Kiwicath News and Notes: 6/26/05

Sunday, June 26, 2005

26 june 2005

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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ

MEDIA RELEASES
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php

Process for the Beatification of Pope John Paul II (24 Jun 2005)
Cardinal Camillo Ruini, the Vicar for the Diocese of Rome, announced this
week that the official process to begin the beatification of Karol Wojtyla
(Pope John Paul II) will take place on 28 June in a ceremony at the Basilica
of St John Lateran in Rome...

Official launch of the New Zealand pilgrimage of St Thérèse of Lisieux (24
Jun 2005)
The feast of Our Lady of Mt Carmel (16 July) has been designated by New
Zealand's bishops as the day for the official launch of the New Zealand
Pilgrimage of the Relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux which will take place
during September and October...

Meeting to discuss sexual abuse protocols (24 Jun 2005)
Members of diocesan and religious orders' sexual abuse protocol committees
gathered in Wellington on 8 June in a meeting convened by the Church's
National Office for Professional Standards...

Church Leaders meeting with the PM: welcome progress on poverty but signal
there is more to be done (23 Jun 2005)
The leaders of the Anglican, Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian and
Salvation Army Churches held a meeting with the Prime Minister and senior
cabinet ministers yesterday. At this meeting the Church Leaders noted that
there had been an improvement in the position of some New Zealand's most
vulnerable families, but counselled that the task of eradicating poverty and
social disadvantage was not yet complete...

GLOBAL CATHOLIC NEWS
http://www.cathcom.org.nz

Official prayer for intercession of JPII ... Pope sees "positive signs" for
Holy Land ... Catholic woman in secret ordination ... Solidarity among
Christians must go beyond national boundaries ... Groups call for action
against Zimbabwe ... Spain's Senate rejects gay marriage law ... Pope to
make political foray into Rome ... Ugandan leader praises Church activities

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

Zaoui a reluctant celebrity (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10332554
The sparsely decorated and usually serene 19th-century Christian sanctuary
is abuzz with joke-cracking and roars of laughter.
Inside this echoey building this early winter's night, warmth and
conviviality abounds among the guests. Gathered for dinner are various
dedicated students, one bearded Algerian Muslim, one twinkly-eyed, Dominican
friar and one crusading lawyer...

Striking the right chord with kids (photo)
Howick and Pakuranga Times
http://www.times.co.nz/education/story_0005898.shtml
Our Lady Star of the Sea students were given a musical treat as Australian
singer/songwriter Michael Mangan performed last Friday. The guitarist was in
New Zealand to perform at various schools in Auckland, and work with the
Catholic schools office on educational issues in Australia and New Zealand.

Grant boosts basilica project
http://tinyurl.com/d6p53
The St Patrick's Restoration Trust has been given a grant of $114,000 from
the New Zealand Lottery Grants Board. The trust was established in late 2003
to manage the restoration of St Patrick's Basilica in Waimate...

Labour claims integrated schools' assets (National Party press release)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0506/S00497.htm
National's Education spokesman, Bill English, says Labour is using a
technical breach of accounting rules to claim $35 million worth of education
facilities paid for by integrated schools...

School rivalry behind vicious attack on boy
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3325845a11,00.html
Inter-school rivalry was behind a vicious attack on a 17-year-old schoolboy
in Auckland early last Sunday, police said today. The bashing happened
during a fight between students from two Catholic schools, De La Salle
College and St Paul's College...

Police closing in on fighters from after-ball party
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3321985a11,00.html

Catholic schools working to clear air after fight
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10331998

School tensions blamed for fracas
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=10331790

Finger-pointing by the Pope (editorial)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/nelsonmail/0,2106,3322096a6508,00.html
Once again the internal politics of New Zealand have caused a minor blip on
the moral radar in the Holy See. In an address interpreted as taking a swipe
at this country's civil union legislation, Pope Benedict XVI has pointed to
a "great need today to recover a vision of the mutual relationship between
civil law and moral law", an editorial in the Nelson Mail says...

Destiny NZ wants 'evil' Government ended
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10331596
Destiny New Zealand is calling for Catholics, Anglicans, Presbyterians and
even non-Christians to catapult it into Parliament to overhaul the present
"evil" Government...

Pope criticizes NZ's civil union legislation
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=2&ObjectID=10331595
The Pope should praise the Government's pro-family policies instead of
criticising the civil union legislation, Cabinet minister David Benson-Pope
said yesterday...

Pope's words will influence voters - church
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3318423a11,00.html
The Catholic Church says Pope Benedict XVI's criticism of New Zealand's
civil unions legislation will be heeded by Christians at election time...

Pope Benedict XVI Chastises Europe in Book
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5089840,00.html
Rome (AP) - The pope's vicar for Rome said Tuesday that the Roman Catholic
Church will not mount a futile campaign to overturn laws permitting
abortion, despite criticism in the book by Pope Benedict XVI that Europe has
failed to protect its "youngest and weakest." Benedict also explores faith
and what it means to be Christian in "The Europe of Benedict: In the crisis
of cultures," which was released Tuesday...

Geldof wants Pope to join G8 poverty march
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=868694

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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS

Zimbabwean Bishops Decry Government Program Against the Poor
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=73117
Harare, Zimbabwe, JUNE 23, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The Catholic bishops'
conference of Zimbabwe published a pastoral letter decrying a government
program that has led to the demolition of shantytowns and left innumerable
families homeless.

Solomon Islands - A Church "communion of communities" in the Pacific Ocean:
Fides speaks with the Archbishop of Honiara
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2005/0506/23_5212.html

Benedict XVI on World Refugee Day
The Church Is "a Homeland Where No One Is a Stranger"
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=72869

First book by Benedict XVI published today
http://www.cathnews.com/news/506/105.php
The first book by Pope Benedict XVI, entitled "The Example of Benedict in
the Crisis of the Cultures," will focus on the marginalization of
Christianity in modern-day Europe and will be in stores in Italy today...

Cardinal Jaime Sin (an overview)
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=3550
Manila (AsiaNews) - Cardinal Jaime Lachica Sin, "divine commander-in-chief"
of the Philippines is dead. The highly respected cardinal died early this
morning (Filipino time) in Manila's Cardinal Santos Medical Centre of renal
failure, aged 76, after two days in intensive care...

Father Bao: from Communist militant to priest in the underground Church
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=3575
"My name is Bao and I'm a priest in China's north. I entered the priesthood
several years ago. I was baptized only 11 years ago. Before that, I was an
atheist, and indeed an activist in China's Communist Party ..."

The priest who bestrides America
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-01047
Joseph Fessio is a million-dollar publisher, the man who runs a university
founded on a pizza fortune, a conservative Jesuit who fell out with his
superiors and a friend of the Pope. It's made him one of the US Church's
biggest players ...

The Rise of Benedict XVI; the inside story of how the Pope was elected and
where he will take the Catholic Church, by John L. Allen Jr (book review)
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/book_review.cgi/past-00241

Vatican - First International Meeting on Pastoral Care for Street Women
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2005/0506/20_5174.html

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MARIST MESSENGER

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

From the June issue (full text) ...

Leopold Verguet sm Artist
Fr Léopold Verguet visited Kororareka in the Bay of Islands for two or three
weeks in May-June 1847. During his brief stay he sketched a number of black
and white portraits and landscapes which he tinted with water colours after
he had returned to France. Eventually some of these found their way to
Marist archives in Rome.

Father, I can't pray
Fr David Mullins talks about prayer, and encourages people to keep trying.

God's Beauty Secrets
Derek McCarthy points out how valuable we are to God, and how to live like
we believe it.

FOCUS
The Editor reflects on the Power of Baptism

Also in the June Marist Messenger ...

* Profile of Pope Benedict XVI * Poem: When it comes to the Heart * Feast of
the Sacred Heart * A Higher Goal * The Pope's funeral * A minute or two with
Fr Paddy Cahill * Can you bear it? * Children's Corner * Book Review -
Christ in a Grain of Sand * Death of a Marist - Fr Mark Beban

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CARITAS AOTEAROA NZ

http://www.caritas.org.nz

Refugee Sunday 26 June 2005
We believe that the majority of our citizens do not want to see refugees and
migrants become society's scapegoats. We are heartened by the support and
solidarity towards newcomers that we observe ...

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"THE WORD FROM ROME"

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

A weekly column by the National Catholic Reporter's full-time correspondent
in Rome, John L. Allen Jr.

This week ...
Spain: A church more willing to fight back; Pope Benedict visits the Italian
President; Cardinal Angelo Scola, an interesting intellectual; Christians
and Islam; Christians in Sudan; A new history of Vatican II

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WORLD YOUTH DAY, COLOGNE, GERMANY
16-21 August 2005

Official site of the New Zealand National Pilgrimage to WYD, Cologne
http://www.worldyouthday.org.nz
En route to World Youth Day, our representatives will follow the path of St
Paul to the sites of the early Christian communities in Greece and Turkey,
as well as a visit to Gallipoli and Anzac Cove. Then its off to Cologne,
Germany for World Youth Day 2005, the Catholic Church's mega event -
hundreds of thousands of young people from all over the world coming
together, united around Pope John Paul, listening to the Word of God,
assisting at celebrations and participating in a festival of joy... See the
NZ World Youth Day Website for further info., or write to: Bill Dysart, C-58
Osier Road, Greenmeadows, Napier. Email: ymachb@clear.net.nz

23,000 From U.S. Signed Up for World Youth Day
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=72937
Washington, D.C., JUNE 20, 2005 (Zenit.org).- More than 23,000 young
pilgrims and 70 bishops from the United States plan to attend World Youth
Day in Germany this Aug. 16-21, according to the U.S. episcopal
conference...

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