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'NZ CATHOLIC '

http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz

No. 214, June 4-18, 2005

Full text ...

Matata's church and school survive flooding
With devastation and destruction around them, Matata's Catholic church and
school survived the worst of last month's flooding in the Bay of Plenty town
unscathed.....

TV satire on Vatican to be screened here
A cartoon satirising life at the Vatican -- which the BBC commissioned but
chose not to air -- will make its world premiere on a New Zealand television
channel on June 8....

Mixed reaction to Budget 2005
The 2005 Budget received praise and criticism from all corners. In many
instances, both reactions came from the same corner....

Also In Issue 214:

NATIONAL
Church has role in social change ... College celebrates teacher's 30 years
... Parents choosy on schools ... 280 at Dove weekend ... Mothers' Prayers
founder coming ... ERO File

FEATURES
Cardinal Williams on the Church, change and the conclave ... Priest dies
going home to Holland ... Values education is seen as vital ... Storytelling
ministry shares faith in Manawatu ... Akld schola aware its role is to
enhance the liturgy ... Irish teacher proposes film on Gov. Hobson ... Abbey
lifestyle experience changed five mens' lives ... Supporting the grieving
has been her ministry ... Southern faith celebrated along with basilica ...
Service offers women healing from post-abortion grief ... Conversion story:
Buddhist's interest began at school ... Govt accused of failing to police
prostitution ... CWL hears about work in islands ... CEO executive meets
politicians ... Ex-pat brings choir from Notre Dame

OPINION
Ronald Rolheiser: The Jesus Code - unravelling the secret ... Bev McDonald:
Questioning the notion of a lay-led church ... Others Say ... Editorial: A
Budget that failed to deliver ... Good Evans, Letters

INTERNATIONAL
Abortion-cancer cover-up alleged ... While priests decline, seminarians
double over 25 years ... The Pope: "divine plan" of papal sequence ...
Bishops in court battle ... Experienced US theologian for doctrinal
congregation ... Schiavo's parents see Pope ... Molokai sister beatified ...
CELAM's 50 years are celebrated ... Bostonians struggle in parish closures
... They kept faith for 70 years with no priest ... Beijing "supports
abortion" ... Pastoral care job not for atheist ... Eucharist helps unity of
Church ... Anglican-RC group reaches accord on Mary ... Catholics helped
Blair win ... In Brief

REGULAR FEATURES
Young Adults, Books, Monitor, Net Scene, Clips, Tape Deck, Scripture, The
Doolans, Cryptic Crossword, Caption Contest, Who Said?, 40 Years Ago, Dio.
Diary, Holy Lives, That Word!, Photo Prayer, Kit's Corner, Wit's End.

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

Hundreds farewell murdered woman
http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.asp?id=51573
Hundreds of mourners have filled Feilding's St Bridgett's Catholic church
for the funeral of slain local woman Margaret Waldin...

Church yet to judge cartoon
http://www.odt.co.nz/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=T0RULzIwMDUvMDYvMDQjQXIwMzkwMA==&Mode\
=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom
Wellington: The Catholic Church says a new C4 television cartoon, Popetown,
seems offensive on the face of it but it will be watching the show carefully
before deciding whether to lay a complaint...

Jumping up and down over pogo pope
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=10329080

Open Letter To C4 Regarding Screening Popetown
Press Release: Family Life International Thursday June 2, 2005
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0506/S00024.htm

St Marys signs agreement for roll increase
http://www.odt.co.nz/Repository/ml.asp?Ref=T0RULzIwMDUvMDUvMzAjQXIwMTEwMw==&Mode\
=HTML&Locale=english-skin-custom
St Marys School in Milton can now enrol up to 20 more pupils. Bishop Colin
Campbell last week signed an agreement with the Ministry of Education which
will allow the integrated school's roll to grow from 69 to 90...

Catholics won't rubber stamp safer sex campaign
http://www.wanganuichronicle.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3637698&thesection=l\
ocalnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=
Wanganui's Catholic Church has poured cold water on the return of the "No
Rubba No Hubba" safer sex campaign...

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[The following article is not available on a free Website. It can be read
via the 'Newstext' service provided to borrowers by many public libraries]

Building a symbol of hope for education
By Catherine Gick
Stuff - Manukau Courier - Local News - 2 Jun 2005
The name of McAuley High School's new English and technology block has a
rich history. The Callahan Block, completed this year at a cost of $2
million, is named after the family that adopted the school's namesake
Catherine McAuley...

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Pope pledges to mend Orthodox rift
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/05/29/nation/doc429a21b5efe1c502313083.\
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Bari, Italy - Pope Benedict XVI made his first trip outside Rome since his
election as head of the world's 1.1 million Roman Catholics and took the
opportunity Sunday to emphasize two issues he has already made clear will be
fundamental to his mission: Christian unity and resistance to materialism
and increasing secularism...

Full text of Pope Benedict's address at Bari:
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=3399

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FROM THE OVERSERAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES

World Priest Day focus on friendship with Christ
http://www.cathnews.com/news/506/19.php
In a message for the World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests,
the Vatican's Congregation for Clergy has proposed that priests rediscover
that friendship with Christ which led them to embrace their vocation in the
first place. "The secret or key of priestly life is the passionate love of
Christ, which brings with it Christ's passionate announcement," says a
document issued by the Congregation for Clergy for the World Day of
Prayer...

Africa's Latin champion. The Tablet Interview Cardinal Rodríguez
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-01037
Given that Cardinal Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga, Archbishop of
Tegucigalpa, comes from one of Central America's poorest nations, you might
think he has more than enough to keep him busy in Honduras without
concerning himself with poverty in Africa. But he was in London last week to
lobby the British Government on the need to support Make Poverty History,
the campaign to improve aid to the continent and alleviate the staggering
debts of the African countries...

Non-stop praying for Clementina Cantoni
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=3408
Kabul (AsiaNews) - "The ex-pat community is constantly praying for
Clementina's release," says Fr Giuseppe Moretti, priest of the only Catholic
church in Afghanistan, which the young Italian aid worker used to attend
before she was abducted on May 16 by armed men...

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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ

GLOBAL CATHOLIC NEWS

http://www.cathcom.org.nz

* Under stern official gaze, Vietnam's Catholic stronghold dares to hope
* Westminster Abbey counters Da Vinci Code
* Forum gathers 600 to discuss future of religious life
* Pope John Paul's "shadow" named Krakow archbishop
* Examining the first 45 days of Pope Benedict
* (Charlotte) Church disagrees with Pope
* Pope highlights human dignity from from conception until natural death
* Benedict prefers to write own speeches

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CATHOLICTV.NET

Wellington Archdiocesan Media Centre

http://www.catholictv.net

Current videos:

Kitty McKinley, leader of Challenge 2000, a Wellington youth and family
outreach, on the meaning of life

Simply meditating: Fr Laurence Freeman OSB on the way of Christian
meditation

Fr Peter Roe SM on the benefits of mentoring

Celebrating with Cardinal Williams: scenes from the Mass of Thanksgiving for
Cardinal Williams service to the Archdiocese of Wellington, and the homily
by Bishop Dew

The life of Mary Potter and the impact of imminent death: the first in a
series by a Sister of the Little Company of Mary

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MARIST BROTHERS' NEWSLETTERS

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'Champagnat Newsletter' Volume 9 Number 1 April 2005
A newsletter for Boards of Trustees and Staff of Marist Schools and Schools
with Marist traditions in New Zealand.

http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/CNApril20051.htm

Marcellin Champagnat and Education in Faith ... Brother Joachim Dwyer RIP
... Refreshing our understanding of Charism: Marist educational philosophy
in the present day ... Welcome and farewell: new teachers and other staff
members .... Seeds of Consolation (poem) ... Excerpts from "Encountering
Marcellin Champagnat" - Teacher's Kit ... Marist Brothers' Vocation Year ...
St Paul's College 50th Jubilee .... Visits to Schools and Colleges

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'Marist Family News' March 2005

http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/Marist%20Family%20News.htm

From our Provincial: the December Chapter and the Marist Lay Partnership ...
St Paul's College 1955 - 2005 ... Chapter elects new Provincial Council ...
People here and there: Brother Fabian; Mark Wylie; Tom Cresswell; Brother
Anthony Walker; Brother Stephen Filipo ... Recent Deaths: Father Bill Wood;
Mrs Elizabeth May Parker ... Year Of Vocations ... Life Goes On: Marist
Bothers world-wide ... Sister Catherine Lawson Sm and the Marist Learning
Centre ... Marist Alternative Education Centre, Glenfield ... A Mystical
Heart (poem) ...

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"THE WORD FROM ROME"

http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/

A weekly column by the National Catholic Reporter's full-time correspondent
in Rome, John L. Allen Jr.

This week ...
Benedict the teacher; The five 'big ideas' of the Ratzinger pontificate;
Benedict the governor; Benedict the collegial pope; Benedict the sanctifier

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WORLD YOUTH DAY, COLOGNE, GERMANY
16-21 August 2005

Official site of the New Zealand National Pilgrimage to WYD, Cologne
http://www.worldyouthday.org.nz
En route to World Youth Day, our representatives will follow the path of St
Paul to the sites of the early Christian communities in Greece and Turkey,
as well as a visit to Gallipoli and Anzac Cove. Then its off to Cologne,
Germany for World Youth Day 2005, the Catholic Church's mega event -
hundreds of thousands of young people from all over the world coming
together, united around Pope John Paul, listening to the Word of God,
assisting at celebrations and participating in a festival of joy... See the
NZ World Youth Day Website for further info., or write to: Bill Dysart, C-58
Osier Road, Greenmeadows, Napier. Email: ymachb@clear.net.nz

"Under-construction, help us build a world of greater justice!": for the
first time World Youth Day preparation includes social programmes of
solidarity "to build a civilisation of love and justice"
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2005/0505/28_5006.html

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Other WYD links:

The official international WYD Site:
http://www.wjt2005.de/index.php?id=6&si=1

The Vatican's WYD Website:
http://www.vatican.va/gmg/documents/gmg_2005_en.html

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EVENTS

Palmerston North Diocese: Jubilee Celebration of the Consecration of the
Diocese 7 May - 26 June 2005
Details on http://www.pndiocese.org.nz

"The History and Science of The Shroud of Turin" (Exhibition)
From 13 May 2005 "for a limited time"
Lower NZI, Aotea Centre, THE EDGE, Auckland, New Zealand
Full description on:
http://www.shroud.co.nz/Exhibition.htm

[If you can't make it to the exhibition, you will find many of the
photographs from it at your public library in: 'The Turin shroud : the
illustrated evidence', by Ian Wilson and Barrie Schwortz, Publisher Michael
O'Mara, 2000 (232.966 WIL), or you can request it via Interloan. ML]

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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 ]

Prison chaplain, Catholic Diocese of Christchurch.
Further details in 'NZ Catholic', June 5-18 2005, p.22 and from Paddy Beban,
Diocesan Financial Administrator, PO Box 4544, Christchurch. Tel: (03)
366-9869; e-mail: pbeban@chch.catholic.org.nz Applications close 10 June
2005

Accountant - Financial controiller
NZ Catholic Education Office, Wellington
http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz
Further details in 'NZ Catholic', June 5-18 2005, p.22 and from Maureen
Condliffe, Operations Manager,, tel: (04) 496 1739; fax: (04) 496 1734;
e-mail: m.condliffe@nzceo.catholic.org.nz Applications close 14 June 2005

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