BISHOP POMPALLIER'S RETURN
For the full background on our first bishop and the regularly updated itinerary of his return, please visit the NZ Catholic bishops' Pompallier pages at: http://www.catholic.org.nz/pompallier (click on the portrait to enter) or the home page at http://www.catholic.org.nz and click the "Pompallier" link there.
"Founder of NZ Catholicism returning to home shores " NZPA 10 January 2002 http://www.stuff.co.nz/inl/index/0,1008,1064980a1927,FF.html The founder of New Zealand Catholicism is about to return to home shores. The remains of Jean-Baptiste Francois Pompallier, this country's first Catholic bishop, arrive in Auckland on Sunday. The bishop's remains were exhumed from a Parisian cemetery in 1999 after years of lobbying by New Zealand Catholics, especially in the Hokianga where he first arrived in 1838.......
"Bishop Pompallier Arrives Home" IRN 13/01/2002 The man who brought Catholicism to New Zealand finally returns today, more than 100 years after his death. Bishop Jean-Baptiste Francois Pompallier's remains have been exhumed from his Paris grave, and will be taken to the Bay of Islands for his final resting place. He arrives in Auckland today. Catholic Church spokeswoman Lindsay Freer says Auckland Bishop Pat Dunn will accompany the remains to Whai Ora Marae in Otara this afternoon. She says Bishop Pompallier will stay several days in Otara before a large welcome mass at St Patrick's Cathedral on Tuesday. Ms Freer says the Bishop will be taken on a hikoi around New Zealand, starting in Dunedin on January 24th.
WORLD CATHOLIC NEWS
During the week Elizabeth wrote:
> The Zenit News Agency is wanting new subscribers. > I enjoy receiving it just about every day and probably lots of you > do too, but I thought I'd send the latest one just so you could see > the sort of things it deals with. It might be too conservative for some, > but I quite like reading about items before they appear in, say > NZ Catholic or even occasionally the secular press.
Many people who have easy access to the Internet routinely go online at a quiet time every day to check for messages and then look at their favourite Websites. If you would like to include some of the Catholic world news sites in your daily schedule, please bookmark the NZ Catholic bishops' News Agency page at http://www.catholic.org.nz/newsagency.html (or go to the home page http://www.catholic.org.nz and click "News", "Catholic News Agencies".
There you will find links to Zenit world Catholic news service and, among other sources, ....
EWTN : http://www.ewtn.com/headlines.asp This service carries links to stories from several other news services, including Zenit and the Vatican Information Service (VIS), so it's a good place to start if you are pressed for time.
Catholic Telecommunications : http://www.cathtelecom.com/index.asp A news service of Catholic Communications Australia. Good for Australian and Oceanian Catholic News.
Fides Missionary News Service: http://www.fides.org/home-ing.htm Includes transcripts of interviews with Church workers in some of the world's most dangerous places.
News Now: Religion http://www.newsnow.co.uk/cgi/NewsNow/NewsFeed.htm?Section=NewsLink&Theme=Religio\ n World news of religion from the secular press, updated hourly.
NEW PUBLIC LIBRARY BOOKS
[The items in this new feature are copied from the online catalogue of the medium-sized public library in my home town. My theory is that if a book is available in our local library, it's probably available in yours, or you can request it through interloan. ML]
A deserter's adventures / Dom Felice Vaggioli ; translated by John Crockett. Dunedin, N.Z. : University of Otago Press, 2001. The autobiography of Dom Felice Vaggioli (1845-1921), an Italian Catholic missionary in New Zealand in the late nineteenth century.
Christ for all people : celebrating a world of Christian art / edited by Ron O'Grady. Auckland, N.Z. : Pace Publ., : Orbis Books : Novalis : WCC Publications, 2001. Subjects: Jesus Christ--Art. ... Christian art and symbolism.
A book of saints / by James Cochrane. Cambridge : Galileo Multimedia ; 2001. 127 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. ports ; 23 cm. "The author has made a selection of the most important, the most famous or the most interesting saints of Christendom, and the entries are portrayed by artists from the early Middle Ages to modern times. Unusually, the entries are in date order so that through these concise biographies the reader can follow the unfolding history of the Church from the Apostles and early martyrs to the missionaries who took the gospel to the ends of the earth. The book includes a calendar of saints for every day of the year, and a list of patron saints."
The story of Christian spirituality : two thousand years, from East to West / general editor, Gordon Mursell. Oxford : Lion, 2001. "This introduction to Christian spirituality through the centuries covers all the major traditions - East and West, Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant, with special articles on key spiritual concepts, practices and movements that influence the way that people live their lives in response to God."
