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'NZ CATHOLIC'
Issue No. 222, September 25-October 8, 2005
Catholic MP survives close election
Wellington - Gordon Copeland's future hung in the balance for much of this
election campaign. On Sunday, though, the United Future MP was firmly in the
next Parliament, albeit with an uncertain road ahead....
Formal complaint over Popetown
Wellington - The New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference has lodged a formal
complaint with the Broadcasting Standards Authority over the Popetown
cartoon series....
Two NZ bishops chosen for Synod on Eucharist
Wellington - Two New Zealand bishops will join more than 250 Church leaders
from around the world in Rome for the Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist,
starting on October 2....
Also in this issue ...
NATIONAL
Relics of St Therese arrive ... Dunedin diocese to sell historic priory ...
Major press award to late editor ... Film on abuse part of festival ...
Rosmini gets technology centre ... Forgiveness follows murder at Taize ...
Marian College blocks opened ... Keen interest in Wanaka school ... Catholic
student numbers up 20 per cent in 13 years ... Naenae CWL marks 40 years ...
CWL gives $8750 to Kidney Foundation ... ERO File
FEATURES
Creed and credibility in a critical age ... Korean community soon to have
own church ... Emptiness in world led to Carmelites ... Wanganui college
over tuberculosis scare ... Principal to study EQ rather than IQ ... Better
schools coming for Greymouth - some time ... Marian's paper a winner ...
Conversion series: Warm parish helped path to conversion; At-home feeling
came readily in Catholic Church ... From trash to tabernacle
OPINION
Patricia Brooks: Taking a quick stroll down memory lane ... Ronald
Rolheiser: On carrying ecclesial tension ... Joy Cowley: The days of
smacking have come and gone ... Editorial: Christians and the election ...
Malcolm Evans ... Letters ... Vatican Letter: Vatican officials wait for
curial changes
INTERNATIONAL
Australia ponders evolution, ID ... Rioting puts Belfast Catholics in fear
again says priest .. Vatican cardinal wants stronger UN ... Priest's arrest
worries Rome ... Pope hopes statue will inspire ... Bishops say Australia
ill from affluence ... Turkey trip on table ... Bishop foresees renewal for
priests ... Faith of the few impresses ... Schismatic bishop rules out
reconciliation ... Jew-bashing discussed ... "Brain-dead" mum's baby dies
... See the cross! ... Bishop: the Lord is with us ... Roberts would become
third Catholic US chief justice ... Catholic cathedral site for Lutheran's
funeral ... Prepare for Synod, Pope tells faithful ... Pope to canonise five
new saints
REGULAR FEATURES
Books, Monitor, Net Scene, Clips, Tape Deck, Young Adults, The Doolans, Fr
Ed's Question Box, Scripture, Papal Prayer, Feasts, That Word!, Kit's
Corner, Photo Prayer, Holy Lives, Cryptic Crossword, Who Said?, 40 Years
Ago, Caption Contest, Dio. Diary, Wit's End.
ADVERTISING FEATURE
Funerals
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
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The Pilgrimage of Grace
Relics of St Therese visit Morrinsville (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/0,2106,3421160a6004,00.html
Morrinsville Catholics "felt the spirit" of a saint as the relics of one of
the Catholic Church's most revered saints visited St Joseph's church
yesterday...
Faithful pay respects to St Therese (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/9a9o2
A 19th century Catholic superstar finally got the chance to visit Tauranga
today - 108 years after her death...
Holy relics to tour province. Hundreds expected to pay tribute
http://tinyurl.com/9k2g7
Hundreds of people are expected to visit the bones of a French saint, St
Therese of Lisieux, when they arrive in Otago early next month...
Rare opportunity for Catholic community
http://www.stuff.co.nz/northland/0,2106,3416381a6015,00.html
The Catholic Parish of Whangarei will be hosting the relics of St Therese of
Lisieux tomorrow. St Francis Xavier Church will be the only place north of
Wellsford to host the relics and visitors are expected from around Northland
for the event...
Faithful pay homage to much-loved saint
http://tinyurl.com/9juaz
The bones of Catholic superstar St Therese of Lisieux arrived at St
Patrick's Cathedral in Central Auckland yesterday on the last leg of a world
tour...
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Critics launch own offensive
http://tinyurl.com/dc2o3
Dunedin student magazine Critic could face legal action following its latest
controversial issue, as a storm of protest against it continues. Student and
member of the Order of Consecrated Virgins within the Catholic Church Carol
Taurua McCready contacted the Otago Daily Times yesterday to complain about
offensive references to the Virgin Mary in the “Offensive Issue�...
Festival finale flourishing with colour (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/cc3ah
photo
Professional florists and amateur floral artists will set Sacred Heart
Church in Hastings ablaze with colour this weekend. The Catholic church in
Heretaunga Street East is hosting the seventh annual Flowers In Praise show,
part of the Hastings Blossom Festival and the venue for the
interdenominational Civic Church service at 5pm on Sunday evening....
Popetown plea goes to higher authority
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3420384a1860,00.html
The Catholic Church has taken its complaint about television cartoon
Popetown to a higher power after broadcaster C4 refused to pull the
programme. The Catholic Bishops Conference has laid a complaint with the
Broadcasting Standards Authority over the cartoon, calling it "a calculated
and deliberate insult to Catholic belief and culture"...
"Singing priest" embarks on tour (photos)
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsdetail1.asp?storyID=80652
Chris Skinner is not like most singers embarking on a nationwide tour of
major venues. That's because he is a priest of the Society of Mary in New
Zealand, part of the Catholic church. The singing priest is performing in 12
venues around the country, starting in Whangarei and finishing next month in
Wellington...
Help offered to Tongan parents
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/0,2106,3417804a6016,00.htm/
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Mangere secondary school De La Salle College has offered to help Tongan
parents pay their school fees as they support families affected by the
public servants strike in the island nation...
Outstanding Individuals and Groups Receive Award
http://www.pncc.govt.nz/City/News/CivicNews.htm?sec=Civic%20News&ID=4485
Five outstanding Palmerston North people have been awarded civic honours in
the annual awards ceremony at the Convention Centre tonight (Tuesday). The
five recipients are Margaret Clegg, Mary McKenna, Maureen Flanagan, Sister
Ruth Oakley and Michael and Lyn Ryan...
Social service agencies wary of sharing CYFS workload
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=%1E%FB%F8%C5%2B%B0%B6F
Some social service agencies say they will refuse to "prostitute" themselves
by taking part in a plan to farm out possibly around half the children
notified to Child, Youth and Family Services (CYFS). The director of
Catholic Family Support Services in Hamilton, Carole Fleming, said she was
"frightened" to see agencies accepting CYFS cases just because they needed
the money....
Consultation committee tours regions
http://tinyurl.com/crcap
The Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin, the Most Rev Colin Campbell, will
visit parishes in Otago and Southland this week to talk about the future...
Lawyer calls for accountability from Catholic organisations
http://tinyurl.com/ck2kx
Wellington: A lawyer has called for Catholic organisations being sued for
$550,000 for abuse and neglect, to be punished for trying to conceal legal
duties they knew applied to a former Upper Hutt orphanage....
Schiavo brother campaigns in NZ
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/0,2106,3415683a6479,00.html
American Terry Schiavo's younger brother is in New Zealand to campaign
against euthanasia. Bob Schindler will speak at the Catholic International
Pro-life Family conference in Auckland this weekend....
Gay ban has Catholics worried Pope's orders to check seminaries for
homosexuality might put NZ priests off, say critics
Sunday Star Times â€" News â€" 25 Sep 2005 â€" Page 2 (This story is not
available
on the newspaper's free Website)
Hard line new Vatican directives banning celibate gays from the priesthood
will drive many Catholics to leave the church, critics say. But the New
Zealand church hierarchy says it is too early to know if seminaries will be
investigated for "evidence of homosexuality" and seminarians surveyed to
find out if they are gay, as is reportedly planned in America...
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Are you The One? (photo)
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050827/LIVING/508270388
[Summary: A recruitment poster for the Catholic priesthood has been modelled
after The Matrix. "Just as Keanu Reeves fought against the powers of evil, a
priest comes to help people fight against sin. There is a battle out there,"
explained Father Jonathan Meyer, associate director of youth and young adult
ministry for the Archdiocese of Indianapolis and creative brain behind the
poster. ]
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
Global Catholic News, plus sound files from Vatican Radio
Pope suggests sport can build respectful society ... Australian Catholic
Welfare says policy tweaks amount to little ... Bishops' IT committee to
plot communications future ... Bishop evaluates initiative to reach
'disenfranchised' ... Pell calls for stem cell research ban ... Lobby says
aid increase not enough to beat shame ... Iraq's Catholic bishops seek
change to draft constitution ... Vatican denies aiding war suspect
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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 ...
Homosexuals in the seminary; "Taking the temperature" of the American
church; A Global Church in a Globalized World: what the North/South shift in
global Christianity means for Catholicism in the 21st century.
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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 continues on Sunday 25
September at St Patrick's Church, Taupo; Monday 26/9 at Tangoio Marae and St
Therese's Church, Wairoa; Tuesday 27/9 at St Peter's Church, Wairoa and St
Patrick's Church, Napier; Wednesday 28/9 at St Therese’s Church, Whakatu,
Southern Star Abbey, Kopua, and Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Palmerston
North; Thursday 29/9 at St Teresa's Church, Featherston, Ss Peter and Paul
Church, Lower Hutt; Friday 30/9 at St Mary of the Angels Church, Wellington,
Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington; Saturday 1 October at Blessed Sacrament
Cathedral, Christchurch
The Website for the Pilgrimage includes a full itinerary, a diary of the
Pilgrimage, a biography of St Therese, an article on the spiritual
significance of relics, and information on Carmelite spirituality.
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OTHER EVENTS
The Chris Skinner National Cathedral Tour, 19 September - 11 October 2005
Wellington priest Fr Chris Skinner together with Peter Van Gent Productions
proudly announce a 12-venue tour of New Zealand's finest cathedrals in
September and October. Chris will perform his hit songs including You Raise
Me Up and He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother -- recordings described by
industry veterans as being better than the originals! As a singer/songwriter
and recording artist, Fr Chris has been writing and performing his songs for
many years, his latest album Golden Light is a favourite among fans. Many
songs flow from his personal experience and listening to the stories of
others. Chris is a priest of the Society of Mary in New Zealand. Venue
details and booking page at: http://tinyurl.com/88me6
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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 ]
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