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CATHOLIC WEB TV
At http://www.catholic.tv.net .....
Pilgrims to World Youth Day in Vancouver last year recall the time they spent at centres for the homeless, street people and the mentaly ill in that city, and how their their view of social justice was affected.
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FROM THE SECULAR MEDIA
"Sacred Heart College is 100 years old" The Holmes Show - Friday May 16 (Video) http://tvone.nzoom.com/programmes/holmes/story.html?story_2003_archive.inc Sacred Heart College in Auckland is 100 years old this weekend. It has produced numerous All Blacks and great musicians; Holmes speaks to a few of them (and even let's a few of them speak) …
"Plan to use foetuses for drug research collapses " NZ Herald 17.05.2003 http://tinyurl.com/bz4k An international company's bid to use aborted New Zealand babies for controversial research foundered late yesterday when the Capital Coast Health Board suddenly withdrew its support....
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
Protecting children from Internet predators, by William J. Byron, S.J. http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/May2003/Feature1.asp Over the past several years I served on a committee to develop tools and strategies to protect children from pornography on the Internet. When the committee's work was done, I decided to try some of the strategies it had recommended at Holy Trinity Parish in Washington, D.C., where I am pastor ...
Papua New Guinea - evangelisation through song and dance: Saint Francis musical produced entirely by young people reaps huge success http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2003/0305/09_59.html
Mary As Seen by Orthodox, Protestants, and Catholics Round Table Reflects on "Mary and the Churches" http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=35611
Iraq - “Twelve years of UN sanctions reduced the Iraqi people to poverty but now we look with hope to the future” http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2003/0305/09_67.html
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AT THE LIBRARY
[Both of these titles are in the NZ public library system. If your local library hasn't got them, you can request them on interloan]
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Spirituality in Aotearoa New Zealand ... He kupu whakawairua : Catholic voices Edited by Helen Bergin and Susan Smith Auckland, N.Z. : Accent, 2002.
Fifteen well-known Catholic authors record their views on aspects on spirituality in New Zealand, among them: Henare Tate on Maori spirituality; Chris Duthie-Jung on whether young Catholics are wanted and welcome in the Church; Neil Darragh on the spirituality of the priesthood; Hugh Laracy on the Catholic Church's history in NZ; Ann Gilroy on Pakeha women's spirituality. Accompanying the Catholics' contributions are four responses from writers outside the Catholic church: Robyn McPhail, Maurice Andrew, Laurie Guy and Rosemary Neave.
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God and the world : believing and living in our time : a conversation between Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and Peter Seewald. Publisher San Francisco, Calif. : Ignatius, 2002.
[The publisher writes] During his years as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, well-known Vatican prelate Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger has given three in-depth interviews. The first two interviews have become best selling books: The Ratzinger Report and Salt of the Earth. Because of the tremendous reception those books received, the Cardinal agreed to do another interview with journalist Peter Seewald, who had done the very popular Salt of the Earth interview. This third in-depth interview addresses deep questions of faith and the living of that faith in the modern world.
The interview took place over three full days spent at the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino in a setting of the silence, prayer, and hospitality of the monks. The seasoned journalist, who had fallen away from the faith but eventually returned to the Church, once again provided a very stimulating, well-prepared series of wide-ranging questions on profound issues. The Cardinal responds with candor, frankness and deep insight, giving answers that are sometimes surprising and always thought provoking.
"When Cardinal Ratzinger sat opposite me in the Abbey and patiently recounted to me the Gospel and the belief of Christendom from the beginning of the world to its end, something of the mystery that holds the world together became more tangible. 'Creation itself', he said, 'bears within itself an ordered pattern from which we can understand the ideas of God — and even the right way to live.' " --- Peter Seewald
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EVENTS
July 6-10 2003 "Active 8 Celebrate" National Catholic Youth Event, Christchurch http://www.connect.org.nz/wazzup/index.html
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
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