'NZ CATHOLIC'
Issue 249, Sept 24 - Oct 7 2006
Full text from the current issue ...
Inaugural hospital chaplaincy week starts September 24
Auckland â€" New Zealand’s first Hospital Chaplaincy Week starts this Sunday
to increase awareness of the ministry and raise money for it...
Full contents' summary ...
NATIONAL
Benedict attacked for quote on faith ... Brother sees continuing risk of
civil unrest in East Timor ... Bishops stress stewardship of God's creation
... Tongan king had respectful relationship with Church ... Retreat director
from India to give talks ... Pupils at Wanaka make own rules ... Vocations
conference aims to offer "sense of hope" ... Educators are honoured by peers
... Villa Maria choir wins "Big Sing" gold ... Minister opens sports centre
... Sacred Heart girls win Chanel Shield ... ERO File ... Sacred Heart's new
principal appointed ... Week for hospital chaplaincy
FEATURES
Ground-breaking lay leader enters her "fourth age" ... Getting blokes to
church ... French choir to visit ... Bishop's certificate surprises couple
... Eastern Catholic bishops join in new regional association ... Parish
secures elusive patron
OPINION
Ronald Rolheiser: Home - the place from which to understand ... Anne
Benjamin: Teachers' influence lives on for generations ... Pastor Parochus:
Our Church: Truly universal ... Others Say ... Editorial: Reaction
illustrates Pope's point ... Malcolm Evans ... Letters
INTERNATIONAL
Call to Muslims over freedom ... Reform of welfare "not all positive" ...
Bishops' "no nukes" message endorsed ... The Pope: Priests told to take
heart ... Peace row at Assisi ... Priests recall September 11 ministry ...
Parisian honour ... Pope showed human face in return to homeland ... Good
news about TV season in US ... New bishop is arrested in China ... Maronite
bishops in Lebanon criticise Hezbollah and president's leadership ... Not
everyone liked ecumenical service ... Ad brought parents together ... In
Brief
REGULAR FEATURES
Young Adults, Books, Monitor, Clips, Net Scene, Tape Deck, Scripture, Papal
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.
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POPE BENEDICT ON ISLAM
Religious lessons of tolerance
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/0,2106,3803662a6483,00.html
Times columnist William Rees-Mogg pointed out in The Dominion Post this
week, Pope Benedict is not the first speaker to liven up a dry text with a
strongly worded quote, The Dominion Post writes in an editorial...
John Roughan: Pope's gutsy little grenade lobbed into war on terror
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=0001F367-7B77-1513-B4F883027A\
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Last year, when the Vatican conclave elected red-blooded Cardinal Ratzinger
to succeed John Paul II, liberals like my mother assumed the Holy Spirit had
taken the day off. That suspicion was confirmed for her this week when
Benedict XVI, as he called himself, had Muslims everywhere in uproar over
words he used about their religion...
Hysterical reaction
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/0,2106,3802668a6528,00.html
Pope Benedict XVI is no imitator of Pope Urban II, who preached to the flock
at Clermont and set in train the Crusades, writes The Press in an
editorial...
Deborah Coddington: Religions of tolerance set example of violence
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=00089033-E497-1514-972583027A\
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Despite the fact that one-god religions like to preach tolerance,
increasingly that is not what they practise. This week's over-reaction by
some Muslims to Pope Benedict's speech proved that given the slightest
provocation, the mad mullahs will take umbrage, threaten violence, and
demand apologies...
Catholics and Muslims meet after Pope's comments
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=103986
The Race Relations Commissioner has met New Zealand Catholic and Muslim
leaders following comments about Islam by the Pope, which have sparked
outrage across the Muslim world...
Editorial: Challenge in papal apology
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=0004F75A-501C-150E-8D2F83027A\
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Pope Benedict is possibly as surprised as anyone that a quotation he used in
the course of a theological lecture last week should be causing such
consternation among Muslims. The Pope was contributing to a discussion on
the rationality of religion, and suggested religion ceased to have a
rational basis when it used violence to advance its sway. He could have
mentioned some of the history of his own church but instead he cited
Islam...
Papal apology not enough, Muslims say
Otago Daily Times
http://tinyurl.com/r2yxp
The local Muslim community is calling for Pope Benedict to make a more
extensive apology after he allegedly portrayed Islam as a religion tainted
with violence...
Theologian defends pope's criticism of islam (full text)
Radio New Zealand Newswire
A New Zealand theologian has defended a speech by Pope Benedict the
Sixteenth which has sparked outrage among muslims. In the speech at his old
university in Regensburg, the Pope referred to a six hundred year old
critique of Islam as evil and inhuman. Father Merv Duffy, a theologian at
the Good Shepherd College in Auckland, says the Pope also makes a case that
while Christianity is a religion of reason, Islam is not. He says the Pope
is speaking the truth as he sees it, and he is known for seeking dialogue
among religions. Father Duffy says subsequent events suggest the speech was
unwise although the violence of reaction to it indicates the Pope was
correct.
Religious Groups At Odds Over Pope's Remarks
http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,11964-6313782,00.html
Two religious organisations in New Zealand are at odds over a recent speech
by Pope Benedict XVI which has raised the hackles of Muslim leaders around
the world. Religious advisor for the International Muslim Association of New
Zealand Mohammed Amir said the Pope was not creating good perceptions of the
Islamic community, and his remarks had upset Muslims...
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OTHER NEWS FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
A natural in the Big House (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=0006F1B2-792F-1513-B4F883027A\
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An interview with Anand Satyanand, New Zealand's first Catholic
Governor-General.
'It's a miracle' (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3806159a11,00.html
Jeannette Adu-Bobie vowed as she lay in Wellington Hospital with three limbs
amputated that she would survive and walk the length of St Peter's Basilica
in Rome...
ILT funds work on basilica
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/0,2106,3806015a6568,00.html
Cracked walls, sunken ceilings, and carpet worn bare by communion will be
fixed by a $300,000 grant to St Mary's Basilica in Invercargill...
Cash lesson for schools smart on health (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=000112BA-D6CF-150F-923683027A\
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Schools are being offered state cash to start healthy nutrition projects
such as putting water filters in classrooms...
Choosing queen was 'difficult' for judges (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/0,2106,3801490a6568,00.html
Deirdre Jolly had other plans for next week but after being crowned 2006
Senior Blossom Festival Queen yesterday, they may have to change. Mrs Jolly,
representing the Catholic Women's League, said she had seen the festival
from many different points of view during the past 40 years, everything from
float-maker to tea lady...
Catholic Gallipoli hero gets a new grave
http://www.cathnews.com/news/609/97.php
Catholic army chaplain Msgr Tony Toms will today preside at the consecration
of a grave for a New Zealand-born devout Catholic ANZAC army officer who has
laid in an unmarked grave in Melbourne for more than 50 years...
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INSPIRATIONAL TV - NZ's own Catholic Web TV service
New this week: Maria's back in town
Maria is back from retreat and tells us what's been happening in her
family's life. Filmed in Left Bank, Cuba Mall, Wellington.
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC (formerly: 'The Word from Rome').
A weekly column by John R. Allen
http://nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/pfw092206.htm
This week:
Fall-out from Benedict's comments on Islam; What's next for Christian-Muslim
relations?
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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 ]
Operations Manager, Catholic Tribunal of New Zealand
Details in 'Wel-com' September 2006 p.5, and from John Butterfield, General
Manager, Archdiocese of Wellington, PO Box 1937, Wellington 6140; e-amil:
j.butterfield@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 29 September 2006
Adult Educator / Liturgy Educator. Diocese of Palmerston North.
http://www.pndiocese.org.nz
Further details 'NZ Catholic' September 10-23 2006 p.23, in 'Wel-com'
September 2006 p.15, and from the bishop's secretary, Private Bag 11012,
Palmerston North; tel. (06) 357 1980; e-mail: bishop@pndiocese.org.nz
Applications close 30 September 2006
Lay pastoral worker(s). St Joseph's Parish, New Plymouth.
Details in 'NZ Catholic' September 10-23 2006 p.23, in 'Wel-com' September
2006 p.4, and from
St Joseph's Parish, PO Box 32, New Plymouth 4615 Applications close 10
October 2006.
Office Administrator (6 month contract), Challenge 2000
Website: http://www.challenge2000.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Sept 24 - Oct 7 p.23, and from Kitty McKinley,
Challenge 2000, PO Box 13059, Johnsonville, Wellington. Tel: (04) 477-6827
