Sunday, June 4, 2006

4 june 2006

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'NZ CATHOLIC'

http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz

From issue 241, June 4 - June 17 2006 ...

Easter trading bill passes first hurdle
Wellington â€" A bill that would allow shops in tourist hotspots to open on
Good Friday and Easter Sunday has been sent to Parliament’s commerce select
committee...

Villa Maria student in softball coup
Christchurch â€" Carmelle Sorensen, a year-12 Villa Maria student, is excited
to be the youngest member of the New Zealand White Sox softball team.
Playing as a catcher, she has this year scored a double coup...

Full contents summary ...

NATIONAL
Budget seen as miserly on overseas aid ... Bill to allow gay adoption called
"outrageous" ... "Ecclesial women" plan gets NZ interest ... Rest home
funding may not be enough ... 300 Chinese at opening of new centre ...
Parish for Maori set up in Auckland ... Easter trading bill passes first
hurdle ... Former Christchurch hospital is being demolished ... Howlett is
Marist player of the year ... Violence is lecture theme ... Gains for
schools from the Budget ... Villa Maria student in softball coup ... Four
teachers given awards ... Parents' wishes "on the sidelines" ... Gisborne
school to be moved ... ERO File

FEATURES
Bishop Pat Dunn: Priesthood still fascinates, inspires me after 30 years ...
The Da Vinci Code movie: Glossy, well acted, but historically and
theologically it's dishonest ... Auckland CWL celebrates 75 years of service
... Paintings promote respect for life ... Blessed years ... Choir launches
feast of fun and frivolity

OPINION
Ronald Rolheiser: Dealing with hurt and disappointment ... Brendan Malone:
Of condoms and Aids, and love and life ... Parish Diary: Standing and
kneeling ... Others Say ... Editorial: Church must continue to use media ...
Malcolm Evans ... Letters ... Vatican Letter: Vatican focuses on Middle East

INTERNATIONAL
Caritas aid staff pull out of East Timor violence ... Combined action to
reconvert Europe? ... School study of religion has benefits ... Washington
gets new archbishop ... The Pope: Mutual respect asked of Islam ... Church
teaching is not "opinion" ... State-sponsored bishop hopes for Vatican
approval ... Anglicans reject Marian dogmas ... Benedict exhorts Poles to
keep faith ... Secularism seen as threat to religious life ... Augustinians
regret Eucharist breach ... New Mass translation proposed in the US ...
Churches care for victims of quake ... Assisted suicide blocked ... Pope
prods Australia ... In Brief

REGULAR FEATURES
Young Adults, Books, Monitor, Clips, Net Scene, Tape Deck, Scripture, Pope's
Prayer, Feasts, The Doolans, God in the Garden, Caption Contest, Who Said?,
40 Years Ago, Dio. Diary, Cryptic Crossword, Photo Prayer, That Word!, Holy
Lives, Kit's Corner, Wit's End.

FEATURES
Catholic Caring Foundation grants ... E-mail ansd Website directory

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FROM THE SECULAR MEDIA

Doors open on St Pat's revamp (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/0,2106,3686912a6016,00.htm/
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An $11 million project to restore St Patrick's Cathedral aims to give it a
new lease of life for the next century. The 100-year-old Wyndham St church
opens on Monday to allow people to view the progress of restoration work
started last October...

Catholic school cans Da Vinci night (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/0,2106,3685096a6568,00.html
The film version of The Da Vinci Code has been deemed too hot to handle by
one Invercargill Catholic school. A Verdon College fundraising film evening
scheduled for last Sunday was canned after organisers got cold feet about
the themes of the film...

State of Futuna Chapel lamented
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200605311337/5491705
Concern is mounting over the condition of an icon of New Zealand
architecture. The Futuna Chapel in the Wellington suburb Karori is a
category 1 historic building and lauded by heritage experts as one of the
country's finest buildings...

Further funds required
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/timaruherald/0,2106,3684994a6571,00.html
Fund-raising has started for the second stage of the St Patrick's Church
(Timaru) restoration project...

Kiwi aid starts to trickle in to quake area
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3684036a11,00.html
New Zealand aid agencies are in action, helping an estimated 100,000 people
made homeless in central Java, Indonesia, after Saturday's earthquake...

Caritas NZ to give $20,000 to Indonesia Earthquake Relief
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0605/S00316.htm
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand pledged an initial $20,000 to assist with the
humanitarian response following the Indonesian earthquake. The 6.3 magnitude
quake has claimed the lives of more than 5,000 and left hundreds of
thousands homeless...

Caritas Providing Assistance to Earthquake Victims
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0605/S00284.htm
Caritas confederation members are coordinating a joint effort in response to
the 6.2 magnitude quake that struck the Indonesian city of Yogyakarta
yesterday. The quake has so far killed more than 3000 and many thousands
more homeless.

Kick in the teeth for trust (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/0,2106,3683901a6016,00.htm/
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A South Auckland emergency housing provider could face a huge rates bill
under Manukau City Council's planned rates changes. And the Monte Cecilia
Housing Trust, which operates a centre in Mangere, isn't sure how it would
come up with the extra money...

[The following article is not available on the newspaper's free Website]

Champion of secular education (obituary)
The Dominion Post, 1 Jun 2006, Edition 2, Page 6.
Jack Mulheron was a thorny critic of state aid for private schools and of
religious instruction in state schools. An agile thinker and compulsive
campaigner, his views were rooted in the tenets of state education -- that
it be free, compulsory and secular...

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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: Cardinal Pell on Islam and on translations; The pope's freedom
and his Achille's heel; Jerzy Kluger, Wojtyla's boyhood friend; The congress
for new movements.

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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 ]

Events Co-ordinator, Diocesan Youth Team, Christchurch Diocese
http://www.cyt.org.nz
Further details in 'NZ Catholic' June 4 - June 17 p.23, on the Website, and
from Clare Dooley, Director, Catholic Youth Team, PO Box 4544, Christchurch.
Tel. (03) 366 9869; fax: (03) 379 8724; e-mail: cdooley@chch.catholic.org.nz
Applications close 16 June 2006.