'NZ CATHOLIC'
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In issue 353, Nov. 7 - 20 2010 ... Music to be set for liturgies ... Hamilton man appointed senior prison chaplain ... Offence not intended, judge tells Christchurch school ... Former All Black [Maurice McHugh] lived a life of faith, sport and service ... Lawyer [Pauline Kumeroa Kingi] dodged 'baccy factory' ... Passion Play a powerful experience ... Knight investiture a first for New Zealand ... Special Feature: Mary MacKillop celebrations throughout New Zealand (3 pages)
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Grave find may bring war heroes home (photos)
NZ Herald
http://tinyurl.com/2475lfv
Seventeen New Zealanders beheaded and left on a Pacific atoll have been virtually forgotten by their country - but newly unearthed remains have families praying their long-lost loved ones may finally be found.
OMG - did you see that billboard? (photos)
Taranki Daily News
http://tinyurl.com/23ftam4
A pew of Taranaki church leaders have embraced the arrival of a campaign in New Plymouth suggesting there is no such thing as God.
Police investigate Napier fire
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/
Police are investigating a suspicious fire at the St Patrick's Catholic Cathedral in Napier Central last night.
Church fire fifth arson in two weeks say police
http://www.hawkesbaytoday.co.
One woman spoke for all parishioners of St Patrick's Church, in Napier, when she heard there had been a fire last night - but that it had been confined to the exterior. "Thank God for that," she said after arriving while fire crews were checking the building over.
Mount Street cemetery turns 170 (photo)
The Wellingtonian
http://tinyurl.com/2fnnd8y
About 200 people gathered at Mount Street Cemetery last Sunday as Archbishop John Dew led a blessing for the 170th anniversary of the cemetery's consecration.
Dedicated Karamea couple married for 72 years (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2c4rzmw
[Obituary of Karl Jones, 92, and Mary Jones 94]
Margaret’s sister act (photo)
http://www.scene.co.nz/
Arrowtown volunteer Margaret Hyland will play a leading role in more ways than one at a special Catholic celebration this weekend. The organiser of festivities to mark the canonisation of the Blessed Mary MacKillop will don a nun’s habit and briefly assume the identity of Australasia’s first saint in front of 300 worshippers on Saturday.
Repair a long, careful process (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-
Repair work has started on the earthquake-damaged St Joseph's Church in Temuka, but there is no telling how long it will be until the church is returned to its original state.
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NEWS OF THE SCHOOLS
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St James kids keen to help quake-hit counterparts
Manawatu Standard
http://tinyurl.com/2g7grtk
When there’s only two of you, you have to stick together. This mantra has prompted Palmerston North's St James Catholic School to help out its Christchurch counterpart after it was damaged in the September 4 earthquake.
Bridging generation gap with midday meal (photos)
Hauraki Herald
http://tinyurl.com/264gnyy
Judging from the chatter and smiles coming from the 25 elderly residents invited to the St Joseph’s School Young Vinnies luncheon it was a gastronomic success.
Pasifika pupils triumph despite insult (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/
A Christchurch Pasifika secondary school team controversially told they could all "read and write" has collected the top award at a national business competition.
Beach play has arty outcome (photo)
Taranaki Daily News
http://tinyurl.com/2dzgpwb
Students from Francis Douglas Memorial College were taken back to their childhoods yesterday, making sandcastles at Back Beach for three hours as part of their art course.
Life and work of saint celebrated (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-
A weekend of celebrations in Arrowtown to commemorate the canonisation of Australia's first saint, Mary MacKillop, began with a liturgy about her life and work involving all 153 pupils of St Joseph's School, yesterday.
New school courts to boost pupils' sports (photo)
Piako Post
http://tinyurl.com/26ew8rs
Students at St Joseph's School Te Aroha will have their sport and recreation time greatly enbhanced thanks to a new multi-purpose court.
School on a mission for missions (photo)
Ruapehu Press
http://tinyurl.com/25m5kq5
St Patrick's [Taumarunui] had their annual Mission Day last month. This event raises money for projects in the area, national missionaries such as Sr June Hickland's Hauroto Mission and international organisations such as Caritas.
Top talent in town for show (photos)
Rotorua Review
http://tinyurl.com/2e2etg8
Noted past pupils Maisey Rika and Hinewehi Mohi will join the internationally recognised St Joseph’s Maori Girls’ College choir at the Civic Theatre on Saturday.
Young entrepreneurs onto a winner (photo)
The Hutt News
http://tinyurl.com/26o4nag
Trying to capture the moods of young people has won a group of Sacred Heart College pupils the Wellington Regional Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) award.
School celebrates nun's sainthood (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/
Students of Mary MacKillop School in Mangere East, New Zealand's only school to be named after recently canonised nun Mary MacKillop, have celebrated her newfound sainthood.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** Papal Vigil For All Nascent Life
** Peace in the Middle East
** Fairies at the bottom of the garden, Science, and Aristotelian philosophy
** Double Standards at St Patrick’s? (a public dressing-down in the cathedral)
** When those Saints go marching in (What to do about Halloween parties?)
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
'All are alive' - Luke 20: 27-38, a reading and discussion with Rev. Canon Jenny Wilkins and Very Rev. Frank Nelson of St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington.
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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/
Pondering Islam and its discontents
http://ncronline.org/blogs/
While Americans were preoccupied with midterm elections, the besieged Christians of Iraq faced yet another threat to their survival -- survival of the literal sort, not merely political. The blow came with an attack on a Syrian Catholic church in Baghdad, Our Lady of Salvation, which was seized by Al-Qaeda terrorists during Sunday Mass. A police raid left an estimated 57 dead and more than 60 wounded. As fate would have it, I was in Cleveland last night speaking at Notre Dame College's Abrahamic Center on "Vatican Interfaith Relations with Islam and Judaism." I'll summarize here what I said -- not because it offers any magic wand for preventing the kind of bloodshed we saw in Baghdad, but because the tragedy illustrates anew the urgency of deep and creative thinking about Christian/Muslim tensions...
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Bishop Pat Dunn's diary
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Catholic Discipleship College
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'The Fifteenth Station'
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Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
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SMNZ Marists - the Society of Mary in New Zealand
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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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