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'NZ CATHOLIC'
From No.239 - May 7-20 2006 ...
Oceania faces massive Aids problem
Wellington â€" The Aids crisis is far closer than New Zealanders might
realise, the national Catholic bioethics centre has outlined in its April
report...
Barrister disputes extradition concerns
Auckland â€" A Catholic MP and barrister believes the New Zealand justice
system is equipped to handle historical sex abuse allegations, despite
concerns from an Australian judge...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
BSA dismisses bishops' complaints about Popetown
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3658836a11,00.html
The Broadcasting Standards Authority (BSA) has dismissed complaints made by
the New Zealand Catholic Bishops' Conference about the comedy TV programme
Popetown.
Australian criticism of NZ sex cases "justified"
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3656250a12855,00.html
While a recent Federal Court of Australia decision to block the extradition
of two Catholic clergymen to New Zealand to face trial for alleged
historical sex crimes has sparked outcry from defenders of local criminal
law and procedure, other commentators have concluded that the decision is
sadly justified...
NZ to appeal clergy ruling
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3656686a12855,00.html
New Zealand authorities have decided to pursue the extradition of two
Catholic clergymen facing historic sexual-abuse charges. An appeal is about
to be lodged against an Australian Federal Court decision overturning an
extradition order for the two St John of God Order members, Brother Rodger
Moloney, 71, and Father Raymond Garchow, 58...
New Family Court Judge appointed
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0605/S00067.htm
Hamilton lawyer Lex de Jong has been appointed a Family Court Judge,
Attorney-General Michael Cullen announced today. Mr de Jong will be sworn in
on 18 May and will sit in Auckland...
Campbell live: Does the Pill cause cancer? (video report)
http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/tabid/67/articleID/7244/Default.aspx
The World Health Organisation says The Pill causes cancer. Some Catholic
doctors have stopped prescribing it. So are they helping women? Or just
following a religious decree? Melanie Reid asks one of these Catholic
doctors...
Contraception already a ritual
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=000F3988-FF1E-145A-B0ED83027A\
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Some local agencies supporting people with HIV-Aids are rejoicing at news
from Rome this week that Pope Benedict XVI may be about to let married
couples use condoms where one spouse has Aids...
Chapel a labour of love (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dailynews/0,2106,3653394a6554,00.html
Nearly eight months ago, a Presbyterian church with a Methodist history was
moved to a Catholic school. Yesterday, after a lot of hard work by many
people, Mary's Chapel at Sacred Heart Girls' College was formally opened.
Coalition for Prison Reform on the Cards
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0605/S00002.htm
“A Coalition for Prison Reform is likely to be established within the next
few months� in the view of Kim Workman, National Director, Prison Fellowship
New Zealand...
Catholic priesthood in decline
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/catholic-priesthood-in-decline/2006/05/01/11\
46335644310.html
The number of priests worldwide has decreased by 3.5 per cent in the past
quarter of a century, the Vatican said, noting that the overall figure was
affected by a sharp decrease in Europe despite a rise of vocations in
Africa. In its latest figures on the status of the Catholic church
worldwide, released yesterday, the Vatican examined changes between 1978 and
2004...
Young men shun priesthood
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3657762a11,00.html
A lack of young men entering the clergy may be the reason behind a decline
in the number of Catholic priests in New Zealand...
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
What's wrong with 'The Da Vinci Code'? The facts behind the fiction, by
Lyndsay Freer
It is clearly stated on the publication page that The Da Vinci Code is a
work of fiction. Despite this, many have been taken in by the
pseudo-historical manner in which the absurd claims about Jesus Christ, the
birth of Christianity and its development are presented. These are said by
Brown to be “the real truth� which the Catholic Church is portrayed as
having ruthlessly suppressed...
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
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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 ...
Catholic approaches to Islam: hawks and doves; Faith, morals and economics;
The Vatican and China; "Active participation" in the liturgy.
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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 ]
Co-ordinator, Continuing Faith Education, Catholic Institute of Theology,
Auckland
http://www.theology.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 7-20 2006 p. 23, and from The Registrar,
Catholic Institute of Theology, Newman Hall, 16 Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland
1001 Tel: 0-9-379 6424 ;
Fax: 0-9-379 6426 ; e-mail: cit@auckland.ac.nz Applications close 26 May
2006.
