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FROM THE SECULAR MEDIA
Radio NZ. 'Spectrum'. "The silence and the light"
http://www.radionz.co.nz/nr/programmes/spectrum
In this radio documentary, Jack Perkins visits the Futuna chapel of the
Society of Mary's former retreat centre in the Wellington suburb of Karori -
an unequalled example of New Zealand’s religious architecture. Its 50 year
history is an inspirational story of dedication and survival... [The
programme will be archived at the above link after the broadcast this
afternoon]
Pacific beauty in to win (photo; video)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4556908a6497.html
Beauty queen Amily Helena Faleafaga has just been crowned Miss Samoa New
Zealand and will compete with others from around the globe for the main
title in Apia in September...
Budget Comment - Poorest Miss Out
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0805/S00398.htm
New Zealand’s poorest citizens continue to miss out in the Labour
Government’s
ninth Budget, according to Catholic social justice agency Caritas Aotearoa
New Zealand...
Online Initiatives Launched for World Youth Day
Thursday, 22 May 2008, 1:53 pm
Press Release: Catholic Communications
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0805/S00230.htm
The much-awaited re-launch of Connect.org.nz was celebrated yesterday with
the ceremonial ‘first click’ by Wellington World Youth Day Ambassador, Josie
Leota, and Fr James Lyons, the parish priest of Sacred Heart Cathedral in
Wellington...
4000 NZers booked to take part in World Youth Day
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4554802a11.html
Thousands of young New Zealanders will travel to Australia in July to take
part in World Youth Day, presided over by Pope Benedict XVI...
Aust nun won't have sainthood by July
May 20, 2008 11:29 PM
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411366/1789879
Mother Mary MacKillop is unlikely to be named Australia's first saint named
during Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Sydney in July...
Adventurer turned pilgrim walks his way in Spain (photo)
Hauraki Herald
http://tinyurl.com/6pjsnj
Robin Plummer is off on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.
Breakers' balls a big hit with the kids (photo)
Hauraki Herald
http://tinyurl.com/5tgycp
Students at St Joseph's Catholic School in Paeroa show their appreciation to
the Champions Programme. [I remember a similar photo with article in a
northern hemisphere newspaper in which the writer hastened to reassure
alarmed readers that bare feet were commonplace in rural New Zealand schools
and not a sign of abject poverty - ml]
A sweet treat of fresh apples (photo)
Hauraki Herald
http://tinyurl.com/5thlyf
St Joseph's School, Paeroa is part of the Apples in Schools initiative.
More room for faithful in revamped cathedral
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/4558443a6579.html
A multimillion-dollar renovation of Hamilton East's Cathedral of the Blessed
Virgin Mary is set to bring a touch of European grandeur to the former
parish church...
Seeking brothers@church.com
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4554977a28.html
A 300-year-old religious order is embracing modern technology - including
publishing a brother blog - in a bid to attract new members. The Catholic De
La Salle brotherhood yesterday launched a website - http://
www.delasallebrothers.com - that provides intimate details of their
previously private world...
Girls hope Spikey will keep drinks safe (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4554894a11.html
Three entrepreneurial Christchurch high school students believe they might
just have found a way to eliminate the scourge of drink-spiking from New
Zealand. Catholic Cathedral College Year 12 students Rodelyn Avila, Hannah
Freestone and Jeanette Butler have become the legal distributors of a
stopper which fits into the neck of a drink bottle...
New Zealand archbishop comes to Inland area to observe lay people running
parishes
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_archbishop21.29417f4.\
html
A New Zealand archbishop is in the Inland area [of San Diego, California]
this week to learn from the San Bernardino diocese's reliance on lay people
and nuns to run some of its parishes. Archbishop John Dew of Wellington, New
Zealand, said two of his employees visited the Inland area earlier this
month to see firsthand the diocese's approach and "came home raving about
San Bernardino" ...
Holocaust recalled (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/4554713a22396.html
10-year-old Vera O’Brien was told she was setting off on an adventure when
her parents managed to get her out of Prague just as the Nazi holocaust
began. She lived the last 39 years of her life in Papakura and wrote a book,
Journey to Life, about her extraordinary and poignant story before her death
last year...
Churches reject campaign advice
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=286&objectid=10511422
Six mainstream churches have rejected advice from the Electoral Commission
that they should register as third parties to run a $100,000 campaign on
social justice before this year's election...
The life of Leonard George (photo)
Taupo Times
http://tinyurl.com/6fdhps
Taupo has farewelled one of its first restaurateurs, long-standing resident
and well-known entrepreneur Leonard George Lee ...
Long service (photo)
Taieri Herald
http://tinyurl.com/68l4o9
Four senior Catholic priests, three from Mosgiel, celebrated a total of more
than 200 years' service to the Church, recently ...
Debts hurt church
Taieri Herald
http://tinyurl.com/55kje9
A seminar for Catholic parish treasurers on Saturday drew more thyan 60
people from throughout Otago and Southland to the Holy Cross Centre, Mosgiel
...
Together at last, after 70 years
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4553786a11.html
They were teenage sweethearts separated by war and sectarian prejudice. Now
Phil O'Neill and Joan Dean are about to marry, nearly 70 years after he
first intended to propose...
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
'Angel in the City'
John 6:51-58: the Gospel reading for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of
Christ, discussed by Rev. Frank Nelson, Dean of St Paul's (Anglican)
Cathedral, Wellington, and Deacon Ellie Sanderson with occasional commentary
by baby Zachary.
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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 ...
Homosexuals and seminary admission ... the Church and the Rwanda genocide
... Relaunch of the Catholic youth site Connect.org.nz ... Clerical attire
... On treating a person as "people" ... Pemtecost
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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
Seeking dialogue with 'Islam of the people'
Though the parallel shouldn't be pushed too far, in some ways
Christian/Muslim relations today might be compared to where things stood
with personal computers back in the early 1980s. Everybody knew PCs were the
future, but they wouldn't change the world until a simple, appealing, and
reasonably standard way of making them work emerged...
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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.
Religious Education Ministry, The Gift Centre, Auckland
http://www.supportoptions.co.nz/support/provider.aspx?pID=897&l=1&sID=318
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 18-31 2008 p.22 and from Brian Nicholas, The
Gift Centre, 28A Telford Avenue, Balmoral, Auckland. Tel. (09) 620 9524;
fax: (09) 620 9520; e-mail: giftcentre@xtra.co.nz
