'NZ CATHOLIC'
From issue no. 234, Feb 26 - March 11 2006 ...
Bishops suggest boycott of TV3 news, advertisers (full text)
Auckland - Catholics opposed to the screening of the Bloody Mary episode of
South Park could consider boycotting TV3 news, New Zealand’s bishops have
said....
Christchurch pastoral plan released
Christchurch - Bishop John Cunneen has unveiled a new pastoral strategy for
Christchurch diocese, grouping parishes into 11 pastoral areas...
Allen: Church faces three "megachallenges"
Auckland - John Allen says the Catholic Church is currently facing three
“obvious megachallenges�: Identity, a shift in the Catholic population and a
fragmentation of the Church...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Catholic Church launches new plan
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/0,2106,3583638a6530,00.html
An ageing priesthood and lack of trainees have forced the local Catholic
Church to undergo a radical reshape. The Diocese of Christchurch has
launched a plan that includes "sharing resources" -- such as priests and
religious classes -- between parishes, and could lead to the closure and
deconsecration of smaller parish churches...
Schools turn away hundreds
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/0,2106,3578749a6530,00.html
Canterbury integrated schools continue to turn away hundreds of students,
including some who qualify for admission on religious or special character
status...
No power, but ‘charming’ life (photo)
Otago Daily Times
http://tinyurl.com/nnjvx
Marie Grunke leads a simple life. She has lived without electricity for
nearly a decade in her 140-year-old stone cottage in Oamaru. “I live a very
charming, quality lifestyle and I love it. I can’t believe how simple it is.
I’ve taken some control back in my life,� the Catholic nun (67) said this
week...
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The Bernard McGrath case
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Witness weeps on describing abuse details
Otago Daily Times
http://tinyurl.com/eax9v
Brother lured boy with lollies, court told
Otago Daily Times
http://tinyurl.com/j5g4k
Witness makes new abuse claims
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/0,2106,3582414a6530,00.html
Trial opens old wound for church
NZ Herald
http://tinyurl.com/j9cxo
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THE 'SOUTH PARK' EPISODE
Protest Website:
http://www.stopc4.org.nz
The Catholic bishops' pastoral letter:
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/viewDocument.aspx?DocumentID=553
Catholic protestors converge on TV3 and C4 headquarters (video report)
http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/tabid/67/articleID/4259/Default.aspx
Hundreds in TV3 prayer protest against controversial cartoon (photo)
NZ Herald
http://tinyurl.com/fuoo3
Catholic cartoon anger grows
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/0,2106,3577781a6009,00.html
Catholic Church in New Zealand spokeswoman Lindsay Freer has said the
publication of the Muhammad cartoons had opened up the debate over press
freedom of expression versus its responsibility to uphold "good taste and
decency". While the media had the power to push boundaries, they needed to
question whether it was necessary to deliberately offend people "just
because they could", she said...
Church urges boycott of TV3, C4
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/0,2106,3577686a6000,00.html
[Comments by Broadcasting Minister Steve Maharey]
Race Relations Mulls South Park Boycott
NewstalkZB
http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,11964-5424305,00.html
Church outrage as cartoon to air tonight
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=000DD2A7-F9ED-13FA-A5A883027A\
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Bloody Mary show attracts six times usual audience
NZPA
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3582068a10,00.html
Church unrepentant on Virgin Mary row
The Press, 24 Feb 2006, Edition 2, Page 4.
[Not available on the paper's free Website]
Catholics vow to continue boycott
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411365/664720
TV chief rejects bishops' boycott call over 'tasteless' cartoon
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=100&ObjectID=10369212
Catholic call for media guidelines
http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,11964-5437783,00.html
Cartoon's no joke - Bishop
Manawatu Standard
[Comments by Bishop Peter Cullinane. Not available on the paper's free
Website]
South Park as bad as the Muslim cartoons - bishop
Waikato Times
[Comments by Bishop Denis Browne. Not available on the paper's free Website]
Open Season on Christianity. A Little Respect Is Harder to Find
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=85063
Christchurch, New Zealand, FEB. 25, 2006 (Zenit.org).- The recent
publication of cartoons satirizing the prophet Mohammed brought many calls
for greater respect of Islamic beliefs. Christians could rightly wonder when
they, too, will receive some respect. As controversy over the drawings
continues, a television station in New Zealand chose this moment to show a
"South Park" episode ridiculing the Virgin Mary and the Pope...
Church prepares petition (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/timaruherald/0,2106,3582390a6010,00.html
Tighten TV rules on taste, says [Race Relations Commissioner] de Bres
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=000D9667-8BB1-13FD-AF1C83027A\
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TV cartoon labelled 'disgusting'
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/0,2106,3581980a6004,00.html
Canwest Decision Quashes Right To Free Protest
Press Release: Family Life International
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0602/S00275.htm
CanWest loses advertiser over South Park
NZPA
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3580826a1860,00.html
Bleeding Virgin Mary Stand Off Intensifies
http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,11964-5424861,00.html
NewstalkZB
[Comments by a represntative of the NZ Jewish community]
Why South Park's shocker is OK, by Rosemary McLeod
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/0,2106,3584588a6442,00.html
Kerre Woodham: Unholy row a TV ratings blessing
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=0001F1F8-F79B-13FF-A5D983027A\
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South Park show a minor miracle, by Times reporter Mary Anne Gill
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/0,2106,3581993a6579,00.html
Frances Grant: 'Bloody Mary' merely mediocre
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=0004B3E5-4CB5-13FC-BAED83027A\
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Editorial: Attention grabber
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/timaruherald/0,2106,3581259a6573,00.html
Churches v churls
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/0,2106,3581082a6566,00.html
Editor: Offensive content defies all principles of taste
Bay of Plenty Times
http://tinyurl.com/gy3ue
Your say: 'Bloody Mary' screens
[Letters from readers of Fairfax Newspapers]
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3580974a4621,00.html
Let's get it right ..., by Patricia Veltkamp-Smith
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/0,2106,3581085a16343,00.html
Puerile pot shots at Virgin Mary, by Jane Bowron
The Dominion Post
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3581811a1869,00.html
Editorial: Offended? Then use the remote
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=0002568B-C2A6-13FA-A5A883027A\
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Offended? Vote with your remote
Nelson Mail
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/nelsonmail/0,2106,3580925a6508,00.html
Brian Edwards comments on South Park episode
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/newsfeature.asp?storyID=90209
South Park's 'Mary' episode revolting, says PM
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10369363
Editorial Licence to satirise
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/0,2106,3578744a6528,00.html
It should hardly be a surprise that the South Park "Bloody Mary" episode
will be deeply offensive to many New Zealanders, writes The Press in an
editorial...
Fans Defend 'Bloody Mary' Episode
http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,11964-5427822,00.html
NewstalkZB
Readers' Views: South Park
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/466/story.cfm?c_id=339&ObjectID=10369285
South Park’ bad taste but raised serious issues, lecturer says
Otago Daily Times
http://tinyurl.com/effrp
[Comments by University of Otago religious studies lecturer Dr Greg Dawes
and Bishop Colin Campbell]
A switch in hand
Otago Daily Times
http://tinyurl.com/kz2l3
John Roughan: Best humour is love-based
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/search/story.cfm?storyid=000A2FDE-B232-13FE-A33883027A\
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Publicity promotes puerile programme, by Gordon Brown
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dailynews/0,2106,3583416a6552,00.html
South Park what was all the fuss about, man?
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/0,2106,3582406a6011,00.html
[Includes comment by Fr Father Hamesh Wyatt]
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EVENTS
Wellington Eucharistic Convention, Saturday and Sunday 4-5 March 2006, St
Patrick's College, Silverstream, Upper Hutt.
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Jan. 29-Feb. 4 2006, p. 4, from Ted Jordan tel (04)
528 8679, and on the Website:
http://www.divinenet.org.nz/convention_2006_02.htm
Mariapolis 2006
The annual gathering of the Focolare Movement in New Zealand.
Feilding Agricultural High School, North Street, Feilding. Wednesday 19 -
Sunday 23 April 2006
Programme and registration form from: Focolare Centre, PO Box 11-826,
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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 ]
Parish Resource Person for Youth and Young Adults, , Catholic diocese of
Christchurch
http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' issue no. 234, Feb 26 - March 11 2006, p.23, and
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379-8724; e-mail:
cdooley@chch.catholic.org.nz Applications close 10 March 2006.
Director, Catholic Enquiry Centre, Wellington
http://www.catholic-enquiry-centre.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' issue no. 234, Feb 26 - March 11 2006, p.22, and
from Micah Partners, tel. (04) 499 4749
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