucharist, Confirmation, Wedding and Christmas cards.

Also in the November Marist Messenger ... Praying for the dead ... The Mass - a dialogue ... The Yes of a mother's spirituality ... Transubstantiation ... Internalising the Vision ... A minute with Fr Paddy Cahill ... As luck (or God) would have it ... Distractions when praying the Rosary ... Lord, I will follow you

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

On a wing and a prayer The Guardian (UK) October 27, 2003 http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1071635,00.html In south-west France, rugby is religion - so much so that one priest has dedicated his chapel to the sport. Mark Whitaker went to find out what the Virgin Mary is doing to secure the World Cup for the nation...... Photos of the Chapel of Our Lady of Rugby http://www.tourismegrenadois.com/Larriviere.htm http://www.tourismegrenadois.com/patrimoineculturelchapelle.htm#nddr

From hostage hell to heaven Sunday Star Times 19 October 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2697274a1861,00.html [Summary: Terry Anderson, who spent almost seven years as a hostage in Lebanon, abstains from several luxuries. Anger. Bitterness. Regret. Anderson is speaking in Auckland on October 29 and 30 on American foreign policy in the Middle East. A former Associated Press bureau chief who was captured by Islamic terrorists in Beirut in 1985, endured years of captivity, usually chained, often blindfolded, often in solitary confinement, moved from one secret location to the next, never knowing how long he would be kept or if he would be killed. He reconnected with his Catholic faith and began the hardest work of his life, trying to quell his rage and accept his situation...]

Opting not to tie the knot in church Sunday Star Times 19 October 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2697236a1861,00.html Is the traditional white wedding becoming a thing of the past? Matthew Lowe looks behind the statistics which show that less than a third of all couples who get married do so in a church....

************************************* Responses to Richard Wansink's letter in the Otago Daily Times

http://tinyurl.com/t9nu The article on Catholicism by Robert Wansink ( ODT , 21.10.03) has merit, but the heading, "The one true church . . .", is both offensive and incorrect...

http://tinyurl.com/t9nx Richard Wansink, in his remarkable defence of the Catholic Church in general and of the Pope in particular (giving a whole new meaning to the words "papal bull"), inveighs against such insidious infiltrators of the integrity of Catholicism as "masons".... ************************************

Refusal of consent news to Bishop Otago Daily Times 29-October 2003 http://tinyurl.com/t9o0 Bishop Len Boyle is disappointed and surprised a proposal to build a Catholic school in Brownston St, Wanaka has been refused a resource consent....

Schools fiercely oppose legislative change ODT 29-October 2003 http://tinyurl.com/t9o2 Dunedin's integrated schools are firmly opposing changes to the Government legislation which governs them. The Education Ministry has released a discussion paper suggesting changes to the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act 1975 or consolidating the schools within the Education Act...

QC and cabinet minister made the best of his brief (photo) ODT 25-October 2003 http://tinyurl.com/t9o5 Frank O'Flynn QC, who died earlier this month aged 84, was pipped for the post of attorney-general in the 1984 Lange Labour government by his former law clerk, Geoffrey Palmer, who was later to become, briefly, prime minister...

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FROM THE CATHOLIC NEWS SERVICES

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Catholic Communications NZ http://www.cathcom.org.nz

International News ...

Commission warns of free trade threat Melbourne's Catholic Commission for Justice, Development and Peace has raised concerns about the lack of transparency surrounding the current closed negotiations for the proposed free trade agreement between Australia and the United States...

Russian President Putin to meet with Pope Pope John Paul II will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin nex Wednesday, to discuss 'bilateral relations between Russia and the Vatican'....

Pope says prayer can bring peace Appearing to have recovered strength after a gruelling week last week, Pope John Paul II presided at his general audience on Wednesday with a message that prayer can halt war and terrorism....

Catholic schools unsure on pupil contact With new child protection laws before State Parliament, the Catholic Church in NSW is yet to reach consensus with the Carr Government on the extent to which teachers are permitted to touch their students....

Medical students urge doctors to talk to patients about faith Patients appreciate doctors who talk about faith with them, but most doctors don't, according to two students at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in the USA....

Community to celebrate the real meaning of Halloween While thousands of small ghosts and goblins, skeletons, witches and wizards, celebrate Halloween this evening with well-recognised trick or treat routine, some children in the UK will take part in a much older celebration of All Hallows' Eve, as today was originally called....

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Ireland's Soul-Searching About Vocations Interview With Father Kevin Doran http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=43402 Dundrum, Ireland, OCT. 24, 2003 (Zenit.org).- Vocations personnel from 20 dioceses in Ireland gathered a few weeks ago to discuss how to focus the emphasis on vocational promotion, accompaniment and discernment, rather than on recruitment. Father Kevin Doran, national coordinator for diocesan vocations, shared with ZENIT the resolutions from the conference and his aspirations for the years ahead....

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EVENTS

"Pompallier: Te Hokinga Mai" The journey home of Bishop Pompallier Auckland Museum 18 October 2003 to 18 January 2004.

In April 2002, the remains of Bishop Jean-Baptiste Francois Pompallier were interred in the Hokianga, 130 years after his death. The progress of his body's return from a small village graveyard on the outskirts of Paris, to Motuti in the far North, is chronicled in this moving exhibition. Pompallier Te Hokinga Mai - The Journey Home, is an exhibition of over 100 photographs supplemented by a number of Pompallier's personal effects including his travelling altar and cope. The images, by photographer Karel Lorier, trace the journey of Pompallier's remains from France to New Zealand. They include the exhumation of his remains in Puteaux, a requiem mass performed in Pompallier's local church at Lyon, and the farewell of his body from Notre Dame. Also chronicled is the three month hikoi - or pilgrimage -to places of significance to Bishop Pompallier in New Zealand. Pompallier's personal belongings on loan from the convent of the Auckland Sisters of Mercy and the Auckland Catholic Diocesan Archives, include prayer books printed on the press at Kororareka housed in the building now known as "Pompallier", Pompallier's travelling altar, throne and desk, his ring, cross, Missal and cope. Bishop Pompallier was consecrated titular Bishop of Maronea with responsibility for Western Oceania in 1836. He established missions in the western Pacific as well as founding the Catholic Church in New Zealand where he set up a printing press, founded missions, and became the first Catholic Bishop of Auckland, where he was based from 1848 to 1869. A selection of the photographs are at: http://www.aucklandmuseum.com/web/content.cfm?Id=565


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