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'NZ CATHOLIC'
Website: http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Full text articles: https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2017/
In issue no.525, October 8 - 21 2017: Historic Catholic Maori hui for Auckland ... NZCBC youth council chair appointed ... In Rome, NZ expert speaks out on abuse .. Plea to sponsor young Kiwis to go to youth festival ... Spirit flows at Wellington's sixth synod .. Aaron Dahmen set to make waves in media world ... Editorial: Let's douse the Catholic flame warring online ...NZ charismatics look to bright future ... St Dominic's College (Henderson) celebrates jubilee ... Hamilton looks to encounter Christ anew ... Digital learning programme to 100 schools ... 19000 cans collected for SVDP benefit
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
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50 years fighting for equality (photo)
Exactly 50 years ago this week, the first meeting was held for the Wairarapa branch of the National Council of women.
Sixty women attended, representing 20 organisations in the region. Masterton's Halina Kania, a life member, hopes the legacy left by the strong women of yesterday will influence the younger generation of women in Wairarapa.
Whanganui St Anthony's parishioners on seven day pilgrimage to mark 100 years (photos)
Five hundred members of St Anthony's Church in Whanganui are celebrating a centennial milestone with a six day pilgrimage walk to Paraparaumu.
A Life Story - Arts stalwart Bob Cater dies, age 80 (photo)
Obituary of Porirua arts and culture champion Robert (Bob) Raymond Cater, QSM, 1937 to 2017.
Further admissions by convicted paedophile and former priest Mark Brown (photo)
A convicted paedophile and former priest has admitted further historic offending, this time against a boy aged under 16 in the Waikato.
Compassion Housing will deliver community housing in Horowhenua
Registered community housing provider, Compassion Housing which has 17 years' experience in the sector will manage Horowhenua District Council's 115 units in Levin, Foxton and Shannon. Compassion Housing is part of the Sisters of Compassion Group, who helped develop New Zealand's social safety net in the 1890s ...
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News Of The Schools
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Aquinas College, Tauranga: Tauranga teenager Teri Dawson helps give shoes to kids in need (photo)
De La Salle College, Auckland: Jason Taumalolo, a humble school kid at De La Salle College in Auckland (photo)
Kavanagh College, Dunedin: Schools from Otago claim both titles at NZ champs (photo)
Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt: Sacred Heart student takes top honours at national speech competition
St Catherine's College, Wellington: Girl relentlessly bullied before death (photo)
St Joseph's, Picton: Picton school closes the book on more than a century of learning (photos)
As St Joseph's School closes after 103 years, colourful crayon pictures still hang on the walls, testament to happier times. Paula Hulburt reports.
St Joseph's Maori Girls College abuzz with 150th Jubilee preparations (photo)
Preparations to celebrate the 150th year of St Joseph's Maori Girls College are in their final stages as the school's jubilee weekend fast approaches.
Also: St Joseph's Maori Girls' College : Boarding School to Commemorate 150 Years
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
Sunday 8 October – Mt 21:33-43 - The parable of the vineyard owner
A reading and reflection with Sister Stephanie Kitching.
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CRUX - Edited by John L. Allen Jr. and Inés San Martin
** Child safety leader sees not just Church's dark past, but game-changing future
Baroness Joanna Shields, an American-born expert on internet safety and child protection who's now a member of the British House of Lords and a former UK Government Minister, says that when she looks at the Catholic Church and child welfare she doesn't just see a mixed past but a potentially game-changing future ...
** Some think interfaith dialogue goes nowhere. A veteran rabbi begs to differ.
on Kronish, an American-born rabbi in Israel, has devoted much of his life to dialogue among Jews, Muslims and Christians. His new book discusses the merits of dialogue. He says, the Vatican's increasingly warm relations with Israel, for example, were rooted not only in diplomatic moves but 35 years of "systemic and substantive progress in Jewish-Catholic relations" fostered by hard-working priests and rabbis.
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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC PERIODICALS & NEWSLETTERS (UPDATED JANUARY 2017)
'NZ Catholic' is a national newspaper published by the Catholic Bishop of Auckland. http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Catholic Diocese of Hamilton. 'Kete Korero'. https://issuu.com/search?q=%22kete+korero%22
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' https://catholic-diocese.squarespace.com/back-issues
The Nathaniel Centre. The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report' http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/
NZ Catholic Education Office. 'Lighting New Fires' http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resources/resources_lighting_new_fires.html
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/
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NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS
Catholic Enquiry Centre. Reflections on the Sunday Gospel
Fr Frank Bird sm. Living the Word - http://livingtheword.org.nz
Marist Messenger. Daily Reflections (right-hand column) http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
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NEWS OF THE CHURCH IN NZ AND THE WORLD
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EVENTS
Catholic Youth Festival 2-3 December 2017
The Aotearoa Catholic Youth Festival will take place in Auckland on the weekend of 2-3 December 2017. Hosted by the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference, the Festival organisers are expecting over 500 young people to attend.
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EMPLOYMENT
National Director, National Office for Professional Standards, Auckland
Details in 'NZ Catholic' October 8 - 21 2017 p.19, at https://www.ocg.co.nz/resources/jobs/MHU60941OCG and from Mike Hurdle tel. (04) 917 7355. Applications close 20 October 2017.
Safeguarding Coordinator, Archdiocese of Wellington
Details in 'NZ Catholic' October 8 - 21 2017 p.19, at https://www.ocg.co.nz/resources/jobs/MHU61215OCG and from Mike Hurdle tel. (04) 917 7355. Applications close 20 October 2017.
Lecturer / Site Leader, The Catholic Institute of Aotearoa New Zealand
Details in 'NZ Catholic' September 24 - October 7 p.19, and at http://www.tci.ac.nz/position
Applications close 18 October 2017
Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised on the Website of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz
Vacancies in the Catholic Overseas Volunteer programme, contact: volunteers@caritas.org.nz
Links to job vacancies in the Catholic dioceses of ...
Christchurch: http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=177
