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'NZ CATHOLIC'
No. 226, November 20-26, 2005
Big weekend ends Hamilton jubilee
Hamilton - The Big Catholic Weekend - the culmination of Hamilton diocese's
25th jubilee celebrations - turned out to be big indeed, with about 10,000
people attending the event from November 11 to 13....
Bird flu could affect schools and churches
Wellington - Wellington archdiocese is in the final stages of planning a
response to a possible influenza pandemic....
Enrolments up but fewer overseas students
Wellington - The number of students enrolled in Catholic schools jumped by
900 in the year to July, although there was a drop in the number of foreign
fee-paying students....
Also in this issue ...
NATIONAL
Abortions may not continue to decline ... Cardinal speaks about conclave ...
Authority rejects complaints against Popetown ... Archbishop Dew didn't
"downplay marriage" ... Sports helps overcome hatred in Honiara ... Students
receive awards in Australian contests ... Changes contemplated in Manawatu
deanery ... Waimate school marks 125th ... Mufti Mania nets $18,600 for aid
work ... Principals named for two schools ... ERO File
FEATURES
Religious faith may help body as well as soul ... Big Catholic Weekend
pictures ... Can we learn how to pray? ... Pastoral planners gain from
Australian experience ... Role of ministers to be discussed ... Charismatics
hear world president ... Hastings Knights promote area eucharistic event ...
Basilica installing century-old "new" organ ... Chaldean congregation hopes
for new deacon ... Former brother charged ... Artist became "hooked" on
Bishop Pompallier
OPINION
Ronald Rolheiser: Proofs for the existence of God ... Susan Fraser: Will NZ
allow foetal tissue to be used for research? ... Others Say ... Editorial:
We're living beyond our means ... Letters ... Malcolm Evans
INTERNATIONAL
Gay priests ban quoted ... Reducing poverty depends on voters ... Islamic
law rules in constitution ... Parish excited by court nomination ... The
Pope: Appeal to retain spirit of Vatican II ... Vatican condemns attack on
Israel ... Sex abuse cases continue to cost dioceses in US ... Political
violence declining worldwide ... Siberian diocese puts size problem in
perspective ... Ancient church excavated ... Creation reflects divine origin
... In Brief ... Women encouraged further in theology ... Carter scolds
Democrats ... Mother beatified ... Brazil for papal visit
REGULAR FEATURES
Think Page, Books, Monitor, Tape Deck, Net Scene, Clips, Scripture, Papal
Prayer, Feasts, The Doolans, Family Talk, Cryptic Crossword, Caption
Contest, Who Said?, 40 Years Ago, Dio. Diary, Photo Prayer, That Word!, Holy
Lives, Kit's Corner, Wit's End.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Catholic doctor stops prescribing pill
http://www.stuff.co.nz/otago/0,2106,3483084a3845,00.html
Dunedin family doctor Astrid Windfuhr has stopped prescribing the
contraceptive pill and referring patients for sterilisation for birth
control because she is Catholic. But she will still prescribe the pill for
medical conditions, including menstrual irregularities and hormonal
imbalances...
They're elevating Rita (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/timaruherald/0,2106,3482448a6010,00.html
Mrs Rita Minehan was yesterday presented with the Medal Benemerenti (roughly
translated from the Latin as "well-merited"), given for outstanding Catholic
and Christian witness in the Sacred Heart Parish, the community of Timaru
and the Diocese of Christchurch...
Spontaneous approach does Pompallier proud (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=000EA76E-6333-1379-A00083027A\
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Artists face the question whether to be national or international. Piera
McArthur has had exhibitions internationally but in her work at the Studio
of Contemporary Art in Newmarket she chooses to concentrate on New Zealand
history. The paintings, on show until November 18, are about Bishop Jean
Baptiste Francoise Pompallier who came from France in 1838 to preach the
gospel to Maori...
The paintings' Website:
http://www.socaart.co.nz/artists/PieraMcArthur/PMpompallier/PMpompallier.html
Singer wins over the older crowd (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/0,2106,3478472a6579,00.html
New Zealand Idol runner-up Michael Murphy is always going to appeal to the
teenyboppers, but his popularity with older generations at the Big Catholic
Weekend at Mystery Creek surprised church spokeswoman Judith Collins...
Cathedral restoration a chance to recreate precious lost icon (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=18&ObjectID=10354997
The whereabouts of the Pompallier Madonna, a priceless ancient holy icon
brought to New Zealand in the mid-1800s by a French missionary, remains a
riddle. But work has just finished on the North Shore on a new icon,
modelled on the Byzantine original which dates back before 750AD...
Attacks on graves blot religion report
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/0,2106,3483638a6479,00.html
Attacks on Jewish graves in Wellington and Wanganui and the mailing of pork
to Muslims have marred New Zealand's religion report card, made public by
the US State Department...
College lauds sports achievers
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/0,2106,3482006a6469,00.htm/
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Junior Kiwi and Warrior development player Sonny Fa'i has won De La Salle
College's highest sports award, the Ben Valeni Memorial Cup. Fa'i, 17, is
the inaugural winner of the cup which remembers De La Salle school teacher
and rugby league player Ben Valeni who died at a Northcote Tigers' training
run earlier this year...
Green students get golden recognition
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/0,2106,3481966a6579,00.html
Eleven schools in the Waikato region have won enviroschools' awards this
year, including Te Miro School near Cambridge, which picked up a silver
award, having been in the programme for only the last two years.
Lynda Clark. Nine to Noon
Interview with Bishop Julian Porteous of the Sydney Archdiocese, an expert
on exorcism. (Radio NZ sound file - 22m)
http://www.radionz.co.nz/nr/programmes/ninetonoon/20051117
CORRECTION (with my apologies for giving the wrong link in 'News & Notes'
last week. ML)
Archaeologists discover ancient church (photo)
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2005-11-06-ancient-church_x.htm
Jerusalem â€" Israeli archaeologists said Saturday they have discovered what
may be the oldest Christian church in the Holy Land on the grounds of a
prison near the biblical site of Armageddon...
Bishop Zhang Bairen, 1915 - 2005 (2 pages)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1878485,00.html
The modern history of the Roman Catholic Church in China offers profound
testimony of both persecution and revival, and the life of “Peter� Zhang
Bairen, “unofficial� bishop of Hanyang, provided both in abundance. Trained
and ordained before Mao Zedong’s Communists swept to power in 1949, he
endured many years in labour camps because of his refusal to denounce the
authority of the Pope...
Pope Watches Latest John Paul II Movie
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/11/17/ap/world/mainD8DUE2GOC.shtml
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
A rainbow Church: How well do we meet its needs?
http://www.onlinecatholics.com.au/issue78/commessay1.php
Weekly Catholic Mass attendance in Australia is in a healthier state than it
might be due to the multicultural nature of the nation, according to the
latest National Church Life Survey figures...
A man with a mission: The Tablet Interview Francis Campbell
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-01107
The appointment was announced this week of Francis Campbell as British
Ambassador to the Holy See, the first Catholic in the post since the
Reformation. Elena Curti talks to him about a career in which politics and
religion have unexpectedly met ...
The Mass Isn't Entertainment, Says Cardinal Arinze
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=80072
Vatican City, Nov. 16, 2005 (Zenit.org).- The Mass is a moment of reflection
and encounter with God, rather than a form of entertainment, says Cardinal
Francis Arinze. In an interview with Inside the Vatican magazine, the
prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments made a
comprehensive assessment of the recent Synod of Bishops on the Eucharist and
of developments in liturgical practice 40 years after the Second Vatican
Council...
67th Lourdes Miracle Officially Proclaimed
Italian Woman Cured of Heart Trouble in 1952
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=80008
Lutherans, Catholics Look to 500th Year of Reformation
http://www.christiantoday.com/news/church/lutherans.catholics.look.to.500th.year/
.of.reformation/890.htm
Lutherans and Roman Catholics may centre their next round of ecumenical
talks on the reformation and its impact on contemporary Christianity...
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
Global Catholic News, plus sound files from Vatican Radio
Katsav makes landmark visit to Vatican for talks with Pope ... Pope hopes to
visit Israel ... Israel Discusses Tax Dispute With Pope ... Zambia: Bishops
add their weight to constitutional debate ... Vatican Christmas concert will
support Asian missions ... Pope encourages Italian bishops on vocations,
health care ... Being Christian means thanking God for great gifts, pope
says ... Government 'fails the vulnerable'
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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 ...
Pope, Israeli president meet; Oldest church uncovered; The Vatican on
terrorism ; Tariq Aziz and Pope John Paul; U.S. bishops tackle liturgical
language; Schönborn on evolutionism again; Andrew Greeley on Evangelicals
and vetting seminarians
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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 ]
Catholic Schools Board Ltd (Wellington)
Customer Services Co-ordinator
Details in 'Wel-com' November 2005 p.15, and from Jeni Columbus, Executive
Assistant, Catholic Schools Board Ltd, tel. (04) 499 0184
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4804; e-mail: jeni@catholicschools.co.nz Website:
http://www.catholicschools.co.nz Applications close 25 November 2005.
Catholic Tertiary Chaplaincy, Diocese of Christchurch
Details in 'NZ Cathol;ic' Nov. 20-26 2005 p.23; at:
http://www.cyt.org.nz/?sid=12&id=144 ; and from Mike Stopforth, Catholic
Youth Team, P O Box 4544 Christchurch ; tel. (03) 366-9869
begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (03) 366-9869
end_of_the_skype_highlighting ; Fax (03)
379-8724 ; Email mstopforth@chch.catholic.org.nz Applications close 25
November 2005
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