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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ

Media Releases
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Catholic Diocese opposes NZ National Front party logo application (16 Aug
2005)
The Catholic Church in Dunedin has written to the Electoral Commission,
objecting to the proposed logo of the NZ National Front political party...


Global Catholic News (plus links to sound files from Vatican Radio)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
Jewish leader asks Pope to open Vatican archives
Pope expresses joy at return to Germany
Pope makes spectacular homecoming
Take up John Paul's legacy and commit yourselves to serve Christ
Pope visits synagogue, warns of new anti-Semitism
Pope Sued, Accused Of Sex Coverup
Pope Arrives in Germany for Youth Day
Australian PM tells youth next WYD will be in Australia

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

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Day-to-day reports from Zenit Catholic news agency:
http://zenit.org/english/

WYD News from the international media:

Google News (includes a lot of repetitions of the same reports in different
newspapers)
http://tinyurl.com/cb8ay

World News Network (more selective than Google News)
http://tinyurl.com/9774f

WYD news in English from the German press
http://www.pulitzer.de

Other WYD links:

Pictures of the day:
http://www.wjt2005.de/index.php?id=1378&si=1

WYD live Webcams (remember, day here is night there!):
http://www.wjt2005.de/index.php?id=1368&si=1

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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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

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The St Joseph's Orphanage Case

Nun denies hitting child at orphanage
http://tinyurl.com/8ancl
Wellington: A nun has denied damaging the eardrum of a child in her care
more than 30 years ago by slapping the side of her head. The assault claim
is one of the allegations a 45-year-old woman, whose name is suppressed, has
made against nuns of the Sisters of Mercy in the High Court at Wellington.
After three weeks of hearings, the case was adjourned yesterday until
September 5...

Damage awards not like Lotto says nuns' lawyer
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/0,2106,3381994a6479,00.html
Court-awarded damages should not be like Lotto, a lawyer for Wellington nuns
being sued for $550,000 has said. Imposing damages on Sisters of Mercy would
be like making parents pay damages for how a child was raised....

Rape claims `beyond belief'
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/0,2106,3380838a6479,00.html
One of the men accused of sexually abusing a woman who was in Catholic care
in the 1970s has said the allegation is "absolute rubbish"...

Abuse claimant was 'demanding'
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/0,2106,3379687a6479,00.html
A teenager who had spent years in institutional care did not always
understand "boundaries" that family life required, a former foster father
says...

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Funds tap closes for sex-abuse victims
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/0,2106,3383357a6009,00.html
The Catholic order at the centre of sex-abuse scandal is closing the funding
tap for five New Zealand victims and told them "fair's fair". In 2003, St
John of God paid $4 million compensation to 56 complainants claiming they
were sexually abused as boys at its former Marylands residential school in
Christchurch....

The Bible: what our children don't Noah
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/0,2106,3383286a6000,00.html
A University of Exeter study has compared New Zealand and British children's
understanding of the Bible and found that Kiwi children have a lot to learn
when it comes to Christianity. Most did not even realise that the Easter and
Christmas stories can be found in the Bible....

Peter Cullinane: Time to exercise the conscience vote
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?ObjectID=10341242
[This is an edited version of the bishops' pastoral letter 'Thinking about
the election' (12 August 2005), full text:
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php ]

City man seeking money for Zambia project
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/0,2106,3378160a6579,00.html
A Dutchman who now calls Hamilton home is raising funds for an ambitious
building project in Zambia. Nick Bouma, who has lived in New Zealand for
more than 25 years, is travelling to the southern African country next year,
meeting up with three of his brothers from the Netherlands and helping build
a multi-purpose community centre. The four decided to undertake the project
for another brother, John, a Catholic priest who has worked in Africa for
more than 30 years....

Catholic school gets ministry consent; building starts end of month
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/0,2106,3377393a6568,00.html
The new Holy Family School in Wanaka would open in February, people were
told at the Catholic mass in the town yesterday...

Together 'forever' becoming 'for a while' in wedding vows
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3377165a11,00.html
Couples are avoiding making "till death do us part" wedding vows in favour
of more cautious promises such as staying together for "as long as love
shall last"...

Cross in National Front logo offends Catholics (photos)
http://tinyurl.com/8uupd
The Dunedin Roman Catholic diocese has asked the Electoral Commission to
decline registering the logo of the New Zealand National Front political
party, because it includes a cross. Electoral Commission senior legal
adviser Geoff Barnett said one other complaint had been received but the
logo would not appear on the upcoming general election ballot papers as it
had not been registered with the commission in time....

Pope shocked at slaying of Taizé´s Brother Roger
http://www.cathnews.com/news/508/106.php
Pope Benedict XVI said yesterday that he is shocked and saddened at the
slaying of Brother Roger Schutz, founder of the Taize community and one of
the world's leading ecumenical figures....

Brother Roger Schutz, Founder of the Taizé community (obituary)
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article306549.ece
Born into a Swiss Protestant family in 1915, he grew up in Geneva, one of
two boys with seven sisters. He studied to be a pastor but, as he was to
write later, "was astonished to see Christians who, talking about a God of
love, wasted so much energy in justifying division". In 1940 he set off for
France by bicycle, seeking a house where he could pray and welcome others.
Three others of like mind were soon to join him in the quiet rural village
of Taizé with its tiny medieval church...

PM´s message advances WYD Australia rumours
http://www.cathnews.com/news/508/107.php
Following a service at the Cologne Exhibition Centre attended by 1600 young
Australians, organisers screened a videotaped message from Prime Minister
John Howard, expressing his pleasure that the next World Youth Day "will be
in Australia". Pope Benedict XVI is yet to confirm the news. He is expected
to announce the location of the next WYD at the final mass on Sunday.....

When the German Pope Returns Home, He'll Find an Un-Christian Land (2 pages)
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,370072,00.html
When Pope Benedict XVI lands in Cologne for World Youth Day, he will be
arriving in a country that has become foreign to him. The churches are
empty, the politicians are non-believers and the people in the east are
complete strangers to God. And now organizers of the biggest religious
festival of the post-war era plan to turn it into a launching pad for a new
religious awareness....

Outraged Sister stages Da Vinci demo
http://www.manchesteronline.co.uk/men/news/s/170/170142
A Roman Catholic nun has staged a 12-hour protest against the filming of
controversial best seller The Da Vinci Code at Lincoln Cathedral. Sister
Mary Michael, 61, knelt in prayer outside the building where scenes for the
blockbuster starring Tom Hanks are being shot. Asked if she thought the
people making the film would care about her protest, she said: "I don't
suppose they do, but that doesn't matter tuppence to me. It matters to me
what God thinks...

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TUI MOTU INTERISLANDS

http://www.tuimotu.org

From the August 2005 issue ...

Full text: Hiroshima 2005 (editorial)

Also in this issue:
Hiroshima and 7/7 London - Editorial plus 5 articles
False gods: The body beautiful - Jacquie Lambert
Interview with Colin Durning - Mike Riddell
Pakeha and the Treaty - review: Tom Cloher
Loving and grieving over our kids - Paul Andrews

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NZ CATHOLIC EDUCATION OFFICE

'Lighting New Fires' Newsletter and Catholic schools' Supplement. Issue
four - July 2005

http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/lightingnewfires.shtml

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Newsletter ........
Editorial by Brother Pat Lynch: Adolescents and alienation .... Elections
for Representation on the New Zealand Teachers Council .... Electronic
Enrolment Management System for Intermediate and Secondary Schools ....
Funding Announced for Student Administration Systems .... Crackdown on
Copyright in Schools .... Changes in Work Policy for International Students
.... Getting Your Successes into Lighting New Fires .... Congratulations:
Achievements of integrated schools throughout New Zealand ... Co-ed Schools
and Single Sex Schools .... SPANZ Executive Benefits from Skills of
Integrated School Principals ... A Really Good Idea: Stella Maris School's
friendship bus stop .... A useful Website on depression, youth suicide
prevention, and bullying ... University of Otago Theology and Religious
Studies ... Boys who leave school early do better than girls .... New
Zealand Council for Educational Research New Resources .... ASG National
Excellence in Teaching Awards ... New Zealand Secondary Schools Climate
Change Competition .... NCEA Statistics .... Tips for Motivating Staff ....
Did You Know? New Zealand's spending on state schooling; worldwide youth
employment

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Catholic Schools' Supplement .........
Editorial: The importance of faith and the deeping of faith values in our
Catholic schools .... Recovery in Matata ... New Zealand Tour of the Relics
of St Therese of Lisieux .... Care in the Wording of Advertisements ...
Primary School Principals' Sabbaticals and Scholarships .... Numbers of
Copies of 'Lighting New Fires' Sent to Schools ... Catholic Religious
Education Unit Standards ... Congratulations ... "What Makes My Catholic
School So Special" ... News From Australia: survey on religion in schools
... Publications from the Irish Association of Pastoral Care in Education
... The Power of Branding.

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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 ...
NCR Rome correspondent John L. Allen Jr. is in Cologne, Germany.
NCRonline.org will post daily reports from World Youth Day through Aug. 21.
Bookmark this page or check back with NCRonline.org to read more coverage of
this international Catholic event.

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ST THERESE OF LISIEUX: 2005 NEW ZEALAND PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE
19 September - 16 October 2005

http://www.theresepilgrimage.org.nz

The Pilgrimage of Grace of the relics of St Therese of Lisieux commences in
Auckland on Monday the 19th of September 2005. The special reliquary housing
the relics will be flown from the Carmelite monastery in Lisieux, north of
Paris, where St Thérèse lived her vocation as a Carmelite nun until her
death in 1897 at the age of 24. In September and October, her relics will be
brought to Catholic churches in cities and towns throughout New Zealand for
public veneration.

The Website for the Pilgrimage includes a full itinerary, a biography of St
Therese, an article on the spiritual significance of relics, and information
on Carmelite spirituality.

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OTHER EVENTS

Family Life International. Gospel of Life Conference
23-25 September 2005 Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna
Full details: http://www.fli.org.nz/?sid=19

"The History and Science of The Shroud of Turin" (Exhibition)
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, published by
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 ]

Mission Co-ordinator, Mercy Hospital, Dunedin
Website: http://www.mercyhospital.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' 14-27 August 2005 p.19, and from Denise Cooney,
Executive Assistant, Mercy Hospital, Private Bag 1919, Dunedin. Tel (03) 467
6609; e-mail: denisec@mercyhospital.org.nz Applications close 31 August
2005.

"Mrs Doubtfire"
Single person or married couple required to run an active household in
Napier with four well-behaved school-aged children. Details in 'Wel-com'
August 2005, p.14, and from Kendall or Greg, tel: (06) 842 1325.

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