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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
Pastoral letter marks feast day of Blessed Mary MacKillop (August 4, 2010)
New Zealand's Catholic Bishops have written a pastoral letter on Blessed Mary MacKillop, which will be available in parishes on her feast day, Sunday 8 August. In their letter the bishops encourage parishes and schools to find ways to celebrate the canonisation of Mary MacKillop to take place in Rome, 17 October 2010...
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'WEL-COM'
http://www.welcom.org.nz
** News **
First lay pastoral leader appointed to Samoan chaplaincy
Inter-generational project nets major arts award
Alternative welfare working group launched
** World News **
Thai locals seek refuge in Jesuits' Bangkok base
Timor-Leste turns 10 as it struggles against poverty
Papuan justice worker tells of undermining of rights
** Columns **
Editorial: Magdalene: The 'apostle to the apostles' could show the way, by Cecily McNeill
Archbishop's column: Believers united heart and soul, by Archbishop John Dew
From Apocrypha to apocalyptic: Opening the book, by Kieran Fenn fms
** Features **
When a miscarriage happens - a priest's response
Sharing time, talent and treasure
A justice that reconciles - prison in search of rehab
** Palmerston North **
A whole new face on Creation: Hawke's Bay looks entirely different in winter, by Fr Kevin Neal
A changing of the guard: Cullinane College has a new head, by Darryl Daignault
Dannevirke children honour a great NZ leader: Red Sock Leadership Week, by Dave Lamont
** Reflect **
19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C: Luke 12:32-48; a reflection by Veronica Lawson rsm
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Blessings all around, by Pat Barrett (photo)
The Press
http://tinyurl.com/23qxkov
Sometimes life takes an interesting turn and the expected becomes the exceptional, as it was with the recent tour I helped organise for Catholic Nigerian Bishop Martin Uzoukwu who was invited by the Catholic Bishop of Christchurch, Barry Jones, and the Divine Mercy Trust with which I am involved.
Churches, union nix Easter bill
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/4000736/Churches-union-nix-Easter-bill
Retailers may welcome Waitaki MP Jacqui Dean's bill to extend Easter trading laws in her electorate, but the proposal has not won over the religious community.
Appeal for altar made nationally
http://www.odt.co.nz/regions/north-otago/119158/appeal-altar-made-nationally
An attempt to retain the marble altar at the Teschemakers' chapel has gone national after featuring on RadioLive yesterday morning.
Teschemakers altar report spurs appeal for support
http://www.odt.co.nz/regions/north-otago/118822/teschemakers-altar-report-spurs-appeal-support
Oamaru writer Nathalie Brown is urgently seeking support for the retention of the marble altar in the Teschemakers chapel.
Catholic father weighs mercy against care for the vulnerable: a letter to the editor by Fr Gerard Burns
The Dominion Post
http://tinyurl.com/27dbaxv
The Very Rev John Murray advocates physician-assisted suicide and challenges clergy to say what sort of god they believe in (Letters, July 27). He appeals to the command to show mercy. For me, this command stands alongside that to protect the vulnerable...
1. Head supports national standards. 2. Outgoing principal praises Upper Hutt schools (photo) (two articles)
Upper Hutt Leader
Part one: http://tinyurl.com/25lphw4
Part two: http://tinyurl.com/29rbnzg
Kids suffer as flu strikes
http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikato-times/news/3997612/Kids-suffer-as-flu-strikes/
Winter is hitting Hamilton school children hard, with hundreds of kids struck down with the flu over the past week. St Joseph's Catholic School in Fairfield began the week with 126 students - more than a third of its 360-strong roll - away from school sick.
School land decision confirmed
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/central-leader/3986354/School-land-decision-confirmed
The Auckland Transition Agency has confirmed Auckland City Council's decision to buy the land Monte Cecilia School sits on.
Increased safety measures in light of revelations
Press Release: Hato Paora College Board of Trustees 02-8-2010 13:43
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED1008/S00002/increased-safety-measures-in-light-of-revelations.htm
Feilding-based Maori Catholic boys' school Hato Paora College has instituted increased safety measures over the last three years in light of revelations of abuse in 2007 and the subsequent conviction of former principal Elvis Shepherd.
Shocking betrayal of young trust
Manawatu Standard
http://tinyurl.com/2dj3yw4
It took 20 years for justice to be delivered. In March 1990 Elvis Dobson Shepherd began a pattern of sexual offending against male students that would not see the light of day. That was until last week. Shepherd, Hato Paora College's suspended principal, was found guilty of abusing teenage boys in his care during his time at a Maori Catholic boarding school in Auckland.
** Interviews with members of the board of trustees of St Joseph's School, Queenstown **
Giving back to school community (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/print/119472?page=0%2C0
National Standards will force children and schools to compete against one another, leading to competition far too early in a child's education experience, St Joseph's School board of trustees parent representative Gigi Hollyer says.
Balance key to setting up pupils for life (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/print/118785
National standards will draw a line in the sand as to where we want our children to be with their learning, St Joseph's School board parent representative Chris Chandler says.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** Misanthropy, Nihilism and Atheism
** "... people who claim they've seen aliens are always pathetic low-lifes with boring jobs."
** It's goodnight from me, and it's goodnight from him.(another blogger says farewell)
** Belated happy birthday (on the fourth anniversary of 'Being Frank')
** Things I never knew (You never know who's praying for you)
** Lord, open our eyes! ('discernment of spirits' the Ignatian way)
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/inspired-word/
'Be prepared'
Luke 12:32-48: a reading and reflection with Sr Stephanie Kitching and Sr Marcellin Wilson.
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NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS
Living the Word - Fr Frank Bird sm http://livingtheword.org.nz
Reflect - Veronica Lawson rsm http://www.welcom.org.nz/?sid=394
Daily Reflections (right-hand column) http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic
Q&A with Fr. Joseph Tobin
Elevating another American to a senior Vatican position, Pope Benedict XVI on Monday named Redemptorist Fr. Joseph Tobin as the new secretary of the Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, colloquially known as the "Congregation for Religious." It's the office with lead responsibility for some 190,000 religious priests and brothers, and roughly 750,000 sisters, worldwide. The Superior General of the Redemptorists from 1997 to 2009, Tobin, 58, becomes an archbishop by virtue of the appointment...
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH
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http://www.romereports.com (video)
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (news of Pope Benedict - video)
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EMPLOYMENT
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