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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 ]

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'Trustee elections time for celebration' (Photo) Otago Daily Times 17 Jan 2001 http://www1.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/search-display-story-online-new?PATH=17Jan2001/edi\ torial/content/MLF53H8654GH.html&WORDS=catholic&DB=Editorial New Zealand should value its system of school trustees, Pat Lynch, executive director of the New Zealand Catholic Education office, believes. March 30 2001, represents another milestone for our education system, which is drawing admiration from a growing number of sovereign states. This is the day on which the nation's parents of school-aged children will vote in the fifth board of trustees election since the setting up of the board of trustees model of governing New Zealand's schools in 1989 ...........

'Site blessed for Garin College' The Nelson Mail 18 Jan 2001 http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,597688a1540,FF.html As the first strands of light fell on a still Richmond morning, more than 80 people huddled together on Thursday for a spiritual blessing at the site of the new Catholic secondary school. Construction was set to begin Thursday on Garin College, thought to be New Zealand's first new secondary school in 20 years ...

Scoop Images: Flowers For Children 16 January 2001, Scoop 16 Jan 2001 (mainly photographs) http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/2c/6d/200101161422.c4035f11.html Around two dozen protestors held a vigil today outside the US Embassy in Fitzherbert Tce, Wellington to protest against the effects on the civilian population of economic sanctions against Iraq. The US Ambassador Carol Moseley-Braun was presented with letters from the Catholic Worker movement's Moana Cole and a representative of the Quakers ....

(See also: "We Have Been Vetoed From Living in the New Millennium", an interview with the Syrian Catholic Archbishop of Baghdad on the effects of the embargo (19 Jan 2001) http://zenit.org/english/archive/0101/ZE010119.htm#1940

Our national fortnightly newspaper 'NZ Catholic' publishes its first issue of 2001 next weekend. Three full-text stories from each issue will appear on its Web site* together with related Web links, and I summarise them in the next 'News and Notes'.

* http://www.catholic.org/newzealand/cathcom/press/nzc/front.html

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EVENTS

22-24 January 2001 Seminar: "Reaching Youth through Music, Cambridge, Hamilton. The speakers will be Patrick Keady and James Garrahy from Brisbane with many tears experience in music ministry. Registration forms avaialble from parish offcies and newsaepr tables.

26-29 January 2001 Parachute Festival Extreme: Totara Springs, Matamata http://www.parachute.co.nz/para2001/para2001.htm The major annual Christian music festival

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EMPLOYMENT

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

Principal, Catholic Institute of Theology http://www.catholic.org/newzealand/auckland/cit The Catholic Institute of Theology is a centre for theological education, inquiry and research established by the Catholic Bishop of Auckland. Further details from 'NZ Catholic' 3 December 2000 p. 23; 'Wel-com' December 2000 p.19; and from Professor Michael Pender, CIT Council Chairperson, 16 Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland Closing date: 31 January 2001

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God bless.

Mike Leon
'kiwicath' list manager