31 JULY 2005
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
MEDIA RELEASES
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Catholic Church supports Marriage Amendment Bill (26 Jul 2005)
The Catholic Church in New Zealand upholds the intention of the Marriage (Gender
Clarification) Amendment Bill, since it clarifies the distinction between
marriage and civil union...
GLOBAL CATHOLIC NEWS
(plus links to sound files from Vatican Radio)
Thousands mourn Brazilian killed in London ... Vatican Denounces Some Israeli
Retaliation ... Aboriginal schools look to "expel" Church ... China, Vatican
agree on new bishop, priest arrested ... Bishops to investigate fall in Sunday
worship ... Irish Bishop's optimism at IRA ceasefire move ... Vatican Denounces
Some Israel Retaliation ... Pope expresses 'profound solidarity and concern for
monsoon victims in India
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
No. 218, July 31-August 13, 2005
Full text ...
Patriarch opens first Chaldean church in NZ
The Chaldean Patriarch of Babylon, His Beatitude Mar Emmanuel III Delly, has
urged Chaldean Catholics to pray for peace especially in Middle East countries
"which desperately need it"....
Opposition to Popetown cartoon provokes hate mail
The Church's public opposition to an animated cartoon series satirising life at
the Vatican has prompted several angry phone calls and letters....
NZ Christians and Muslims come together
When vandals struck several Auckland mosques and Islamic prayer centres in the
wake of the terror attacks in London, Bishop Pat Dunn of Auckland reached out to
the Muslim community....
Also in this issue ...
NATIONAL
NZ funds East Timor orphanage ... NZ's WYD pilgrims getting ready to leave ...
Importance of archives stressed ... Church complains again to CanWest over
Popetown ... Restoration gets under way at Jerusalem ... Bills on marriage and
smacking before Parliament ... Election guidance issued ... NZMA may reconsider
its euthanasia stance ... 45 locations for St Therésè pilgrimage ... People have
been the highlights for retiring school principal ... Compassionate priest was
former monk ... ERO File ... Lay chaplains make impact
FEATURES
Children's Liturgy of the Word: The facts and the fallacies ... Faces on the
floor gave college a head start ... At 100 and 97, these sisters know the secret
to long life ... Tsunami contributions are being well spent ... Joy Cowley: The
true vine ... Charismatic Renewal led to conversion ... Old gold rush town to
celebrate statue ... Study of Marists leads to award of medal
OPINION
Christine and Kerry Ryan: Marriage under threat is a risk to Church and society
Ronald Rolheiser: Our struggle to make sense of suicide
Others Say: The stages of grief in parish restructuring
Editorial: We have a lot in common with Muslims
Malcolm Evans, Letters
INTERNATIONAL
Rabbi a papal knight ... Evidence for design in nature "is real" ... Sex
"clients" need help ... Concerns voiced over texts ... The Pope: Benedict
beginning his first encyclical ... Holy See speaks out on weapons trade ... UN
lobbies exclude pro-life groups ... Farmers accused ... Holy See returns surplus
... The Pope and Harry Potter - what really happened ... Religious freedom is
often violated ... Catholic in line for Supreme Court ... Ireland needs new
pastoral structure ... Too tired for Mass ... Catholic MPs sanctioned for
same-sex bill votes ... Not to be baptised ... NFP course compulsory ... In
brief
REGULAR FEATURES
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Catholic priest marks milestone
Otago Daily Times link, with photo (requires registration):
http://tinyurl.com/7kjtn
Link without photo (no registration required):
http://www.stuff.co.nz/otago/0,2106,3360986a3845,00.html
Father John Stone has enjoyed a week of reflection as he marks 50 years in the
priesthood. Based at the Blessed Mary MacKillop Catholic Church in Balclutha, Fr
Stone (74) has already marked the occasion with family in Invercargill. A
celebratory Mass will be held in Balclutha on Sunday...
Priest who came in from the cold (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=10338239
Dennis Horton had to choose between his wife and his church. It is a choice he
believes no one should have to make. A distinguished Catholic priest in Auckland
for 31 years, Mr Horton left the clergy in 1996 so he could marry. As a result
he lost contact with people close to him and was shunned by the community that
once embraced him...
Dennis Horton: In his own words
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10338237Pupils
Pupils
planning Indian trip (photo)
Otago Daily Times (registration required)
http://tinyurl.com/a94hq
Christmas for five St Kevins College pupils this year will be spent in a soup
kitchen in India. Catholic schools were invited to apply to go to Calcutta to do
missionary work with Mother Teresa's order, leaving on December 6 and returning
on January 6...
Dioceses plan for shortage of priests
Otago Daily Times (registration required)
http://tinyurl.com/a94hq
Dunedin's Roman Catholic diocese, like its Christchurch counterpart, has been
looking to restructure its parishes to cope with a looming shortage of
priests...
Doubts voiced on Destiny vote
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dailynews/0,2106,3358261a6554,00.html
New Zealand's first Christian political party is unfazed by the introduction of
an outspoken rival for the religious vote this election. Christian Heritage New
Zealand's (CHNZ) leader Ewen McQueen said yesterday he doubted Destiny New
Zealand would take a big chunk of the Christian vote...
Wait for it, wait for it - the Pope's not dead
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/0,2106,3356944a6000,00.html
It was every Catholic's worst nightmare - and a hardy Wairarapa footy player's:
the Pope's death announced as the kicker prepared his run-up in the last minutes
of a semifinal...
Pope prays for God to stop terrorists
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/world/12212988.htm
Les Combes, Italy - Pope Benedict XVI prayed Sunday for God to stop the
"murderous hand" of terrorists, stepping up his condemnation of the recent
attacks in Europe and the Middle East blamed on Islamic extremists. At the same
time, Benedict's spokesman said the pope was placing immense importance on a
scheduled meeting in Cologne, Germany, next month with members of Germany's
Muslim community...
Evangelicals and Catholics: The old edginess fading
http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=112762
Evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics -- the nation's two largest
religious blocs -- have a relationship that's been marked in the past by
hostility and tension. But now, almost 500 years after Martin Luther, one of the
top U.S. evangelical thinkers has co-authored a book - "Is the Reformation Over?
An Evangelical Assessment of Contemporary Roman Catholicism" - that finds an
increasingly warm relationship between Catholics and evangelicals...
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
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Cardinal Ratzinger On Europe's Crisis of Culture
Subiaco, Italy, July 26, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Here is a translation of the lecture
given in Italian by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Benedict XIV, in the convent
of Saint Scholastica in Subiaco, Italy, on April 1, the day before Pope John
Paul II died.
"Excluding God From the Public Conscience" (Part 1)
http://www.blogger.com/'http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=
Confused Ideology of Freedom Leads to Dogmatism" (Part 2)
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=74789Meaning
Meaning
and Limits of the Present Rationalist Culture (Part 3)
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=74826Christianity
Christianity
: "The Religion According to Reason" (Part 4)
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Pope
: a West tired of God; Asia and Africa at the crossroads
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=3804
Vatican City (AsiaNews) -- In a speech to the priests of the Aosta diocese on
July 25, Pope Benedict XVI analyzed the life of the Church in the world, with
its sad aspects (mainly in the West) and its hope (in Africa and Asia). The
pope spoke off the cuff and the complete transcript of his words was published
today in the Osservatore Romano. His address took place in the parish church of
the town of Introd...
Pope tells priests to welcome divorced Catholics
http://www.cathnews.com/news/507/156.php
Pope Benedict XVI has said that divorced and civilly remarried Catholics who
suffer because they cannot receive Communion must be welcomed in parishes as
Catholics who witness to the importance of the Eucharist...
Benedict's first one hundred days (Editorial)
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-01061
Pope Benedict XVI has spent the first 100 days of his pontificate modestly and
quietly, reminding those with memories long enough not of his immediate
predecessor but of Pope Paul VI (the Pope who appointed him Cardinal). He has
done almost nothing controversial, which means that those who rejoiced that the
papacy had shifted to the right with his election have nothing yet to confirm
their judgement. Nor indeed have those who feared such a shift...
Holy See to Israel: history cannot be modified over John Paul II
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=3814
Vatican City (AsiaNews) - History cannot be modified: this is the message of a
"note" with which the Vatican recalls some of the very many statements made by
John Paul II against anti-Semitism and terrorist violence...
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CARITAS AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
How will your vote affect others? (19 July 2005)
Caritas, has released a brochure specifically about the 2005 General Election in
which it encourages Catholics to vote and to think not just about how political
party policies affect them personally, but about how they will affect their
fellow citizens, particularly the most vulnerable members of society.....
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/A
A
weekly column by the National Catholic Reporter's full-time correspondent in
Rome, John L. Allen Jr.
This week ...
Pope Benedict and Islam; Vatican-Israeli relations boil over; World Youth Day in
Cologne . and then Sydney; The 10th anniversary of We Are Church; Feeding the
hungry; Waiting for an ambassador
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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:
mailto:ymachb@clear.net.nzOther
Other
WYD links:
The official international WYD Site:
http://www.wjt2005.deThe
The
Vatican's WYD Website:
http://www.vatican.va/gmg/documents/gmg_2005_en.htmlConfession
Confession
at Heart of Youth Day
100 Priests Will Be Available
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=74781
Cologne, Germany, July 27, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Central to the 20th World Youth
Day in Cologne will be the sacrament of reconciliation, alongside the Eucharist
and catecheses. To help the youth prepare, a five-page reflection on the
sacrament, prepared by Father Klaus Kluger, has been included in the pilgrim's
book. Entitiled "Arise!" the document uses ten texts of the New Testament that
highlight the meaning and importance of the sacrament...
Not All Believed in World Youth Day
Interview With Author of "The John Paul II Generation"
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=74865
Vatican City, July 29, 2005 (Zenit.org).- It is no secret that John Paul II
positively influenced the lives of millions of young people, known,
consequently, as the John Paul II Generation. In this interview with ZENIT,
Vatican correspondent Mimmo Muolo, of the newspaper Avvenire, author of "The
John Paul II Generation," published in Italian by Ancora, speaks on the effect
the Polish Pope has had on the youth who were born during his papacy...
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ST THERESE OF LISIEUX: 2005 NEW ZEALAND PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE
19 September - 16 October 2005
http://www.theresepilgrimage.org.nz
The Pilgrimage of Grace of the relics of St Therese of Lisieux commences in
Auckland on Monday the 19th of September 2005. The special reliquary housing the
relics will be flown from the Carmelite monastery in Lisieux, north of Paris,
where St Thérèse lived her vocation as a Carmelite nun until her death in 1897
at the age of 24. In September and October, her relics will be brought to
Catholic churches in cities and towns throughout New Zealand for public
veneration.
The Website for the Pilgrimage includes a full itinerary, a biography of St
Therese, an article on the spiritual significance of relics, and information on
Carmelite spirituality.
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OTHER EVENTS
Family Life International. Gospel of Life Conference
23-25 September 2005 Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna
Full details: http://www.blogger.com/'http://www.fli.org.nz/?sid=
History and Science of The Shroud of Turin" (Exhibition)
Lower NZI, Aotea Centre, THE EDGE, Auckland, New Zealand
Full description on:
http://www.shroud.co.nz/Exhibition.htm[If
[If
you can't make it to the exhibition, you will find many of the photographs
from it at your public library in: 'The Turin shroud : the illustrated
evidence', by Ian Wilson and Barrie Schwortz, published by Michael O'Mara, 2000
(232.966 WIL), or you can request it via Interloan. ML]
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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 ]
International Programmes Manager, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand (
http://www.caritas.org.nz ).
Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 31 - August 13 2005 p.27, and from Caritas
Aotearoa New Zealand, P.O. Box 12-193, Wellington. E-mail: claire@caritas.org.nz
Tel: (04) 496 1742 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (04) 496 1742 end_of_the_skype_highlighting Applications close 1 August 2005.
Parish Secretary, Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish, Howick, Auckland.
Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 31 - August 13 2005 p.27 and from the Parish
Priest, PO Box 38276, Howick, Auckland. Applications close 9 August 2005.
Business Manager, Sisters of St Joseph, Kohimarama.
Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 31 - August 13 2005 p.27, on Netcheck at:
http://www.netcheck.co.nz/general/extended.asp?jobID=213886 and from David
Leach: david.leach@spencerscott.co.nz
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