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SOLEMNITY OF ALL SAINTS (November 1)
SOLEMNITY OF ALL SOULS (November 2)
"Journey to New Life" - http://www.ake.quik.co.nz/termon/ - links to the Readings for the Sundays and Holydays of the year, with commentaries on them and suggestions for appropriate liturgies where Mass is not available. Compiled by Fr Bill Fletcher (Otahuhu)
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Poles apart (photo) Manawatu Standard 26 October 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3076753a1861,00.html The Polish community celebrates the 60th anniversary this weekend of the arrival in New Zealand of a group of mostly Polish children refugees. Ewan Sargent reports...
Mary Potter Hospital closure shocks staff (photo) The Press (Chch) 29 October 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3080204a7144,00.html Managers at the 90-year-old Mary Potter Hospital for the elderly, set up by a Catholic order of nuns in 1913, shocked staff and patients' families by announcing on Wednesday that it was closing...
Pax Christi Supports Divestment from Israel (press release) Scoop, 28 October 2004, http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0410/S00270.htm The 10th anniversary assembly of Pax Christi Aotearoa-New Zealand, held in Auckland on 1-2 October, endorsed the Anglican Peace and Justice Networks and Presbyterian Church of the United States in their recent call for divestment in Israel modelled on the popular boycott of apartheid South Africa...
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Kerry brings faith to the fore as election nears The Tablet (UK) 30 October 2004 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/citw.cgi/past-00203 The Democrat US presidential candidate John Kerry spoke this week about how 'his sense of faith' would guide his prospective administration...
Chaldean Church delegation meets al-Sistani to build peace in the country http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1800 Baghdad (AsiaNews) – “It was a very cordial meeting, like between brothers who love each” and the discussion touched upon what to do to “treat a sick country,” Chaldean Catholic Patriarch Emmanuel Delly said in a telephone interview with AsiaNews. He was referring to a meeting between a Chaldean delegation and ayatollah al-Sistani...
Christians and Muslims together to defeat the culture of violence http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1791 Islamabad (AsiaNews - 29 October, 2004) – Defeating the culture of violence through dialogue is the goal of this year’s annual meeting of Pakistani Muslim and Christian leaders held on October 20 to coincide with the holy month of Ramadan....
Coexistence with Islam and national sovereignty are key issues at Maronite Synod http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1784 Beirut (AsiaNews) – The Maronite Synod has said that it will brook no compromise on the way to “building Islamic-Christian coexistence” and recovering “Lebanon’s freedom, sovereignty and independence”. Lebanon, it said, must be preserved as an example that counters “the so-called clashes of religions” and promotes the development of the Arab world “on the basis of human rights and individual liberty”...
A new day-care for Arab Christians and Muslims in Bethlehem http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1770
Europe’s deafening silence vis-à-vis Asia’s persecuted Christians http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1790
Ten months in jail and 300 lashes for Christian prisoner O'Connor http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1776
"We Are in the Modern Catacombs," Says Young Iraqi Catholic http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=61000
A voice from the bush The Tablet (UK) 30 October 2004 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-00948 Les Murray is Australia's leading poet - a man who delights in confounding the urban cultural elite with his unfashionable themes and Catholic faith...
A Vatican-Watcher Goes Public -- With Her Conversion Alessandra Borghese's Book Hailed as Courageous http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=60941
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
International News
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
Catholic politician completes Howard's Senate majority Immediate police checks for Catholic school teachers Pope comments on European Commission dispute Ratzinger says cloning "more dangerous than weapons of mass destruction" NSW diocese looking towards updated schools administration Sydney cathedral clinches top design prize
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"COMPENDIUM OF THE SOCIAL DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH,"
Presentation of Compendium of Church's Social Doctrine http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=60944 [A comprehensive summary of the contents and purpose of the Compendium]
Social Doctrine: a guide for Catholics in today's globalized world http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1759 [A shorter overview of the Compendium with special mention of its sections on the nature of marriage, social justice and the economy, terrorism, and the death penalty]
Compendium of Social Doctrine Boasts an Artful Allegory http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=60998 Vatican City, Oct. 26, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The authors of the new Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church chose what may be a fitting piece of artwork to decorate the cover, the fresco painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1338-1339) on the "Allegory of Good Government"....
Vatican questions "preventive" wars http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=608746&se\ ction=news Vatican City (Reuters - 25 October, 2004) - A major Vatican document issued a week ahead of the U.S. elections has forcefully restated the Catholic Church's position that preventive wars are permissible only with "clear proof" of an imminent attack....
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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 29, 2004 : Evangelising the First World; More about Kerry and Communion; Cardinal Ratzinger on history, politics and religion; the new Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church; Marc Balestrieri and the "excommunication" of John Kerry; More on political currents in the Vatican; US government policy on anti-retroviral drugs
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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 - 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. 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 ]
Layout Sub-Editor, 'NZ Catholic', Ponsonby, Auckland Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 31 - Nov. 13 2004 p.19, and from The Editor, 'NZ Catholic', PO Box 147-000, Auckland; e-mail: catholic@iconz.co.nz Applications close 10 November
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
Christian Blind Mission International: Office assistant (20 hours pw; two positions), Newmarket, Auckland http://www.cbmi.org/cbm_new_zealand.htm Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 31 - Nov. 13 2004 p.19, and from CBMI, tel. (09) 522 0902 Applications close 22 November 2004
