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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE
Hamilton Bishop to attend Global Synod on Young People (28 Sep 2018)
This week, Bishop Steve Lowe, the Bishop of Hamilton, will leave for Rome to attend the 2018 Synod of Bishops which this year is focused on young people. This Synod is the next step of almost two years of collaborative work from throughout the global Catholic Church ...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Dr Tony Foley, farewell long-serving Napier GP (photo)
Former long-serving Napier family doctor and health care leader Dr Tony Foley died peacefully at the age of 92 at St Joseph's Home, Auckland on September 11.
The Catholic Church needs to reform – and celibacy is a good place to start
The NZ Listener October 6, 2018
To judge whether any enterprise is succeeding or failing, you look at the numbers. For the Catholic Church, here's a recent set: Pope Francis visited Ireland, one of Catholicism's oldest and staunchest "markets", in August and drew fewer than 200,000 to his Dublin rally. In 1979, the papal service at the same park drew more than a million people...
Whangarei folk put their blood on the line (photo)
The Blood Service comes to town about every three months and as well as the ''casuals'' has always had a large number of committed regulars. The Catholic Women's League volunteers are always on hand to dish out the coffee, tea and biscuits to help top up the donors after their good deed.
Priest's sexual abuse at Upper Hutt school admitted: It's 'criminal' (photos)
The Marist Fathers has admitted a priest who led one of its top secondary schools sexually abused children. But decades on they will not release the file on Francis Durning, rector of St Patrick's College in Silverstream, Upper Hutt, in the 1950s.
Former Catholic school teacher referred to police over Dunedin abuse (photo)
A former Catholic school teacher who admitted the historic abuse of then-Dunedin boy Peter Boock is now the subject of a police complaint from two sources. Boock and the Education Council yesterday confirmed to ODT Insight they had both referred a complaint relating to Robin Pettit to police.
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News of the Schools
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Kavanagh College: Dunedin school adds agribusiness to curriculum (photo)
Kavanagh College: Fairweather not fazed by age battle (photo)
St Mary's College, Auckland: Chelsea Jade performs 'Perfect Stranger' with the St Mary's School Choir (photos, text and audio)
St Mary's, Rotorua: Rotorua schools, businesses and groups don colour galore for Loud Shirt Day (photo, video)
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INSPIRED WORD
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW3-dG1A3neGPJ041T9vjVw (Under: Created playlists)
Mark 9:38-48 Whoever is not against us is for us
A reading and commentary with Christine Paterson and Fr James Lyons.
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CRUX - Edited by John L. Allen Jr. and Inés San Martin
Cupich, Chaput joust over working document for Synod of Bishops
Ahead of next week's start to the much-anticipated month-long gathering of bishops in Rome, two American delegates have already preempted the debate by publishing an exchange on the guiding document for the meetings ...
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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'. 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. School News Update http://www.nzceo.org.nz/news/
Society of Mary. 'Marist Messenger' http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
St Columban's Mission Society. 'The Far East' https://www.columban.org.au/media-and-publications/the-far-east-magazine/archive/
'Tui Motu Interislands'. An independent Catholic magazine. http://www.tuimotu.org/
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NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS
Fr Frank Bird sm. Living the Word: Sundays of the Year: Discussion Guide - http://livingtheword.org.nz
Marist Messenger. Daily Reflections https://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/category/features/
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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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