NEWS OF THE GREAT JUBILEE
http://www.catholic.org/newzealand/cathcom/jubilee/news.html

This weekend it's the turn of the Jubilee of Statesmen and Politicians. On the bishops' Jubilee News page you will find links to preliminary reports about the event and a summary of the Apostolic Letter in which Pope John Paul named St Thomas More the patron saint of politicians.

CATHOLIC PRESS

'NZ Catholic' has resumed updating its Web site regularly with three full text stories from each issue. These will appear in the week following the paper's publication (so, some time this week for the latest issue) and I will summarise them with the link in the following week's 'News and Notes'. NZCEO's home page is: http://www.catholic.org/newzealand/cathcom/press/nzc/front.html

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'EV 2000' ISSUE 22 SEPTEMBER 2000
http://www.catholic.org/newzealand/ev2000
'EV 2000' is a New Zealand Catholic evangelisation magazine edited by Father Paul Shannahan SM. From the latest issue ...

* Editorial: 'Encountering Christ today'

* 'Renew 2000: Training to Begin'
Sister Cheryl Erb RSV arrives here in October to train leadership teams in the updated "Renew" process that many Catholics of the '80s fondly remember. She will help prepare Diocesan leaders of the Hamilton, Wellington and Palmerston North Dioceses ...

* 'Supporting Our Newly Married' by Carmel Keen A new Marriage Preparation Programme will soon make its appearance in New Zealand. In July it was unpacked for Catholic marriage educators in Wellington at a training workshop run by Kevin and Margaret Andrews and Carmel Crawford from the Marriage Education Programme, Melbourne ...

* 'A Catholic Criticizes Alpha' , by Anne Knoll This Anglican-founded course aimed at introducing or reintroducing Christ to participants has taken the world by storm. But the phenomenon of Alpha has not impressed all. One who questions its relevance to Catholics and the Church's acceptance and promotion of it is UK writer Gillian Van Der Lande ...

* 'Evangelisation and Christian Unity ' by Jan Heath The world is in need of good news, of a Saviour. According to Jesus himself the Good News will truly convince the world if it is backed up by the witness of Christian Unity. In this Jubilee year, a special "year of the Lord's favour" I believe God is offering this grace of reconciliation and unity to His people ...

* Evangelisation news around the world

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

[You can open links to world news of religion in the secular press on the bishops' News page at: http://www.catholic.org/newzealand/cathcom/news/frnews.html ]

[Please don't attempt to hand copy these newspaper database links. Click directly on them after connecting to the Internet or Select, Copy and Paste them into your borrower's address panel.. ]

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'Australian preacher takes no sex message to NZ schools ' NZ Herald, 31.10.2000 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?thesection=news&thesubsection=&storyI\ D=157669 An Australian preacher is visiting New Zealand schools asking teenagers to sign a pledge of virginity until they get married. Jim Lyons claims to have signed up 10,000 NZ and Australian teens. Today, he is due to speak to students at Villa Maria College, a Catholic girls' school in Christchurch ...

'Schools at odds over campaign for student chastity ' The Press 31 October 2000 http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,462811a1561,FF.html Two Christchurch Catholic schools differ on a controversial chastity group's message to students in the city about their sexual behaviour. The deputy principal of Villa Maria College said the Straight Talk presentation, which calls on students to pray for God's forgiveness for their sins and to make a commitment of chastity to God, fitted in well with Catholic teaching. However, St Bede's College rector Father Brian Cummings expressed reservations about requiring students to sign a pledge ...

'Exhibition theme inspires artists' faith and good works ' NZ Herald 30 October http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?thesection=entertainment&thesubsectio\ n=&storyID=157425 [The] broad notion of spiritual themes in art is the overarching idea of the sixth biennial art exhibition, appropriately showing at St George's Presbyterian Church in Takapuna ... The biennial exhibition features painting, sculpture and photography by 22 well known New Zealand artists , who were invited to exhibit by the prime mover behind the long running scheme, sculptor Helen Polllock ...

'Getting serious about our future ' Southland Times, 4 November 2000 http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,471082a1943,FF.html The Olympic Games have again brought into stark relief the self questioning syndrome the nation frequently engages in, Patrick Lynch of the Catholic Education Office in Wellington writes... Continuous self doubt is not a strong platform to build a confident, get-up-and-go New Zealand that will make it in globalised networks ...

'Priest returns to escape conflict' Otago Daily Times 1 Nova 2000 http://www1.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/search-display-story-online-new?PATH=01Nov2000/edi\ torial/content/KVE5397565OH.html&WORDS=catholic&DB=Editorial A Dunedin priest caught in the crossfire of the Israeli and Palestinian conflict, near Bethlehem, has quit his scripture studies and returned home two months early. For several nights Monsignor Vince Walker (68) was forced to take refuge from Israeli helicopter gunshots flying night missions near his place of study, the Tantur Ecumenical Institute, Roman Catholic Bishop Len Boyle said yesterday ...

'A TV Parable on Spirituality and Success: Bible Based Programming Is Drawing Viewers and Dollars' Los Angeles Times, November 2, 2000 http://www.latimes.com/business/20001102/t000104737.html [This article describes past and forthcoming movies, TV series and cover stories with biblical and general Christian themes on American network television and in magazines, and discusses the reasons for their commercial success. New films and series mentioned include: "In the Beginning," (advertised as "From Creation to the Commandments"); "Adam & Eve"; a miniseries based on the story of Mary Magdalene; and a four-hour documentary called "Christianity: The Second Millennium".]

EVENTS

29 Dec 2000 to 7 Jan 2001-Hearts Aflame Catholic Summer Camp. Sacred Heart College, Auckland. Cost: $375 (there is a discount if paid before 17 Nov. of $365) Web site: http://www.catholic.org/newzealand/heartsaflame

EMPLOYMENT (Vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies )

Development Fund Marketing Executive, Catholic Diocese of Hamilton. Details in 'NZ Catholic November 5, p.23 and from Geoff Kay, Hamilton diocesan Manager: geoffk@cdh.org.nz See also: "Major growth plan for DDF" in the Hamilton Diocesan Newsletter: http://www.catholic.org/newzealand/hamilton/news.htm Closing date: 17 November 2000

Until next week, God bless.

Mike Leon 'kiwicath' list manager