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'NZ CATHOLIC'
No. 194, August 22-September 4, 2004
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Accuracy, not speed, is priority in Mass translation Hamilton - "Getting it right" is a top priority, said Bishop Denis Browne of the long-awaited new English translation of the Mass, which is now unlikely to be ready before 2006....
Catholic schools should avoid abortion pressure Rotorua - Catholic schools do not have to help pregnant students get abortions, despite the rights the girls have under the law....
'NZ Catholic' wins premier award Perth - Australasia's premier award for excellence in religious journalism has been won by NZ Catholic....
Also in the print edition ...
NATIONAL Vocations focus of tour of St Therese's bones ... Darfur crisis worries churches ... Thieves break into church ... CWL will raise dollars for the deaf ... Workshops on prayer ... ERO File
FEATURES Suzanne Aubert -- pioneering woman of faith with relevance for today Vatican Letter: Bishops' visits let the Pope "learn the Church"
INTERNATIONAL New priests make their presence felt ... Cloning advocates look for a "friendly" venue ... Lesbians sue school ... Conscience in jeopardy?... Atomic bombing recalled ... Abortion as human right advances at UN HQ ... 4000 marriages invalid ... Britain allows cloning ... Catholic teaching targeted ... Seminary must close ... Telegram to Athens ... Ethical approach works ... Be quiet, taxman warns churches ... Abortion lira cut? ... In Brief
OPINION Editorial: "Hate crime" law has many flaws ... Letters ... Pat Lynch: Girls can do anything, and so can boys ... John Roughan: Solomon Islands guest-workers ... Ronald Rolheiser: Irritations and the spiritual life
REGULAR FEATURES Books, Monitor, Tape Deck, Net Scene, Clips, Young Adults, The Doolans, Question Box, Cryptic Crossword, Caption Contest, Who Said?, 40 Years Ago, Dio. Diary, Photo Prayer, That Word!, Holy Lives, Kit's Corner, Scripture, Feasts, Wit's End.
ADVERTISING FEATURES Vocations Symposium
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Funeral message of love and faith (photo) Otago Daily Times Monday, 23-August 2004 http://tinyurl.com/629f4 Five months after their deaths, Anna Kemp and her 2-year-old daughter Gracie were farewelled by about 200 mourners in a traditional Catholic Mass that focused on love and faith, at St Joseph's Cathedral...
Papal award for Farry ODT Friday, 27-August 2004 http://tinyurl.com/4kspn Malcolm Farry, a former long-serving head of the Kavanagh College board of trustees, has been given a rare Papal award, recognising "outstanding services" to Catholic education...
In Gaudi's formidable manner ODT Saturday, 14-August 2004 http://tinyurl.com/3sb8z The foundations were laid in 1882, but Barcleona's Sagrada Familia cathedral is still far from finished. Today, workmen take their instructions from an unlikely quarter - a former New Zealand architect based in Melbourne. Prof Mark Burry, who gave a lecture in Dunedin last week, tells Kim Dungey about a project that is a unique blend of art and science...
Blessed are the sure and wealthy (interview) NZ Herald 29.08.2004 http://tinyurl.com/6tgmr Brian Tamaki offered me a husband and a beer, and a perch on a pew. He thought I'd enjoy one of his church services. Two of these offers were a joke...
Forget Paris - there’s architecture to admire in the Pacific 19 August 2004 Unitec New Zealand 19 August 2004 http://www.unitec.ac.nz/index.cfm?7EB21F68-13C1-49F6-A6D5-69C59ED34AC2 When people think of great architecture, they often think of the cathedrals and palaces of Europe, but a group of Unitec students has found plenty to admire closer to home. A group of architecture and interior design students has recently returned from a study tour of Samoa where they experienced architecture with a Pacific flavour. The highlight of the tour was a week spent in Safotu, a village on the island of Savai'i, researching the historic Malia Catholic church. The resulting drawings, photos and video footage can be seen in an exhibition opening next week at Unitec's Mt Albert campus...
Growing up in New Zealand Part 30: Church going 1925-50 Part 2 NZINE 20/08/04 http://www.nzine.co.nz/features/guinz30_churchgoing.html... in the period 1925-50 there was still a marked gap between Protestants and Roman Catholics. Helen attended the Roman Catholic Church. She remembers her First Communion ...
U.S. Chaplains Lend Spiritual Aid in Iraq 'The Guardian' August 22, 2004 10:46 PM http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4443479,00.html Najaf, Iraq (AP) - Lt. Cmdr. Paul Shaughnessy, a Navy chaplain, pressed a thumb across the motionless corporal's blood-drenched forehead, made the sign of the cross and summoned the strength to perform last rites on a man he barely knew...
Would you like fries with that Eucharist? The Age (Melbourne) August 24 2004 http://www.theage.com.au/text/articles/2004/08/23/1093246442717.html The church can learn from McDonald's about making first-time visitors welcome, according to a British study...
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Our Lady of Kazan’s journey home between fresh hopes and old wars http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1368 Moscow (AsiaNews) – “The Moscow Patriarchate is grateful to the Vatican for returning the icon of Our Lady of Kazan; however, it is still waiting for more meaningful steps before relations between the two Churches can be improved,” ....
“The handover of the icon of Kazan is an historic event”. Interview with Mgr. Tadeusz Kondrusiewicz, Catholic Archbishop of Moscow. http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1358
An Icon the Pope Hoped to Deliver Personally; a Host of Problems, by Delia Gallagher http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=58021
When lives are changed by God: stories of growing faith National Church Life Survey http://www.ncls.org.au/default.aspx?docid=3068 Faith doesn't grow in isolation. NCLS survey data suggests that the longer a person is away from regular church participation, the more likely it is that affirmation of Christian beliefs diminishes. Contrary to what many people think, we need to be actively part of a Christian community for our faith to develop authentically....
After Najaf: Christians and Muslims can live together http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1369 Baghdad (AsiaNews) – “Living together is possible and peace in Najaf can be a positive signal to the whole of Iraq,” Emmanuel Delly, Patriarch of Baghdad’s Chaldean Catholics, told AsiaNews...
"The Weka-Feather Cloak" (book review) http://www.theotokos.org.uk/pages/breviews/misc/wekafeat.html Eat your heart out, Harry Potter! The publishers of Leo Madigan’s latest book say The Weka-Feather Cloak is their answer to “you-know-what”. And it is. But it’s a very different brew. The principal character is also a young boy, Danny Mago, but where Harry would be more at home in Mordor, Danny is a 21st century Frodo. For like The Lord of the Rings, Madigan’s book is a fantasy, and, like Tolkien, Madigan uses fantasy as a mirror to reflect reality - in this case also, reality as seen with the eyes of Catholic faith...
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
International News http://www.cathcom.org.nz/index.php
Churches celebrate diversity on Refugee and Migrant Sunday ... Adelaide Archdiocese sets up Child Protection Council ... Pope hands Kazan icon to delegation for return to Russia ... Asian Assembly focuses on family life ... Jesuit says Church 'driving youth out' ... Masses being outsourced to India
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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 July 9, 2004: Why the transfer in ownership of a Russian icon is a news story; Opposing forces in Italian church try détente; The bottom line at Lourdes
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EVENTS
'Malia', an exhibition of work by Unitec architecture and interior design students. Monday 30 August, 5.30pm until 3 September. Building One, Entry One, Unitec New Zealand, Carrington Rd, Mt Albert, Auckland. (see the article in today's News & Notes under 'From the Secular Press')
Schools Of Evangelisation http://www.wave.co.nz/~jlewis/SOE.html
Gisborne: New Life weekend September 17 - 19 2004 Venue: St Mary's Parish centre Campion Road, Gisborne. Starts 7 pm Friday - to 5 pm Sunday presented by members of the Hamilton Diocesan and Gisborne Schools of Evangelisation Teams. Contact: Huia - huiawhite@in2net.co.nz - or phone Doreen 06 868 4399 or Huia 06 868 4256
There is a link to our own family web site which goes through to the SOE's for NZ, Australia and Mexico (where they began - Sorry only in Spanish there at the moment!)
Visit to Hamilton by Canadian Musician and Evangelist Greg Magirescu. Concerts and testimony Thursday August 19, 7.30 pm at the Catholic Hall, Te Aroha Friday August 20, 7.30 pm at the Cathedral, Grey Street, Hamilton Saturday August 21, 7.30 pm, St Columba's, Frankton, Hamilton, 7.30 pm Sunday August 22, Tauranga - to be arranged Monday August 23, St Mary's Church, Rotorua, 7.30 pm
Visiting Schools for lunch time concert and testimony -Sacred Heart, Hamilton, Thursday 19 August Aquinas College, Tauranga, Monday 23 August John Paul 2 College, Rotorua, Tuesday 24 August
Seminar on Liturgy and Music Saturday August 21, 10 am - 3 pm Marian School - new buildings Contact: Father Michael Armstrong 07 854 9221
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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 ]
