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'NZ CATHOLIC'
No. 223, October 9-22, 2005
Relics of St Therese welcomed with reverence in Wellington
Wellington - Wellingtonians had the privilege of commemorating two important
days in the history of St Therese with the French saint's relics in the
city....
Celibacy crucial for seminarians
Auckland - Celibacy, not sexual orientation, is the important factor when
determining if men are fit to enrol in a seminary, according to the rector
of the largest of New Zealand's two seminaries....
Christian party leaders rue poor showing
Auckland - Ewen McQueen knows Graham Capill's conviction on sex charges
earlier this year put a major dent in Christian Heritage New Zealand's
chances of entering Parliament at last month's election....
Also In Issue 223:
NATIONAL
College teachers among new fellows ... Marists to leave Blenheim ... Faith
challenged by indifference ... Ambitious Christian outreach for 2007 ...
Former Protestant church is installed as college chapel ... Women not told
about cancer's link to abortion ... Lay prison chaplain "launched" in
Wellington ... Church lauded for cultural diversity role ... College
students praised for clearing pest plant ... Former parish worker awarded
civic honour ... ERO File
FEATURES
Church is "my faith family" to new-breed theologian ... OBE for brother who
set up travel agency ... Party leaders rue poor showing ... National, UF
gobble up the conservative voters ... Avondale celebrates Our Lady's
birthday ... Hokianga pilgrimage planned ... Former nun's story brought to
stage ... Library aid sent to Solomon Islands ... Passionists meet in
Palmerston North ... Thrill for Pacific students ... Terri Schiavo's plight
tested brother's faith
OPINION
Dialogue on the path to the gift of peace ... Ronald Rolheiser: The truth
sets us free ... Parish Diary ... Editorial ... Malcolm Evans ... Letters
INTERNATIONAL
UN summit failed the poor, says Caritas ... Unions outside marriage do not
exist by right ... Olympics could help religious freedom ... The Pope: Sport
is a vehicle for values ... Condom criticism refuted by bioethicist ...
75-year-old nun a veteran Ironman ... Nun unbowed by jail ... Iraq bishops
worry over constitution ... Students' Katrina aid sparks controversy ...
Suicide, murder opposed
REGULAR FEATURES
Young Adults, Books, Monitor, Net Scene, Clips, Tape Deck, Scripture, Papal
Prayer, Feasts, The Doolans, God in the Garden, Who Said?, Cryptic
Crossword, 40 Years Ago, Caption Contest, Dio. Diary, That Word!, Kit's
Corner, Photo Prayer, Holy Lives, Wit's End.
ADVERTISING FEATURES
Mission Sunday
NZ Catholic ninth birthday
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SYNOD OF BISHOPS ON THE EUCHARIST
Daily reports by the National Catholic Reporter's Vatican correspondent John
L. Allen:
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
Reports in the international secular press, regularly updated:
http://tinyurl.com/98dp7
NZ bishop makes plea for excluded divorcees
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10349072
New Zealand's top Catholic bishop has stirred controversy in Rome by
challenging the "scandal" of spiritual hunger suffered by divorcees who
remarry but are barred from communion...
Oceania bishops plead case for married clergy
http://www.cathnews.com/news/510/28.php
Bishops from Papua New Guinea and Guam have taken part in a spirited debate
about the link between the celibacy rule and the priest shortage that often
denies the faithful access to the Eucharist...
Synod: the decline in confessions distances people from the Church
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=4275
The need to relaunch reconciliation, Eucharistic centrality and a more
equitable distribution of clergy were the topics addressed during
deliberations. The question of communion for the divorced and remarried was
also discussed....
Synod on the Eucharist at the centre of the Church and the world, by
Bernardo Cervellera
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=4262
Christians diminish celebrations when they exalt “the works of man�, more
than the “works of God�. The world needs to learn from the Eucharist what
solidarity is...
Pope says Eucharist is antidote to Christians’ lukewarm faith and atheism in
the world
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=4243
In the opening mass of the Synod of the Eucharist, Benedict XVI put the
Church in the west on guard against its possible disappearance. And he
reminded the world that where God is marginalized, there is only violence
and injustice...
The bishops’ new look
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-01090
This month’s synod in Rome marks the real beginning of Benedict XVI’s
papacy. Its opening days suggest a change in approach by the new Pope who
promised to take the episcopate’s advice. Our Rome correspondent explains
the themes, the people and whether dissent is really allowed...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
French nun's relics make pilgrimage
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/0,2106,3435285a6568,00.html
The relics of St Therese of Lisieux arrived in Invercargill yesterday at her
namesake church St Therese of Lisieux in Perth St....
Congregation honours French saint (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/bnb89
The remains of a French saint who died in 1897 arrived yesterday in Oamaru,
the latest stop in a world-wide pilgrimage...
Revered relics draw crowd to mass
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/timaruherald/0,2106,3432989a6571,00.html
The relics of St Therese yesterday visited Timaru's Sacred Heart Basilica
...
Copy of shroud on tour
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/0,2106,3433803a6579,00.html
A replica of one of Christianity's most sacred but most disputed relics will
come to Hamilton this month. A full size copy - 4.37 x 1.1 metres - of the
Shroud of Turin will be on display at Fairfield Intermediate auditorium from
4pm-7pm on Sunday, October 16...
Bill English Chapman Lecture â€" 3 October 2005
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0510/S00015.htm
When Bill English first became a candidate for Parliament, he was asked more
than once the "JFK question" about whether his allegiance was to the Crown
or to the Pope. "Ours is a political tradition which, through bitter
experience, has learnt not to make a window into mens’ souls. We hold at
once a fear and a respect for the essence of each other’s beliefs. Our
traditions have evolved to contain the power of those beliefs...."
Rev. O'Sullivan, retired pastor in AG, dies at 81
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/mld/sanluisobispo/news/local/12814009.htm
South County Catholics are mourning the death of the Rev. Michael
O'Sullivan, 81, a retired pastor of St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Arroyo
Grande who died Saturday from complications following surgery. O'Sullivan
was born in Cork City, Ireland, on April 18, 1924. He arrived in the United
States in 1967 after graduating from All Hallows College in Dublin, Ireland,
in 1948 and serving in New Zealand....
Do you believe in him now, Helen?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3430410a6220,00.html
The Lord works in mysterious ways, and for this election he saw fit to smile
upon a government led by an agnostic prime minister and one which legalised
prostitution and introduced civil unions for gay couples. At the last
census, more than half of all New Zealanders declared themselves Christian,
yet this election Christian parties performed even worse than usual....
Founder's vision a big success
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/0,2106,3434962a6578,00.html
Clasien Truijens has a look of quiet satisfaction and pride when she's told
the Catholic Family Support Services in Hamilton has more than 240 clients
it helps on a regular basis. That's exactly what Mrs Truijens set out to do
when she was appointed by the Auckland Diocese Bishop (later Cardinal)
Reginald Delargey as the lay representative on the Commission on the Laity
in 1972....
Marriage works, says a priesthood convert
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16820558%5E2702,00\
.html
Father Bob Harwood concedes he is the happy beneficiary of a loophole in the
Catholic Church that allows some married men to be ordained, but does not
allow ordained priests to marry. The 45-year-old married father of three, a
former Uniting Church minister, was ordained in Queensland last month under
rules that allow men married when they were in another faith to become
priests....
Opus Dei 'must shed light on its dark image'
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3433048a1860,00.html
London: Opus Dei, the conservative Roman Catholic group which gained
international notoriety in The Da Vinci Code, is too secretive for its own
good, says the author of a new study on the controversial organisation...
South Korean Catholics fund stem-cell research
http://tinyurl.com/dql2w
South Korea's Roman Catholic Church plans to fund research here into
deriving stem cells from adults rather than human embryos, church officials
said....
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
Global Catholic News, plus sound files from Vatican Radio
Oceania bishops plead case for married clergy
Vatican helps Brazil govt with river dispute
Catholic Church Funds Adult Stem Cell Research
Opus Dei bishop suggests not giving out communion at large masses
Pope met sole Christian member of Iraqi cabinet
Benedict urges Poles to pray for JPII's beatification
Vatican restricts information from meeting
A shiny new BMW for Benedict XVI
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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 ... In place of his regular column, John Allen is posting a daily
report on the proceedings of the Bishops' Synod on the Eucharist.
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ST THERESE OF LISIEUX: 2005 NEW ZEALAND PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE
19 September - 16 October 2005
http://www.theresepilgrimage.org.nz
Itinerary:
Sunday 9 October: St Theresa of Lisieux Church, 8 Puriri St, Riccarton,
Christchurch; St Joseph's Church, Telegraph Rd., Darfield; St Patrick's
Church, 40 High St., Greymouth;
Monday 10 October: Sacred Heart Church, 9 Church St., Reefton; St Mary's
Church, 18 Manuka St., Nelson;
Tuesday 11 October: St Teresa's Church, 301 Karori Rd, Karori, Wellington;
St Theresa's Church, 210 St Andrew's Rd., Plimmerton;
Wednesday 12 October: St Mary's Church, 4 Convent Rd., Otaki; St Mary's
Church, Cnr Guyton and Campbell Sts., Wanganui;
Thursday 13 October: St Joseph’s School, Patea; St Joseph's Church, 38
Victoria St, Hawera; St Joseph's Church, 106 Powderham St., New Plymouth;
Friday 14 October: St George's Church, 24 Seddon St., Te Kuiti; Blessed
Virgin Mary Cathedral, 494 Grey St, Hamilton East;
Saturday 15 October: Tyburn Monastery, Chamberlain Rd, Bombay; St Therese's
Church, Cnr Wickman Way and Garus Ave., Mangere East
The Website for the Pilgrimage includes a full itinerary, a diary of the
Pilgrimage, a biography of St Therese, an article on the spiritual
significance of relics, and information on Carmelite spirituality.
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OTHER EVENTS
'Signs & Wonders ' 21-23 October 2005
St Patrick's College, Silverstream, Upper Hutt
Guest speakers: Fr John Rea sm, International Healing Ministry; Alan
Panozza, President, Interenational Catholic Charismatic Renewal Services;
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(04) 526 2189; e-mail:
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Mission Sunday 23 October 2005
The Church in the Pacific Islands, Asia, Africa and remote areas of Latin
America depends on our assistance to proclaim the Gospel among two thirds of
the human family. Please support your parish's Mission Sunday collection, or
send a donation directly to: National Director, Pontifical Mission
Societies, PO Box 48-097, Auckland 7
About the Pontifical Mission Societies:
http://www.missionsocieties.org.uk
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