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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Caritas responds to Cyclone SIDR Bangladesh (21 Nov 2007)
Catholic humanitarian agency Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand will provide
$50,000 to its Caritas Bangladesh partner working to help survivors of
super-cyclone Sidr. Over 3000 people have died, and the figure could rise to
10,000. Millions have been affected...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Renewed St Mary’s Basilica ready for congregation
The Southland Times 24 Nov 2007 Page: 11
Six months after moving out, the congregation will be back today at St Mary’s
Basilica in Invercargill. Weekday and Sunday masses have been held at St
Mary’s Hall while the basilica underwent a complete internal
refurbishment... [This story is no available on the newspaper's free
Website, but can can be read at the public library]
Together at last
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4285861a6565.html
Four years ago, The Southland Times grumped: "There's a book about us that
doesn't exist. Why?" The complaint was simple enough. Dan Davin's Southland
stories were famous but not at all well read. Well, neat, here they are,
each of them, in The Gorse Blooms Pale, beautifully edited by academic Janet
Wilson. These stories, mostly drawn from Davin's Irish Catholic boyhood in a
Protestant 1920s Invercargill, will detonate memories among older
Southlanders and throw plenty of shafts of light into our past for younger
readers...
NZ gaffe says UK's Queen married in Catholic church
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/2007/11/24/132187/NZ-gaffe.htm
Wellington, New Zealand -- There were red faces at New Zealand's Government
House after an official press release suggested Britain's Queen Elizabeth
II -- head of the Church of England -- married in a Roman Catholic church 60
years ago...
Workout key for blind octogenarian (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4284307a6497.html
She may have just celebrated her 80th birthday, but Mary Johnson has no
plans to slow down. The plucky senior citizen completes 100 situps every day
in her room at
Selwyn Village retirement home in Pt Chevalier...
Op shops get hip to the value of vintage (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4284245a19716.html
Who can resist the idea of finding a retro gem among the more mundane
offerings on the racks at the local charity shop? Something handcrafted
lurking under the linen or a collectible piece of Crown Lynn behind the
crockery...
Spent lifetime helping others
http://tinyurl.com/245omc
Jean Gadd was, like the Red Cross she served so well for over 50 years,
"always there" for everyone ...
San Antonio calls out for Catholic kids (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2ydzmd
San Antonio School in Eastbourne has a roll of 29 but on current enrolments
that could drop to 17 next year ...
The 'lady in black' was Hutt character (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/22oawv
Lower Hutt has lost another character with the passing in Levin of Mabel
Serkovitch, known for decades to many mid-city locals as the Lady in Black
or the Black Widow ...
Working kids need adult protection - Caritas
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4278671a13.html
Children who work need the same level of protection as adult workers doing
similar tasks, says the Catholic social justice agency Caritas Aotearoa New
Zealand. Caritas research and advocacy officer Lisa Beech says that for many
working children it was not happening...
The Government is rejecting calls for a minimum age of employment for
children who do paid work.
http://www.radionz.co.nz:80/news/latest/200711181350/government_rejects_call_for\
_minimum_work_age
Child welfare campaigners want the Government to fully comply with the
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and ban children under
a certain age from employment...
Police ads in show draw church ire
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4278891a11.html
A family group has blasted a decision by the police to carry on advertising
during TV3's controversial programme, Californication...
School covered up sex abuse claims
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4286947a10.html
A Manawatu school investigating a sexual abuse complaint against its
principal appears to have attempted to cover up accusations made by a second
boy involved...
Principal on more sex charges
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4282210a12855.html
A principal accused of sexually assaulting his students has also been
charged with three more historic offences. Elvis Dobson Shepherd, known as
Tihirau Shepherd, 46, now faces nine sex charges, four of which were against
students at Hato Paora College, a Catholic Maori boarding school near
Feilding...
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THE FIFTEENTH STATION (audio)
http://station15.libsyn.com/
In the podcast for Wed, 14 November 2007 ...
'Counting is hard'
This month we talk about another TV show denigrating our Faith, a pebble
that looks like Our Lady, a group that thinks the Iraq war is punishment for
the U.S. stance on homosexuality and the NZ bishop's strategic vision for
the next five years. Oh, and we show that it's harder than you think to
name Ten Commandments.
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
'The red hat goes to the pastor'
Baseball manager Leo Durocher may not have meant the phrase "nice guys
finish last" in quite the sense it's usually understood, but it nonetheless
captures the reality that cut-throat tactics are often a more direct route
to advancement than humility and kindness. While things are supposed to be
different in the church, that's not always the case, which is perhaps what
makes the elevation of Archbishop John Foley to the College of Cardinals
this Saturday especially satisfying...
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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/ ]
