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CHRISTMAS 2007

Finally a mass in the church of Saint Nicholas and Myra
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=10974&size=A
The ecumenical patriarch Bartholomew I, after years of insistence, was
finally given the possibility to celebrate mass inside of what is, according
to the State, only a museum. A saint who is unknown in Turkey, but is the
origin of Santa Claus...

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'WEL-COM' - The newspaper of the dioceses of Wellington and Palmerston North

http://www.welcom.org.nz/

From the December issue ...

News
Call for peace marks Parihaka Day ... Belonging is key for Generation Xers
... Upper Hutt adopts Parihaka theme ...

World News
Bearing fruit in Timor Leste ... The 1967 Middle East war 40 years on and
still raging ... Timor Leste in election turmoil

Columns
Archbishop's column: Advent a graced time, by Archbishop John Dew ... Hail
Mary, blessed among Israel's great women ... Editorial: Be awake to the
lessons of history

Schools
Carterton school gets down to earth: St Mary's enviro group tends the soil
... Viard choir in US barbershop contest ... Cardinal McKeefry School
students go to parliament with WWF

Features
Joy's vision permeates pub conversations ... An imagined journey to
spirituality and Christ's peace ... Nearly a holy soul: Making sense of
Ordinary Time

Wellington
Clergy appointments 2008 ... Arise Women of God: Dove Wellington's new
president ... Waikanae parish marks 25 years

Palmerston North
Hato Paora principal faces sex charges ... Whanganui reunion for class of
'54: Sacred Heart College Old Girls get together ... Surprise for Mother
Meri at Pakipaki

Reflect
Second Sunday of Advent Year A: Matthew 3:1-12

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

Pupils discuss global warning (photo)
Newslink, Gore 6 December 2007
http://tinyurl.com/ypra7f
Pupils of St Peter's College, Gore, have dived deep into the issue of global
warming

Content may offend
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4315889a13135.html
The boom in rudeness and crudeness on TV and in advertising has meant a
field day for both the prurient and the prudish. Philip Matthews
investigates whether it's really anything to get worked up about...

Principal facing sex charges bailed to appear in March
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10481017
Details of the sex charges faced by Hato Paora College principal Elvis
Dobson Shepherd will be revealed on March 19...

Oh Lordi . . . Christians take on fiends of rock
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4307239a10.html
A crusade is looming as church groups prepare to take on heavy metal
heavyweights poised to play in Wellington over Easter...

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INSPIRATIONAL TV

http://inspirationaltv.net/

Special Report
What you are really giving when you give blood.

'An Angel at our Shoulder'
A look back at the circumstances that inspired the 1998 Hikoi of Hope.

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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen

http://ncrcafe.org/node/507

Springtime for ecumenists: A realistic assessment
The problem with ecumenists -- who are almost universally good-hearted and
dedicated souls -- is that they don't know how to manage expectations. It's
a lesson anyone who has ever organized a public event should have learned:
if you expect 100 people, put out chairs for 75, so the result feels like a
triumph rather than a disappointment...

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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)

http://www.cathcom.org.nz/

http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/

http://www.romereports.com/ (video)

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EMPLOYMENT

[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]

[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]