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ASSUMPTION OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
Faith in Mary, A-Bomb survivor http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1286 Nagasaki (AsiaNews) – On Sunday, August 15, celebrations for the Feast of the Assumption, prayers for peace, and remembrance for the dead will bring together the people of Japan. On this day, whilst all will commemorate the end of World War Two, Catholics will celebrate the Assumption of Mary, and Buddhists will observe the day of the dead ...
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POPE JOHN PAUL IN LOURDES
"Suffering is not useless. It is an offering for the world " http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1294 Lourdes(AsiaNews) – The time of physical suffering is not “less fruitful”. This is the personal testimony that John Paul II gave today in Lourdes: “I share with you a time of life marked by physical suffering, but not less fruitful in God’s plan”....
Pope reveals why he is going on pilgrimage to Lourdes http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1273 Castelgandolfo (AsiaNews) - “I shall carry in my heart the gratitude and the pleas of the entire Church, if not the entire world, whose peace and salvation cannot come but from God.” With these words Pope John Paul II revealed his thoughts on the eve of his pilgrimage to Lourdes scheduled for August 14 and 15...
Further reports of the papal visit in the secular press, regularly updated: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=UTF-8&q=lourdes&scoring=d
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Catholic Education Office backs embattled NCEA system NZPA 14 August 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3003465a7694,00.html The Catholic Education Office (NZCEO) today backed the embattled National Certificate of Educational Achievement qualification, saying rogue behaviour at one school was nothing new...
Garin fails to meet roll target Nelson Mail 14 August 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/nelsonmail/0,2106,3003479a6510,00.html Garin College, Nelson's only Catholic secondary school has half the number of students it expected when it opened two years ago...
Disgraced priest now back in Christchurch The Press (Chch) 14 August 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/0,2106,3002138a6009,00.html Catholic authorities are keeping quiet about the future of disgraced Lyttelton priest Father Jim Consedine after his return to Christchurch from a year's exile...
A place for God in EU constitution, by Ian Harris http://tinyurl.com/5gapg Otago Daily Times 10 August 2004 If ever New Zealand puts itself through the agony of devising a written constitution, three things are certain. Interest groups (and not only Maori) will demand safeguards to give them special status. Lawyers will make hay. And champions of religion and secularism will go head to head. That, at least, is what has been happening in Europe during the past two years, as the team cobbling together a constitution for the enlarged European Union sorts out what it wants to do about God....
Noting Vatican icon a copy, Russian Orthodox leader reiterates there's no need for pope to visit CBS August 13, 2004 http://cbsnewyork.com/international/Russia-Vatican-ai/resources_news_html Moscow (AP) The leader of the Russian Orthodox Church emphasized Friday that Pope John Paul II is not welcome in Russia, reiterating that an icon the pontiff once hoped to return personally in a conciliatory gesture is a copy of a revered 16th-century work...
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
No. 193, August 8-21, 2004
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Foreshore bill called unjust, unnecessary Wellington - Citing human rights and social justice concerns, the Catholic agency Caritas has called for the Foreshore and Seabed Bill to be withdrawn from Parliament....
St Joseph's may be the only school in town Patea - A sudden demand for enrolments may be in prospect for St Joseph's School in Patea if it becomes the only school in the South Taranaki town of 1300 people...
French bishop sees benefits in relics Auckland - Bishop Jean-Yves Riocreux, who was instrumental in the return of the remains of Bishop Pompallier to New Zealand in 2002, says two other "significant pastoral experiences" involved the relics of saints....
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
The flame of faith, by Isabel de Bertodano The Tablet (UK) 14 August 2004 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-00925 The Olympics return this weekend to Athens, the city where they began. From their origins as homage to Zeus, to a nineteenth-century celebration of man's perfection, to the present, religion has always played its part ...
Why Sunday Mass? Australian Catholics, Spring 2004 http://www.australiancatholics.com.au/articles/04springexp.html Why do I have to go to Mass on Sunday? For generations children have asked their parents this question. Today many adults ask it too. It is an old and a new question, for though Mass remains the same, Sunday has changed....
US researcher says baby boomers remain churchgoers http://www.cathnews.com/news/408/68.php A researcher base in Georgia in the US says that the baby boomer generation is continuing to attend churches, although "boomers" who previous left have apparently now quit for good....
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
MEDIA RLEASES
Cardinal expresses sympathy to Jewish community (full text)
The Catholic Archbishop of Wellington, Cardinal Thomas Williams, has written to the Jewish community in Wellington expressing his deep sadness at the desecration of the graves in the Jewish section of the Bolton Street and Makara cemeteries. The Cardinal described the vandalism as shameful and atrocious, and on behalf of the Catholic people of the Wellington Archdiocese expressed profound sympathy to those who have family members buried in the two cemeteries as well as to the Jewish community as a whole. Many Catholic churches around the country offered prayers at weekend Masses for those Jewish families who had been affected by the desecration of the graves and the burning of the prayer chapel.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/index.php
British decision prompts Vatican to renew stem cell warning
Austrian Seminary shut over porn scandal
Pope warns Russian youth against hedonism, drugs
Vinnies plea for landlords to help sponsored refugees
Canadian tax authority warned churches to be silent on politics
Zambia's Catholic Church sanctions herbal medicine
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for August 13, 2004: John Paul goes to Lourdes, but not looking for a miracle; Mary and feminism; history of the Immaculate Conception; Ratzinger on Turkey's candidacy to join EU; what’s wrong with papal handicapping?
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EVENTS
The Tudor Consort with Gate Seven Orchestra: “Seven Last Words from the Cross” Saturday 21 August, 8pm, Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington (the performance will be recorded by Concert FM). Press release: http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/CU0408/S00067.htm Orchestra site: http://www.tudor-consort.org.nz
Worship and Healing Conference, 27-29 August 2004 St Patrick's College, Silverstream Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Service Group for Catholic Charismatic Renewal Details from Cherylynn Passmore, tel: (04) 526 6914; fax: (04) 526 2189; e-mail: cherylynn.passmore@xtra.co.nz
Schools Of Evangelisation http://www.wave.co.nz/~jlewis/SOE.html
Gisborne: New Life weekend September 17 - 19 2004 Venue: St Mary's Parish centre Campion Road, Gisborne. Starts 7 pm Friday - to 5 pm Sunday presented by members of the Hamilton Diocesan and Gisborne Schools of Evangelisation Teams. Contact: Huia - huiawhite@in2net.co.nz - or phone Doreen 06 868 4399 or Huia 06 868 4256
There is a link to our own family web site which goes through to the SOE's for NZ, Australia and Mexico (where they began - Sorry only in Spanish there at the moment!)
Visit to Hamilton by Canadian Musician and Evangelist Greg Magirescu. Concerts and testimony Thursday August 19, 7.30 pm at the Catholic Hall, Te Aroha Friday August 20, 7.30 pm at the Cathedral, Grey Street, Hamilton Saturday August 21, 7.30 pm, St Columba's, Frankton, Hamilton, 7.30 pm Sunday August 22, Tauranga - to be arranged Monday August 23, St Mary's Church, Rotorua, 7.30 pm
Visiting Schools for lunch time concert and testimony -Sacred Heart, Hamilton, Thursday 19 August Aquinas College, Tauranga, Monday 23 August John Paul 2 College, Rotorua, Tuesday 24 August
Seminar on Liturgy and Music Saturday August 21, 10 am - 3 pm Marian School - new buildings Contact: Father Michael Armstrong 07 854 9221
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Sunday, August 15, 2004
Sunday, August 8, 2004
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Aged care sector facing crisis Scoop 6 August 2004 http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0408/S00069.htm A decade of under-funding in aged residential and homecare support services has left the aged care sector facing a crisis of survival. This key message emerged from the NZ Council of Christian Social Services’ (NZCCSS) Conference in Auckland which ended today...
Chaplaincy service to ask Board to help http://tinyurl.com/5t4nb Otago Daily Times 4 August 2004 Dunedin's hospital chaplaincy is undergoing a financial crisis and will be seeking funding support from the Otago District Health Board (ODHB) to keep the service afloat. The chaplaincy contract from the Government was reduced from $56,000 to $36,000 last year under a funding change to a population-based allocation, forcing an initial cut back from three full-time hospital chaplain positions to 2.5. To make matters worse, churches, which are dealing with their own financial strains, have been withdrawing support...
Public art works are an everyday part of our lives. Otago Daily Times 5-August 2004 http://tinyurl.com/53k66 When Billy Connolly last played in Dunedin he had fun at the expense of the“plastic cross in St Paul's cathedral. As a former altar boy, he probably enjoyed taking the mickey out of the church. He is not the only person to find themselves bemused by this transparent cross...
Iraq's Christians fear persecution by compatriots Otago Daily Times 2-August 2004 http://tinyurl.com/4mxom Numbering about 750,000, Christians are a minority in Baghdad and, even as secular Iraqis worry about the growing tide of Islamic fundamentalism so long repressed under Saddam Hussein, their Christian compatriots are feeling the effects closer to home. They are anxious about their place in the new world around them; one that often sees them as collaborators with their American occupiers...
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
O’Connor, a Christian from India, may soon be free Solidarity from the whole Christian world. Bishop of Arabia: “Ours is a catacomb Church”. http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1245 Riyadh (AsiaNews) – “I am confident that the Lord will turn this mess into a message and my test into a testimony,” said Brian Savio O’Connor when he greeted two representatives from the Indian Embassy in Riyadh who recently visited him in prison. O’Connor is an Indian Catholic jailed for allegedly preaching Christianity...
“Christian migrants as prophets of communion and solidarity.” An interview with Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hamao, President of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant People. http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1238 Rome (AsiaNews) – Emigration in Asia is the new frontier of missionary action. Migrants not only seek to escape poverty, but also desire to share their culture and faith. For this reason, emigration is nourishing a new missionary trend. In light of it, the Parish must become a “second home” for migrants, a place where they are welcomed with open arms in a spirit of hospitality irrespective of their religion...
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
MEDIA RLEASES
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Church Leaders express grave concern at Darfur tragedy (full text) Church Leaders in New Zealand, are gravely concerned at the terrible tragedy developing in Darfur and say the suffering and violence in Sudan has been going on for too long. Effective international action is needed to support and advance conflict resolution efforts. In turn they ask the people of New Zealand to show compassion and generosity towards those in need in Darfur and Chad. The full statement is available from: http://www.cws.org.nz/Emergencies/Church-Leaders.asp
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/index.php
Bishops in call to boost effort to safeguard Great Barrier Reef Nun challenges media mischief on Timor oil Catholic women 'more likely' to have abortion Irish bishops critical of book on moral theology Hoax weeping statue church chases missing donations Milan Jesuits appoint female rector
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MARIST MESSENGER (Society of Mary, NZ)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
From the August 2004 issue ...
The Focus by Fr Carl Telford sm for August 2004 is about the sacrifice of the Mass From October 2004 the entire Church will celebrate the Year of the Eucharist
How to pray, some helps. Prayer is the fuel of faith and love
Another chance for some by Br John Blewman fms Br John tells the wonderful story of a special marist school in Fiji
Dedicated to the Mother of God, Fr Grahame Johnsen sm died on 24 May 2004
The sacrament of the present moment by Fr John Kelly ocso Abandonment means accepting that God is in charge and control, not us! Easier said than done.
Also in the print edition ...
The Theology of the Body ... The Triangle of Praise ... But God protect me from friends ... How I try to be a Marist spouse and parent ... Three saints for August ... To Jesus through Mary: what does Totus tuus mean?
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THE FAR EAST
St Columban's Missionary Society of Australia and NZ
http://www.columban.org.au/tfe/tfe_current.htm
From the July 2004 issue ...
From the Director: A missionary tells stories about God One of the best tasks I ever had was being involved in training young men to be Columban missionaries. The training took a long time so I got to know them well. As they spoke of what was going on in their lives it was marvellous to see what God was doing in them...
Horizons and changing frontiers, by Ray Scanlon For the last five years I have been on the staff of the Columban International House of Studies in Chicago, USA. This is where our Columban students come to live and learn theology with a view to being ordained as missionary priests. began this venture in 1998. Chicago was chosen as the location because of the presence of the Catholic Theological Union, a good School of Theology, for students preparing for cross-cultural missionary work...
A mission in her own land, by Leanne Hester If you visit the Columban parish spread throughout the aboriginal mountain villages of Taiwan, you will meet a woman who will introduce herself as “Vinai.” Vinai is an Atayal name, yet this woman, known for most of her life as Lin Tz In, is not an aborigine. She is Hakka, one of the Chinese ethnic groups in Taiwan. To the Columbans and the Atayals, she is regarded as Vinai and becoming more like one of them...
A life of devotion, by Sr Mary O’Dea It was the needs of the poor in China that touched the hearts of the first Columban Sisters who, despite the enormity of the challenge, were willing to leave all and respond to their needs. Today, the cry of impoverished people in our segregated world continues to speak to our hearts...
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for August 6, 2004 : Christian churches bombed in Iraq; 'On the Collaboration of Men and Women'; Saint Mary of the Snow and Cardinal Law; The English translation of the Mass; The Vatican and sports; Notes on ecumenism. New head of 'Communion and Liberation' on Europe's state of confusion
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EVENTS
Worship and Healing Conference, 27-29 August 2004 St Patrick's College, Silverstream Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Service Group for Catholic Charismatic Renewal Details from Cherylynn Passmore, tel: (04) 526 6914; fax: (04) 526 2189; e-mail: cherylynn.passmore@xtra.co.nz
Schools Of Evangelisation http://www.wave.co.nz/~jlewis/SOE.html
Gisborne: New Life weekend September 17 - 19 2004 Venue: St Mary's Parish centre Campion Road, Gisborne. Starts 7 pm Friday - to 5 pm Sunday presented by members of the Hamilton Diocesan and Gisborne Schools of Evangelisation Teams. Contact: Huia - huiawhite@in2net.co.nz - or phone Doreen 06 868 4399 or Huia 06 868 4256
There is a link to our own family web site which goes through to the SOE's for NZ, Australia and Mexico (where they began - Sorry only in Spanish there at the moment!)
Visit to Hamilton by Canadian Musician and Evangelist Greg Magirescu. Concerts and testimony Thursday August 19, 7.30 pm at the Catholic Hall, Te Aroha Friday August 20, 7.30 pm at the Cathedral, Grey Street, Hamilton Saturday August 21, 7.30 pm, St Columba's, Frankton, Hamilton, 7.30 pm Sunday August 22, Tauranga - to be arranged Monday August 23, St Mary's Church, Rotorua, 7.30 pm
Visiting Schools for lunch time concert and testimony -Sacred Heart, Hamilton, Thursday 19 August Aquinas College, Tauranga, Monday 23 August John Paul 2 College, Rotorua, Tuesday 24 August
Seminar on Liturgy and Music Saturday August 21, 10 am - 3 pm Marian School - new buildings Contact: Father Michael Armstrong 07 854 9221
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Presenters, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper 'NZ Catholic' wishes to employ skilled communicators to promote the paper at parish Masses. Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 25 August 7 p.22 and from Dennis Augustine, 'NZ Catholic', PO Box 147 000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Aged care sector facing crisis Scoop 6 August 2004 http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0408/S00069.htm A decade of under-funding in aged residential and homecare support services has left the aged care sector facing a crisis of survival. This key message emerged from the NZ Council of Christian Social Services’ (NZCCSS) Conference in Auckland which ended today...
Chaplaincy service to ask Board to help http://tinyurl.com/5t4nb Otago Daily Times 4 August 2004 Dunedin's hospital chaplaincy is undergoing a financial crisis and will be seeking funding support from the Otago District Health Board (ODHB) to keep the service afloat. The chaplaincy contract from the Government was reduced from $56,000 to $36,000 last year under a funding change to a population-based allocation, forcing an initial cut back from three full-time hospital chaplain positions to 2.5. To make matters worse, churches, which are dealing with their own financial strains, have been withdrawing support...
Public art works are an everyday part of our lives. Otago Daily Times 5-August 2004 http://tinyurl.com/53k66 When Billy Connolly last played in Dunedin he had fun at the expense of the“plastic cross in St Paul's cathedral. As a former altar boy, he probably enjoyed taking the mickey out of the church. He is not the only person to find themselves bemused by this transparent cross...
Iraq's Christians fear persecution by compatriots Otago Daily Times 2-August 2004 http://tinyurl.com/4mxom Numbering about 750,000, Christians are a minority in Baghdad and, even as secular Iraqis worry about the growing tide of Islamic fundamentalism so long repressed under Saddam Hussein, their Christian compatriots are feeling the effects closer to home. They are anxious about their place in the new world around them; one that often sees them as collaborators with their American occupiers...
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
O’Connor, a Christian from India, may soon be free Solidarity from the whole Christian world. Bishop of Arabia: “Ours is a catacomb Church”. http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1245 Riyadh (AsiaNews) – “I am confident that the Lord will turn this mess into a message and my test into a testimony,” said Brian Savio O’Connor when he greeted two representatives from the Indian Embassy in Riyadh who recently visited him in prison. O’Connor is an Indian Catholic jailed for allegedly preaching Christianity...
“Christian migrants as prophets of communion and solidarity.” An interview with Cardinal Stephen Fumio Hamao, President of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant People. http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1238 Rome (AsiaNews) – Emigration in Asia is the new frontier of missionary action. Migrants not only seek to escape poverty, but also desire to share their culture and faith. For this reason, emigration is nourishing a new missionary trend. In light of it, the Parish must become a “second home” for migrants, a place where they are welcomed with open arms in a spirit of hospitality irrespective of their religion...
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
MEDIA RLEASES
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Church Leaders express grave concern at Darfur tragedy (full text) Church Leaders in New Zealand, are gravely concerned at the terrible tragedy developing in Darfur and say the suffering and violence in Sudan has been going on for too long. Effective international action is needed to support and advance conflict resolution efforts. In turn they ask the people of New Zealand to show compassion and generosity towards those in need in Darfur and Chad. The full statement is available from: http://www.cws.org.nz/Emergencies/Church-Leaders.asp
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/index.php
Bishops in call to boost effort to safeguard Great Barrier Reef Nun challenges media mischief on Timor oil Catholic women 'more likely' to have abortion Irish bishops critical of book on moral theology Hoax weeping statue church chases missing donations Milan Jesuits appoint female rector
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MARIST MESSENGER (Society of Mary, NZ)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
From the August 2004 issue ...
The Focus by Fr Carl Telford sm for August 2004 is about the sacrifice of the Mass From October 2004 the entire Church will celebrate the Year of the Eucharist
How to pray, some helps. Prayer is the fuel of faith and love
Another chance for some by Br John Blewman fms Br John tells the wonderful story of a special marist school in Fiji
Dedicated to the Mother of God, Fr Grahame Johnsen sm died on 24 May 2004
The sacrament of the present moment by Fr John Kelly ocso Abandonment means accepting that God is in charge and control, not us! Easier said than done.
Also in the print edition ...
The Theology of the Body ... The Triangle of Praise ... But God protect me from friends ... How I try to be a Marist spouse and parent ... Three saints for August ... To Jesus through Mary: what does Totus tuus mean?
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THE FAR EAST
St Columban's Missionary Society of Australia and NZ
http://www.columban.org.au/tfe/tfe_current.htm
From the July 2004 issue ...
From the Director: A missionary tells stories about God One of the best tasks I ever had was being involved in training young men to be Columban missionaries. The training took a long time so I got to know them well. As they spoke of what was going on in their lives it was marvellous to see what God was doing in them...
Horizons and changing frontiers, by Ray Scanlon For the last five years I have been on the staff of the Columban International House of Studies in Chicago, USA. This is where our Columban students come to live and learn theology with a view to being ordained as missionary priests. began this venture in 1998. Chicago was chosen as the location because of the presence of the Catholic Theological Union, a good School of Theology, for students preparing for cross-cultural missionary work...
A mission in her own land, by Leanne Hester If you visit the Columban parish spread throughout the aboriginal mountain villages of Taiwan, you will meet a woman who will introduce herself as “Vinai.” Vinai is an Atayal name, yet this woman, known for most of her life as Lin Tz In, is not an aborigine. She is Hakka, one of the Chinese ethnic groups in Taiwan. To the Columbans and the Atayals, she is regarded as Vinai and becoming more like one of them...
A life of devotion, by Sr Mary O’Dea It was the needs of the poor in China that touched the hearts of the first Columban Sisters who, despite the enormity of the challenge, were willing to leave all and respond to their needs. Today, the cry of impoverished people in our segregated world continues to speak to our hearts...
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for August 6, 2004 : Christian churches bombed in Iraq; 'On the Collaboration of Men and Women'; Saint Mary of the Snow and Cardinal Law; The English translation of the Mass; The Vatican and sports; Notes on ecumenism. New head of 'Communion and Liberation' on Europe's state of confusion
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EVENTS
Worship and Healing Conference, 27-29 August 2004 St Patrick's College, Silverstream Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Service Group for Catholic Charismatic Renewal Details from Cherylynn Passmore, tel: (04) 526 6914; fax: (04) 526 2189; e-mail: cherylynn.passmore@xtra.co.nz
Schools Of Evangelisation http://www.wave.co.nz/~jlewis/SOE.html
Gisborne: New Life weekend September 17 - 19 2004 Venue: St Mary's Parish centre Campion Road, Gisborne. Starts 7 pm Friday - to 5 pm Sunday presented by members of the Hamilton Diocesan and Gisborne Schools of Evangelisation Teams. Contact: Huia - huiawhite@in2net.co.nz - or phone Doreen 06 868 4399 or Huia 06 868 4256
There is a link to our own family web site which goes through to the SOE's for NZ, Australia and Mexico (where they began - Sorry only in Spanish there at the moment!)
Visit to Hamilton by Canadian Musician and Evangelist Greg Magirescu. Concerts and testimony Thursday August 19, 7.30 pm at the Catholic Hall, Te Aroha Friday August 20, 7.30 pm at the Cathedral, Grey Street, Hamilton Saturday August 21, 7.30 pm, St Columba's, Frankton, Hamilton, 7.30 pm Sunday August 22, Tauranga - to be arranged Monday August 23, St Mary's Church, Rotorua, 7.30 pm
Visiting Schools for lunch time concert and testimony -Sacred Heart, Hamilton, Thursday 19 August Aquinas College, Tauranga, Monday 23 August John Paul 2 College, Rotorua, Tuesday 24 August
Seminar on Liturgy and Music Saturday August 21, 10 am - 3 pm Marian School - new buildings Contact: Father Michael Armstrong 07 854 9221
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Presenters, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper 'NZ Catholic' wishes to employ skilled communicators to promote the paper at parish Masses. Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 25 August 7 p.22 and from Dennis Augustine, 'NZ Catholic', PO Box 147 000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034
Sunday, August 1, 2004
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
MEDIA RLEASES
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
New Catholic Website spreads Good News in Cyber Space (30 Jul 2004) Those who check-in to the main NZ Catholic website http://www.catholic.org.nz may have noticed that it has quietly assumed a whole new look recently. The National Director of Catholic Communications, Lyndsay Freer, describes the new website as a major move by the New Zealand bishops to ensure that the Church continues to fulfil its gospel mandate to call, inform and educate in this newest and most pervasive of all apostolates - cyberspace....
Reflection on the Address of the Hon. John Tamihere M.P. on the Roles of Men and Boys in New Zealand Society, by Brother Pat Lynch, Chief Executive Officer, New Zealand Catholic Education Office (30 Jul 2004)
New Vatican document on feminism and gender differentiation (30 Jul 2004) On Sunday morning (New Zealand time) the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is to publish a document, with the approval of Pope John Paul, dealing with feminism and gender differentiation...
First Member of NZ Team Leaves for Darfur (28 Jul 2004) The first person of the three member team sent to Darfur by Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand and Christian World Service (CWS) left last week....
Hamilton Diocese Flood Relief Appeal launched (full text) The Catholic Bishop of Hamilton, Bishop Denis Browne, has established a Diocesan Flood Relief Fund to assist those who have been devastated by the flooding in the Eastern Bay of Plenty Area. “Many peoples lives have been affected,” says Bishop Browne. “I know that the Catholic community of the diocese will want to respond as generously as possible to this appeal”. Donations can be sent to: Hamilton Diocese Flood Relief Appeal Po Box 4353 Hamilton East
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/index.php
Kidnapped Colombian bishop released unharmed by rebel captors Sudan bishop urges pressure on unreliable government Brisbane Archbishop releases major planning document Priest denies Redfern church is 'for the Aboriginals' More non-Catholic families looking to Catholic schools Archbishop to announce weeping statue probe results this morning
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. "Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the collaboration of men and women in the Church and in the World"
Full text: http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57636
Commentary in the secular press: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=UTF-8&q=vatican+women&scoring=d
Lourdes Accepting Intentions via Internet (full text) Paris, July 29, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The Internet makes it possible to participate spiritually in John Paul II's pastoral visit to Lourdes on Aug. 14-15, and deposit a prayer in the grotto of the French shrine. Father Thierry Lamboley and Sister Catherine Sesboue have committed themselves to place in Massabielle the intentions sent before Aug. 14 to the e-mail address: lourdes2004@croire.com The priest and nun will open the e-mails at Lourdes and deposit the intentions in the Massabielle Grotto. The official Web page of the papal visit is http://www.lourdes2004.com.
Zimbabwe's good shepherd. The Tablet interviews Archbishop Pius Ncube The Tablet (UK) 31 July 2004 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-00922 Pius Ncube, Archbishop of Bulawayo, is Robert Mugabe's most fearless critic. He talks to James Roberts about his country and his battle with the dictator ...
Pornography: the Degrading Behemoth (Two-Part interview) Scottsdale, Arizona, July 28, 2004 (Zenit.org).- A lawyer who has been fighting pornography for more than 20 years says it may be the "true hate literature" of our age. Alan Sears, president and general counsel of the Alliance Defense Fund, shared with ZENIT how pornography perpetuates hatred and exploitation of the human person and preys upon individuals' weaknesses for profit.
Part one: The evils of a booming enterprise http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57511
Part two: Free speech, censorship - and fighting back http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57569
The ten commandments today: Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolari Movement exclusive comment for Fides http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0407/27_2917.html
The Ten Commandments today: Thoughts shared by Luigi Bobba, President Italian Christian Workers Association http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0407/29_2938.html
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Sisters with a mission The Age (Melbourne) July 22, 2004 http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/21/1090089208552.html?oneclick=true "Sisters, Pearls and Mission Girls" is a documentary about the history of the Sisters of St John of God in the Kimberley and their close links to the region's Aboriginal community. For many of those watching that night in Broome, it was the first time their story had been told....
American educators learn about wartime rescuers of Jews Haaretz (Tel Aviv) 25 July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/3qtuo Warsaw, Poland - In her small nursing home room - its walls adorned with images of Christ and a letter from the pope - Irena Sendler remembered what drove her to risk her life to save 2,500 Jewish children during the Holocaust. "I simply tried to help the people in need," Sendler, now 94, told a group of American visitors. "But please - never say that I am a hero" ....
More tea, Cardinal?, by John Walsh The Independent (UK) 26 July 2004 http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=544846 What happens when you've lost your religion, and the most senior figure in Britain's Roman Catholic Church invites you round for a chat? In a rare and candid conversation, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor defends the faith to one of the unfaithful ...
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for July 30, 2004: Women religious in a globalized world ... Reporting on Opus Dei ... Responding to Africa's needs ... The Holy See's new health foundation... Update on the Austrian seminary investigation ... Padre Pio gets credit for liberation of Italian hostages ... American and European attitudes to religion in the public arena
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ELIZABETH LEV'S ROMAN NEWSLETTER
Elizabeth Lev teaches Christian art and architecture at Duquesne University’s Rome campus.
In her July 29 newsletter at: http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57570 ...
Rome's Great Synagogue: a phoenix by the Tiber ... St. Mary Major's Day of Glory ... Bee Fountain stung by vandals
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EVENTS
Worship and Healing Conference, 27-29 August 2004 St Patrick's College, Silverstream Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Service Group for Catholic Charismatic Renewal Details from Cherylynn Passmore, tel: (04) 526 6914; fax: (04) 526 2189; e-mail: cherylynn.passmore@xtra.co.nz
Schools Of Evangelisation http://www.wave.co.nz/~jlewis/SOE.html
Gisborne: New Life weekend September 17 - 19 2004 Venue: St Mary's Parish centre Campion Road, Gisborne. Starts 7 pm Friday - to 5 pm Sunday presented by members of the Hamilton Diocesan and Gisborne Schools of Evangelisation Teams. Contact: Huia - huiawhite@in2net.co.nz - or phone Doreen 06 868 4399 or Huia 06 868 4256
There is a link to our own family web site which goes through to the SOE's for NZ, Australia and Mexico (where they began - Sorry only in Spanish there at the moment!)
Visit to Hamilton by Canadian Musician and Evangelist Greg Magirescu. Concerts and testimony Thursday August 19, 7.30 pm at the Catholic Hall, Te Aroha Friday August 20, 7.30 pm at the Cathedral, Grey Street, Hamilton Saturday August 21, 7.30 pm, St Columba's, Frankton, Hamilton, 7.30 pm Sunday August 22, Tauranga - to be arranged Monday August 23, St Mary's Church, Rotorua, 7.30 pm
Visiting Schools for lunch time concert and testimony -Sacred Heart, Hamilton, Thursday 19 August Aquinas College, Tauranga, Monday 23 August John Paul 2 College, Rotorua, Tuesday 24 August
Seminar on Liturgy and Music Saturday August 21, 10 am - 3 pm Marian School - new buildings Contact: Father Michael Armstrong 07 854 9221
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Presenters, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper 'NZ Catholic' wishes to employ skilled communicators to promote the paper at parish Masses. Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 25 August 7 p.22 and from Dennis Augustine, 'NZ Catholic', PO Box 147 000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
MEDIA RLEASES
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
New Catholic Website spreads Good News in Cyber Space (30 Jul 2004) Those who check-in to the main NZ Catholic website http://www.catholic.org.nz may have noticed that it has quietly assumed a whole new look recently. The National Director of Catholic Communications, Lyndsay Freer, describes the new website as a major move by the New Zealand bishops to ensure that the Church continues to fulfil its gospel mandate to call, inform and educate in this newest and most pervasive of all apostolates - cyberspace....
Reflection on the Address of the Hon. John Tamihere M.P. on the Roles of Men and Boys in New Zealand Society, by Brother Pat Lynch, Chief Executive Officer, New Zealand Catholic Education Office (30 Jul 2004)
New Vatican document on feminism and gender differentiation (30 Jul 2004) On Sunday morning (New Zealand time) the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is to publish a document, with the approval of Pope John Paul, dealing with feminism and gender differentiation...
First Member of NZ Team Leaves for Darfur (28 Jul 2004) The first person of the three member team sent to Darfur by Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand and Christian World Service (CWS) left last week....
Hamilton Diocese Flood Relief Appeal launched (full text) The Catholic Bishop of Hamilton, Bishop Denis Browne, has established a Diocesan Flood Relief Fund to assist those who have been devastated by the flooding in the Eastern Bay of Plenty Area. “Many peoples lives have been affected,” says Bishop Browne. “I know that the Catholic community of the diocese will want to respond as generously as possible to this appeal”. Donations can be sent to: Hamilton Diocese Flood Relief Appeal Po Box 4353 Hamilton East
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/index.php
Kidnapped Colombian bishop released unharmed by rebel captors Sudan bishop urges pressure on unreliable government Brisbane Archbishop releases major planning document Priest denies Redfern church is 'for the Aboriginals' More non-Catholic families looking to Catholic schools Archbishop to announce weeping statue probe results this morning
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. "Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church on the collaboration of men and women in the Church and in the World"
Full text: http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57636
Commentary in the secular press: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&edition=us&ie=UTF-8&q=vatican+women&scoring=d
Lourdes Accepting Intentions via Internet (full text) Paris, July 29, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The Internet makes it possible to participate spiritually in John Paul II's pastoral visit to Lourdes on Aug. 14-15, and deposit a prayer in the grotto of the French shrine. Father Thierry Lamboley and Sister Catherine Sesboue have committed themselves to place in Massabielle the intentions sent before Aug. 14 to the e-mail address: lourdes2004@croire.com The priest and nun will open the e-mails at Lourdes and deposit the intentions in the Massabielle Grotto. The official Web page of the papal visit is http://www.lourdes2004.com.
Zimbabwe's good shepherd. The Tablet interviews Archbishop Pius Ncube The Tablet (UK) 31 July 2004 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-00922 Pius Ncube, Archbishop of Bulawayo, is Robert Mugabe's most fearless critic. He talks to James Roberts about his country and his battle with the dictator ...
Pornography: the Degrading Behemoth (Two-Part interview) Scottsdale, Arizona, July 28, 2004 (Zenit.org).- A lawyer who has been fighting pornography for more than 20 years says it may be the "true hate literature" of our age. Alan Sears, president and general counsel of the Alliance Defense Fund, shared with ZENIT how pornography perpetuates hatred and exploitation of the human person and preys upon individuals' weaknesses for profit.
Part one: The evils of a booming enterprise http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57511
Part two: Free speech, censorship - and fighting back http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57569
The ten commandments today: Chiara Lubich, founder of the Focolari Movement exclusive comment for Fides http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0407/27_2917.html
The Ten Commandments today: Thoughts shared by Luigi Bobba, President Italian Christian Workers Association http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0407/29_2938.html
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Sisters with a mission The Age (Melbourne) July 22, 2004 http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/07/21/1090089208552.html?oneclick=true "Sisters, Pearls and Mission Girls" is a documentary about the history of the Sisters of St John of God in the Kimberley and their close links to the region's Aboriginal community. For many of those watching that night in Broome, it was the first time their story had been told....
American educators learn about wartime rescuers of Jews Haaretz (Tel Aviv) 25 July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/3qtuo Warsaw, Poland - In her small nursing home room - its walls adorned with images of Christ and a letter from the pope - Irena Sendler remembered what drove her to risk her life to save 2,500 Jewish children during the Holocaust. "I simply tried to help the people in need," Sendler, now 94, told a group of American visitors. "But please - never say that I am a hero" ....
More tea, Cardinal?, by John Walsh The Independent (UK) 26 July 2004 http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=544846 What happens when you've lost your religion, and the most senior figure in Britain's Roman Catholic Church invites you round for a chat? In a rare and candid conversation, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor defends the faith to one of the unfaithful ...
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for July 30, 2004: Women religious in a globalized world ... Reporting on Opus Dei ... Responding to Africa's needs ... The Holy See's new health foundation... Update on the Austrian seminary investigation ... Padre Pio gets credit for liberation of Italian hostages ... American and European attitudes to religion in the public arena
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ELIZABETH LEV'S ROMAN NEWSLETTER
Elizabeth Lev teaches Christian art and architecture at Duquesne University’s Rome campus.
In her July 29 newsletter at: http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=57570 ...
Rome's Great Synagogue: a phoenix by the Tiber ... St. Mary Major's Day of Glory ... Bee Fountain stung by vandals
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EVENTS
Worship and Healing Conference, 27-29 August 2004 St Patrick's College, Silverstream Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Service Group for Catholic Charismatic Renewal Details from Cherylynn Passmore, tel: (04) 526 6914; fax: (04) 526 2189; e-mail: cherylynn.passmore@xtra.co.nz
Schools Of Evangelisation http://www.wave.co.nz/~jlewis/SOE.html
Gisborne: New Life weekend September 17 - 19 2004 Venue: St Mary's Parish centre Campion Road, Gisborne. Starts 7 pm Friday - to 5 pm Sunday presented by members of the Hamilton Diocesan and Gisborne Schools of Evangelisation Teams. Contact: Huia - huiawhite@in2net.co.nz - or phone Doreen 06 868 4399 or Huia 06 868 4256
There is a link to our own family web site which goes through to the SOE's for NZ, Australia and Mexico (where they began - Sorry only in Spanish there at the moment!)
Visit to Hamilton by Canadian Musician and Evangelist Greg Magirescu. Concerts and testimony Thursday August 19, 7.30 pm at the Catholic Hall, Te Aroha Friday August 20, 7.30 pm at the Cathedral, Grey Street, Hamilton Saturday August 21, 7.30 pm, St Columba's, Frankton, Hamilton, 7.30 pm Sunday August 22, Tauranga - to be arranged Monday August 23, St Mary's Church, Rotorua, 7.30 pm
Visiting Schools for lunch time concert and testimony -Sacred Heart, Hamilton, Thursday 19 August Aquinas College, Tauranga, Monday 23 August John Paul 2 College, Rotorua, Tuesday 24 August
Seminar on Liturgy and Music Saturday August 21, 10 am - 3 pm Marian School - new buildings Contact: Father Michael Armstrong 07 854 9221
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Presenters, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper 'NZ Catholic' wishes to employ skilled communicators to promote the paper at parish Masses. Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 25 August 7 p.22 and from Dennis Augustine, 'NZ Catholic', PO Box 147 000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034
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Sunday, July 25, 2004
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
No 192, July 25-August 7, 2004 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
Dunedin's new bishop ordained DUNEDIN - Newly ordained at the sixth Bishop of Dunedin, the Most Rev. Colin Campbell arrived on July 10 at St Joseph's Cathedral, where he had once served as a priest, and waited in anticipation for his Saturday morning liturgical installation....
National conference for religious WELLINGTON - Fr Timothy Radcliffe, OP, will be the keynote presenter at New Zealand's first national conference of women and men religious, to be held in Wellington next January...
Aubert inquiry ends in archdiocese WELLINGTON - The archdiocesan inquiry into the beatification and canonisation of Suzanne Aubert ended with a liturgy at the Wellington cathedral on July 4....
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
New Catholic school planned NZ City 22 July 2004 http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.asp?id=41487 A demand for private education and a population boom has prompted the Catholic Church to plan a new high school in Silverdale, north of Auckland. ...
Choir's Melbourne trip proves uplifting Voices filled two cathedrals Otago Daily Times Tuesday, 20-July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/6kbkn Dunedin church choir Cantores In Ecclesia has returned triumphant from a six-day visit to Melbourne. The choir sang at a solemn Mass conducted by the Archbishop of Melbourne, the Most Rev Denis Hart, at the Roman Catholic St Patrick's Cathedral - and in the evening sang a traditional evensong at the Anglican St Paul's Cathedral...
Singing priest: Father Chris Skinner is a no ordinary priest. He can sing like an angel (video report) 'Holmes' TVNZ 20 July 2004 http://tvnz.co.nz/view/tvone_minisite_story_skin/437249%3fformat=html
Extradition hearing extends to Christmas NZPA 24 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2981118a11,00.html Sydney: An extradition tradition hearing in Sydney for three Catholic clergymen wanted in Christchurch to face historical sexual abuse charges will not finish until days before Christmas...
Former Catholic brother arrested over historic sex abuse ... NZPA 19 july 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2976623a11,00.html Upper Hutt police have arrested and charged a former Catholic Brother in relation to a complaint of historic sexual indecencies on a male student at Hato Paora College near Feilding in 1984...
Morals watchdog hit with legal costs NZ Herald 24.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/59ja5 The public morals watchdog group that has repeatedly sought to stop festival screenings of controversial films has had an award against it of legal costs of more than $4500. The costs relate to a 2002 case in which the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards unsuccessfully sought a review of the classification of the French film Baise-Moi ...
"Passion of Christ" for Christians only Reuters 22 July, 2004 http://tinyurl.com/4epzj Kuala Lumpur (Reuters) - It broke box office records in parts of the Middle East, the heart of Islam, and is now screening in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country. But to view Mel Gibson's "Passion of Christ" in Malaysia, viewers must be Christian. No Muslims are allowed to see it...
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FROK THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
What do young people really think today? Edmund Rice Network News Edition 14: July 2004 Holy Spirit Province http://www.westcourt.wa.edu.au/home/erfnews/ERNN14e.html Before attending this highly devout, private Catholic School, religion held no significance in my unenlightened and basic life. I took an arrogant stance towards any religion, as I was basically taught that it was a load of garbage...
Chaldaean bishop: “We are builders of the new Iraq” http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1159 Signs of hope and Western blindness; confidence in Allawi’s government and Christians’ duty. Full interview with Monsignor Rabban Al Qas, Chaldaean bishop of Amadiyah (northern Iraq), who is in Italy raising funds for the reconstruction of his country...
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/index.php
INTERNATIONAL NEWS Australia ethicist rethinks position on 'vegetative state' Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott says abortion film 'will do no harm' Pope sets date for return of icon to Russia Premier pays tribute to Christian Brothers' schools ministry Brisbane Commission forges support link with Zimbabwe Church in PNG says its no longer a mission territory
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CARITAS AOTEAROA NZ
http://www.caritas.org.nz
New Zealanders to assist in Sudan 19 July, 2004: Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand and Christian World Service (CWS) are sending three New Zealanders to Darfur, Western Sudan to assist in humanitarian relief efforts where over 1 million people have been affected by violence from Janjaweed militias....
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for July 23, 2004: Conversation with Sant'Egidio founder Andrea Riccardi; Opinions of Sant'Egidio; Vatican gets serious on Africa; Catholic-Jewish dialogue; Vatican investigates Austrian seminary sex scandal; More reflections from Peru
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EVENTS
Worship and Healing Conference, 27-29 August 2004 St Patrick's College, Silverstream Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Service Group for Catholic Charismatic Renewal Details from Cherylynn Passmore, tel: (04) 526 6914; fax: (04) 526 2189; e-mail: cherylynn.passmore@xtra.co.nz
Schools Of Evangelisation http://www.wave.co.nz/~jlewis/SOE.html
Gisborne: New Life weekend September 17 - 19 2004 Venue: St Mary's Parish centre Campion Road, Gisborne. Starts 7 pm Friday - to 5 pm Sunday presented by members of the Hamilton Diocesan and Gisborne Schools of Evangelisation Teams. Contact: Huia - huiawhite@xtra.co.nz - or phone Doreen 06 868 4399 or Huia 06 868 4256
There is a link to our own family web site which goes through to the SOE's for NZ, Australia and Mexico (where they began - Sorry only in Spanish there at the moment!)
Visit to Hamilton by Canadian Musician and Evangelist Greg Magirescu. Concerts and testimony Thursday August 19, 7.30 pm at the Catholic Hall, Te Aroha Friday August 20, 7.30 pm at the Cathedral, Grey Street, Hamilton Saturday August 21, 7.30 pm, St Columba's, Frankton, Hamilton, 7.30 pm Sunday August 22, Tauranga - to be arranged Monday August 23, St Mary's Church, Rotorua, 7.30 pm
Visiting Schools for lunch time concert and testimony -Sacred Heart, Hamilton, Thursday 19, Aquinas College, Tauranga, Monday 23, John Paul 2 College, Rotorua, Tuesday 24 August
Seminar on Liturgy and Music Saturday August 21, 10 am - 3 pm Marian School - new buildings Contact: Father Michael Armstrong 07 854 9221
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Chief Executive, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, 'Wel-com' July 2004 p.17, and from Mike Hurdle or Catharina Vossen at MiCah Partners, tel (04) 499 4749; fax: (04) 499 7375; e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz; PO Box 499, Wellington. Applications close 23 July 2004
Supervisor, Catholic Worker House of Hospitality, Palmerston North Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, and from M. Eastham, 11 Suffolk Crescent, Feilding; tel: (06) 323 8684; e-mail: m.eastham@xtra.co.nz Applications close 30 July 2004
Journalist. 'NZ Catholic' newspaper Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 25-August 7 p.23 and from Pat McCarthy, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland; e-mail: catholic@iconz.co.nz Applications close 30 July.
Presenters, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper 'NZ Catholic' wishes to employ skilled communicators to promote the paper at parish Masses. Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 25 August 7 p.22 and from Dennis Augustine, 'NZ Catholic', PO Box 147 000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
No 192, July 25-August 7, 2004 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
Dunedin's new bishop ordained DUNEDIN - Newly ordained at the sixth Bishop of Dunedin, the Most Rev. Colin Campbell arrived on July 10 at St Joseph's Cathedral, where he had once served as a priest, and waited in anticipation for his Saturday morning liturgical installation....
National conference for religious WELLINGTON - Fr Timothy Radcliffe, OP, will be the keynote presenter at New Zealand's first national conference of women and men religious, to be held in Wellington next January...
Aubert inquiry ends in archdiocese WELLINGTON - The archdiocesan inquiry into the beatification and canonisation of Suzanne Aubert ended with a liturgy at the Wellington cathedral on July 4....
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
New Catholic school planned NZ City 22 July 2004 http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.asp?id=41487 A demand for private education and a population boom has prompted the Catholic Church to plan a new high school in Silverdale, north of Auckland. ...
Choir's Melbourne trip proves uplifting Voices filled two cathedrals Otago Daily Times Tuesday, 20-July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/6kbkn Dunedin church choir Cantores In Ecclesia has returned triumphant from a six-day visit to Melbourne. The choir sang at a solemn Mass conducted by the Archbishop of Melbourne, the Most Rev Denis Hart, at the Roman Catholic St Patrick's Cathedral - and in the evening sang a traditional evensong at the Anglican St Paul's Cathedral...
Singing priest: Father Chris Skinner is a no ordinary priest. He can sing like an angel (video report) 'Holmes' TVNZ 20 July 2004 http://tvnz.co.nz/view/tvone_minisite_story_skin/437249%3fformat=html
Extradition hearing extends to Christmas NZPA 24 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2981118a11,00.html Sydney: An extradition tradition hearing in Sydney for three Catholic clergymen wanted in Christchurch to face historical sexual abuse charges will not finish until days before Christmas...
Former Catholic brother arrested over historic sex abuse ... NZPA 19 july 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2976623a11,00.html Upper Hutt police have arrested and charged a former Catholic Brother in relation to a complaint of historic sexual indecencies on a male student at Hato Paora College near Feilding in 1984...
Morals watchdog hit with legal costs NZ Herald 24.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/59ja5 The public morals watchdog group that has repeatedly sought to stop festival screenings of controversial films has had an award against it of legal costs of more than $4500. The costs relate to a 2002 case in which the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards unsuccessfully sought a review of the classification of the French film Baise-Moi ...
"Passion of Christ" for Christians only Reuters 22 July, 2004 http://tinyurl.com/4epzj Kuala Lumpur (Reuters) - It broke box office records in parts of the Middle East, the heart of Islam, and is now screening in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country. But to view Mel Gibson's "Passion of Christ" in Malaysia, viewers must be Christian. No Muslims are allowed to see it...
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FROK THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
What do young people really think today? Edmund Rice Network News Edition 14: July 2004 Holy Spirit Province http://www.westcourt.wa.edu.au/home/erfnews/ERNN14e.html Before attending this highly devout, private Catholic School, religion held no significance in my unenlightened and basic life. I took an arrogant stance towards any religion, as I was basically taught that it was a load of garbage...
Chaldaean bishop: “We are builders of the new Iraq” http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1159 Signs of hope and Western blindness; confidence in Allawi’s government and Christians’ duty. Full interview with Monsignor Rabban Al Qas, Chaldaean bishop of Amadiyah (northern Iraq), who is in Italy raising funds for the reconstruction of his country...
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/index.php
INTERNATIONAL NEWS Australia ethicist rethinks position on 'vegetative state' Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott says abortion film 'will do no harm' Pope sets date for return of icon to Russia Premier pays tribute to Christian Brothers' schools ministry Brisbane Commission forges support link with Zimbabwe Church in PNG says its no longer a mission territory
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CARITAS AOTEAROA NZ
http://www.caritas.org.nz
New Zealanders to assist in Sudan 19 July, 2004: Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand and Christian World Service (CWS) are sending three New Zealanders to Darfur, Western Sudan to assist in humanitarian relief efforts where over 1 million people have been affected by violence from Janjaweed militias....
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for July 23, 2004: Conversation with Sant'Egidio founder Andrea Riccardi; Opinions of Sant'Egidio; Vatican gets serious on Africa; Catholic-Jewish dialogue; Vatican investigates Austrian seminary sex scandal; More reflections from Peru
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EVENTS
Worship and Healing Conference, 27-29 August 2004 St Patrick's College, Silverstream Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Service Group for Catholic Charismatic Renewal Details from Cherylynn Passmore, tel: (04) 526 6914; fax: (04) 526 2189; e-mail: cherylynn.passmore@xtra.co.nz
Schools Of Evangelisation http://www.wave.co.nz/~jlewis/SOE.html
Gisborne: New Life weekend September 17 - 19 2004 Venue: St Mary's Parish centre Campion Road, Gisborne. Starts 7 pm Friday - to 5 pm Sunday presented by members of the Hamilton Diocesan and Gisborne Schools of Evangelisation Teams. Contact: Huia - huiawhite@xtra.co.nz - or phone Doreen 06 868 4399 or Huia 06 868 4256
There is a link to our own family web site which goes through to the SOE's for NZ, Australia and Mexico (where they began - Sorry only in Spanish there at the moment!)
Visit to Hamilton by Canadian Musician and Evangelist Greg Magirescu. Concerts and testimony Thursday August 19, 7.30 pm at the Catholic Hall, Te Aroha Friday August 20, 7.30 pm at the Cathedral, Grey Street, Hamilton Saturday August 21, 7.30 pm, St Columba's, Frankton, Hamilton, 7.30 pm Sunday August 22, Tauranga - to be arranged Monday August 23, St Mary's Church, Rotorua, 7.30 pm
Visiting Schools for lunch time concert and testimony -Sacred Heart, Hamilton, Thursday 19, Aquinas College, Tauranga, Monday 23, John Paul 2 College, Rotorua, Tuesday 24 August
Seminar on Liturgy and Music Saturday August 21, 10 am - 3 pm Marian School - new buildings Contact: Father Michael Armstrong 07 854 9221
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Chief Executive, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, 'Wel-com' July 2004 p.17, and from Mike Hurdle or Catharina Vossen at MiCah Partners, tel (04) 499 4749; fax: (04) 499 7375; e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz; PO Box 499, Wellington. Applications close 23 July 2004
Supervisor, Catholic Worker House of Hospitality, Palmerston North Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, and from M. Eastham, 11 Suffolk Crescent, Feilding; tel: (06) 323 8684; e-mail: m.eastham@xtra.co.nz Applications close 30 July 2004
Journalist. 'NZ Catholic' newspaper Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 25-August 7 p.23 and from Pat McCarthy, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland; e-mail: catholic@iconz.co.nz Applications close 30 July.
Presenters, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper 'NZ Catholic' wishes to employ skilled communicators to promote the paper at parish Masses. Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 25 August 7 p.22 and from Dennis Augustine, 'NZ Catholic', PO Box 147 000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034
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Sunday, July 18, 2004
From today 'Kiwicath' is no longer a public forum. Instead it's now a simple mailing list with one post a week: the newsletter "News & Notes".
A new forum - The NZ Southern Cross - has been set up to replace the Kiwicath forum, and 'News & Notes' will be posted to it every week. Consequently, you can choose to stay with Kiwicath and just receive 'News & Notes', or you can join The NZ Southern Cross and have a forum plus 'News & Notes'.
To join The NZ Southern Cross, send a message to: TheNZSouthernCross-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Soon after, you will receive a confirmation request. You click 'Reply' on your e-mail reader and send the request message back. Then the Moderator is notified you want to join.
After joining, you can post messages to the NZSC via the address: TheNZSouthernCross@yahoogroups.com
To leave the Kiwicath mailing list, send a message to kiwicath-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
Best wishes,
Mike Leon Compiler of 'News & Notes'
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
No 191, July 11-24, 2004
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Abortion law puts schools at risk WELLINGTON - A law allowing girls of any age the right to an abortion without the knowledge or consent of their parents "is radically out of step with today's social and educational climate", according to Br Pat Lynch, the chief executive officer of the New Zealand Catholic Education Office....
Four Sisters of Mercy congregations agree to combine DUNEDIN - The Sisters of Mercy from the four New Zealand congregations are preparing a petition to the Apostolic See to become one congregation...
Students invent device to detect cellphones CHRISTCHURCH - Young entrepreneurs at St Thomas of Canterbury College believe they are on a winning path with their invention, the Cell-Trac-r, aimed at solving the nuisance of cellphone use of classrooms....
Also in the print edition ... Pro-abortion politicians warned by US bishops; NZ¹s first saint? (beginning a series on Suzanne Aubert); Gains in globalisation outdone by losses; Cardinal Williams: The spiritual bankruptcy of liberalism; Priestly and Religious Vocations feature.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Evidence for sainthood being sent to Rome NZ Herald 17.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/3lhup Catholics have compiled evidence supporting a bid to declare Suzanne Aubert New Zealand's first saint and will send it to Rome for consideration by the Congregation for Saints...
Hate mail targets Waikato church members (photo) Waikato times 14 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2971815a10,00.html Members of Matamata's Catholic church are being targeted by hate mail. For six months members of the Holy Angels Catholic Church, including Father Eamon Kennedy, have found anti-Catholic material in their letterboxes and hidden in their mail ....
From Polish war hero to caring Balclutha family doctor (obituary) Otago Daily Times 10-July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/5dtmr Stanislaw Josef (Stan) Muller was a man who lived three separate lives in his 85 years: growing up in a peaceful Poland, enduring the ravages of war, and then finally settling in New Zealand...
Explicit abortion film set for NZ NZ Herald 17.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/6a2zs TVNZ is considering screening a confrontational English documentary that shows a woman having an abortion and doctors examining the remains of an aborted foetus...
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
Waiting and praying for the Filipino hostage http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1148 Manila (AsiaNews/Agencies) – People are still waiting and hoping that Angelo de la Cruz, the Filipino hostage captured by Islamic terrorists, may soon be free....
How great these are, by Ian Bradley The Tablet (UK) Saturday, 10 July 2004 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/register.cgi/tablet-00915 [How great Thou art] belongs very much to the Protestant evangelical stable and it is perhaps surprising to see it coming out top in a Catholic poll of favourite hymns ...
Attracting and Integrating Newcomers across Four Countries http://www.cathnews.com/news/407/doc/15ncls.html Nerida’s story is the combined story of real people. Her perspective is important as newcomers measure the relevance of church beyond its own walls. Does Nerida remind you of anyone you know? What can we learn from Nerida and other newcomers to church life? ....
UNAIDS head says churches critical to fight http://www.cathnews.com/news/407/65.php
In Nature, Pope Sees an "Epiphany of God" http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56707
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/index.php
International News:
Australian Catholic Education Commission welcomes Labor's needs-based funding plan
Tentative Catholic Health support for ALP health reform agenda
Queensland religious orders launch Federal Election campaign
Mercies working together to counter 'climate of fear'
Christian Brothers in WA confirm decision to leave schools
Sydney bishop responds to Hong Kong Catholic concern on religious freedom
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MARIST BROTHERS' NEW ZEALAND PROVINCE
Marist Champagnat Family Newsletter Winter Edition 2004 http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/MFN1Winter2004.htm
"Emmaus", by Joy Cowley ... Waiwhetu Grove community is a first for Marist Brothers ... Brothers on the move ... Recent deaths ... Brother Paul Scott’s book: A Rock Of Sense, the life and times of Brother Borgia... Pacific Islands Ministry ... Visitors
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for July 16, 2004 : The Church in Peru: Cardinal Cipriani, conservative champion; Liberation theology pioneer Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez; the Japanese embassy siege; why evangelical Protestant movements are growing; Maria Luisa Chumpitaz and her centre for women and children ..... Sexual misconduct in Europe
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EVENTS
Worship and Healing Conference, 27-29 August 2004 St Patrick's College, Silverstream Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Service Group for Catholic Charismatic Renewal Details from Cherylynn Passmore, tel: (04) 526 6914; fax: (04) 526 2189; e-mail: cherylynn.passmore@xtra.co.nz
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Chief Executive, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, 'Wel-com' July 2004 p.17, and from Mike Hurdle or Catharina Vossen at MiCah Partners, tel (04) 499 4749; fax: (04) 499 7375; e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz; PO Box 499, Wellington. Applications close 23 July 2004
Supervisor, Catholic Worker House of Hospitality, Palmerston North Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, and from M. Eastham, 11 Suffolk Crescent, Feilding; tel: (06) 323 8684; e-mail: m.eastham@xtra.co.nz Applications close 30 July 2004
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Best wishes,
Mike Leon Compiler of 'News & Notes'
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
No 191, July 11-24, 2004
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Abortion law puts schools at risk WELLINGTON - A law allowing girls of any age the right to an abortion without the knowledge or consent of their parents "is radically out of step with today's social and educational climate", according to Br Pat Lynch, the chief executive officer of the New Zealand Catholic Education Office....
Four Sisters of Mercy congregations agree to combine DUNEDIN - The Sisters of Mercy from the four New Zealand congregations are preparing a petition to the Apostolic See to become one congregation...
Students invent device to detect cellphones CHRISTCHURCH - Young entrepreneurs at St Thomas of Canterbury College believe they are on a winning path with their invention, the Cell-Trac-r, aimed at solving the nuisance of cellphone use of classrooms....
Also in the print edition ... Pro-abortion politicians warned by US bishops; NZ¹s first saint? (beginning a series on Suzanne Aubert); Gains in globalisation outdone by losses; Cardinal Williams: The spiritual bankruptcy of liberalism; Priestly and Religious Vocations feature.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Evidence for sainthood being sent to Rome NZ Herald 17.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/3lhup Catholics have compiled evidence supporting a bid to declare Suzanne Aubert New Zealand's first saint and will send it to Rome for consideration by the Congregation for Saints...
Hate mail targets Waikato church members (photo) Waikato times 14 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2971815a10,00.html Members of Matamata's Catholic church are being targeted by hate mail. For six months members of the Holy Angels Catholic Church, including Father Eamon Kennedy, have found anti-Catholic material in their letterboxes and hidden in their mail ....
From Polish war hero to caring Balclutha family doctor (obituary) Otago Daily Times 10-July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/5dtmr Stanislaw Josef (Stan) Muller was a man who lived three separate lives in his 85 years: growing up in a peaceful Poland, enduring the ravages of war, and then finally settling in New Zealand...
Explicit abortion film set for NZ NZ Herald 17.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/6a2zs TVNZ is considering screening a confrontational English documentary that shows a woman having an abortion and doctors examining the remains of an aborted foetus...
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
Waiting and praying for the Filipino hostage http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1148 Manila (AsiaNews/Agencies) – People are still waiting and hoping that Angelo de la Cruz, the Filipino hostage captured by Islamic terrorists, may soon be free....
How great these are, by Ian Bradley The Tablet (UK) Saturday, 10 July 2004 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/register.cgi/tablet-00915 [How great Thou art] belongs very much to the Protestant evangelical stable and it is perhaps surprising to see it coming out top in a Catholic poll of favourite hymns ...
Attracting and Integrating Newcomers across Four Countries http://www.cathnews.com/news/407/doc/15ncls.html Nerida’s story is the combined story of real people. Her perspective is important as newcomers measure the relevance of church beyond its own walls. Does Nerida remind you of anyone you know? What can we learn from Nerida and other newcomers to church life? ....
UNAIDS head says churches critical to fight http://www.cathnews.com/news/407/65.php
In Nature, Pope Sees an "Epiphany of God" http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56707
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/index.php
International News:
Australian Catholic Education Commission welcomes Labor's needs-based funding plan
Tentative Catholic Health support for ALP health reform agenda
Queensland religious orders launch Federal Election campaign
Mercies working together to counter 'climate of fear'
Christian Brothers in WA confirm decision to leave schools
Sydney bishop responds to Hong Kong Catholic concern on religious freedom
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MARIST BROTHERS' NEW ZEALAND PROVINCE
Marist Champagnat Family Newsletter Winter Edition 2004 http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/MFN1Winter2004.htm
"Emmaus", by Joy Cowley ... Waiwhetu Grove community is a first for Marist Brothers ... Brothers on the move ... Recent deaths ... Brother Paul Scott’s book: A Rock Of Sense, the life and times of Brother Borgia... Pacific Islands Ministry ... Visitors
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for July 16, 2004 : The Church in Peru: Cardinal Cipriani, conservative champion; Liberation theology pioneer Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez; the Japanese embassy siege; why evangelical Protestant movements are growing; Maria Luisa Chumpitaz and her centre for women and children ..... Sexual misconduct in Europe
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EVENTS
Worship and Healing Conference, 27-29 August 2004 St Patrick's College, Silverstream Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Service Group for Catholic Charismatic Renewal Details from Cherylynn Passmore, tel: (04) 526 6914; fax: (04) 526 2189; e-mail: cherylynn.passmore@xtra.co.nz
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Chief Executive, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, 'Wel-com' July 2004 p.17, and from Mike Hurdle or Catharina Vossen at MiCah Partners, tel (04) 499 4749; fax: (04) 499 7375; e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz; PO Box 499, Wellington. Applications close 23 July 2004
Supervisor, Catholic Worker House of Hospitality, Palmerston North Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, and from M. Eastham, 11 Suffolk Crescent, Feilding; tel: (06) 323 8684; e-mail: m.eastham@xtra.co.nz Applications close 30 July 2004
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Sunday, July 11, 2004
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ORDINATION OF BISHOP CAMPBELL
Church rejoices at ordination (photo) Otago Daily Times 10 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/otago/0,2106,2967477a6017,00.html With a simple laying on of hands, the Very Rev Bishop Colin Campbell was ordained as Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin last night. The Mass brought together 1500 members of the Otago-Southland Catholic church; 10 bishops of New Zealand, including Cardinal Thomas Williams; the papal diplomatic representative in New Zealand, Archbishop Patrick Coveney; 80 priests; and 450 invited guests, including Dunedin Mayor Sukhi Turner, at the Dunedin Town Hall last night...
New shepherd for Otago flock hailed (photo) Southland Times 10 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/0,2106,2967444a6011,00.html
Cardinal's moral message endorsed Otago Daily Times 9-July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/34po7 Fr Campbell first thought of becoming a priest after reading [The Far East] a missionary magazine to which his mother, Agnes, subscribed...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
The curse among the clergy Sunday Times 11 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/0,2106,2968369a6619,00.html It's a a tough time to be a Catholic priest. Falling numbers of clergy, an increasingly secular community and the stigma of being a church leader at a time when sexual abuse revelations seem an almost weekly bad news story, must make this the least attractive time to have "the calling"...
Priest in tune with pop world (photo) Western Leader 08 July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/2ftzv A Catholic priest with connections to west Auckland could be on his way to pop stardom. Critics say a recording by Father Chris Skinner is even better than the original...
High priest of heavenly pop (photo) NZ Herald 10.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/2qrlj His select group of fans think his voice is divine. And while Catholic priest Chris Skinner has been privately producing recordings of his own songs for 15 years, he could now be on the verge of becoming an international act...
Pioneer Filmmaker Mike Walker Dies Scotsman.com 10th July 2004 http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3163900 New Zealand filmmaker Mike Walker, who pioneered movies that highlighted the struggles of the country’s indigenous Maori people, has died at the age of 72...
Obituary: Mike Walker NZ Herald 10.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/38e33 New Zealand film-maker, artist and photographer Mike Walker has died in Palmerston North hospital, aged 72...
Sisters set for amalgamation Otago Daily Times 3-July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/2jhur New Zealand's four congregations of the Sisters of Mercy are preparing a formal petition to Rome to become one congregation...
Dominican friars re-elect Prior Provincial http://www.cathnews.com/news/407/54.php Dominican Friars gathered in Canberra for their Province Chapter this week re-elected ethicist Fr Tom Cassidy as Prior Provincial. Born in Melbourne in 1941, Fr Cassidy worked in New Zealand, as a parish priest and National Director of Catholic Communications...
Battle lines drawn on V8 circuit NZ Herald 06.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/ysrjk The Catholic Church says yes but Transit says no to the proposed V8 supercar race around an inner-city Auckland circuit...
Sophie's miracle could mean Mother Mary's sainthood (photo) Sydney Morning Herald July 5, 2004 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/04/1088879374560.html?oneclick=true
Priests Risking Their Lives in Search of Peace for Colombians ABC News/The Associated Press http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040622_42.html
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
The Habit: A History of the Clothing of Catholic Nuns, by Elizabeth Kuhns (book review) National Catholic Reporter July 2, 2004 http://www.natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2004c/070204/070204r.htm
The hidden wonder of new life The Tablet (UK) Saturday, 10 July 2004 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-00913 A pioneer of pregnancy scans has published extraordinary pictures of human beings in the womb. Professor Stuart Campbell told Mian Ridge how they have changed his view of early life and of abortion...
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'WEL-COM'
http://www.welcom.org.nz
Monthly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington and the Diocese of Palmerston North
From the July 2004 issue ...
The Cardinal's column: Cardinal Williams describes the spiritual bankrupcy of liberalism
Bishop John Dew's Reflection: Pope's prophetic warning in The Gospel of Life
Suzanne Aubert’s cause now on its way to Rome Mass at Wellington’s Sacred Heart Cathedral last Sunday evening marked the closure of the Archdiocesan Inquiry into the Cause of Suzanne Aubert...
World's worst humanitarian crisis in Darfur As Caritas launches an appeal for the people in Darfur, Anna Sussmilch describes the background to this crisis...
A defining issue for New Zealand An outstanding seminar was held in Wellington last month which explored the Foreshore and Seabed issue...
What led to the Court of appeal decision which sparked the controversy? Dr Maui John Mitchell, a social researcher, is media spokesman for the eight iwi of Nelson and Marlborough whose actions sparked the controversy over the foreshore and seabed issue...
A solution can be found through restoration of mana to Maori Pat Snedden is an Auckland businessman. A Pakeha, he has had more than the 30 years experience working with Maori communities in health and employment related activities and for 25 years has been economic adviser to Auckland’s Ngati Whatua...
Maori customary rights over the foreshore and seabed were never extinguished Grant Powell is the lawyer who represented the Marlborough iwi in their court cases and has been involved in Waitangi Tribunal claims. He has an expert knowledge on these issues and has made a detailed study of the Foreshore and Seabed Bill....
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
The national Website of the Catholic Church in New Zealand -http://www.catholic.org.nz - is now in its ninth year, having been launched in June 1996. The pages have just been re-designed, displaying descriptive links to the most common categories of information visitors to the site are likely to seek. The Website is a service of Catholic Communications NZ, the information office of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops' Conference. The current Webmaster is Father John Murphy sm of the Society of Mary's Marist Internet Ministry.
International News, on http://www.cathcom.org.nz ....
'Protestant Pope' to visit Australia World Council of Churches (WCC) General Secretary Rev Dr Sam Kobia arrives in Australia tomorrow to take part in the national forum of the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA) in Adelaide.
Education official reopening of 1950s class war wounds An official at the Catholic Education Commission NSW has said that by starting a costly battle that could take years, the NSW Teachers Federation is opening wounds from the past, dragging the education system back to the 1950s and reigniting a war that was settled decades ago.
Church in South Africa rolls out AIDS drug program
Vietnam tightening religious freedom
UNESCO puts Cologne Cathedral on danger list
Angolan bishop worried about witchdoctors
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CARITAS AOTEAROA NZ
'Caritas Update', Winter 2004 http://www.caritas.org.nz/update.asp This issue includes articles on third world debt, the strained relationship between Australia and East Timor over disputed oil and gas reserves, work Caritas is doing with Maasai communities in Tanzania, a look ahead to Social Justice week 2004 and the response from school students to the 2004 Lent theme.
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for July 9, 2004: Who is in charge at the Vatican?; Financing development; The Portland archdiocese files for bankruptcy; Pope John Paul on holiday; More on a papal trip to Ireland; A talk with Archbishop O'Malley; More about life-sustaining medical treatment; What Ratzinger wanted from the American bishops; New Jesuit liturgical association
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EVENTS
Worship and Healing Conference, 27-29 August 2004 St Patrick's College, Silverstream Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Service Group for Catholic Charismatic Renewal Details from Cherylynn Passmore, tel: (04) 526 6914; fax: (04) 526 2189; e-mail: cherylynn.passmore@xtra.co.nz
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Chief Executive, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, 'Wel-com' July 2004 p.17, and from Mike Hurdle or Catharina Vossen at MiCah Partners, tel (04) 499 4749; fax: (04) 499 7375; e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz; PO Box 499, Wellington. Applications close 23 July 2004
Supervisor, Catholic Worker House of Hospitality, Palmerston North Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, and from M. Eastham, 11 Suffolk Crescent, Feilding; tel: (06) 323 8684; e-mail: m.eastham@xtra.co.nz Applications close 30 July 2004
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ORDINATION OF BISHOP CAMPBELL
Church rejoices at ordination (photo) Otago Daily Times 10 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/otago/0,2106,2967477a6017,00.html With a simple laying on of hands, the Very Rev Bishop Colin Campbell was ordained as Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin last night. The Mass brought together 1500 members of the Otago-Southland Catholic church; 10 bishops of New Zealand, including Cardinal Thomas Williams; the papal diplomatic representative in New Zealand, Archbishop Patrick Coveney; 80 priests; and 450 invited guests, including Dunedin Mayor Sukhi Turner, at the Dunedin Town Hall last night...
New shepherd for Otago flock hailed (photo) Southland Times 10 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/0,2106,2967444a6011,00.html
Cardinal's moral message endorsed Otago Daily Times 9-July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/34po7 Fr Campbell first thought of becoming a priest after reading [The Far East] a missionary magazine to which his mother, Agnes, subscribed...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
The curse among the clergy Sunday Times 11 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/0,2106,2968369a6619,00.html It's a a tough time to be a Catholic priest. Falling numbers of clergy, an increasingly secular community and the stigma of being a church leader at a time when sexual abuse revelations seem an almost weekly bad news story, must make this the least attractive time to have "the calling"...
Priest in tune with pop world (photo) Western Leader 08 July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/2ftzv A Catholic priest with connections to west Auckland could be on his way to pop stardom. Critics say a recording by Father Chris Skinner is even better than the original...
High priest of heavenly pop (photo) NZ Herald 10.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/2qrlj His select group of fans think his voice is divine. And while Catholic priest Chris Skinner has been privately producing recordings of his own songs for 15 years, he could now be on the verge of becoming an international act...
Pioneer Filmmaker Mike Walker Dies Scotsman.com 10th July 2004 http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3163900 New Zealand filmmaker Mike Walker, who pioneered movies that highlighted the struggles of the country’s indigenous Maori people, has died at the age of 72...
Obituary: Mike Walker NZ Herald 10.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/38e33 New Zealand film-maker, artist and photographer Mike Walker has died in Palmerston North hospital, aged 72...
Sisters set for amalgamation Otago Daily Times 3-July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/2jhur New Zealand's four congregations of the Sisters of Mercy are preparing a formal petition to Rome to become one congregation...
Dominican friars re-elect Prior Provincial http://www.cathnews.com/news/407/54.php Dominican Friars gathered in Canberra for their Province Chapter this week re-elected ethicist Fr Tom Cassidy as Prior Provincial. Born in Melbourne in 1941, Fr Cassidy worked in New Zealand, as a parish priest and National Director of Catholic Communications...
Battle lines drawn on V8 circuit NZ Herald 06.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/ysrjk The Catholic Church says yes but Transit says no to the proposed V8 supercar race around an inner-city Auckland circuit...
Sophie's miracle could mean Mother Mary's sainthood (photo) Sydney Morning Herald July 5, 2004 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/04/1088879374560.html?oneclick=true
Priests Risking Their Lives in Search of Peace for Colombians ABC News/The Associated Press http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040622_42.html
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
The Habit: A History of the Clothing of Catholic Nuns, by Elizabeth Kuhns (book review) National Catholic Reporter July 2, 2004 http://www.natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2004c/070204/070204r.htm
The hidden wonder of new life The Tablet (UK) Saturday, 10 July 2004 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-00913 A pioneer of pregnancy scans has published extraordinary pictures of human beings in the womb. Professor Stuart Campbell told Mian Ridge how they have changed his view of early life and of abortion...
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'WEL-COM'
http://www.welcom.org.nz
Monthly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington and the Diocese of Palmerston North
From the July 2004 issue ...
The Cardinal's column: Cardinal Williams describes the spiritual bankrupcy of liberalism
Bishop John Dew's Reflection: Pope's prophetic warning in The Gospel of Life
Suzanne Aubert’s cause now on its way to Rome Mass at Wellington’s Sacred Heart Cathedral last Sunday evening marked the closure of the Archdiocesan Inquiry into the Cause of Suzanne Aubert...
World's worst humanitarian crisis in Darfur As Caritas launches an appeal for the people in Darfur, Anna Sussmilch describes the background to this crisis...
A defining issue for New Zealand An outstanding seminar was held in Wellington last month which explored the Foreshore and Seabed issue...
What led to the Court of appeal decision which sparked the controversy? Dr Maui John Mitchell, a social researcher, is media spokesman for the eight iwi of Nelson and Marlborough whose actions sparked the controversy over the foreshore and seabed issue...
A solution can be found through restoration of mana to Maori Pat Snedden is an Auckland businessman. A Pakeha, he has had more than the 30 years experience working with Maori communities in health and employment related activities and for 25 years has been economic adviser to Auckland’s Ngati Whatua...
Maori customary rights over the foreshore and seabed were never extinguished Grant Powell is the lawyer who represented the Marlborough iwi in their court cases and has been involved in Waitangi Tribunal claims. He has an expert knowledge on these issues and has made a detailed study of the Foreshore and Seabed Bill....
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
The national Website of the Catholic Church in New Zealand -http://www.catholic.org.nz - is now in its ninth year, having been launched in June 1996. The pages have just been re-designed, displaying descriptive links to the most common categories of information visitors to the site are likely to seek. The Website is a service of Catholic Communications NZ, the information office of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops' Conference. The current Webmaster is Father John Murphy sm of the Society of Mary's Marist Internet Ministry.
International News, on http://www.cathcom.org.nz ....
'Protestant Pope' to visit Australia World Council of Churches (WCC) General Secretary Rev Dr Sam Kobia arrives in Australia tomorrow to take part in the national forum of the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA) in Adelaide.
Education official reopening of 1950s class war wounds An official at the Catholic Education Commission NSW has said that by starting a costly battle that could take years, the NSW Teachers Federation is opening wounds from the past, dragging the education system back to the 1950s and reigniting a war that was settled decades ago.
Church in South Africa rolls out AIDS drug program
Vietnam tightening religious freedom
UNESCO puts Cologne Cathedral on danger list
Angolan bishop worried about witchdoctors
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CARITAS AOTEAROA NZ
'Caritas Update', Winter 2004 http://www.caritas.org.nz/update.asp This issue includes articles on third world debt, the strained relationship between Australia and East Timor over disputed oil and gas reserves, work Caritas is doing with Maasai communities in Tanzania, a look ahead to Social Justice week 2004 and the response from school students to the 2004 Lent theme.
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for July 9, 2004: Who is in charge at the Vatican?; Financing development; The Portland archdiocese files for bankruptcy; Pope John Paul on holiday; More on a papal trip to Ireland; A talk with Archbishop O'Malley; More about life-sustaining medical treatment; What Ratzinger wanted from the American bishops; New Jesuit liturgical association
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EVENTS
Worship and Healing Conference, 27-29 August 2004 St Patrick's College, Silverstream Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Service Group for Catholic Charismatic Renewal Details from Cherylynn Passmore, tel: (04) 526 6914; fax: (04) 526 2189; e-mail: cherylynn.passmore@xtra.co.nz
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Chief Executive, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, 'Wel-com' July 2004 p.17, and from Mike Hurdle or Catharina Vossen at MiCah Partners, tel (04) 499 4749; fax: (04) 499 7375; e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz; PO Box 499, Wellington. Applications close 23 July 2004
Supervisor, Catholic Worker House of Hospitality, Palmerston North Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, and from M. Eastham, 11 Suffolk Crescent, Feilding; tel: (06) 323 8684; e-mail: m.eastham@xtra.co.nz Applications close 30 July 2004
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Sunday, July 4, 2004
CARDINAL WILLIAMS' ESSAY "THE SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY OF LIBERALISM"
Full text of the essay:
http://www.catholic.org.nz/statements/0406moralliberalism.php
Claims of moral decline provoke debate (photo)
Otago Daily Times Tuesday, 29-June 2004
http://tinyurl.com/2pggk
Archbishop's comments 'sad' - Clark
NZPA 28 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2955361a11,00.html
Prime Minister Helen Clark today labelled as "sad" comments by Cardinal
Tom Williams that likened modern liberal politicians to barbarians...
Comment: Specious rejection of moral truth deserves only disdain, by
Garth George
NZ Herald 01.07.2004
http://tinyurl.com/23kbb
Editorial: Our liberal society
NZ Herald 30.06.2004
http://tinyurl.com/2wq7c
Editorial: The modern barbarian
ODT Friday, 2-July 2004
http://tinyurl.com/3eclt
Editorial: A Cardinal's view
The Press (Chch) 29 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/0,2106,2955500a6528,00.html
Comment: There's nothing wrong with a bit of social tinkering, by Tapu Misa
NZ Herald 30.06.2004
http://tinyurl.com/yrgel
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Does the Civil Union Bill Legalise Marriage?
Press Release: Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc. 30 June
2004
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0406/S00298.htm
Catholic schools fear being sued over abortion advice
NZPA 29 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2955603a11,00.html
Church accused of hidden agenda on Care of Children Bill
NZ Herald 01.07.2004
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?thesection=news&thesubsection=&storyI\
D=3575782
Bigots will not stop Bill: Benson-Pope MP accuses critics of `rank
homophobia'
ODT Monday, 28-June 2004
http://tinyurl.com/2yq5d
Dunne is having a bob each way say critics
NZ Herald 28.06.2004
http://tinyurl.com/2gcju
Work with orphans rewarding, says nun
ODT 26-June 2004
http://tinyurl.com/2ramz
Realising she could not save all the orphaned boys in her charge was one
of the hardest things former Dunedin nun Sr Maria Goretti Howley has had
to accept. She has run a boys' orphanage and school in Kingston,
Jamaica, for 18 years and is in Dunedin for a Sisters of Mercy four-day
conference at the Glenroy this weekend...
Unrepentant Euthanasia Campaigner Told to Stay in Jail
http://www.townhall.com/news/politics/200407/FOR20040701a.shtml
Family court to be more open
NZPA 30 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2956679a11,00.html
Saint preserve us from evil (photo)
Auckland City Harbour News 02 July 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2960097a11,00.html
Theft and destruction has plagued St Benedict's Church in Newton lately,
and no one yet has confessed to the crimes ...
Anglican Church Hopes Virtual Worship Will Boost Membership
Voice of America 01 Jul 2004
http://tinyurl.com/ypckl
The Church of England is operating its first virtual parish, which is
designed to serve a community of online worshippers from all over the
world. The Anglican Internet church, or i-church (
http://www.i-church.org ), went online three months ago, and has already
attracted far more members than its organizers ever expected, even
though the official launch is still a month away...
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
From the June 27-July 10, 2004 issue:
NZ's process for handling abuse cases compares well
PALMERSTON NORTH - Nationally accepted protocol procedures established
by the Church in New Zealand to deal with complaints of sexual abuse set
it apart from other English-speaking countries, says Bishop Owen Dolan....
East Timor wants fair deal, not ongoing handouts
AUCKLAND - The people of East Timor want a fair deal and sovereignity,
not continuing handouts, says New Zealand Pax Christi member Kevin
McBride...
Interest still growing in Thomas Merton
CHRISTCHURCH - Interest in the life and work of Trappist monk Thomas
Merton is expanding around the world, says Dr Paul Pearson, director and
archivist of the major Thomas Merton centre at Bellarmine University in
Kentucky, who was recently in Christchurch for a seminar and talks....
Also in the print edition of the current issue:
Director sought for new office; Four recipients of new Delargey Awards;
New name for SPUC?; Anne Dickinson to be bishops¹ executive officer;
Abortion rise includes girls aged 11; Bishop¹s pledge of help brings
babies to birth
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
MEDIA RELEASES
Refugee Crisis in Darfur, Sudan (28 Jun 2004)
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, the Catholic agency for justice, peace and
development has released $NZD 15,000 to kick-start an appeal to assist
the people of Darfur, Western Sudan and refugees across the border in
Chad. The humanitarian crisis which has affected over 1 million people
has been described by the United Nations as the worst humanitarian
crisis in the world...
"The Spiritual Bankruptcy of Liberalism", an essay by Cardinal Tom
Williams (28 Jun 2004)
June 2004
Cardinal Williams' observes that the country is becoming a "moral
wasteland" a place where traditional values and beliefs are being
systematically subverted as society elects to live on a diet of "junk
food provided by bankrupt liberalism". He encourages people to challenge
the culture of exaggerated individualism, and to serve society by they
way they live their lives as individuals and families.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Hobart Archbishop says Harradine a 'tough act to follow'
Adelaide Centacare director 'devastated' by Govt demands
Pope sorrow over Constantinople
Division among US bishops on sanctions for politicians
Church condemns celibacy TV documentary
Cautious welcome for renewed relations with Israel Govt
**************************************
MARIST MESSENGER (Society of Mary in NZ)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
Full text from the July edition :
Focus by Fr Carl Telford sm:
Migrants are a world-wide phenomenon
My problem with the Sacrament of Reconciliation by Kilian de Lacy
"Going to confession" has changed- and for the better
The Rosary helps to meditate
The Rosary is a great prayer but we need help to pray it
Alone by Fr Paddy Cahill
People are made for people and we all long to feel in our heart the
warmth of family or friends.
Also in the July Marist Messenger
Mystic - you mean me? ... The significance of singleness .... Does
business have a spirituality? .... Idealisation - shattered illusions?
.... The suffering Church in the Sudan ... The love of God - part 8 ...
The theology of the body - making sense of desire.
**************************************
FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Pope John Paul II receives in audience His Holiness Bartholomew I,
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople: may the memory of the history
making encounter between Patriarch Athenagoras I and Pope Paul VI in
1964 “prompt a leap forward in dialogue and restoration mutual brotherly
relations”
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/30_2720.html
Patriarch of Constantinople Evaluates His Visit to Rome. Interview With
Bartholomew I
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56271
A matter of life and death, by Austen Ivereigh
The Tablet (U.K.) 3 July 2004
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-00910
The BBC’s Panorama programme has criticised the Church’s case against
using condoms to combat Aids. Who is right? And what do the experts
think? ...
Why New Age Is a Challenge for Christianity
Father Alessandro Olivieri Pennesi Responds
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56135
The Da Vinci Code, Corrected
Why the "lost gospels" were really lost, by Craig Keener
Christian History, Spring 2004
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/2004/002/8.15.html
Monsignor Zen: We Christians, Democrats, and Lovers of China
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1082
Hong Kong (AsiaNews) – About 10,000 Catholics and Protestants gathered
together in Victoria Park for a shared moment of prayer and meditation
ahead of the July 1 pro-Democracy march. Monsignor Joseph Zen Ze-kiun,
Bishop of Hong Kong, the Reverend Ralph Lee Ting-sun of the Methodist
Church, and the Reverend Eric So Shing-yit of the Christian Council of
Hong Kong led the meeting. Here is the full text of Monsignor Zen’s
speech ...
Pope Tells Iraqi President of Church's Support. Appeals for Respect of
Religious Freedom
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56125
Chaldean Patriarch of Baghdad: “We thank Everyone, But Above All We
Thank The Pope”
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1053
Solomon Islands' Prime Minister praises Christians for contribution past
and present to growth of the nation: celebrations mark 100 anniversary
of arrival of first Catholic missionaries
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/26_2711.html
Pope John Paul: “The family is the future of Europe. We can say that the
family is the mirror of society and therefore also of the new Europe
which is being built ”
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/26_2707.html
***************************************************
"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's
full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for July 2, 2004:
Common Ground lecture: Why are U.S. Catholics even more divided?; Tough
document on Anglican crisis; Patriarch of Constantinople in Rome; About
the archbishops' pallium; Jews press for campaign against anti-Semitism
in Latin America; Papal visit to Lourdes and the doctrine of the
Immaculate Conception; Once more on human trafficking
*************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in
the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank
page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
*************************************************
Full text of the essay:
http://www.catholic.org.nz/statements/0406moralliberalism.php
Claims of moral decline provoke debate (photo)
Otago Daily Times Tuesday, 29-June 2004
http://tinyurl.com/2pggk
Archbishop's comments 'sad' - Clark
NZPA 28 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2955361a11,00.html
Prime Minister Helen Clark today labelled as "sad" comments by Cardinal
Tom Williams that likened modern liberal politicians to barbarians...
Comment: Specious rejection of moral truth deserves only disdain, by
Garth George
NZ Herald 01.07.2004
http://tinyurl.com/23kbb
Editorial: Our liberal society
NZ Herald 30.06.2004
http://tinyurl.com/2wq7c
Editorial: The modern barbarian
ODT Friday, 2-July 2004
http://tinyurl.com/3eclt
Editorial: A Cardinal's view
The Press (Chch) 29 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/0,2106,2955500a6528,00.html
Comment: There's nothing wrong with a bit of social tinkering, by Tapu Misa
NZ Herald 30.06.2004
http://tinyurl.com/yrgel
***************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Does the Civil Union Bill Legalise Marriage?
Press Release: Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc. 30 June
2004
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0406/S00298.htm
Catholic schools fear being sued over abortion advice
NZPA 29 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2955603a11,00.html
Church accused of hidden agenda on Care of Children Bill
NZ Herald 01.07.2004
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?thesection=news&thesubsection=&storyI\
D=3575782
Bigots will not stop Bill: Benson-Pope MP accuses critics of `rank
homophobia'
ODT Monday, 28-June 2004
http://tinyurl.com/2yq5d
Dunne is having a bob each way say critics
NZ Herald 28.06.2004
http://tinyurl.com/2gcju
Work with orphans rewarding, says nun
ODT 26-June 2004
http://tinyurl.com/2ramz
Realising she could not save all the orphaned boys in her charge was one
of the hardest things former Dunedin nun Sr Maria Goretti Howley has had
to accept. She has run a boys' orphanage and school in Kingston,
Jamaica, for 18 years and is in Dunedin for a Sisters of Mercy four-day
conference at the Glenroy this weekend...
Unrepentant Euthanasia Campaigner Told to Stay in Jail
http://www.townhall.com/news/politics/200407/FOR20040701a.shtml
Family court to be more open
NZPA 30 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2956679a11,00.html
Saint preserve us from evil (photo)
Auckland City Harbour News 02 July 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2960097a11,00.html
Theft and destruction has plagued St Benedict's Church in Newton lately,
and no one yet has confessed to the crimes ...
Anglican Church Hopes Virtual Worship Will Boost Membership
Voice of America 01 Jul 2004
http://tinyurl.com/ypckl
The Church of England is operating its first virtual parish, which is
designed to serve a community of online worshippers from all over the
world. The Anglican Internet church, or i-church (
http://www.i-church.org ), went online three months ago, and has already
attracted far more members than its organizers ever expected, even
though the official launch is still a month away...
***************************************
'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
From the June 27-July 10, 2004 issue:
NZ's process for handling abuse cases compares well
PALMERSTON NORTH - Nationally accepted protocol procedures established
by the Church in New Zealand to deal with complaints of sexual abuse set
it apart from other English-speaking countries, says Bishop Owen Dolan....
East Timor wants fair deal, not ongoing handouts
AUCKLAND - The people of East Timor want a fair deal and sovereignity,
not continuing handouts, says New Zealand Pax Christi member Kevin
McBride...
Interest still growing in Thomas Merton
CHRISTCHURCH - Interest in the life and work of Trappist monk Thomas
Merton is expanding around the world, says Dr Paul Pearson, director and
archivist of the major Thomas Merton centre at Bellarmine University in
Kentucky, who was recently in Christchurch for a seminar and talks....
Also in the print edition of the current issue:
Director sought for new office; Four recipients of new Delargey Awards;
New name for SPUC?; Anne Dickinson to be bishops¹ executive officer;
Abortion rise includes girls aged 11; Bishop¹s pledge of help brings
babies to birth
***************************************
CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
MEDIA RELEASES
Refugee Crisis in Darfur, Sudan (28 Jun 2004)
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, the Catholic agency for justice, peace and
development has released $NZD 15,000 to kick-start an appeal to assist
the people of Darfur, Western Sudan and refugees across the border in
Chad. The humanitarian crisis which has affected over 1 million people
has been described by the United Nations as the worst humanitarian
crisis in the world...
"The Spiritual Bankruptcy of Liberalism", an essay by Cardinal Tom
Williams (28 Jun 2004)
June 2004
Cardinal Williams' observes that the country is becoming a "moral
wasteland" a place where traditional values and beliefs are being
systematically subverted as society elects to live on a diet of "junk
food provided by bankrupt liberalism". He encourages people to challenge
the culture of exaggerated individualism, and to serve society by they
way they live their lives as individuals and families.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Hobart Archbishop says Harradine a 'tough act to follow'
Adelaide Centacare director 'devastated' by Govt demands
Pope sorrow over Constantinople
Division among US bishops on sanctions for politicians
Church condemns celibacy TV documentary
Cautious welcome for renewed relations with Israel Govt
**************************************
MARIST MESSENGER (Society of Mary in NZ)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
Full text from the July edition :
Focus by Fr Carl Telford sm:
Migrants are a world-wide phenomenon
My problem with the Sacrament of Reconciliation by Kilian de Lacy
"Going to confession" has changed- and for the better
The Rosary helps to meditate
The Rosary is a great prayer but we need help to pray it
Alone by Fr Paddy Cahill
People are made for people and we all long to feel in our heart the
warmth of family or friends.
Also in the July Marist Messenger
Mystic - you mean me? ... The significance of singleness .... Does
business have a spirituality? .... Idealisation - shattered illusions?
.... The suffering Church in the Sudan ... The love of God - part 8 ...
The theology of the body - making sense of desire.
**************************************
FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Pope John Paul II receives in audience His Holiness Bartholomew I,
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople: may the memory of the history
making encounter between Patriarch Athenagoras I and Pope Paul VI in
1964 “prompt a leap forward in dialogue and restoration mutual brotherly
relations”
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/30_2720.html
Patriarch of Constantinople Evaluates His Visit to Rome. Interview With
Bartholomew I
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56271
A matter of life and death, by Austen Ivereigh
The Tablet (U.K.) 3 July 2004
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-00910
The BBC’s Panorama programme has criticised the Church’s case against
using condoms to combat Aids. Who is right? And what do the experts
think? ...
Why New Age Is a Challenge for Christianity
Father Alessandro Olivieri Pennesi Responds
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56135
The Da Vinci Code, Corrected
Why the "lost gospels" were really lost, by Craig Keener
Christian History, Spring 2004
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/2004/002/8.15.html
Monsignor Zen: We Christians, Democrats, and Lovers of China
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1082
Hong Kong (AsiaNews) – About 10,000 Catholics and Protestants gathered
together in Victoria Park for a shared moment of prayer and meditation
ahead of the July 1 pro-Democracy march. Monsignor Joseph Zen Ze-kiun,
Bishop of Hong Kong, the Reverend Ralph Lee Ting-sun of the Methodist
Church, and the Reverend Eric So Shing-yit of the Christian Council of
Hong Kong led the meeting. Here is the full text of Monsignor Zen’s
speech ...
Pope Tells Iraqi President of Church's Support. Appeals for Respect of
Religious Freedom
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56125
Chaldean Patriarch of Baghdad: “We thank Everyone, But Above All We
Thank The Pope”
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1053
Solomon Islands' Prime Minister praises Christians for contribution past
and present to growth of the nation: celebrations mark 100 anniversary
of arrival of first Catholic missionaries
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/26_2711.html
Pope John Paul: “The family is the future of Europe. We can say that the
family is the mirror of society and therefore also of the new Europe
which is being built ”
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/26_2707.html
***************************************************
"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's
full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for July 2, 2004:
Common Ground lecture: Why are U.S. Catholics even more divided?; Tough
document on Anglican crisis; Patriarch of Constantinople in Rome; About
the archbishops' pallium; Jews press for campaign against anti-Semitism
in Latin America; Papal visit to Lourdes and the doctrine of the
Immaculate Conception; Once more on human trafficking
*************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in
the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank
page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
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