17 dec 2006

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'NZ CATHOLIC'

http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/

From the current issue ...

HPV vaccine is "morally acceptable"
Wellington â€" The national Catholic bioethics centre believes it is morally
acceptable for girls as young as 11 to receive a new vaccine that protects
against a condition prevalent in sexually-active women...

ASC tries to have evidence excluded
Wellington â€" The Abortion Supervisory Committee is trying to weaken Right to
Life New Zealand’s High Court action by claiming key evidence the society
hopes to present is inadmissible and irrelevant...

Issue 256, December 17-23, 2006 - contents summary

NATIONAL
Catholic numbers exceed 500,000 ... Hopes for second Maori bishop expressed
at Bishop Mariu's unveiling ... Catholic educationists want stronger
curriculum values ... ASC tries to have evidence excluded ... Typhoon relief
by Caritas ... Clergy appointments ... NCRS director plans to study in
retirement ... Faith was transformed on mission to Manila ... HPV vaccine is
"morally acceptable" ... Ukrainians welcome twins ... Mercy Sisters complete
health project ... Seminarian admitted as candidate ... Children honour life
of priest ... Several surprises for parish priest ... ERO File

FEATURES
Polish government honours orphan refugees ... Symbolic gesture melted
Turkish hearts ... Diplomas, cake after three years' study ... Last CFLE
graduates before new course ... Joshua celebrates 20th ... Brother, sister -
both have served him

OPINION
Ronald Rolheiser: On healthy, constructive criticism ... Cyril
Jones-Kellett: Advent is a time to love the One who is coming ... Parish
Diary: Losing touch with Christmas ... Editorial: Month from Hell for pizza
chain ... Malcolm Evans ... Letters

INTERNATIONAL
Criticism of religion based on ignorance ... Anti-Catholicism "grave
concern" in Scotland ... Imam at Catholic university ... The Pope: Church
needs new "mission zeal" ... UK's gay-rights plans threaten Church services
... Millions suffer for faith ... Church leaders "hypocritical" ... Mass
media "should promote abstinence" ... Zimbabweans dying ... Change to
celibacy not being considered ... Vocations boom in Mexico ... Dutch
Catholics begin rediscovering faith ... Another illicit ordination in China
... Excommunications backed ... St Paul's tomb uncovered ... There's a Rush,
to be sure ... Priest gains seat

REGULAR FEATURES
Young Adults, Books, Monitor, Clips, Net Scene, Tape Deck, Scripture, Papal
Prayer, Feasts, The Doolans, God in the Garden, Caption Contest, Who Said?,
40 Years Ago, Dio. Diary, Cryptic Crossword, That Word!, Holy Lives, Kit's
Corner, Wit's End.

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FROM THE SECULAR MEDIA

Cross words in hospital's religious row
http://www.stuff.co.nz/search/3902369a6442.html
An unholy row has erupted at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital after a cross
was removed from its spiritual centre...

Young paddlers proud of new waka (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/search/3901269a6004.html
After years of relying on the generosity of others to help it participate in
the annual Ngaruawahia Regatta, St Paul's Catholic School finally has its
own waka...

Radio NZ. Country Life. 'Sister Louise' (audio file)
http://www.radionz.co.nz/nr/programmes/countrylife
A Catholic nun has spent most of her working life in Panguru, a small
Hokianga settlement.

School-family partnership shows results
http://www.stuff.co.nz/search/3899987a6565.html
The bountiful abundance of God, and our challenge to respond to it
gratefully, was a theme developed by Gore's St Peter's College principal
Martin Chamberlain at the college's prizegiving.

'Sanctions not the answer', by Archbishop Petero Mataca
http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=53573
As the Leader of the Catholic Community in Fiji, Rotuma, Rabi and Kioa I
humbly call upon the international communities to either lift their
sanctions or put on hold intentions on imposing sanctions on Fiji...

One school year, seven schools, 109kg and 392,400 can tabs. (photo)
Daily Post (Rotorua)
http://tinyurl.com/yxk2a3
Since the beginning of this year, Rotorua students from St Mary's School, St
Michael's School and John Paul College have been saving up the tabs from
their drink cans, pet food and canned food in a bid to raise money to
support children with kidney disease...


[The following stories are not on the newspapers' free Websites. They can
be read via the public libraries' 'Newztext' service for borrowers.]

Baroque around the clock
The Dominion Post, 15 Dec 2006, Edition 2, Page 10.
On Sunday at 7.30 pm Wellington's St Mary of the Angels will echo with the
sounds of centuries past, including baroque music and singing. Under Robert
Oliver's direction, the chamber music ensemble Baroque Voices, early music
choir The Tudor Consort, and period instrumental ensemble Academia Sanctae
Mariae will play two baroque works -- Heinrich Schutz's 'Historia von der
Geburt Jesu Christi' and Marc-Antoine Charpentier's 'Messe de Minuit'. The
timing is deliberate. Both works centre on the nativity story, but both
sound very different...

Christmas festivities take to the streets in TeKauwhata and Huntly
North Waikato News â€" Greater Waikato â€" 14 Dec 2006
Huntly and Te Kauwhata residents and visitors are getting fired up for the
weekend with both towns' Christmas parades set to hit the streets. One group
of paraders who are especially enthused about the event is St Anthony's
Catholic School, the only school to enter a float in this year's parade...

Parishioners vote to save existing church
Taranaki Daily News â€" News â€" 11 Dec 2006 â€" Page 2
Waitara's St Joseph's Catholic Church is to be spared demolition. The votes
have been counted and 67% of parishioners are against knocking down the
47-year-old Nelson St building and replacing it with New Plymouth's St
Paul's church...

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INSPIRATIONAL TV - NZ's own Catholic Web TV service

http://inspirationaltv.net/

New this week: Peter and the family
The leader of United Future, Peter Dunne MP, tells Sean why he thinks 'the
family' is important enough to be a basis of a political party.

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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)

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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen

http://ncrcafe.org/node/507

Weekly Analysis: The 'greening' of institutional Christianity
When Pope Benedict XVI and Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople met
recently, the encounter was spun in a variety of ways: As an effort to
reunite Eastern and Western Christianity; As an attempt to forge a united
Christian front vis-Ã -vis Islam; Eeven as a bid to pool resources to combat
runaway secularism in Europe. What the meeting was not generally seen as --
though it easily could have been -- was an encounter between two outspoken
environmentalists, struggling to stir the conscience of the world about a
mounting ecological crisis...

Daily news and updates:
A Sicilian lesson in the complex bond between bishops and saints ...
Chatting with 'The Catholic Guy' ... Pope: World peace and the right to life
go together ... It's pope vs. pop star on Africa, Weigel says ... 'Odd
couple' of Moon and Milingo maybe not so odd after all ... Political
headaches bedevil a non-statesman pope

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