CARDINAL WILLIAMS' ESSAY "THE SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY OF LIBERALISM"
Full text of the essay:
http://www.catholic.org.nz/statements/0406moralliberalism.php
Claims of moral decline provoke debate (photo)
Otago Daily Times Tuesday, 29-June 2004
http://tinyurl.com/2pggk
Archbishop's comments 'sad' - Clark
NZPA 28 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2955361a11,00.html
Prime Minister Helen Clark today labelled as "sad" comments by Cardinal
Tom Williams that likened modern liberal politicians to barbarians...
Comment: Specious rejection of moral truth deserves only disdain, by
Garth George
NZ Herald 01.07.2004
http://tinyurl.com/23kbb
Editorial: Our liberal society
NZ Herald 30.06.2004
http://tinyurl.com/2wq7c
Editorial: The modern barbarian
ODT Friday, 2-July 2004
http://tinyurl.com/3eclt
Editorial: A Cardinal's view
The Press (Chch) 29 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/0,2106,2955500a6528,00.html
Comment: There's nothing wrong with a bit of social tinkering, by Tapu Misa
NZ Herald 30.06.2004
http://tinyurl.com/yrgel
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Does the Civil Union Bill Legalise Marriage?
Press Release: Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc. 30 June
2004
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0406/S00298.htm
Catholic schools fear being sued over abortion advice
NZPA 29 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2955603a11,00.html
Church accused of hidden agenda on Care of Children Bill
NZ Herald 01.07.2004
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?thesection=news&thesubsection=&storyI\
D=3575782
Bigots will not stop Bill: Benson-Pope MP accuses critics of `rank
homophobia'
ODT Monday, 28-June 2004
http://tinyurl.com/2yq5d
Dunne is having a bob each way say critics
NZ Herald 28.06.2004
http://tinyurl.com/2gcju
Work with orphans rewarding, says nun
ODT 26-June 2004
http://tinyurl.com/2ramz
Realising she could not save all the orphaned boys in her charge was one
of the hardest things former Dunedin nun Sr Maria Goretti Howley has had
to accept. She has run a boys' orphanage and school in Kingston,
Jamaica, for 18 years and is in Dunedin for a Sisters of Mercy four-day
conference at the Glenroy this weekend...
Unrepentant Euthanasia Campaigner Told to Stay in Jail
http://www.townhall.com/news/politics/200407/FOR20040701a.shtml
Family court to be more open
NZPA 30 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2956679a11,00.html
Saint preserve us from evil (photo)
Auckland City Harbour News 02 July 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2960097a11,00.html
Theft and destruction has plagued St Benedict's Church in Newton lately,
and no one yet has confessed to the crimes ...
Anglican Church Hopes Virtual Worship Will Boost Membership
Voice of America 01 Jul 2004
http://tinyurl.com/ypckl
The Church of England is operating its first virtual parish, which is
designed to serve a community of online worshippers from all over the
world. The Anglican Internet church, or i-church (
http://www.i-church.org ), went online three months ago, and has already
attracted far more members than its organizers ever expected, even
though the official launch is still a month away...
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
From the June 27-July 10, 2004 issue:
NZ's process for handling abuse cases compares well
PALMERSTON NORTH - Nationally accepted protocol procedures established
by the Church in New Zealand to deal with complaints of sexual abuse set
it apart from other English-speaking countries, says Bishop Owen Dolan....
East Timor wants fair deal, not ongoing handouts
AUCKLAND - The people of East Timor want a fair deal and sovereignity,
not continuing handouts, says New Zealand Pax Christi member Kevin
McBride...
Interest still growing in Thomas Merton
CHRISTCHURCH - Interest in the life and work of Trappist monk Thomas
Merton is expanding around the world, says Dr Paul Pearson, director and
archivist of the major Thomas Merton centre at Bellarmine University in
Kentucky, who was recently in Christchurch for a seminar and talks....
Also in the print edition of the current issue:
Director sought for new office; Four recipients of new Delargey Awards;
New name for SPUC?; Anne Dickinson to be bishops¹ executive officer;
Abortion rise includes girls aged 11; Bishop¹s pledge of help brings
babies to birth
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
MEDIA RELEASES
Refugee Crisis in Darfur, Sudan (28 Jun 2004)
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, the Catholic agency for justice, peace and
development has released $NZD 15,000 to kick-start an appeal to assist
the people of Darfur, Western Sudan and refugees across the border in
Chad. The humanitarian crisis which has affected over 1 million people
has been described by the United Nations as the worst humanitarian
crisis in the world...
"The Spiritual Bankruptcy of Liberalism", an essay by Cardinal Tom
Williams (28 Jun 2004)
June 2004
Cardinal Williams' observes that the country is becoming a "moral
wasteland" a place where traditional values and beliefs are being
systematically subverted as society elects to live on a diet of "junk
food provided by bankrupt liberalism". He encourages people to challenge
the culture of exaggerated individualism, and to serve society by they
way they live their lives as individuals and families.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Hobart Archbishop says Harradine a 'tough act to follow'
Adelaide Centacare director 'devastated' by Govt demands
Pope sorrow over Constantinople
Division among US bishops on sanctions for politicians
Church condemns celibacy TV documentary
Cautious welcome for renewed relations with Israel Govt
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MARIST MESSENGER (Society of Mary in NZ)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
Full text from the July edition :
Focus by Fr Carl Telford sm:
Migrants are a world-wide phenomenon
My problem with the Sacrament of Reconciliation by Kilian de Lacy
"Going to confession" has changed- and for the better
The Rosary helps to meditate
The Rosary is a great prayer but we need help to pray it
Alone by Fr Paddy Cahill
People are made for people and we all long to feel in our heart the
warmth of family or friends.
Also in the July Marist Messenger
Mystic - you mean me? ... The significance of singleness .... Does
business have a spirituality? .... Idealisation - shattered illusions?
.... The suffering Church in the Sudan ... The love of God - part 8 ...
The theology of the body - making sense of desire.
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Pope John Paul II receives in audience His Holiness Bartholomew I,
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople: may the memory of the history
making encounter between Patriarch Athenagoras I and Pope Paul VI in
1964 “prompt a leap forward in dialogue and restoration mutual brotherly
relations”
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/30_2720.html
Patriarch of Constantinople Evaluates His Visit to Rome. Interview With
Bartholomew I
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56271
A matter of life and death, by Austen Ivereigh
The Tablet (U.K.) 3 July 2004
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-00910
The BBC’s Panorama programme has criticised the Church’s case against
using condoms to combat Aids. Who is right? And what do the experts
think? ...
Why New Age Is a Challenge for Christianity
Father Alessandro Olivieri Pennesi Responds
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56135
The Da Vinci Code, Corrected
Why the "lost gospels" were really lost, by Craig Keener
Christian History, Spring 2004
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/2004/002/8.15.html
Monsignor Zen: We Christians, Democrats, and Lovers of China
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1082
Hong Kong (AsiaNews) – About 10,000 Catholics and Protestants gathered
together in Victoria Park for a shared moment of prayer and meditation
ahead of the July 1 pro-Democracy march. Monsignor Joseph Zen Ze-kiun,
Bishop of Hong Kong, the Reverend Ralph Lee Ting-sun of the Methodist
Church, and the Reverend Eric So Shing-yit of the Christian Council of
Hong Kong led the meeting. Here is the full text of Monsignor Zen’s
speech ...
Pope Tells Iraqi President of Church's Support. Appeals for Respect of
Religious Freedom
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56125
Chaldean Patriarch of Baghdad: “We thank Everyone, But Above All We
Thank The Pope”
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1053
Solomon Islands' Prime Minister praises Christians for contribution past
and present to growth of the nation: celebrations mark 100 anniversary
of arrival of first Catholic missionaries
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/26_2711.html
Pope John Paul: “The family is the future of Europe. We can say that the
family is the mirror of society and therefore also of the new Europe
which is being built ”
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/26_2707.html
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's
full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for July 2, 2004:
Common Ground lecture: Why are U.S. Catholics even more divided?; Tough
document on Anglican crisis; Patriarch of Constantinople in Rome; About
the archbishops' pallium; Jews press for campaign against anti-Semitism
in Latin America; Papal visit to Lourdes and the doctrine of the
Immaculate Conception; Once more on human trafficking
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