NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE
http://www.catholic.org.nz/
** Bishops encourage Catholics to support World Mission Sunday (21 Oct 2010)
** New Senior Catholic Prison Chaplain appointed (20 Oct 2010)
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'NZ CATHOLIC' - No. 352 Oct 24 - Nov 6
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
In the current issue ... First saint for Australasia ... Senior student elected to local board ... Leading pro-life speakers to tour country ... One year after the Pacific tsunami ... Pope Benedict: Newman shows passion for truth, honesty and genuine conversion can be costly ... Mary MacKillop Special (2 pages) ... Advertising features: Mahitahi (Catholic overseas volunteers) .. Age Concern
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ST MARY MACKILLOP
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Crowds hail Australasian saint (photos)
Taranaki Daily News
http://tinyurl.com/2fjkjsz
TVNZ. Canonisation of Mary MacKillop (video)
http://tvnz.co.nz/breakfast-
Auckland Catholic Diocese spokeswoman Lyndsay Freer explains "intercessory prayer", the purpose of canonisation, and Mary's New Zealand connection.
St Mary's cross travels to the sick (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/
A cross that was worn by Australasia's first saint Mary MacKillop spent time at Devonport's St Francis de Sales Catholic Church.
Researchers find Feilding connection to Australasia's first saint (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/
Feilding has its own connection to Australasia's first saint, Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop – a finding which might have remained a secret if the saint hadn't been canonised on Sunday. St Mary was the first cousin of Feilding man Ranald Cameron, who settled on Makino Rd in 1883, and genealogists are looking to see if the saint still has family living in the town.
Saint's Remuera time marked by new shrine (photo)
NZ Herald
http://tinyurl.com/23cyjf5
A shrine to Saint Mary of The Cross MacKillop was unveiled in Auckland yesterday _ celebrated in a song inspired by the nun's deeds and sung by pupils of a school which her religious order established on the site in 1916. ``
Faithful mark legacy of Saint Mary (photo)
http://www.rotoruadailypost.
It was a special day for Rotorua's Catholic community yesterday when the founder of the city's first Catholic school was made a saint. The canonisation of Mother Mary MacKillop was held at the Vatican last night. She will now be known as St Mary of the Cross.
St Mary celebrated with Italian wine
http://bigpondnews.com/
The Sisters of St Joseph celebrated Saint Mary of the Cross with Italian wine, before rising for a Mass of Thanksgiving on Monday morning.
SI links to new Australian saint
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-
Australia's first saint has a link to the South Island. Mary MacKillop was canonised by Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday. MacKillop's brother is buried in Christchurch, and she also spent time in Arrowtown and Temuka.
Hail Mary, the first 'Australasian' saint
The Timaru Herald
http://tinyurl.com/2fq4w73
Australia has its first saint, a woman with strong ties to South Canterbury.
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NEWS OF THE SCHOOLS
Reunion on track (photo)
The Leader Richmond-Waimea
http://tinyurl.com/2wpvf79
Two of the surviving "school bugs" are organising a reunion to relive their glory days when they caught the train to school in Nelson. The students from Sacred Heart Girls' College travelled in the middle carriage, separating the carriages carrying students from Nelson College and Nelson College for Girls.
Home for Christmas (photo)
Clutha Leader
http://tinyurl.com/29y5v27
Leaving a fortnight ago from Bluff heading for Cape Reinga, French Canadian Jean Beliveau strolled into St Joseph's Primary School Balcluthta last week.
They have a way with words (photo)
Piako Post
http://tinyurl.com/26rk2p7
St Joseph's School, Te Aroha, has scored double success in annual regional speech contests.
Rezoning changes
http://www.stuff.co.nz/
Plans to allow Monte Cecilia School to be moved to the St John Vianney parish are out for consultation.
Workers start knocking down school
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-
Demolition work is under way at earthquake-hit St Paul's School in Christchurch.
Call to Oppose Monte Cecilia Plan Changes
http://www.voxy.co.nz/
Councillor Cathy Casey and two members of the newly elected Puketepapa Local Board - Julie Fairey and Michael Wood - are calling for the public to oppose plan changes which they say, will seal the fate of Monte Cecilia School and turn the TSB Wallace Arts Centre into an isolated white elephant.
School tackles binge drinking
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-
Roncalli College wants to join the fight against binge drinking. The school will be hosting a public meeting about alcohol and substance abuse tomorrow at the school gym, with Timaru gynaecologist Albert Makary as the main speaker.
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IN OTHER NEWS
Flying farmer had one speed only: flat out (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/
A 67-year-old Southland farmer who died in a helicopter crash in Bluff Harbour last week was a hard working man all his life whose passion was flying, mourners heard at his funeral in Winton yesterday. Allan Munro, of Avondale near Wreys Bush, and Stewart Island Helicopters chief executive and pilot Jason Wright, 29, were killed after Mr Munro's Robinson R-22 helicopter they were in crashed in Bluff Harbour on Thursday afternoon.
A new chapter in the book of Ed Kowalczyk (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/
Ed Kowalczyk can't say too much about the demise of Live, the band he started 20 years ago with three of his schoolmates. Let's just say it all ended badly last year when a two-year hiatus became a permanent split because of what his former bandmates called Kowalczyk's "inappropriate actions". So while Kowalczyk, on the phone from his Southern Californian home ahead of his first solo tour to New Zealand next week, is limited to what he can say about the split, he is standing tough on where he's at.
Haven at twilight of life (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/
If you live long enough, you are likely to find yourself in the care of a hospice worker during the twilight of your life. Mary Schumacher has been chief executive of Hospice New Zealand since 2006 and was CEO at Mary Potter Hospice for 10 years. She said that since her school days at New Plymouth, she always wanted to do social work. She began by working with young people at Catholic Social Services.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** Harmless fun, or hijacking a culture? (two examples of the denigration of the human person)
** “Well, I hope you’re all satisfied. You bankrupted a bunch of naive movie folks (a rant about unions)
** Rubbish Reporting By A. Dick (a comment about AIDS by Archbishop André-Joseph Léonard)
** The Old Man at the Bus Stop (kindness to an eccentric stranger)
** It’s just war and Jose Gonzalez (Can a war now be just?)
** St Mary of the Cross MacKillop
** Moral Money? (on fundraising through gambling)
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
'True Humility' - Luke 18: 9-14, a reading and commentary by Sr Stephanie Kitching.
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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=
Daily Reflections (right-hand column) http://www.maristmessenger.co.
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/
On cardinals, consistories and 'Caritas in Veritate'
http://ncronline.org/blogs/
If there’s one thing even the most religiously illiterate person tends to get about the Catholic church, it’s the difference between a cardinal and everybody else. Cardinals matter: they set a leadership tone, and, of course, they elect the next pope. The news this week that Benedict XVI has named 24 new cardinals, including 20 who are under 80 and hence eligible to vote in a conclave, merits a few reflections...
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Bishop Pat Dunn's diary
http://www.facebook.com/
Catholic Discipleship College
http://www.facebook.com/cdcnz
'The Fifteenth Station'
http://www.facebook.com/
Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
http://www.facebook.com/pages/
SMNZ Marists - the Society of Mary in New Zealand
http://www.facebook.com/
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
http://www.romereports.com (video)
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (news of Pope Benedict - video)
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EMPLOYMENT
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