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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Developer buys historic priory building (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/7svpm
The 128-year-old Dominican Priory building in Smith St has been sold to a
North Island developer for an undisclosed sum following a tender sale
concluded this week. The unnamed buyer was described by Priory Redevelopment
Committee chairman John Farry as a “substantial operator�, who was
investigating either redevelopment as apartments or mixed-use commercial
premises for the building....
City Catholics on pilgrimage (full text)
Waikato Times
More than 100 Hamilton diocese Catholics leave today for a three-day
spiritual vigil in Northland. The pilgrimage is to celebrate the diocese's
25th anniversary. Organiser Val Mildon said 29 of the diocese's 36 parishes
were represented. The group would visit Motuti in the Hokianga where the
remains of the country's first Catholic bishop Jean Baptiste Pompallier are
interred. A vigil mass will be celebrated by Hamilton bishop Denis Browne
tomorrow night.
Rudman's City: Political recruitment starts at the school gate
New Zealand Herald â€" news â€" general â€" Oct 24 2005 4:59AM
[If Labour wanted to refine its search for future voters, young and Catholic
would seem a fruitful place to start in the light of the results of Auckland
City's Kids Voting programme, in which nearly 4500 students from 30 schools
took part in a simultaneous mock election. St Joseph's Primary's 91 per cent
support for Labour is way out in front, but many other Catholic schools are
not that far behind]
'Saturday Morning', with Kim Hill (Radio NZ)
http://www.radionz.co.nz/nr/programmes/saturday
Kim Hill interveiws John L. Allen on his new book about Opus Dei (30m sound
file)
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SYNOD OF BISHOPS ON THE EUCHARIST
Rome synod: the inside story
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-01100
More or less unanimous declarations on the most controversial subjects
marked the end of the assembly of bishops at the Vatican. But despite the
outer veneer of unity, the three-week meeting was also characterised by
diversity and dissent
Rigor mortis? At synod, bishops give lip service to Latin
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0506147.htm
Vatican City (CNS) -- Latin limped through another synod in October, as
bishops paid lip service to the assembly's official language but did their
real communicating in the vernacular...
Aussie expert says Pope will fix Synod theology gaps
http://www.cathnews.com/news/510/115.php
Biblical scholar Fr Frank Moloney, one of the appointed "experts" at this
month's Synod, has predicted that Pope Benedict's document will be
"profoundly Biblical and patristic", as well as "sensitive to the urgent
pastoral questions" raised during the theologically disappointing
discussions...
Debate on re-married Catholics not over - cardinal
http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=41109
Rome: A senior Vatican cardinal said on Monday that the question of how the
Church should treat Roman Catholics who divorce and remarry was not closed
despite the lack of change on the issue at a bishops' synod this month. ''I
can't imagine that the debate on this is closed. This is a reality and we
have to at least reflect on how to respond,'' said Cardinal Walter Kasper,
head of the Vatican's department for Christian unity...
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS
It’s good to be a priest, says talk-back host
Catholic Weekly (Sydney)
http://tinyurl.com/ctu55
Listen to talk-back radio on 2UE on Sunday night and you’ll hear Fr John
Fleming, the president of Campion College, former director of the Southern
Cross Bioethics Institute in Adelaide and a lecturer in bioethics at the
John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne. He was ordained
an Anglican priest in 1970, entered the Catholic Church with his wife
Allison in 1987 and was ordained a Catholic priest for the Adelaide
archdiocese in 1995. It’s a potent and impressive CV, but Fr John simply
presents himself for what he is: A Catholic priest, but, more to the point,
an interesting bloke to pass the time with, hence his popularity over 34
years as a broadcaster on Adelaide’s 5AA and 2UE’s recent rise in ratings on
Sunday nights...
Church Growing Everywhere Except Europe
Ranks of Priests Up; Women Religious Down
Rome, OCT. 23, 2005 (Zenit.org).- Catholics are increasing in number in all
continents except Europe, according to new Church data. According to data
taken from the latest edition of the Church's statistical yearbook, as of
year-end 2003, baptized Catholics increased by 0.3%, and now comprise 17.23%
of the world's population. The data were reported by Fides, an agency of the
Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, on the occasion of World
Mission Sunday...
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
Global Catholic News, plus audio files from Vatican Radio
Archbishop predicts Zimbabwe catastrophe
No ban on gays expected in Vatican document
A new Chinese bishop consecrated with Vatican approval
Sinn Féin allowances to be restored
Beatification soon for Cardinal Newman?
Synod proposals back existing Church policies
Iraq bishops ready to seek help from Pope
Archbishop tells student exorcists that humility defeats Satan
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NZ CATHOLIC EDUCATION OFFICE - NEWSLETTERS
'Lighting New Fires'
a newsletter for integrated schools, with a supplement for Catholic schools
http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/lightingnewfires.shtml
November 2005 - Edition Six
Editorial: The culture of complaint, a plague of modern life ... Ministry of
Education Payment of Historic Furniture and Equipment Modernisation Claims
... Welcome to the New Minister of Education ... Enhanced Policy on Building
New Integrated Schools ... Amendments to the Powers of Boards of Trustees in
Relation to Delegations ... Thank you to schools that send in their
newsletters ... Secondary Futures Workshops Available ... ACHIEVEMENTS OF
INTEGRATED SCHOOLS THROUGHOUT NEW ZEALAND ... Education Review Office
Publications 2005 ... International Education Pastoral Care Awards Presented
... Congratulations on Teacher Awards ... Howard Fancy, Secretary for
Education, on crucial knowledge to build effective teaching ... Educating
New Zealand Students about Asia ... National Education Monitoring Project
surveys reveal improvement in children’s learning ... Secondary Futures
Workshops Available ... Unesco Turns 60 ... Primary school environmental
resource site ... Primary Teacher Resources Available ... Single Sex
Classrooms Debate Gains Strength ...
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'Lighting New Fires' - Catholic Schools Supplement
Editorial: Martin Luther King and the importance of realizable dreams ...
Brochure ‘Catholic Schools, a Heritage to be Proud Of’ distributed ...
Ministry of Education Circular on Crown Entities Act ... Use of Unit
Standards to Gain Credit in Religious Education ... Improved New Zealand
Catholic Education Office Website ... Major Partnership for Schools and
Sponsorship for Catholic Education ... Teachers with qualifications in
religious education available to teach in 2006 ... New NZCEO Strategic Plan
Nearing Completion ... A Measure of Special Character in Catholic Schools
... Drawing on the heritage of the Church to help youth consider today’s
problems ... Australian School’s academic success based on school culture
...
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'Good News & The News '
Broadsheet of Good Practice in Integrated Schools
http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/goodnews-news.shtml
October 2005 Volume Twenty
Hato Petera College, Auckland, a 100% Maori Catholic school ... St Francis
Xavier School, Whangarei: Initiatives to enhance and support the
achievement of Maori pupils ... St Mary’s College, Ponsonby: Dame Sr Mary
Leo’s legacy flourishes in the music programme ... Marian School, Hamilton
East: Family care worker makes a difference ... St Anne’s School, Manurewa:
Mission Outreach from Manurewa to Samoa ... New Zealand Catholic Education
Convention 31 August â€" 2 September 2006, Wellington
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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 ...
Jewish-Christian dialogue: the continuing challenge of 'Nostra Aetate';
Synod debates remain open; Cardinal Angelo Scola on the Synod; Bishop
Wuerl's view of the Synod; American ambassador to the Holy See arrives; A
seminar on trafficking in persons
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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 ]
Bishop's Deputy for the Pastoral Plan of the Catholic Diocese of
Christchurch
http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=170
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct.23 - Nov.5 p.23, and from: Fr Rick Loughnan,
Good Shepherd House, 372 Innes Rd., Christchurch 8005. Tel.: (03) 385
8300 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (03) 385 8300
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e-mail: gsh@clear.net.nz
School Administrator/Business Manager, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct.23 - Nov.5 p.23; at:
http://www.mahitahi.org/project.php?id=0029 ; and from: Mahitahi, Chanel
Centrer, 51 Grey St., PO Box 4353, Hamilton East, . Tel: (07) 855 4699
begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (07) 855 4699
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fax: (07) 855 4709; e-mail: Christina.mahitahi@xtra.co.nz
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