Sunday, June 6, 2004

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PAPAL VISIT TO SWITZERLAND

Swiss Catholic Youths Welcome Pope The Guardian June 5, 2004 http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-4172002,00.html Bern, Switzerland (AP) - Pope John Paul, who arrived Saturday for a 1 day stay in Bern, received a rapturous welcome from 10,000 Swiss Catholic youths Saturday evening in a hockey arena...

Further Reports of the visit ...

from SwissInfo: http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=110

from Google: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=UTF-8&q=pope+swiss&scoring=d

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

http://www.stuff.co.nz/otago/0,2106,2928763a3845,00.html Otago Daily Times Campbell's ordination at town hall 03 June 2004 The first Roman Catholic ordination of a bishop in Dunedin in more than 20 years will take place on July 9. Pope John Paul II announced Fr Campbell's appointment last week to replace Bishop Boyle, who announced his retirement two years ago after nearly 20 years in the job. Catholic communications spokeswoman Lindsay Freer said the ordination mass would be held in the Dunedin Town Hall to accommodate the many hundreds of people expected to attend...

Former priest admits sexual abuse of teen Sunday Star Times 06 June 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/0,2106,2932131a6442,00.html A new sex scandal has surfaced in the Catholic Church, with a former priest acknowledging he sexually abused a teenager in the '70s. Wairarapa woman Sam (formerly Ann-Marie) Shelley, 48, was paid $25,000 compensation by the church last July after she spoke about the abuse she suffered at the hands of former Sacred Heart Lower Hutt school chaplain Peter Hercock in the '70s...

Strong sermon from the pulpit (photo) NZ Herald 05.06.2004 http://tinyurl.com/2lhr8 In issues of sex Bishop Whakahuihui Vercoe, the new leader of New Zealand's Anglicans, is conservative. In Maori matters he is radical. Catherine Masters investigates the basis of his beliefs...

Pope chides Bush over Iraq Newsday.com June 5, 2004 http://tinyurl.com/2sr6c Rome -- A frail Pope John Paul II on Friday chided President George W. Bush about the conflict in Iraq, reminding the president of his opposition to the war and indirectly criticizing the abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison...

Furore over rash of `miracles' Otago Daily Times Thursday, 3-June 2004 http://tinyurl.com/3adkt Brisbane: True believers think God has granted a miracle in troubled times. But the experts remain unconvinced. Nine separate religious icons, including four crucifixes and a statue of the Virgin Mary, have apparently either bled or leaked rose oil at a Brisbane church in the past fortnight...

At the altar of the silver screen Sydney Morning Herald June 4, 2004 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/06/03/1086203560762.html Where we worship, how we tell our stories and the search for meaning are questions that have long caught the imagination of Father Richard Leonard, head of the Catholic Film Commission. Maybe we once found the answers at church, muses the Jesuit priest. But in secular society, he believes, the church has been replaced by the cinema...

Principals who play pastor The Australian May 31, 2004 http://tinyurl.com/2srzx Increasing demands imposed by a changing society have forced teachers to go beyond the traditional role to deal with a growing number of welfare issues both in and out of the classroom. The situation is particularly difficult for teachers in the Catholic school sector, who are bound by the church's pre-eminent doctrine of pastoral care ...

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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES

Catholic leader asks Saudi King to release a Christian prisoner http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=903 New Delhi (AsiaNews) – “We request His Majesty to take appropriate steps to see that the religious police stop the torture, and that Brian O'Connor is given a fair trial and released”. John Dayal, a Catholic activist, asks King Fahad bin Abdulaziz al Said to release the Indian citizen in a letter to the king through the Saudi ambassador in India...

Benedictine Bible Blends the Past and Present http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=54721 Rome, June 3, 2004 (Zenit.org).- At the Wednesday audience of May 26, the St. John Bible Society Of Minnesota presented John Paul II a full-size reproduction of the Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles from the first handwritten illustrated Bible to be produced in 500 years. This presentation marked the second stage of a project that has been under way since 1998...

Rome and Moscow: a willing separation? http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=902 Moscow (AsiaNews) – Cardinal Walter Kasper’s recent visit to Russia is beginning to be show its first fruits. Probably, the most important result of the trip is the organisation of the Joint (Orthodox-Catholic) Working Group. The Joint Group, which started its activity in May, is established to analyse the various existing controversies between the two Churches, and to suggest possible solutions...

Questions the Holy See is asking about the Eucharist in preparation for 2005 Synod http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=54595 Vatican City, June 1, 2004 (Zenit.org).- A questionnaire sent out by the Holy See to prepare for next year's Synod of Bishops will serve to evaluate how the baptized celebrate and live the Blessed Sacrament...

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'THE PASSION'

Pope to beatify nun whose images inspired Gibson's film Ha'Aretz (Tel-Aviv) 30 May 2004 http://tinyurl.com/2htfc Paris - The 19th century German nun whose blood-soaked visions of Jesus's death inspired Mel Gibson's film "The Passion of The Christ" will soon be put on the path to sainthood, Catholic Church officials have said. Anne Catherine Emmerich, a sickly mystic who lived from 1774 to 1824, has already reached near cult status among traditionalist Roman Catholics for her book that gave Gibson the grisly details the Gospels did not provide...

'Passion' star turns down $75 M for his Catholic beliefs http://www.staugustine.com/stories/053004/nat_kr005505.shtml "The Passion of The Christ" star Jim Caviezel has turned down the chance to become a multimillionaire by doing a series of TV commercials --because he wants to stay true to his strict Catholic beliefs, reports IMDB.com. ...

Gibson’s film inspires passionate interest in Aramaic http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=909 Kochi (AsiaNews) - Mel Gibson’s blockbuster film ‘The Passion of The Christ’ released across India May 7th, has sparked new interest in Aramaic - the language that Jesus Christ spoke. Kerala, a state on the West Coast of India, is perhaps one of the few places in the world where the study of the Syriac dialect has been kept alive, along with Sanskrit and Arabic, over the centuries...

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'MARIST MESSENGER'

Monthly magazine of the Society of Mary, NZ

http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/index.php

Online in the June Messenger:

The Focus for June, by Fr Carl Telford sm concerns the prayer of the heart

'Finding the best place to start', by Fr Tom Ryan sm. How to live a good life is the focus on this first of a series of articles by NZ born Fr Ryan.

'How to pray', by John Smith. Prayer involves praying daily and in dryness!

Book review of Fr Paul Glynn's latest book on reconcilation and healing

'Prayer is not complex', by Fr Michael Tomasi sm. Praying is friendship, not performance

Also in the June Marist Messenger

Finding new life - my journey... Our Lady of Good Counsel... The shaking of the tree - obedience? ... Bringing in the clowns! (humour)... Are we overlooking the head of the Holy Family? ... Prayer as an expression of the love of God.... Faith and martyrdom in the East.... God's gift of life.... Comment on the film - The Passion ... The Jesus Chair -hospitality.

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'THE FAR EAST'

Monthly magazine of St Columban's Mission Society

http://www.columban.org.au/tfe/TFE_fp.htm

Online from the June issue:

Editorial: Woman’s witness to courage

The Director's Message: Challenges to being on mission in Australia and New Zealand

'Women of struggle' (Part 1), by Leo Donnelly Columban Fr Leo Donnelly listened to the stories of a group of modern apostles about their experience of serving their communities.

'Women in a culture of silence', by Maria Benita Clamonte (Nitz) Subaanen women’s role in social functions was, until recently, to provide entertainment through music. Nitz and Columban Fr Donald Kill have worked among the Subaanen people since the 1980s. She talks about their roles within their tribal community.

'The work of St Vincent de Paul', by Peter and Marie Morgan, Columban Partnership Programme. On a visit to Ba, Fiji we visited some ‘lost’ families. Almost ‘lost’ except that the society of St Vincent de Paul (SVDP) finds them each week and brings them supplies and help. The SVDP society is their lifeline....

Also in the June issue:

'Blooms that bud all year': Columban Sisters live close to the people of Peru. 'A heroine of human dignity': Everyone knows a ‘character’ or two. 'A reason to smile': Being able to smile spontaneously liberates the whole person. 'A man with a gift for words': A tribute to a fine missionary who wrote many stories for The Far East. 'A why to live for': A sick woman regains her dignity in Korea. 'Mother of 80 children': Children learn to socialise, read and write because of one woman. 'An arduous path to justice': One migrant woman’s fight for justice in Taiwan. 'A woman with pictures to tell': A Chinese artist replaces the stained glass windows in Shanghai Cathedral. 'Hope through a mother’s love': A mother’s fight for her twin sons. 'An escape from brutality': The story of a wife and mother who refused to accept violence at home.

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"THE WORD FROM ROME"

http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/

A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen

Summary of the column for June 4, 2004: President Bush and the Pope; Preview of John Paul's Swiss trip; The next 25 years in the life of the Catholic Church.

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EMPLOYMENT

[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]

[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]

Religious Education Adviser, Diocese of Palmerston North http://www.pn.catholic.org.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 30 - June 12 p.26 and fromMuriell Kivell RNDM, Episcopal vicar for Schools, Catholic EducAtion Office, Private Bag, 11 012, Palmerston North. Tel. (06) 358 8079; fax: (06) 357 3624; e-mail: mkivell@pndiocese.org.nz Applications close 18 June 2004

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