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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS -
New Zealanders of the Year: Patrick Kelly, specialist Paediatrician
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10546746&pnum=9
You'll most often find Patrick Kelly at the Starship Children's Hospital
trying to put back together children who have suffered horrific abuse at the
hands of those who are supposed to love them the most. Sometimes the
injuries are so severe neither Kelly nor his colleagues can fix them...
Spreading the message on rubbish
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/4782516a27490.html
New Zealand's Catholic Church is focusing on the environment, spokeswoman
Lyndsay Freer says. Direction has come from the top, with Pope Benedict XVI
issuing instructions for a greener Vatican, and for solar panels to be
installed on the Vatican roof...
Bound to make an impression (photo)
The Bay Chronicle
http://tinyurl.com/5mq5r2
An exhibition of stunning mezzotints by artist Maria Martin-Smith will be on
display at Pompallier Mission from November 28 ...
Tui's `offensive' billboard takes a hasty flight
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/4783373a6004.html
A beer billboard that offended many Christian groups is coming down almost
as quickly as it went up...
Knitting nanas
Howick and Pakuranga Times
http://www.times.co.nz/cms/news/2008/12/volunteers_vital_to_our_community.php?pa\
ge=2
Growing up in an era when people spent their evenings knitting and sewing
has instilled Cassie Moody with the skills to help hundreds of South
Auckland babies. The South Auckland Health Foundation graciously receive the
beanies, bonnets, jackets, booties and blankets she and many other similar
folk have knitted for so many years that Mrs Moody can’t remember exactly
how many...
Kids relish round the bridges (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/6bt5jh
These road runners from St Peter's Catholic school recently got a just
reward for all their hard training ...
SADD funds used to stage drunken party
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/local/5186907/sadd-funds-used-stage-drunken-party/
Drunken teenagers at a party funded by a high school's anti-drink-driving
group have trashed a rural Southland hall. Bottles were thrown at passing
cars and into a children's playground during the out-of-control party,
organised by high school pupils using money from the St Peter's College SADD
(Students Against Driving Drunk) committee, last Friday...
Arson destroys reading room at Christchurch primary (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4780034a6009.html
Christchurch police are investigating an arson at a St Teresa's Primary
School in Riccarton...
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
'Mary Potter 161 years later'
Sr Mary Scanlan talks to Gay Robertson and Chris Murphy on the the staff of
the Mary Potter Hospice.
'Cleaning up our lives'
A reading and discussion of Mark 1:1-18 with Rev Jenny Wilkins and Rev Dr
Eleanor Sanderson at St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington.
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INTERVIEW WITH A CARMELITE NUN - Parts one to four
http://nz.youtube.com/results?search_query=carmelite+zealand&search_type=&aq=f
A series of four video interviews with Sister Cushla of the Christchurch
Carmelites, an enclosed, contemplative religious order.
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'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand. Some current topics ...
"All this fresh air is making my hair move and I don’t know how long I can
complain." (on holding a blessing of the sick during Mass) ... Solidarity
and subsidiarity (solidarity and subsidiarity in Catholic social teaching)
... "Praise and Worship� Music in Church" (on Contemporary Christian music
in worship) ... Prepare ye the way (on purgatory) ... Musical Bites (the
Vatican and the Beatles - the movie 'Young at Heart)
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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC MAGAZINES AND NEWSLETTERS
'Marist Messenger' - December 2008
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
NZ Catholic Education Office newsletter 'Lighting New Fires' (with Catholic
schools' Supplement) - November 2008
http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resourcesubpages/lighting-new-fires.html
Christchurch Diocese newsletter - 'Inform' - December 2008
http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=25
Marist Brothers' Marist Family newsletter - December 2008
http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/Marist%20Family%20News.htm
Tui Motu InterIslands magazine - November 2008
http://www.tuimotu.org
The New Zealand Society of Eucharistic Adoration newsletter - September 2008
http://www.divinenet.org.nz/adoration.html
St Columban's Mission Society magazine 'The Far East' - November-December
2008
http://www.columban.org.au/?MID=200510192652
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Vetting possible ambassadors to the Holy See
One hallmark of emotional maturity is a capacity to distinguish between the
satisfying thing to do, and the smart thing to do. The clamor in some
circles for the Vatican to exercise its prerogative under international law
to say "no, thanks," should President-elect Barak Obama try to name
Pepperdine University law professor Douglas Kmiec as his ambassador to the
Holy See, offers a case in point...
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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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EVENTS
'Hearts Aflame' Catholic Summer School
9-18 January 2008
St Bede's College, Christchurch
Details:
http://www.heartsaflame.org.nz/HA2009/tabid/1348/Default.aspx
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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 ]
