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'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
In Issue 279, November 18-December 1, 2007 ...
NATIONAL
Controversial TV3 show sends six advertisers packing ... Ratings changes
will cost some schools fundings ... Principal appears in court ... Old rite
again in Dunedin ... Dads' key role stressed ... Mass for suffering children
... Reshuffle no comfort to pro-lifers ... Graves finally get a makeover ...
Better work conditions sought for children ... Pompallier printing workshop
... Archbishop Dew kept on Ice by rough weather ... St Thomas teams most
enterprising ... Waikanae parish celebrates 25 years ... Peaceful resistance
honoured ... Verdon College marks 25 years ... Wellington Dove turns 15 ...
ERO File
FEATURES
Dead culture has evangelical lessons for the Church today ... Seminarians
evangelise on the Internet ... Cardinal hopes for Internet apostolate ... NZ
priests complete 50 years on the Ice ... Joshua aid team helps mission in
Vanuatu ... Kiwi chaplain's life busy in the Solomons ... College celebrates
40th anniversary ... Nun made speech life member ... Congress seen as good
for "the young Church"
OPINION
Ronald Rolheiser: Our longing for God's justice ... Brendan Woodnutt: Our
young people need us to share the truth of Jesus ... Joseph Ryan:
Journalism's duty is to tell the truth ... Editorial: TV shows being used to
justify sin ... Malcolm Evans ... Letters
INTERNATIONAL
Pell warns of dangers in proposed bill of rights ... Ecological damage hurts
poor most, says archbishop ... The Pope: Anti-life products not for Catholic
chemists ... Catholic agency backs efforts for clean-up in gold mining ...
Priests want probe into Samsung ... Killed clergy remembered ... Legal
process even with terror: Vatican ... Prayer urged for deceased ... 2002
Roman Missal draft translation completed ... Holy Land religious leaders out
to reduce violence ... Equality is of people, not faiths, says Amato ...
Knoll rolls nipple in name ... Obsessed priest put on leave ... Bishop for
legalised prostitution ... A blessing of light ... Vatican notes clerical
resistance ... Chinese told no need for patriotic association ... Candidates
ignorant? ... In Brief
REGULAR FEATURES
Papal Prayer, Young Adults, Books, Monitor, Clips, Catholic.Geek, Tape Deck,
Scripture, Feasts, Liturgical Calendar, The Doolans, Family Talk, Caption
Contest, Who Said?, 40 Years Ago, Dio. Diary, Cryptic Crossword, That Word!,
Holy Lives, Kit's Corner, Photo Prayer, Wit's End.
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
TV programme "Californication" (12 Nov 2007)
There has been considerable comment on the programme “Californication�, the
first episode of which screened last Thursday on TV3. The broadcaster's PR
spin describes this programme, euphemistically, as ‘edgy’. Once again they
appear to be pushing the boundaries to test how far they can go in
disregarding broadcasting codes that require standards of decency and good
taste to be upheld...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
More advertisers withdraw from Californication
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/071116/3/2g5k.html
Two more companies have pulled their advertising from the controversial TV3
series Californication but police continue to support the show, says a
family values lobby group...
More advertising pulled from risqué TV3 show
http://tinyurl.com/34qxh7
The Ministry of Economic Development is the latest in a series of
advertisers to withdraw from controversial new TV3 show Californication...
Students make a meal of hearty lunchtime snacks
http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikatotimes/4274184a6579.html
The art of lunch-making was evident at two Hamilton schools this week as
pupils tucked into well- thought-out, hearty lunches containing a variety of
food. Children at Fairfield Intermediate School and St Joseph's Catholic
School, both in Clarkin Rd, put paid to a Massey University study which
found only one in 10 packed school lunches met nutritional guidelines...
Church agency finds delivery kids as young as six years
http://tinyurl.com/2wqtam
A survey by Catholic agency Caritas says children as young as six are doing
paid work. It surveyed 30 children in Wairarapa, Hutt, Wellington, Nelson,
Blenheim and Westport who are employed as delivery workers...
Radio NZ. Insight. Child Labour (audio file)
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/inst/child_labour
Insight looks at whether NZ should have a minimum work age to stop the under
13s being employed. Caritas's researcher is interviewed.
Noelle McCarthy: Flying and a question of faith
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=500818&objectid=10476513
I don't consider myself a religious person under normal circumstances, but I
can't catch a plane without becoming an ardent Catholic during take-off and
landing...
Curriculum for new world (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4274504a24035.html
There have been concerns a stronger emphasis in the new school curriculum on
integrity and diversity and being able to think creatively will create more
work for already busy schools and that children will be taught how to hold a
conversation at the expense of learning how to add up. The Education
Ministry's senior manager for curriculum, teaching and learning, Mary
Chamberlain, says such concerns are misplaced. St Bernadette's School in
Christchurch is a prime example of how Chamberlain's vision can work...
Easter Sunday may become holiday
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1318360/1448466
The government is looking at making Easter Sunday a public holiday in an
effort to clear up the rules about shops opening on that day...
Witch-hunt leaves staff in fear for jobs
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4274300a11.html
A witch-hunt to find the source who alerted media to allegations of sexual
abuse at Palmerston North's Hato Paora College has staff at the school
fearing for their jobs...
Fiji bishop may face NZ and Australia travel ban
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=36450
There is uncertainty whether the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Fiji,
Archbishop Petero Mataca, will be allowed to travel to Australia and New
Zealand to attend church meetings...
Hopes common sense will save sunday schools (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4269935a6571.html
South Canterbury sunday schools are calling for common sense as a review of
the Education Act could force them to be licensed...
'I would like an explanation'
The Dominion Post 17 Nov 2007 Page: 26
For the second year running, Catholic Schools Board Ltd, the company owned
by the Catholic Church’s Wellington archdiocese and Palmerston North
diocese, has announced fee increases of more than 10 per cent for every
pupil at their state-integrated schools ... [This letter is not available on
the newspaper's free Website. The paper can be read at the public library]
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
Coffee Break: A manager's personal life (part two)
Peter Andrews works as a manager in a team charged with ensuring that our
Executive (in other words Cabinet Ministers) are well supported. Why does he
and his wife also choose to spend his spare time at the local hospital? ...
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
The John Jay study of clergy sex abuse challenges evangelical Catholics
Perhaps it's a measure of how badly the image of American Catholicism has
been tarnished as a result of the sexual abuse crisis that so many bishops,
meeting in Baltimore Nov. 12-15, could seem relieved at the news that the
church's record on the abuse of minors is actually no better, but also no
worse, than anybody else's...
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