Sunday, November 4, 2012

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

Festive spirit (photos)
Timaru Herald
The Indian community is in festival mode, with the well-known Diwali festival taking place in a week. Features editor Claire Allison was invited to join South Canterbury's Indian community for Navratri last Saturday night.

Teen to dance at event honouring Mother Teresa (photo)
Michelle Antony has the honour of dancing before Gopalkrishna Gandhi, the former Governor of the State of West Bengal, India, and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, on November 18. The Arkles Bay teenager performs her Jesus Geetham Dance at the Catholic Church of Christ the King in Mt Roskill at 3pm.

Halloween's popularity growing in NZ
Children lining the streets with bags of lollies has become a popular sight in New Zealand during Halloween. The event has grown in popularity here over the past few years but many people don't know the true origin of the festival.

No reason to ban high-rise brothel - report
Auckland's first high-rise brothel could be a magnet for crime and drugs yet that is no reason to ban it because prostitution is legal. So says the official Auckland Council report from lead senior planner Jennifer Valentine, who backed the application and rejected moral and religious opposition, raising the ire of Monsignor David Tonks, pastoral assistant to the Catholic Bishop Pat Dunn, who opposes the brothel.

Ponsonby bar in storm over 'blasphemous' ad (photo)
Ponsonby's Chapel Bar & Bistro is causing a stir across the world for a "blasphemous" new advertisement which has raised the ire of Catholics in Auckland.

Foundation fights poverty (photo)
Manuaku Courier
Even a small organisation can make a big difference. That's the message Auckland Catholic Caring Foundation general manager Clare Wade says is at the heart of addressing poverty in New Zealand.

Canterbury youth housing crisis a serious public health concern
Media release from St John of God Health Care
A national non-profit organisation that specialises in working with young parents is calling the housing crisis in Christchurch a serious public health concern.

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News of the Schools
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Cullinane College, Wanganui: Spiritual values run high here http://www.wanganuichronicle.co.nz/news/spiritual-values-run-high-here/1608237/

Sacred Heart Girls' College, New Plymouth: Dear Miss, thank you so much http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff-nation/7882298/Dear-Miss-thank-you-so-much


St John's College, Hamilton: Teens in shock after friend's gym death (photo) http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/7896688/Teens-in-shock-after-friends-gym-death

St Joseph's, Stratford: Move keeps bell safe and sound (photo) http://www.stratfordpress.co.nz/news/move-keeps-bell-safe-and-sound/1604091/

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INSPIRATIONAL TV


A lasting message:
Mark 12: 28-44 To love, a reading and reflection with Father Jim Lyons and Christine Paterson.

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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC PODCASTS

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LIGHT OF THE WORLD - Otago Catholic Access Radio
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[Choose the "Click to download" link. The sound quality of the other one is terrible - ml]

28 October – Fr Robert Barron's explanation of why people leave the Church; and Thomas Woods on How the Catholic Church Built Western Civilisation.


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SOUNDS CATHOLIC - Christchurch Catholic Radio
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Sounds Catholic November 4 2012: A Catholic take on death. with Fr John O'Connor.

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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs


** Reassurance for WithHope …and a call to keep our eyes open to the silent crosses (engaging with Moslems; the suicide of a friend)

** Speaking right (a homily on speaking ill of others)

** Time to fight back… (in defence of New Zealand's Catholic schools)

** Nobel Prize and China's One Child Policy (Mo Yan on his government's one-child policy)

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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC PERIODICALS & NEWSLETTERS

'NZ Catholic' is a national newspaper published by the Catholic Bishop of Auckland. http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz 

Catholic Diocese of Hamilton. 'Kete Korero'. http://proudtobecatholic.org.nz/news-events/kete-korero/

Catholic Dioceses of Palmerston North and Wellington. 'Wel-com'  http://www.welcom.org.nz

Catholic Diocese of Christchurch. 'Inform' http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=25

Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. 'The Tablet' http://www.cdd.org.nz/the-tablet

The Nathaniel Centre. The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report' http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/?sid=5


NZ Catholic Education Office. 'Good News and the News' http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resources/resources_good_news.html

Society of Mary. 'Marist Messenger' http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz

St Columban's Mission Society. 'The Far East' http://www.columban.org.au/?MID=200510192652

'Tui Motu Interislands'. An independent Catholic magazine. http://www.tuimotu.org/articles

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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen Jr


Debunking four myths about John Paul I, the 'Smiling Pope'

Oct. 17 marked the 100th anniversary of the birth of Albino Luciani, the man who would become John Paul I, the "Smiling Pope" of just 33 days, from Aug. 26 to Sept. 28, 1978. John Paul I's papacy was the 10th shortest of all time, and the briefest since Leo XI's in the early 17th century. Yet the ferment shows he only needed a month to leave a deep mark on the Catholic imagination...

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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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NEWS OF THE CHURCH IN NZ AND THE WORLD






http://www.youtube.com/vatican (video news of Pope Benedict)

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EMPLOYMENT

[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised on the Website of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]

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