'NZ CATHOLIC' NEWSPAPER
>From No 132, March 10, 2002 http://catholic.org.nz/cathcom/press/nzc/front.html
'Shop trading threat to sacred days ' At least some of Christianity's most revered and special days - Good Friday, Easter Sunday and Christmas Day - are in danger of being opened up to retail trading this year...
'Military may help catering for Pompallier's interment ' The Army and Navy may help with catering for the crowd at the interment of Bishop Jean Baptiste Pompallier on April 20....
'Parliament to review "unhelpful" abortion committee ' Pro-life organisations are aiming to influence the direction of a review of the Abortion Supervisory Committee...
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"Chaplains say cut will affect Maori patients " NZ Herald 13.03.2002 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=1191361&thesection=news&thesu\ bsection=general Concerns about Maori patients' spiritual needs have surfaced as a result of the Government's refusal to provide more money for hospital chaplains....
"Spirituality Important In Patient Recovery" Press Release: Christian Heritage Party 14 March 2002 http://www.scoop.co.nz/archive/scoop/stories/5b/51/200203142301.76c9db6c.html
"Playing hardball to win the game " NZ Herald 16.03.2002 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/sports/sportsstorydisplay.cfm?storyID=1191905&thesecti\ on=sport&thesubsection=rugby&thesecondsubsection=worldcup Seven years ago John O'Neill was a young banker with a big reputation, free to choose, after more than two bare-fisted decades among Sydney's financial high-flyers, just about any job he wanted. Instead, O'Neill returned to the passion of his youth, headhunted by the Australian Rugby Union to overhaul the sport and catapult it to a new corporate future. Unhappily for New Zealand, the former chief executive of the State Bank of New South Wales was exactly the right man for the job....
(If anyone's going: "What's a rugby story doing in News and Notes???"' all I can tell you is, it came up in a search for stories with a Catholic and New Zealand connection, and I thought it was interesting and topical, so why not ... :-) ML
CATHOLICTV.NET
Produced by the Wellington Archdiocesan Media Office http://www.catholictv.net
This month Catholictv.net is featuring the arts - both the performance and the fine kind. Visitors to the site who have Macintosh computers or who use the Netscape browser may find it difficult or impossible to view the video interviews. However I understand that the solution to these problems has already been found so hopefully they'll be fixed before the end of this month.
AT THE LIBRARY
These books may be borrowed either from your local public library or on Interloan. Shelf numbers may vary ...
[non-fiction 220.859 KOW] "The Bible according to Noah : theology as if animals mattered" by Gary Kowalski. New York : Lantern Books, 2001. Subjects: Animals in the Bible. Animals--Religious aspects--Christianity.
[Non-Fiction (no shelf number available)] "Dialogues with silence : prayers & drawings" by Thomas Merton San Francisco : HarperSanFrancisco, c2001. Subjects: Prayers. Catholic Church--English.
[Non-Fiction 248.845 OTI] "Teach your children well : helping kids make moral choices" by Don S. Otis. Grand Rapids, Mich. : F. H. Revell, c2000. Subjects: Children--Religious life. Moral education.
[Non-Fiction 942.053 MacC] "Tudor church militant : Edward VI and the protestant reformation" by Diarmaid MacCulloch. London : Penguin, 2001. Subjects; Edward VI, King of England. Reformation--England. Summary: Edward VI's short reign was crucial in completing Henry VIII's break with Rome. Edward's key religious innovations, notably Cranmer's two versions of the Book of Common Prayer, were taken up by Queen Elizabeth as the foundation for her Reformation church settlement, the basis of later Anglicanism.
[Fiction] "The Ephesus fragment" by Gary E. Parker. Minneapolis, Minn. : Bethany House, c1999. Subjects: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Fiction. Archaeology--Fiction Summary: While on a dig near Ephesus, archaeologist Dr. Hugh McAuley discovers a jar with a parchment inside written by the Apostle John, dictated by Mary the Mother of Jesus, telling about her life. McAuley reports his find in a secret email which becomes known to several world figures who all want the parchment for different reasons. It is stolen, and a chase around the world begins.......
ADULT EDUCATION/DEGREE COURSES
Prospectuses for 2002 are now on the Websites of the Catholic Education Centre (CEC) http://www.wcec.org.nz and the Catholic Institute of Theology (CIT) http://www,catholic.org.nz/auckland/cit CIT operates within Auckland diocese and CEC is based in Wellington but offers courses in other cities also.
EVENTS
April 4-7, 2002 Mariapolis 2002, Feilding Agricultural High School, North Street, Feilding. The annual national gathering of members and friends of the Focolare Movement in New Zealand. Further info. from Atle Lee, 40 Thompson St., PO Box 11826 Wellington 6034 Tel: 04-384 4559 Fax: 04-384 4348 E-mail: focolare@paradise.net.nz ; and from http://www.focolare.org.au
April 19-21 2002 Catholic Network of Marriage Educators Conference, Napier Details from Oncall Conference Management, 20 Cambridge Terrace, Taradale, Napier. Tel: 06 844 9956 e-mail: c-moore@clear.net.nz
EMPLOYMENT
(Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies )
Researcher-Writer, Caritas Aotearoa-NZ Eleven-week contract, beginning on Tuesday 2 April, to research and write a booklet on refugees in the light of Catholic Social Teaching. Previous booklets in the series are described here: http://www.caritas.org.nz/publications/SJS_info.htm Further details in 'Wel-com' newspaper March 2002 p.19 and from louise@caritas.org.nz Closing date for applications: Friday 22 March.
'NZ Catholic' Newspaper: Presenters The paper is recruiting paid presenters to promote 'NZ Catholic' at Sunday Masses and sign up new subscribers. Details in 'NZ Catholic' March 10 2002 p.21, and from Dennis Augustine, Promotions and Advertising Manager, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034. E-mail: catholic@iconz.co.nz
