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New Director for the Catholic Church's National Office of Professional Standards is well placed for the challenges ahead (18 Jan 2018)
The National Professional Standards Committee (NPSC) has appointed former Christchurch lawyer and mother of two, Virginia Noonan, to the role of Director, National Office of Professional Standards (NOPS) ...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
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New Zealander to attend meeting of young people at Vatican
In March, New Zealand will take part in an international meeting in Rome of young minds on youth and their faith in preparation for the October Synod of Bishops on Young people, faith and vocation discernment. Joining the meeting, which will take place over four days in the Vatican, will be Wellingtonian Isabella McCafferty who has been appointed by the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference (NZCBC) as the New Zealand Catholic Church's representative at the meeting ...
'Quirky' Christchurch priest Father Graeme Blackburn dies in motorcycle crash (photos)
Christchurch Catholics are mourning the death of a "quirky" priest and flying instructor who died in a motorcycle crash. Father Graeme Blackburn, 33, was riding on Purau Port Levy Rd when he collided with a car on Monday.
Catholic Church disappointed state abuse inquiry won't be extended (text, photo, audio)
The Catholic Church in New Zealand and abuse survivors are upset the government may not be expanding an inquiry into abuse of children in state care to include faith-based institutions.
Politician stitched up in runner-up artwork (photo)
Deputy Prime Minister and New Zealand First leader Winston Peters may be a controversial politician to some but to embroidery artist Amy Baker, of Kingston, he is a prizewinner. At the 11th annual Craigs Aspiring Art Prize ceremony at the Holy Family Catholic School in Wanaka on Friday night, Baker was runner-up in the supreme award, the Craigs Investment Partners Prize, for her embroidered portrait of Mr Peters, entitled Had Enough? Baker said she started embroidering political portraits only a year ago and Mr Peters' was her third, after Donald Trump and Gareth Morgan.
Waikato nun remembers teenage Palestinian prisoner Ahed Tamimi (photo)
Ahed Tamimi is famous for slapping and kicking a couple of armed Israeli soldiers outside her home in Palestine. For Sister Barbara Cameron, a Waikato-based nun, Sister Barbara Cameron, the news was simply heartbreaking.
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THE FIFTEENTH STATION PODCAST
Episode 123 — Instruction, Inquiry, Immigration and Identification (January 16, 2018)
As 2018 gets under way, Pope Francis has been very clear in his advice to Vatican ambassadors — uphold the family and protect all life. He's also been clear about people's obligations to refugees and asylum-seekers, while acknowledging that some people can fear "the other". In New Zealand, there's a call for an inquiry into child abuse to include religious organisations, and in Australia, a new sculpture is causing a little confusion, but also raising awareness. Join Anna, Don, James and Gavin for the first episode of the year.
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CRUX - Edited by John L. Allen Jr. and Inés San Martin
** Peru on Saturday brings new chapter to story of 'Disaster Zone Pope'
Trujillo, Peru - An indescribable spirit of joy and hope, mixed with desolation and abandonment, is what Pope Francis encountered Saturday in the Buenos Aires neighborhood in Trujillo, in northern Peru, in a town still mourning the loss caused by the deadly floods of early 2017.
** Meet the priest who serves an unlikely community in Peru's Amazon
Puerto Maldonado, Peru - Father Pablo Zabala is a 70-year old Spanish priest, who serves in a remote part of the world: the Peruvian Amazon. Most of the people who fill his church pews are gold miners and sex workers in Boca Colorado - an area that some are likening to the California Gold Rush. Before Zabala began serving in the Amazon, his fellow clergy compared it to Sodom and Gomorrah...
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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 (right-hand column) http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
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