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WEL-COM
Newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington and the Diocese of Palmerston North
http://www.welcom.org.nz
From the October 2004 issue ...
Cardinal Williams' Column Awareness of being successors to the Apostles
Bishop John Dew's Reflection: Pope's prophetic warning in The Gospel of Life
Pope John Paul’s message to New Zealand’s Bishops On 13 September, during their Ad limina visit to Rome, New Zealand’s Catholic Bishops met with Pope John Paul at his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo. Here is what the Pope said to our bishops...
The Pope is living out the greatest days of his pontificate During September, I had the pleasure of joining seven other NZ bishops for our week-long Ad Limina Visit to the Holy See...
Feminists rediscover motherhood — timeless role gains new advocates Once considered by feminists as a second-best option, motherhood is gradually gaining favour. In the 1960s and ‘70s women were urged to cast off the shackles of homebound drudgery and to seek fulfillment in the workplace. But as increasing numbers of career-minded women delayed or forwent having children, many found that success in the workplace provided only short-term satisfaction...
Fr John Rea’s ongoing healing ministry Last December Wel-com included a feature about the special healing ministry of Fr John Rea SM saying he leaves a trail of miraculous healings where ever he goes. He made the point that he is not the one responsible for these healings...
New Caritas director’s eight years with the Red Cross Michael Smith, the new Director of Caritas, has two major events in his life this year. As well as being appointed the new Director of the Catholic aid agency from late October, the following month the 39-year-old bachelor will be getting married to Helen...
How free trade exploits the workers of Thailand Thai worker, Sripai Nonsee, visited New Zealand to draw attention to the effects on low paid workers of a free trade agreement between New Zealand and Thailand...
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YEAR OF THE EUCHARIST
Apostolic Letter "Mane nobiscum, Domine" (Stay with us, Lord) for the Year of the Eucharist, October 2004 – October 2005 (full text, English translation) Short URL: http://tinyurl.com/3v9b6 Full URL: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/documents/hf_jp-ii_\ apl_20041008_mane-nobiscum-domine_en.html
Fr Bernardo Cervellera;s comprehensive summary of "Mane nobiscum Domine" http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1640
Suggestions and proposals to celebrate the Eucharist http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1691 Vatican City (AsiaNews) – The Congregation for the Divine Cult and the Discipline of the Sacraments released today a 33-page document entitled Year of the Eucharist: suggestions and proposals which provides a set of guidelines meant to put into practice Mane nobiscum Domine, the Apostolic Letter John Paul II published a few days ago as part of the Year of the Eucharist that he will proclaim open this Sunday, October 17...
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THE CHURCH IN IRAQ
Five churches bombed in Baghdad, no casualties reported http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1698 Baghdad (AsiaNews/Agencies) - A string of bombs exploded at five churches across Baghdad early Saturday though no casualties have been reported, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said...
Worsening security situation in Iraq affects Christian minority. Christians! What are you doing for your Iraqi brothers, Baghdad Catholics ask. http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1700
Patriarch of Baghdad: "We must stay in Iraq to build peace" http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1699
Church bombings scaring away Christians from Sunday service http://tinyurl.com/5yptm
Life is a nightmare for Christians in Mosul, fundamentalists kidnap and kill. Catholic nun tells Fides: “some Imam are saying it is not a crime to kill a Christian” http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0410/14_3299.html
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Tenacious Pope marks 26th anniversary http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041016/325/f4pds.html Vatican City (Reuters) - Pope John Paul has marked the 26th anniversary of his pontificate, defying medical odds and confounding predictions about any successor...
Father Bob ordained at 71 (photo) http://tinyurl.com/7yecg The Sun-Herald (Sydney) October 10, 2004 St Patrick's Cathedral in Parramatta has been the setting for two weddings of sorts for Bob Sheridan 40 years apart. It was where he married his wife of 33 years in 1964. And yesterday, it was where the 71-year-old widower was ordained as a priest in the Catholic church the oldest man to be so ordained in the Diocese of Parramatta...
Polish orphans thank NZ for 60 years of sanctuary Fairfax NZ National News 12 October 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3061423a11,00.html The 60th anniversary of the arrival of hundreds of Polish children in New Zealand during World War 2 is to be celebrated with the unveiling of a commemorative plaque in Wellington...
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Nine-tenths of lay parish life coordinators are women http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0405610.htm Washington (CNS) -- Nearly nine-tenths of nonordained people who administer U.S. Catholic parishes are women, said a report published by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate...
Religious orders 'need full-time vocations directors' http://www.cathnews.com/news/410/54.php Figures from the Catholic Church in Ireland have linked relative success in attracting vocations with maintaining full-time vocations directors...
Leading from the cross, by George Weigel Tidings Online Friday, October 15, 2004 http://www.the-tidings.com/2004/1015/difference.htm With pain and difficulty, but without embarrassment or complaint, Karol Wojtyla is spending out his life in witness to the truth on which he has staked his life. That truth --- the "law of the gift," as he once called it --- is most powerfully revealed on the cross. Our human and Christian vocation is to make our lives the gift to others that our own lives are to us --- and to do so, not by relying on our own skill, or strength, or cleverness, or virtue, but on God. Without reservation. So New Zealand Bishop Patrick Dunn was onto something important when he told Zenit news service that John Paul II might well "be living out the greatest days of his extraordinary pontificate" ...
Rosary Fad Prompts an Effort at Catechesis Bishops Produce a Leaflet to Go Beyond the Fashion Craze http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=60457 London, Oct. 15, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The bishops' conference of England and Wales has issued an leaflet in response to the fashion trend among young people for wearing rosaries as necklaces and bracelets...
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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 October 15, 2004 : John Paul opens the Eucharistic Year; “Year of the Eucharist: Suggestions and Proposals”; Procedural justice under the Code; Reporting is not the same thing as approving; Pope John Paul's "Memory and Identity: Conversations Between Millenniums"; Bishop Rino Fisichella on truth and freedom; the Christian origins of the rule of law; the Holy See, the Iraq war and terrorism; the term "sect".
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EVENTS
Schools Of Evangelisation http://www.wave.co.nz/~jlewis/SOE.html (The link to Mexico is now in English)
Te Aroha - Jesus in the four Gospels - October 30/31 and November 6/7 2004 Let four friends take you to Jesus - each Gospel writer shows us a different aspect of Jesus. Venue: The Catholic Hall, Te Aroha Starts 9 am Saturday through to 5.30 pm Sunday each weekend. Facilitated by members of the Hamilton Diocesan Schools of Evangelisation Cost $80 - or as much as you can afford! Contact: John at jlewis@wave.co.nz, or phone John 07 846 2691
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Marist Brothers' Co-ordinator of Lay Partnership http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic' October 3-16 2004 p.23. 'Wel-com' October 2004 p.17 and from Br Kevin O'Malley, PO Box 61-133, Otara, Auckland 1701. Tel: (09) 274 6622. Applications close 22 October 2004
Edmund Rice Network, New Zealand. National Co-ordinator http://www.edmundrice.org.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 17-30 2004 p.23 and from Br Paul Robertson, St Peter's College, mountain Rd., Auckland 1003. Tel (09) 524 8108 ext 313; e-mail: admin@st-peters.school.nz Applications close 15 November 2004
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