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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

Catholic Church in both Samoas mourning the loss of Cardinal Pio Taofinuu
Radio New Zealand International
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=21709
The Catholic Church in both Samoas is mourning the loss of Cardinal Pio
Taofinuu. The cardinal died at the age of 82 after midnight last night in
Apia. Cardinal Pio was the first Pacific Islander to be ordained Cardinal...

Ban corpse exhibition, says Church
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=00057621-447C-13CF-A73583027A\
F1010E
Critics want a controversial exhibition featuring skinned human corpses to
be banned before it reaches New Zealand. Michael McCabe, director of the
Catholic Church's Nathaniel Centre for bio-ethics, said the exhibition
crossed a moral and ethical line and should be banned.

$6000 raised for setting up new school (photo)
Otago Daily Times
http://tinyurl.com/c8k6t
Hundreds of vintage items and collectibles were snapped up by keen buyers at
yesterday’s vintage fair fund-raiser for Wanaka’s first Catholic school.

Volunteers needed for refugee families
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/manawatustandard/0,2106,3541084a6869,00.html
Volunteers are being sought to help welcome and work with Congolese refugee
families due to arrive in Palmerston North in March. The RMS Refugee
Resettlement group will help settle the newcomers.

Sensitive C4 nervous at screening church send-up
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=0001543E-D435-13CC-81D583027A\
F1010E
C4 is weighing up whether to go head-to-head with the Catholic Church again
by screening an episode of South Park featuring the Virgin Mary...

[The following story is not available on the newspaper's free Website. It
can be read at the public library and via the libraires 'Newztext' service
for borrowers]
Popetown survives further criticism
The Dominion Post â€" News â€" 16 Jan 2006 â€" Page 8 (also in: The Timaru
erald â€" News â€" 16 Jan 2006 â€" Page 2)
Another complaint from upset viewers regarding the cartoon series Popetown
has been rejected by the Broadcasting Standards Authority. A Te Awamutu
couple complained the cartoon which screens on C4 and set in a fictional
Vatican city, was grossly offensive to members of the Catholic Church and
other Christians...

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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ - MEDIA RELEASE

Bishops from around English-speaking world meet in Auckland
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
A member from each of eleven Conferences of Catholic Bishops was in New
Zealand this week, for one of the twice-yearly meetings of the International
Commission for English in the Liturgy (ICEL) which was hosted in Auckland...

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FROM 'ZENIT' NEWS AGENCY

Hospital in Nazareth: A Bastion of Healing and Hope
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=82871
Nazareth, Israel, Jan. 16, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Friar Serafino Acernozzi
thinks that the Holy Family Hospital in Nazareth is doing more than just
heal bodies. "We are a living proof that coexistence is possible," said the
prior of the hospital, a facility run by the Brothers of St. John of God and
by the nuns of the Child Mary congregation. "No one tends to love or hate
genetically. Man fears only what he doesn't know," Friar Acernozzi
affirmed...

In Nazareth, Handicapped Kids Are Right at Home
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=83087
Nazareth, Israel, JAN. 19, 2006 (Zenit.org).- Father Marco Riva, an Italian
priest of Don Guanella's Work for handicapped children, talks excitedly
about his venture in Israel. Every day, in the center of Nazareth, a town of
100,000, a special school opens its doors to Arab children of the Holy Land.

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SUMMER READING AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY

These books can be borrowed from many public libraries, or requested via
Interloan. Shelf numbers may vary.

The confession, by Sheldon Siegel.
Fiction: Mystery/Detective SIEG
Summary: Mike Daley doesn't go to confession much since he left the
priesthood twenty years ago and became a lawyer, but that doesn't stop his
old friend Father Ramon Aguirre from trying to get him there. "It wouldn't
kill you to go to church once in a while," he says. But it does kill
someone. For several months, a ruinous sexual harassment suit has been
building against the San Francisco Catholic archdiocese, and when the
plaintiff's lawyer is found dead, an apparent suicide, an almost audible
sigh of relief is heard in certain quarters. But that is before the police
find evidence of murder.

Shadowplay : the hidden beliefs and coded politics of William Shakespeare,
by Clare Asquith.
822.33 SHA ASQ
Summary: In sixteenth-century England many loyal subjects of the Crown were
asked to make a terrible choice: serve their monarch or their God. Clare
Asquith traces the common code used covertly by dissident writers in the
sixteenth century to discuss the tribulations of their time, and reveals
that the acknowledged master of this forgotten art form was William
Shakespeare.

Bloody Falls of the Coppermine : madness, murder, and the collision of
cultures in the Arctic, 1913, by McKay Jenkins.
364.1523 JEN
Summary: In the winter of 1913, high in the Canadian Arctic, two Catholic
priests set out on a dangerous mission to do what no white men had ever
attempted: reach a group of utterly isolated Eskimos and convert them.
Farther and farther north the priests trudged, through a frigid and bleak
country known as the Barren Lands, until they reached the place where the
Coppermine River dumps into the Arctic Ocean. Their fate, as well as the
fate of the people they hoped to teach about God, was about to take a tragic
turn.

Land and place : spiritualities from Aotearoa New Zealand = He whenua, he
wähi, edited by Helen Bergin and Susan Smith.
248 LAN
Note: Companion collection to "He kupu whakawairua :spirituality in Aotearoa
New Zealand :Catholic voices. "Our focus now moves from personal Catholic
stories to the land of Aotearoa, the place where we live"

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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 ...
First encyclical nearly ready; The hard work of ecumenism; Prospects for a
consistory ; Duties shift from State to other congregations; The annulment
process: New twist in evolution debate; Short takes on ecumenism and wealth

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EVENTS

Parachute Music Festival, Mystery Creek, Hamilton, 28-31 January 2006

http://websites.parachutemusic.com/festival/2005/default_noflash.asp

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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 ]

Adviser, Archdiocesan Office of Justice, Peace and Development, Wellington
Website: http://wn.catholic.org.nz/justicepeacedevelopment.html
Details in 'Wel-com' December 2005, p. 5 and from: Lorraine McArthur,
Director, Archdiocesan Pastoral Services, Catholic Centre, P O Box 1937,
Wellington 6015. E-mail: l.mcarthur@wn.catholic.org.nz; tel. (04) 496
1706 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (04) 496 1706
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fax: (04) 496 1768 Applications close 23 January 2006.