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'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
In issue no. 290, May 4 - 17 2008 ...
Education feature (8 pages): New curriculum delights educators ...
Non-preference places in demand among non-Catholic families ... Children's
behaviour may nor be worse but there are some who test school resources ...
Colleges fired up for WYD trip ... Building boom in North and South .. Faith
should be tangible in schools
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Cops quiz girls' hostel
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sundaynews/4509423a15596.html
The manager of a Catholic girls' boarding school devised a plan for the
20-year-old boyfriend of a just-turned 15-year-old student to visit the
hostel so they could see each other...
Going back to the Latin (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4507341a13135.html
The move from the Latin Catholic mass to services in English was designed to
make Catholicism more accessible, so why is the Christchurch diocese
bringing back the daily Latin mass? Rebecca Todd reports...
Couple to be reunited ... after 54 years (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4507483a6565.html
The late Edward John Traynor begins a journey next week that will bring him
home to be laid to rest with his beloved wife on the day of their 100th
wedding anniversary. Inseparable in life, Teddy and Annie Traynor ended
their days buried hundreds of miles apart â€" her in the Traynor family plot
at Wyndham cemetery, him in the Porirua cemetery...
Crowds mark Anzac Day
Ruapehu Press
http://tinyurl.com/3s2mz7
The returned servicemen's headstones at the Taumarunui cemetry still gleamed
after the work put in by the Catholic Youth Group last year ...
Spokesperson says Catholic Church doesn't support hunger strikes (photo)
(includes audio clip)
http://tinyurl.com/5gmgvm
The Catholic Church say hunger strikes are not a valid form of protest and
it is not the Christian way...
Spy base priest's activist past (+photos, video)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10507272
A Catholic priest who took in and kept tabs on freed Algerian asylum seeker
Ahmed Zaoui is one of three people charged with inflicting an embarrassing
blow to a top-secret spy base...
Catholic Worker Movement marks 75th anniversary without fanfare
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0802398.htm
Washington (CNS) -- Seventy-fifth anniversary or not, lunch still must be
served at the New York Catholic Worker's Maryhouse. Hungry people will be
waiting, as they are every day... [Related link:
http://www.catholicworker.org.nz/who.html ]
Radio New Zealand. 'He Rourou'
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons
In two interviews, Father Philip Cody talks with Ana Tapiata about the
cooperation, bonding and friendship that happens at the Hui Aranga, the
Easter Assembly of Maori Catholics. (in Maori)
A jubilee for St Josephs
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaruherald/4500570a6571.html
Temuka's St Josephs School will hold its 125th jubilee at Labour Weekend...
South's Filipinos gather for their day in church (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4498731a6568.html
A 60-strong group of Catholic Filipinos made history in Winton on Sunday
when they manned the 10am Sunday mass in the church of St Thomas Aquinas...
Addington school hit by arson (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4501809a6530.html
Police and fire safety officers are investigating a suspicious fire at
Sacred Heart School in Addington this morning...
[The following stories are not available on the newspapers' free Websites.
They can be read at the public library, and some are accessible via the
public libraries' free 'Newztext' service for borrowers]
Saffron tower on hold as legal advice sought
The National Business Review - 02 May 2008
The hearing of an application for a 46-storey apartment tower overlooking St
Patrick's Square in Auckland's central business district was adjourned this
week with a long list of questions to answer...
Letters to the Editor
The Timaru Herald 1 May 2008 Page: 7
Fr Geoff Gray writes: On behalf of all my long-suffering and misunderstood
brothers and sisters in the Catholic church, I would like to assure Richard
Gunther (April 28) that we also believe that "by grace you have been saved
through faith...and it is the gift of God."...
New father calls for sympathy for priest-stalker
Sunday Star Times 27 Apr 2008 Page: 8
The Catholic Church is sending another relatively young priest to St Patrick’s
parish in Invercargill, where an obsessed parishioner sent his predecessor
fleeing...
Cantabrians ready for world gathering on World Youth Day (no link)
Stuff â€" The Press â€" Canterbury â€" 29 Apr 2008
More than 500 Canterbury Catholics will attend the world's largest youth
event in July...
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
'Angel in the City'
Matthew 28:16-20: A reading and commentary by Dean Frank Nelson of St Paul's
Cathedral, Wellington.
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'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz/
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper. Some recent topics ...
Reading about Islam ... How Benedict XVI will make history ... Political
correctenss and sexually-transmitted disease ... Zimbabwe: what's the
answer? ... Ideas of success and happiness
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EVENTS
World Youth Day
Sydney, 14-20 July 2008
http://www.wyd.org.nz/
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Interview with Ambassador Glendon; A possible papabile
Mary Ann Glendon is the eighth Ambassador of the United States to the Holy
See, and by most measures she's probably the nominee least in need of
on-the-job training. Glendon is a veteran Vatican insider, having
represented the Holy See at the 1995 Beijing conference of the United
Nations on women, and having served as president of the Pontifical Academy
of Social Sciences -- the first woman to head a pontifical academy. A
professor at the Harvard Law School, she's also an expert on international
legal theory...
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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/ ]
Camp Director. Ministry Camps Co-ordinator (2 positions). El Rancho
Christian Holiday Park, Kapiti Coast
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26, at
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/ERwork.htm and from adelle@elrancho.co.nz ; tel.
(04) 902 6287
Live-in Support People, Mt Tabor Trust, Mt Albert and Helensville
http://www.supportoptions.co.nz/support/provider.aspx?pID=919&l=1&sID=318
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26 and from Mike, Marie or Joanne,
tel. (09) 420 9701.
