Sunday, July 10, 2005

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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ


MEDIA RELEASES


http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php


Official Catholic condemnation of "Popetown" (06 Jul 2005)
In an official letter sent to CanWest's management, Catholic Church
authorities regard the screening of Popetown on CanWest's C4TV as
"intolerable", said Catholic Communications director, Lyndsay Freer...


WORLD CATHOLIC NEWS


http://www.cathcom.org.nz/


Vatican report criticizes some Catholics' lax practices ... Mexican bishops
urge anti-euthanasia law ... Catholic Church starts email campaign for
prayers for RP amid crisis ... Papal Message of Condolence for London
Attacks ... UK Christians nominated for Nobel Peace Prize ... Catholic
Archbishop condemns tour ... The case for sainthood ... Pell leads bid for
Catholic festival


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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS


'Nasty' TV show offends NZ Catholics
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3337448a11,00.html
New Zealand Catholics are calling on television channel C4 to pull its
Popetown cartoon from New Zealand TV screens, saying it is offensive, and
portrays bestiality, money-grabbing and inappropriate sexuality in the
Catholic Church...


Good merit medals awarded (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/0,2106,3337054a13415,00.ht/
ml
A very rare honour has been bestowed upon three members of the Pukehohe's St
Patrick's Catholic Church for their service to the community recently.
Eileen Smith, Bill Smith and Jack Van der Hulst have been awarded the
Benemerenti medal, which is Latin for 'good merit'...


Churches quit more rest homes
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=3&ObjectID=10334227
Churches and charities have sold out of another 11 rest homes including
Auckland's Roskill Masonic Village...


Schools share out computer booty
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/0,2106,3339503a6579,00.html
Ten Waikato schools took home almost $70,000 worth of computer equipment on
Thursday night as the Westfield Shop For Your School competition came to an
end at Chartwell mall. Major winners St Peter's Catholic School in Cambridge
and Tauhei Combined School near Morrinsville took home nearly $25,000 worth
of goodies ...


Tour hardly cricket: bishops (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/0,2106,3339554a6579,00.html
At a protest held yesterday at St Peters Cathedral in Hamilton, a statement
issued by the Anglican bishops of Aotearoa New Zealand was read by Bishop
David Moxon, saying some things are more important than cricket...


"The Roots of Religious Extremism and Our Response": an address by Ahmed
Zaoui at Victoria University of Wellington, July 7 2005
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0507/S00110.htm[The


[The


following articles are not available on the newspapers' free Websites.
They can be read at public libraries, and via the libraries' free 'Newztext'
service for borrowers]


Competitions need more schools
The Daily News (Taranaki), 5 July 2005, Edition 1, Page 19.
[Summary: Catholic primary schools took first prizes in the recent New
Plymouth Competitions, but the number of participating schools is small. In
some events only Catholic schools regularly take part to the extent that
teachers in some state schools mistakenly believe the events are for
Catholic schools only.]


Christian picture
The Press (Chichi) 7 July 2005, Edition 2, Page 11.
Summary: "God's Never Ending Story", by the Anglican publishing company
Theology House, is a short introduction to the story of Christianity. The
latest edition, part four, looks at the history of Christianity in New
Zealand. "Some Irish people believe the troubles in Ireland began with Henry
II in the 12th century. That's a long time ago, but you can't understand
Catholic history in New Zealand if you don't know some of the Irish story."
See also: http://www.theologyhouse.ac.nz/pubs/backgd.html#launch************************************************FROM


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THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES


London attacks are "barbaric acts against humanity", says Pope
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=3665
Vatican City (AsiaNews) - "Barbaric acts against humanity," Pope Benedict
XVI said upon hearing about the terrorist attacks that paralysed central
London, injuring hundreds of people and killing dozens more...


Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor "Horrified" by Bombings
English Prelates Praying for London Victims
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=73860London


London


should not bow to the terrorism hiding away in our homes
Mgr Warduni, Auxiliary Chaldean Bishop of Iraq's capital, tells AsiaNews
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=3671G8


G8


: "Greater justice is the only path for peace. We welcome the cancellation
of debts and promise of more aid for development, but African leaders must
vow to invest these resources for the good of their people" the President of
the Catholic Bishops' Conference of Democratic Congo told Fides ...
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2005/0507/05_5254.htmlCardinal


Cardinal


O'Brien's Address to "Make Poverty History" Rally
"Listen to the Voice of Your People!"
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=73592
Edinburgh, Scotland, July 3, 2005 (Zenit.org).- This is the address that
Cardinal Keith O'Brien, archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh, gave to
the "Make Poverty History" rally in Edinburgh on Saturday...


Vatican releases uncompromising working document on Eucharist
http://www.cathnews.com/news/507/44.php
In a preparatory document released yesterday for October's Synod on the
Eucharist, the Vatican singled out divorcees who remarry and Catholic
politicians who support abortion, in criticising the faithful who continue
to receive Holy Communion while in a state of mortal sin...


"Instrumentum laboris" of the 11th Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of
Bishops: "The Eucharist: Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the
Church" (full text)
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=73924Mission


Mission


: A Pacific perspective, by Cardinal Thomas Williams
The Pastoral Review (U.K.) July 2005
http://www.thepastoralreview.org/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?priestsppl-00108Legion


Legion


tells ´beautiful story´ of 73 years
http://www.cathnews.com/news/507/32.php
The Legion of Mary has launched A beautiful Story to be Told, a book tracing
its history in Australia and Oceania...


On earth, as in heaven, by Nicholas Boyle
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-01052
Forty years on, Gaudium et Spes remains a guide to the modern world, its
terrors and its goodness...


Pell leads bid for Sydney World Youth Day
http://www.cathnews.com/news/507/24.php
In an event to rival the Sydney Olympics, the Vatican will be offered venues
at Olympic Park, Darling Harbour and the Opera House to win Sydney the
church's biggest global festival and bring Pope Benedict XVI to Australian
shores for the first time...


Critics warming to 'God's Rottweiler'
http://www.cathnews.com/news/507/35.php
An influential article in the New York Time this week suggested that many
former critics of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger are warming up to the man once
called 'God's Rottweiler' since he became Pope Benedict XVI in April...


Doha: Jews, Christians and Muslims are exhorted to learn to live together
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=3630
This was the outcome of a meeting of religions which gathered believers of
the monotheistic religions, admitting Jews for the first time. There was
strong rejection of terrorism and theories which uphold inter-faith conflict
...


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"THE WORD FROM ROME"


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


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


This week ...
Benchmarks of Catholicity for universities; Holy See finances in the black;
Document on homosexuals in seminary in pope's hands; Anti-poverty rally
blessed; Preparations for the Synod on Africa; Ecumenical outreach: Moscow
and Istanbul; Preparing the synod on Eucharist; Meeting of the Vox Clara
Committee on the Liturgy in English; Bombing in London


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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: mailto:ymachb@clear.net.nzWorld


World


Youth Day cross begins final push for Cologne
http://www.cathnews.com/news/507/39.php
On Friday, Catholics around the world will begin the final 40 day countdown
before the 11th annual World Youth Day celebration, and the official WYD
pilgrimage cross will begin its final push toward the German city of
Cologne...


Next Sunday "Sending Day" for more than 1,000 young pilgrims from Santiago
who will travel to Germany for World Youth Day
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2005/0507/07_5280.html%22Thank


"Thank


you John Paul II !" In Cologne photos sent by 10,000 people from 100
different countries form a giant mosaic of photograph pixels producing an
enormous portrait of John Paul II in memory of the "father" of World Youth
Days
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WYD links:


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


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Vatican's WYD Website:
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EVENTS


Joshua


Catholic Men's Fellowship. Weekend for Men
15-17 July 2005
Hato Paora College, Kimbolton Road, Feilding
Further details from Jack tel. (04) 971 5379 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (04) 971 5379 end_of_the_skype_highlighting; e-mail:
pontings@paradise.net.nz; Web: http://www.joshuamen.orcon.net.nzFamily


Family


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


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


[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 ]


Librarian, Holy Name of Mary Seminary, Honiara, Solomon Islands (2-3 months)
Details in 'NZ Catholic' June 19-July 3 20005, p. 23, and from Mahitahi (the
development assistance agency of the NZ Catholic bishops' Conference -
http://www.mahitahi.org ), Chanel Centre, 51 Grey St., PO Box 4353, Hamilton
East. Tel. (07) 855 4699 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (07) 855 4699 end_of_the_skype_highlighting; fax: (07) 855 4709; e-mail:
mailto:Christina.mahitahi@xtra.co.nzPresenters


Presenters


, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper
'NZ Catholic' wishes to employ skilled communicators who have a firm belief
in the Catholic press, to act as presenters for the newspaper at parish
Masses. Details in 'NZ Catholic' June 19-July 3 20005, p. 23, and from
Dennis Augustine, Promotions and Advertising Manager, 'NZ Catholic' PO Box
147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034. Tel. (09) 360-3049 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (09) 360-3049 end_of_the_skype_highlighting.


Supervisor, McAloon House of Hospitality, Palmerston North.
Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 3-16 2005, p.19, 'Wel-com' July 2005, p. 14,
and from Harry Lampen Smith, e-mail admin@pndiocese.org.nz ; tel: (06) 358
8079 Applications close 15 July 2005.


Social Justice Education Co-ordinator, Caritas Aotearoa NZ
Details at: http://www.caritas.org.nz/school/educationcoordinator.php ; in
'NZ Catholic' July 3-16 2005, p.19, and from Claire Beaumont:
claire@caritas.org.nz ; Caritas, PO Box 12-193, Wellington, New Zealand ;
tel. (04) 496-1742 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (04) 496-1742 end_of_the_skype_highlighting. Applications close 18 July 2005.


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