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'WEL-COM'
The newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington and the Diocese of Palmerston
North
From the November issue ...
Refugee service marks 25 years as numbers of stateless grow
The Jesuit Refugee Service is celebrating 25 years in its mission of
accompanying, serving and advocating for the rights of refugees. Its
experiences are documented in two books the JRS has launched to mark this
milestone. The director of JRS International, Fr LluÃs Magriñá SJ, told a
press conference last month, the number and scope of the agency’s services
have increased over the years as peoples’ needs have grown. The original
call for refugee services came in 1980, from the father general of the
Society of Jesus, Fr Pedro Arrupe. It was in response to the plight of
Vietnamese boat people....
Waimea West church 150 years old
The little Catholic Church at Waimea West Nelson is celebrating its 150th
jubilee next month, making it one of the oldest churches in New Zealand. In
June 1852, Fr Antoine Garin of Nelson applied to the government for land to
build a church at Waimea West and two acres were granted. Subsequently
Waimea West Catholics received 79 pounds as their share of trust funds for
religious purposes. Three hundred pounds was also raised from the community
and the church was completed at the end of 1855...
Spiritual balm for faith community nurses
The holistic nature of faith community nursing was highlighted for 36
delegates at a recent conference on the subject with the exploration of a
range of topics from care of the aged to spiritual aspects of mental illness
and historical biblical models. The New Zealand Faith Community Nurses
Association (NZFCNA) conference theme, fresh balm for future practice,
underpinned the event's spiritual concepts of healing balm mingled with
practical nursing issues....
Nelson doctor takes stand against prescribing contraceptives
A Nelson doctor has told his female patients he will no longer prescribe
contraceptives because of his faith. Dr Joseph Hassan wrote to 50 of his
patients saying he believed fertility was a gift to be looked after and not
something to be medicated for...
Jason lunches with the Pope
When World Youth Day volunteer, Jason Mackiewicz, had lunch with the pope,
and 11 other young adult representatives he was overwhelmed by the symbolism
of the event. Here they were, these disciples, ‘breaking bread’ with the
Church’s leader and one other, the German Bishops’ Conference delegate,
Bishop Bode. Another point of significance for today’s Church might have
been the fact that there were women as well as men among the diners. Jason
says it was a tremendously spiritual moment for him, being in such a small
group and spending an hour and a half with a pope who came across as a
humble servant, a listener...
World Youth Day - back to the future
Wellington’s pilgrimage started long before our feet left NZ soil (Archdio.
pilgrimage prep nights, an ANZAC Day dawn parade, individual reflections and
18 months of fundraisers); long before we followed St Paul’s footsteps
through Turkey; long before we followed the footsteps of the more than 13
million other young adults who have pilgrimaged to World Youth Day since
1984. The same could be said for the parishes of Germany that spent just as
long preparing for us to come to them for the Days of Encounter. And so,
rather than raving about Turkey, Greece or Germany; the 95 Kiwis (30 of them
from Wellington); the tranquillity of Gallipoli; star-gazing with and waking
up among 1.2 million others; crowd-stopping hakas; seeing the pope or salad
in a can, I want to talk about a town called Siegen....
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Warren Gamble: When soccer players were cool at school
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/466/story.cfm?c_id=500832&ObjectID=10353845
Rosmini College is a medium-sized school off a quiet street in residential
Takapuna, which has gone about its business solidly and unspectacularly.
However, New Zealand cricketer and now cricket chief Martin Snedden is a
former Rosminian, as is former All Black Blair Larsen. But for one year
Rosmini had another heroic claim and it came from the unlikeliest source at
a school where rugby was king, as it was throughout New Zealand in 1980...
CS Lewis: The literary lion of Narnia
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/article326179.ece
[This in-depth article on the life and works of CS Lewis contains one
instance of coarse language in the first paragraph. ML]
God's Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's forbidden priests and the hatching of
the gunpowder plot (and other book reviews)
http://www.newstatesman.com/Bookshop/300000106680
It now seems almost inevitable that, some day soon, a furious gang of
religious extremists, their imaginations stunted by an excess of faith, will
carry out a lethal terrorist attack on a famous London landmark. If this
comes to pass, it will no doubt be presented as unprecedented devilry, the
malignant intrusion of a foreign creed. But religious terrorism is nothing
new, and once again, in a tradition stretching back over four centuries, the
country will crunch toffee apples and ooh-aah at fireworks in memory of Guy
Fawkes's failed attempt to blow up the king and parliament in November
1605...
Israeli discovery may redefine history of church
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/07/news/mideast.php
Megiddo, Israel - When the Israeli authorities wanted to expand the Megiddo
prison, they tapped their captive labor pool and put dozens of inmates to
work digging inside the compound here that is ringed with coiled razor wire
and guard towers. Last week, the inmates discovered a Christian religious
site that the Israel Antiquities Authority said may date to the third
century and could be the earliest Christian church unearthed in the Holy
Land, and possibly one of the earliest in the world....
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Beatification of Charles de Foucauld
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=4607
The beatification of Charles de Foucauld tomorrow, 13 November, at St Peter’s
Basilica, is an important occasion for Catholics in France, where he was
born in 1858, for those in Algeria, where he was killed by bandits in 1916,
and for the whole Church, because of his witness to the significance of
mission work among Muslims...
Vatican sees podcasting as important pastoral tool
http://www.cathnews.com/news/511/62.php
The Church should not pass up the opportunity to make liturgies and prayers
available via podcast, as well as downloadable sermons by "podpreachers",
said the magazine, La Civilta Cattolica, in its 5 November issue. The
popularity of podcasting has generated a subcategory called "Godcasting,"
which refers to efforts by churches, preachers and religious media to tap
into the digital communications boom...
Pope: Dei Verbum, a central feature of Vatican Council II and of the Church
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=4547
Vatican City (AsiaNews) â€" Addressing thousands of pilgrims gathered in St
Peter’s Square in the rain, Benedict XVI said the Word of God is Christ
himself and that “no further new public revelations are to be awaited�. The
pope recalled how, thanks to Dei Verbum, there has been a veritable
“biblical springâ€� in the Church, which has placed the Word of God â€" and
not
many human words â€" right in the centre of preaching, teaching and community
life..
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Media Releases
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
BSA and ‘Popetown’ complaint (08 Nov 2005)
A recent report on the Fairfax website about the TV programme ‘Popetown’
purporting to use my comments to whitewash the controversial TV series, is
partial and misleading. ‘Popetown’ is the subject of complaints to the
Broadcasting Standards Authority...
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Global Catholic News, plus sound files from Vatican Radio
Vatican document restricts gays in priesthood: paper ... Seven months on,
Pope keeps aides guessing ... Catholic Charities gives $36M for hurricane
assistance ... Pope denounces terror attacks on Jordan ... Cowen hits back
at attack on Church/State relationship ... Iraqi President tells Pope rights
of Christians to be guaranteed ... Albanian leader meets Pope ... Vatican to
Hold International Seminar on Sports
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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 ...
The Vatican's new American ambassador; More on the gays in the seminary
document; The Vatican and Oil for Food; Britian's new ambassador to the
Vatican; Machiavelli: sex abuse survivor?
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