****************************************************
What Christmas means around the world (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2hhlco
Celebrating the holidays comes in different strokes for the different ethnic
folks who have made North Shore their "home away from home"...
Sisters of God face the future (photos)
http://tinyurl.com/yul4jz
They started with six over a century ago, and after making an immeasurable
contribution to Wairarapa education and spiritual care, The Sisters of St
Bride's are now back down to six ...
Doing God
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4337299a14337.html
Tony Blair's entry into the Catholic faith has made surprisingly big
headlines, considering the secular beliefs that now dominate much of the
Western world, says The Press, in an editorial...
Midnight masses held across NZ (text and video)
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411365/1522453
Christmas celebrations started on Christmas Eve with midnight mass held in
churches across the country. Hundreds turned out for an extra festive
service at Auckland's Saint Patrick's Cathedral in the city - its first
Christmas mass in the 160 year-old cathedral in two years, after it closed
for major restoration work...
Good attendance at church services
http://tinyurl.com/2xbyc3
Undeterred by wet weather on Christmas Eve, several thousand people flocked
to churches throughout Dunedin to celebrate the Christmas story...
45% believe in religious significance of Christmas Day - survey
http://tinyurl.com/ys4keq
A survey suggests a large number of New Zealanders believe in the religious
significance of Christmas Day. Some 500 people were polled by Research New
Zealand from 4 to 11 December and 45% said 25 December is significant in
terms of religion...
Sunday, December 30, 2007
Sunday, December 23, 2007
*****************************************************
Dear readers,
'News & Notes' will take a break for about three weeks, restarting in
mid-January as soon as there is something to report.
Every best wish and all God's blessings for a happy Christmas and new year.
Mike Leon
****************************************************
CHRISTMAS 2007
Wide choice of services at churches
http://tinyurl.com/2swobs
Taking time to appreciate and celebrate Christmas for its true meaning is
the message many will be receiving at Dunedin church services this holiday
season. Dunedin’s larger churches and cathedrals will be marking the festive
season with their popular carol services and midnight Masses.
Little church lights up (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4328636a20379.html
The little Catholic Church at Kauwhata Marae has existed without electricity
for more than 110 years. However, during the festive season, until December
27, the church of St Peter and St Paul on Te Arakura Road is being lit up by
Christmas lights covering the interior and exterior walls, and a Nativity
scene...
Churches unite for real Christmas (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2rlwya
Church leaders of the Wakatipu Basin have banded together to give a special
message to people of Queenstown this holiday season, and that is to remember
the true meaning of Christmas ...
**********************************************************
CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Cakes earn $14,000 to help families at Christmas time (20 Dec 2007)
The Catholic Caring Foundation is the charitable foundation of the Catholic
Bishop of Auckland, providing funding for grass-roots organisations that
work with the marginalised in society. Again this year, the Foundation ran
the Bishop’s Bake Christmas Cake Appeal - a hugely important annual
fundraiser...
**********************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
God in the House (photo of Helen Clark meditating)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4332757a13135.html
Overt religious beliefs seem to rest uncomfortably with the political
aspirations of our parliamentarians. Philip Matthews looks at why so many of
them are uncomfortable with talking about whether they believe in God.
Community groups support Royal Commission of Inquiry into Criminal Justice
Sector
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0712/S00280.htm
Influential community leaders support the Ombudsmans call for a Royal
Commission of Inquiry into the Criminal Justice Sector...
Colombians seek refuge in Hamilton
Hamilton Press
http://tinyurl.com/2khnr4
Hamilton's Refugee Resettlement Service last week hosted the arrival of one
of the largest groups of refugees to arrive in the city...
Revegetation of a gully
http://tinyurl.com/32tms9
A Master's degree wasn't enough for Tatiana Kalnins, but the journey to the
pinnacle - a PhD - has led to a project to replant part of the Marian gully
with native vegetation...
The aftermath of sexual abuse (photo)
The Eastern Courier, East Tamaki
http://tinyurl.com/3c6233
After decades of living with the effects of sexual abuse, an Auckland man
turned his experience to helping others cope with similar situations ...
Pupils light way for successors
Waikato Times â€" News â€" 17 Dec 2007 â€" Page 3
Senior pupils at St Joseph's Catholic School in Fairfield handed over
responsibility to next year's senior students at a special mass last week.
The final school mass for the year saw outgoing Year 8 pupils carry candles
to the altar, before handing them over at the end of the service to next
year's leaders, who carried them out of the church.
[This story is not available on the newspaper's free Website. It can be read
at the public library, and via the libraries' free Newztext service for
borrowers.]
****************************************************
'THE FIFTEENTH STATION' - NZ's first Catholic podcast
http://station15.libsyn.com/
In the programme for 15 December 2007 ...
'Christmas hope'
Our first Christmas podcast and there's quite a bit to talk about. The
Pope's new encyclical on hope has been released, and it makes for popular
reading. We talk about the 4,210 NZ pilgrims are heading over to see him
next year at World Youth Day, and whether or not movies like the Golden
Compass can be bad for the faith of those who watch them. And we talk a bit
about Christmas traditions and interpretations of the season. We wish all
our listeners a happy and Holy Christmas.
*****************************************************
'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz/
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper.
Current topics:
Somewhere in a galaxy far far away… (22 December)
As we approach the end of advent and I have been pondering the incarnation
and the birth of Our saviour, I began to think a little about the
implications of extra terrestrial life. (Weird, I know…not really the most
obvious correlation). I mean, if there was other life (with spiritual souls)
on other planets somewhere in another galaxy â€" what does this mean for us as
Christians? ...
It Was A Very Good Year (21 December)
Well, it’s obvious that another year is about to draw to a close and people
on the blog have just about had enough of each other. Fortunately, I don’t
have any frustrations and agendas to air on the site. Some might say I don’t
have anything useful to air at all. Very funny...
Who/what do we care about? (20 December)
I was having a “discussion� with friends the other day about animal rights
versus human rights and how I obviously thought the abuse of humans was
worse than the abuse of animals. I thought my friends were disagreeing with
that, but as we continued to “discuss�, I came to understand they were
actually pointing out that one is simply an extension of the other...
*****************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
Lay leaders among us, Part Two: 'Meet the people'
Joan manages a unique programme called "Launch Out" which forms lay people
to work in partnership with priests in ministry.
'Angel in the City'
Rev. Frank Nelson, the Dean of Wellington's Anglican Cathedral, reads the
Christmas story and discusses it with Sr Stephanie.
*****************************************************
MAGAZINES & NEWSLETTERS
** 'Marist Messenger' - December 2007
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/
** NZ Catholic Education Office. 'Lighting New Fires', Christmas Edition
http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resourcesubpages/lighting-new-fires.html
** 'Inform' - the newsletter of the Catholic Diocese of Christchurch -
December 2007
http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=25
Marist Brothers' New Zealand Province.
** Schools' Champagnat Newsletter - December 2007
http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/Schools%20Champagnat%20Newsletter.htm
** Marist Family News - December 2007
http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/Marist%20Family%20News.htm
** NZ Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report' - Issue 23
http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/?sid=163
** 'Tui Motu InterIslands' - December 2007
http://www.tuimotu.org/
** St Columban's Mission Society, Aust. & NZ Region. 'The Far East' -
November/December 2007
http://www.columban.org.au/?MID=200510192652
** Carmelite Monastery of Christ the King, Christchurch. Christmas
Newsletter 2007
* http://www.karmel.at/christchurch.nz
******************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Catholics helped pass U.N. vote favoring global death penalty ban; Notes
about: Episcopalians, Kolvenbach and Vatican PR
It would probably be pushing things a bit far to suggest that Tuesday's vote
in the General Assembly of the United Nations in favor of a global
moratorium on the death penalty is a victory for the Catholic church. It is,
however, a result difficult to imagine without the Catholic contribution...
***************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Dear readers,
'News & Notes' will take a break for about three weeks, restarting in
mid-January as soon as there is something to report.
Every best wish and all God's blessings for a happy Christmas and new year.
Mike Leon
****************************************************
CHRISTMAS 2007
Wide choice of services at churches
http://tinyurl.com/2swobs
Taking time to appreciate and celebrate Christmas for its true meaning is
the message many will be receiving at Dunedin church services this holiday
season. Dunedin’s larger churches and cathedrals will be marking the festive
season with their popular carol services and midnight Masses.
Little church lights up (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4328636a20379.html
The little Catholic Church at Kauwhata Marae has existed without electricity
for more than 110 years. However, during the festive season, until December
27, the church of St Peter and St Paul on Te Arakura Road is being lit up by
Christmas lights covering the interior and exterior walls, and a Nativity
scene...
Churches unite for real Christmas (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2rlwya
Church leaders of the Wakatipu Basin have banded together to give a special
message to people of Queenstown this holiday season, and that is to remember
the true meaning of Christmas ...
**********************************************************
CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Cakes earn $14,000 to help families at Christmas time (20 Dec 2007)
The Catholic Caring Foundation is the charitable foundation of the Catholic
Bishop of Auckland, providing funding for grass-roots organisations that
work with the marginalised in society. Again this year, the Foundation ran
the Bishop’s Bake Christmas Cake Appeal - a hugely important annual
fundraiser...
**********************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
God in the House (photo of Helen Clark meditating)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4332757a13135.html
Overt religious beliefs seem to rest uncomfortably with the political
aspirations of our parliamentarians. Philip Matthews looks at why so many of
them are uncomfortable with talking about whether they believe in God.
Community groups support Royal Commission of Inquiry into Criminal Justice
Sector
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0712/S00280.htm
Influential community leaders support the Ombudsmans call for a Royal
Commission of Inquiry into the Criminal Justice Sector...
Colombians seek refuge in Hamilton
Hamilton Press
http://tinyurl.com/2khnr4
Hamilton's Refugee Resettlement Service last week hosted the arrival of one
of the largest groups of refugees to arrive in the city...
Revegetation of a gully
http://tinyurl.com/32tms9
A Master's degree wasn't enough for Tatiana Kalnins, but the journey to the
pinnacle - a PhD - has led to a project to replant part of the Marian gully
with native vegetation...
The aftermath of sexual abuse (photo)
The Eastern Courier, East Tamaki
http://tinyurl.com/3c6233
After decades of living with the effects of sexual abuse, an Auckland man
turned his experience to helping others cope with similar situations ...
Pupils light way for successors
Waikato Times â€" News â€" 17 Dec 2007 â€" Page 3
Senior pupils at St Joseph's Catholic School in Fairfield handed over
responsibility to next year's senior students at a special mass last week.
The final school mass for the year saw outgoing Year 8 pupils carry candles
to the altar, before handing them over at the end of the service to next
year's leaders, who carried them out of the church.
[This story is not available on the newspaper's free Website. It can be read
at the public library, and via the libraries' free Newztext service for
borrowers.]
****************************************************
'THE FIFTEENTH STATION' - NZ's first Catholic podcast
http://station15.libsyn.com/
In the programme for 15 December 2007 ...
'Christmas hope'
Our first Christmas podcast and there's quite a bit to talk about. The
Pope's new encyclical on hope has been released, and it makes for popular
reading. We talk about the 4,210 NZ pilgrims are heading over to see him
next year at World Youth Day, and whether or not movies like the Golden
Compass can be bad for the faith of those who watch them. And we talk a bit
about Christmas traditions and interpretations of the season. We wish all
our listeners a happy and Holy Christmas.
*****************************************************
'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz/
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper.
Current topics:
Somewhere in a galaxy far far away… (22 December)
As we approach the end of advent and I have been pondering the incarnation
and the birth of Our saviour, I began to think a little about the
implications of extra terrestrial life. (Weird, I know…not really the most
obvious correlation). I mean, if there was other life (with spiritual souls)
on other planets somewhere in another galaxy â€" what does this mean for us as
Christians? ...
It Was A Very Good Year (21 December)
Well, it’s obvious that another year is about to draw to a close and people
on the blog have just about had enough of each other. Fortunately, I don’t
have any frustrations and agendas to air on the site. Some might say I don’t
have anything useful to air at all. Very funny...
Who/what do we care about? (20 December)
I was having a “discussion� with friends the other day about animal rights
versus human rights and how I obviously thought the abuse of humans was
worse than the abuse of animals. I thought my friends were disagreeing with
that, but as we continued to “discuss�, I came to understand they were
actually pointing out that one is simply an extension of the other...
*****************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
Lay leaders among us, Part Two: 'Meet the people'
Joan manages a unique programme called "Launch Out" which forms lay people
to work in partnership with priests in ministry.
'Angel in the City'
Rev. Frank Nelson, the Dean of Wellington's Anglican Cathedral, reads the
Christmas story and discusses it with Sr Stephanie.
*****************************************************
MAGAZINES & NEWSLETTERS
** 'Marist Messenger' - December 2007
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/
** NZ Catholic Education Office. 'Lighting New Fires', Christmas Edition
http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resourcesubpages/lighting-new-fires.html
** 'Inform' - the newsletter of the Catholic Diocese of Christchurch -
December 2007
http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=25
Marist Brothers' New Zealand Province.
** Schools' Champagnat Newsletter - December 2007
http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/Schools%20Champagnat%20Newsletter.htm
** Marist Family News - December 2007
http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/Marist%20Family%20News.htm
** NZ Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report' - Issue 23
http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/?sid=163
** 'Tui Motu InterIslands' - December 2007
http://www.tuimotu.org/
** St Columban's Mission Society, Aust. & NZ Region. 'The Far East' -
November/December 2007
http://www.columban.org.au/?MID=200510192652
** Carmelite Monastery of Christ the King, Christchurch. Christmas
Newsletter 2007
* http://www.karmel.at/christchurch.nz
******************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Catholics helped pass U.N. vote favoring global death penalty ban; Notes
about: Episcopalians, Kolvenbach and Vatican PR
It would probably be pushing things a bit far to suggest that Tuesday's vote
in the General Assembly of the United Nations in favor of a global
moratorium on the death penalty is a victory for the Catholic church. It is,
however, a result difficult to imagine without the Catholic contribution...
***************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Sunday, December 16, 2007
*****************************************************
CHRISTMAS 2007
First airings for Christmas cantata (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2l34wf
Three months of hard work will have its pay-off this sunday when the
Taumarunui Community choir has their first performance of a new Christmas
cantata ...
**********************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Historic link for new library (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2nvwba
St Patrick's School in Kaiapoi has a new library and information centre
named the Barbier Centre after the nun who founded the order which
establisehd the school in 1926...
Local medics bound for remote islands (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/3y4hf5
Two Wairarapa women hope to head to Indonesia early next year to a remote
island where New Zealand doctor, Derek Allen, works with the poor, the sick
and the needy ...
New Zealand's Catholic chaplains embrace Antarctica's adventures
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0707048.htm
Christchurch, New Zealand (CNS) -- Not many changes from his last trip to
Antarctica, reported a priest from New Zealand: The ice runway is nearer to
the base, it's colder than 10 below zero, but the sky is blue, he added...
Nun Briefs Parliamentarians On Timor-Leste Crisis (photo)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0712/S00175.htm
Security is still the most pressing problem for Timor-Leste according to nun
and refugee camp organiser Sister Guilhermina Marcal currently visiting New
Zealand...
Catholics encouraged to watch 'Compass'
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/4319133a6530.html
The distributors of a film that has outraged Catholic groups in the United
States have invited New Zealand Catholics to previews to "make up their own
minds"...
****************************************************
'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz/
A blog about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper.
Current topics:
The culture of death - first hand (15 Dec)
"About three weeks ago, I found out that my 15-year-old sister was pregnant.
I quickly got her in contact with the crisis pregnancy centre and they have
done an absolutely wonderful job! Thanks be to God, she has decided to keep
the baby. However, I haven’t had extensive contact with my family and this
new situation has meant that I have been exposed, first hand, to the reality
of the culture of death..."
Decorated fur trees… (12 Dec)
Yesterday my Outlook inbox was graced with the presence of an email from a
colleague, addressed to all the members of our workplace, asking if it were
possible to adopt more inclusive language at this time of year in
acknowledgement of those who don’t celebrate Christmas...
Today, tomorrow, Timaru… (11 Dec)
Last week I picked up a parish bulletin from a South Auckland parish. As I
was reading through the bulletin, I came across something that I was
completely astounded by; in fact I had to read the notice twice to be sure
that what I was reading was really on the page in front of me: "The priests
of the South Auckland Deanery expressed concern to the Bishop over the
possible confusion that could arise next year on February 6th when ‘The Day
of Ashes’ and the Waitangi Day celebration would coincide. We wanted to
honour both days… and approached Bishop Patrick Dunn with a suggestion that
for the South Auckland Deanery parishes ‘we transfer the liturgy of Ash
Wednesday to Thursday 7th February..."
*****************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
'Lay leaders among us'
Joan manages a unique programme called "Launch Out" which forms lay people
to work in partnership with priests in ministry
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Marini's book on liturgy: The future of the liturgy is the future of
Christianity
When I’m on the lecture circuit, there’s a story I like to tell to
illustrate the sometimes surprising diversity inside the Vatican. It’s set
in the summer of 2002, when Pope John Paul II was in Mexico City to canonize
Juan Diego, the Aztec visionary in the Our Lady of Guadalupe devotion. At
the moment in the canonization Mass when John Paul read out the Latin
formula declaring Juan Diego a saint, pandemonium broke out in the Basilica
of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Confetti fell from the ceiling, drums beat and
horns blared, and a knot of indigenous dancers began to gyrate down a
catwalk. Inside, it felt like Michael Jordan had just hit the winning shot
in Game Seven of the NBA Finals; an American TV correspondent standing next
to me, who happens to be Jewish, shouted in my ear, "If they did it this way
every Sunday, even I would show up!" ...
Also: 'Daily News & Updates: In World Peace Day message, Benedict paints a
Catholic shade of green'
***************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
CHRISTMAS 2007
First airings for Christmas cantata (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2l34wf
Three months of hard work will have its pay-off this sunday when the
Taumarunui Community choir has their first performance of a new Christmas
cantata ...
**********************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Historic link for new library (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2nvwba
St Patrick's School in Kaiapoi has a new library and information centre
named the Barbier Centre after the nun who founded the order which
establisehd the school in 1926...
Local medics bound for remote islands (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/3y4hf5
Two Wairarapa women hope to head to Indonesia early next year to a remote
island where New Zealand doctor, Derek Allen, works with the poor, the sick
and the needy ...
New Zealand's Catholic chaplains embrace Antarctica's adventures
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0707048.htm
Christchurch, New Zealand (CNS) -- Not many changes from his last trip to
Antarctica, reported a priest from New Zealand: The ice runway is nearer to
the base, it's colder than 10 below zero, but the sky is blue, he added...
Nun Briefs Parliamentarians On Timor-Leste Crisis (photo)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0712/S00175.htm
Security is still the most pressing problem for Timor-Leste according to nun
and refugee camp organiser Sister Guilhermina Marcal currently visiting New
Zealand...
Catholics encouraged to watch 'Compass'
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/4319133a6530.html
The distributors of a film that has outraged Catholic groups in the United
States have invited New Zealand Catholics to previews to "make up their own
minds"...
****************************************************
'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz/
A blog about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper.
Current topics:
The culture of death - first hand (15 Dec)
"About three weeks ago, I found out that my 15-year-old sister was pregnant.
I quickly got her in contact with the crisis pregnancy centre and they have
done an absolutely wonderful job! Thanks be to God, she has decided to keep
the baby. However, I haven’t had extensive contact with my family and this
new situation has meant that I have been exposed, first hand, to the reality
of the culture of death..."
Decorated fur trees… (12 Dec)
Yesterday my Outlook inbox was graced with the presence of an email from a
colleague, addressed to all the members of our workplace, asking if it were
possible to adopt more inclusive language at this time of year in
acknowledgement of those who don’t celebrate Christmas...
Today, tomorrow, Timaru… (11 Dec)
Last week I picked up a parish bulletin from a South Auckland parish. As I
was reading through the bulletin, I came across something that I was
completely astounded by; in fact I had to read the notice twice to be sure
that what I was reading was really on the page in front of me: "The priests
of the South Auckland Deanery expressed concern to the Bishop over the
possible confusion that could arise next year on February 6th when ‘The Day
of Ashes’ and the Waitangi Day celebration would coincide. We wanted to
honour both days… and approached Bishop Patrick Dunn with a suggestion that
for the South Auckland Deanery parishes ‘we transfer the liturgy of Ash
Wednesday to Thursday 7th February..."
*****************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
'Lay leaders among us'
Joan manages a unique programme called "Launch Out" which forms lay people
to work in partnership with priests in ministry
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Marini's book on liturgy: The future of the liturgy is the future of
Christianity
When I’m on the lecture circuit, there’s a story I like to tell to
illustrate the sometimes surprising diversity inside the Vatican. It’s set
in the summer of 2002, when Pope John Paul II was in Mexico City to canonize
Juan Diego, the Aztec visionary in the Our Lady of Guadalupe devotion. At
the moment in the canonization Mass when John Paul read out the Latin
formula declaring Juan Diego a saint, pandemonium broke out in the Basilica
of Our Lady of Guadalupe. Confetti fell from the ceiling, drums beat and
horns blared, and a knot of indigenous dancers began to gyrate down a
catwalk. Inside, it felt like Michael Jordan had just hit the winning shot
in Game Seven of the NBA Finals; an American TV correspondent standing next
to me, who happens to be Jewish, shouted in my ear, "If they did it this way
every Sunday, even I would show up!" ...
Also: 'Daily News & Updates: In World Peace Day message, Benedict paints a
Catholic shade of green'
***************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Sunday, December 9, 2007
******************************************************
CHRISTMAS 2007
Finally a mass in the church of Saint Nicholas and Myra
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=10974&size=A
The ecumenical patriarch Bartholomew I, after years of insistence, was
finally given the possibility to celebrate mass inside of what is, according
to the State, only a museum. A saint who is unknown in Turkey, but is the
origin of Santa Claus...
*****************************************************
'WEL-COM' - The newspaper of the dioceses of Wellington and Palmerston North
http://www.welcom.org.nz/
From the December issue ...
News
Call for peace marks Parihaka Day ... Belonging is key for Generation Xers
... Upper Hutt adopts Parihaka theme ...
World News
Bearing fruit in Timor Leste ... The 1967 Middle East war 40 years on and
still raging ... Timor Leste in election turmoil
Columns
Archbishop's column: Advent a graced time, by Archbishop John Dew ... Hail
Mary, blessed among Israel's great women ... Editorial: Be awake to the
lessons of history
Schools
Carterton school gets down to earth: St Mary's enviro group tends the soil
... Viard choir in US barbershop contest ... Cardinal McKeefry School
students go to parliament with WWF
Features
Joy's vision permeates pub conversations ... An imagined journey to
spirituality and Christ's peace ... Nearly a holy soul: Making sense of
Ordinary Time
Wellington
Clergy appointments 2008 ... Arise Women of God: Dove Wellington's new
president ... Waikanae parish marks 25 years
Palmerston North
Hato Paora principal faces sex charges ... Whanganui reunion for class of
'54: Sacred Heart College Old Girls get together ... Surprise for Mother
Meri at Pakipaki
Reflect
Second Sunday of Advent Year A: Matthew 3:1-12
*****************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Pupils discuss global warning (photo)
Newslink, Gore 6 December 2007
http://tinyurl.com/ypra7f
Pupils of St Peter's College, Gore, have dived deep into the issue of global
warming
Content may offend
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4315889a13135.html
The boom in rudeness and crudeness on TV and in advertising has meant a
field day for both the prurient and the prudish. Philip Matthews
investigates whether it's really anything to get worked up about...
Principal facing sex charges bailed to appear in March
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10481017
Details of the sex charges faced by Hato Paora College principal Elvis
Dobson Shepherd will be revealed on March 19...
Oh Lordi . . . Christians take on fiends of rock
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4307239a10.html
A crusade is looming as church groups prepare to take on heavy metal
heavyweights poised to play in Wellington over Easter...
*****************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
Special Report
What you are really giving when you give blood.
'An Angel at our Shoulder'
A look back at the circumstances that inspired the 1998 Hikoi of Hope.
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Springtime for ecumenists: A realistic assessment
The problem with ecumenists -- who are almost universally good-hearted and
dedicated souls -- is that they don't know how to manage expectations. It's
a lesson anyone who has ever organized a public event should have learned:
if you expect 100 people, put out chairs for 75, so the result feels like a
triumph rather than a disappointment...
***************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
CHRISTMAS 2007
Finally a mass in the church of Saint Nicholas and Myra
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=10974&size=A
The ecumenical patriarch Bartholomew I, after years of insistence, was
finally given the possibility to celebrate mass inside of what is, according
to the State, only a museum. A saint who is unknown in Turkey, but is the
origin of Santa Claus...
*****************************************************
'WEL-COM' - The newspaper of the dioceses of Wellington and Palmerston North
http://www.welcom.org.nz/
From the December issue ...
News
Call for peace marks Parihaka Day ... Belonging is key for Generation Xers
... Upper Hutt adopts Parihaka theme ...
World News
Bearing fruit in Timor Leste ... The 1967 Middle East war 40 years on and
still raging ... Timor Leste in election turmoil
Columns
Archbishop's column: Advent a graced time, by Archbishop John Dew ... Hail
Mary, blessed among Israel's great women ... Editorial: Be awake to the
lessons of history
Schools
Carterton school gets down to earth: St Mary's enviro group tends the soil
... Viard choir in US barbershop contest ... Cardinal McKeefry School
students go to parliament with WWF
Features
Joy's vision permeates pub conversations ... An imagined journey to
spirituality and Christ's peace ... Nearly a holy soul: Making sense of
Ordinary Time
Wellington
Clergy appointments 2008 ... Arise Women of God: Dove Wellington's new
president ... Waikanae parish marks 25 years
Palmerston North
Hato Paora principal faces sex charges ... Whanganui reunion for class of
'54: Sacred Heart College Old Girls get together ... Surprise for Mother
Meri at Pakipaki
Reflect
Second Sunday of Advent Year A: Matthew 3:1-12
*****************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Pupils discuss global warning (photo)
Newslink, Gore 6 December 2007
http://tinyurl.com/ypra7f
Pupils of St Peter's College, Gore, have dived deep into the issue of global
warming
Content may offend
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4315889a13135.html
The boom in rudeness and crudeness on TV and in advertising has meant a
field day for both the prurient and the prudish. Philip Matthews
investigates whether it's really anything to get worked up about...
Principal facing sex charges bailed to appear in March
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10481017
Details of the sex charges faced by Hato Paora College principal Elvis
Dobson Shepherd will be revealed on March 19...
Oh Lordi . . . Christians take on fiends of rock
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4307239a10.html
A crusade is looming as church groups prepare to take on heavy metal
heavyweights poised to play in Wellington over Easter...
*****************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
Special Report
What you are really giving when you give blood.
'An Angel at our Shoulder'
A look back at the circumstances that inspired the 1998 Hikoi of Hope.
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Springtime for ecumenists: A realistic assessment
The problem with ecumenists -- who are almost universally good-hearted and
dedicated souls -- is that they don't know how to manage expectations. It's
a lesson anyone who has ever organized a public event should have learned:
if you expect 100 people, put out chairs for 75, so the result feels like a
triumph rather than a disappointment...
***************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Sunday, December 2, 2007
******************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Museum in art heaven
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4287558a14297.html
Priceless art and architecture treasures from the Vatican will have their
own business class seats when they fly from Rome to New Zealand next year.
Catholic Matchmaker â€" A Success Story
http://www.pr.com/press-release/61683
Catholics are avoiding the usual problems that Dating/relationship Sites
have, by only allowing paid members to Catholic Matchmaker New Zealand ...
Drama shot on Coast (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4287639a6047.html
Dutch film-makers have descended on Greymouth to shoot an $11 million drama
about Dutch brides-to-be who flew to New Zealand for a new life half a
century ago...
Pupils train fares to rise (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4289760a7694.html
Pupils travelling into Wellington secondary schools from Kapiti Coast and
beyond will pay nearly double the train fare next year...
*****************************************************
'THE GOLDEN COMPASS'
This films opens in New Zealand on Boxing Day and will attract the mixed-age
audiences who enjoyed 'The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe'. The film is
controversial because its story is based on a book (by Philip Pullman) which
is an anti-religious - and specifically anti-Catholic - polemic which aims
at reimagining the story of the Fall in a way that does away with Original
Sin, and portrays God as an imposter, not unlike the Wizard of Oz. The
Hollywood version, on the other hand, has stripped out most of the overtly
Christian references and dropped the final two chapters, to produce "a story
about a little girl creating a new family for herself".
This article in the New York Times explains the background to the
controversy:
http://tinyurl.com/2r47zr
****************************************************
ENCYCLICAL LETTER 'SPE SALVI' (Saved by hope)
In his second encyclical letter Benedict XVI affirms that "the heavens are
not empty" and "life does not end in nothingness": faith in God's existence
is the origin of Christian hope, it gives meaning to our existence and it
allows us to look beyond fear towards the last Judgement. Hope gives meaning
to our waiting for justice which cannot be found in man alone as the "great
revolutions" have shown by bringing nothing but death and destruction.
The full text can be read at:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_\
enc_20071130_spe-salvi_en.html
A comprehensive summary of the encyclical by AsiaNews.it:
Pope: certainty of faith is the foundation of Christian hope
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=10934&size=A
*****************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
'A Little Company'
Sister Mary and her fellow sisters from the order "The Little Company of
Mary" invite you to share in an event in their lives as they visit a very
sepcial grave in Wellington's Karori Cemetery where their past sisters are
now buried. While many of us fear death, these sisters - whose call is to
treat the sick and the dying - have come to realise that it's something
which allows a closer relationship with God...
'Angel in the City'
Scripture Reading and discussion from St Mary of the Angels' church,
Wellington.
*****************************************************
MAGAZINES AND NEWSLETTERS
Marist Messenger - December 2007
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/
Edmund Rice Network Newsletter - November 2007
http://www.edmundrice.org.nz/pages/newsletter/newsletter.htm
Tui Motu - November 2007
http://www.tuimotu.org/
NZ Catholic Education Office Newsletters:
'Lighting New Fires', incl. Catholic schools' Supplement, November 2007
http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resourcesubpages/lighting-new-fires.html
'Good News and the News', a broadsheet of good practice for integrated
schools - September 2007
http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resourcesubpages/good-news.html
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Sex abuse settlement, the pope's visit and ecumenism: Cardinal Mahony speaks
with NCR
[Note: John Allen posted two stories this morning to the NCR web site about
Pope Benedict XVI newest encyclical: Spe Salvi, or "Saved in Hope." The
stories are: Benedict XVI offers the second in a possible triptych of
encyclicals: 'Saved by Hope' Spe Salvi a 'Greatest Hits' collection of core
Ratzinger ideas]
***************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Museum in art heaven
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4287558a14297.html
Priceless art and architecture treasures from the Vatican will have their
own business class seats when they fly from Rome to New Zealand next year.
Catholic Matchmaker â€" A Success Story
http://www.pr.com/press-release/61683
Catholics are avoiding the usual problems that Dating/relationship Sites
have, by only allowing paid members to Catholic Matchmaker New Zealand ...
Drama shot on Coast (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4287639a6047.html
Dutch film-makers have descended on Greymouth to shoot an $11 million drama
about Dutch brides-to-be who flew to New Zealand for a new life half a
century ago...
Pupils train fares to rise (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4289760a7694.html
Pupils travelling into Wellington secondary schools from Kapiti Coast and
beyond will pay nearly double the train fare next year...
*****************************************************
'THE GOLDEN COMPASS'
This films opens in New Zealand on Boxing Day and will attract the mixed-age
audiences who enjoyed 'The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe'. The film is
controversial because its story is based on a book (by Philip Pullman) which
is an anti-religious - and specifically anti-Catholic - polemic which aims
at reimagining the story of the Fall in a way that does away with Original
Sin, and portrays God as an imposter, not unlike the Wizard of Oz. The
Hollywood version, on the other hand, has stripped out most of the overtly
Christian references and dropped the final two chapters, to produce "a story
about a little girl creating a new family for herself".
This article in the New York Times explains the background to the
controversy:
http://tinyurl.com/2r47zr
****************************************************
ENCYCLICAL LETTER 'SPE SALVI' (Saved by hope)
In his second encyclical letter Benedict XVI affirms that "the heavens are
not empty" and "life does not end in nothingness": faith in God's existence
is the origin of Christian hope, it gives meaning to our existence and it
allows us to look beyond fear towards the last Judgement. Hope gives meaning
to our waiting for justice which cannot be found in man alone as the "great
revolutions" have shown by bringing nothing but death and destruction.
The full text can be read at:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_\
enc_20071130_spe-salvi_en.html
A comprehensive summary of the encyclical by AsiaNews.it:
Pope: certainty of faith is the foundation of Christian hope
http://www.asianews.it/index.php?l=en&art=10934&size=A
*****************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
'A Little Company'
Sister Mary and her fellow sisters from the order "The Little Company of
Mary" invite you to share in an event in their lives as they visit a very
sepcial grave in Wellington's Karori Cemetery where their past sisters are
now buried. While many of us fear death, these sisters - whose call is to
treat the sick and the dying - have come to realise that it's something
which allows a closer relationship with God...
'Angel in the City'
Scripture Reading and discussion from St Mary of the Angels' church,
Wellington.
*****************************************************
MAGAZINES AND NEWSLETTERS
Marist Messenger - December 2007
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/
Edmund Rice Network Newsletter - November 2007
http://www.edmundrice.org.nz/pages/newsletter/newsletter.htm
Tui Motu - November 2007
http://www.tuimotu.org/
NZ Catholic Education Office Newsletters:
'Lighting New Fires', incl. Catholic schools' Supplement, November 2007
http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resourcesubpages/lighting-new-fires.html
'Good News and the News', a broadsheet of good practice for integrated
schools - September 2007
http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resourcesubpages/good-news.html
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Sex abuse settlement, the pope's visit and ecumenism: Cardinal Mahony speaks
with NCR
[Note: John Allen posted two stories this morning to the NCR web site about
Pope Benedict XVI newest encyclical: Spe Salvi, or "Saved in Hope." The
stories are: Benedict XVI offers the second in a possible triptych of
encyclicals: 'Saved by Hope' Spe Salvi a 'Greatest Hits' collection of core
Ratzinger ideas]
***************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Sunday, November 25, 2007
****************************************************
CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Caritas responds to Cyclone SIDR Bangladesh (21 Nov 2007)
Catholic humanitarian agency Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand will provide
$50,000 to its Caritas Bangladesh partner working to help survivors of
super-cyclone Sidr. Over 3000 people have died, and the figure could rise to
10,000. Millions have been affected...
***************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Renewed St Mary’s Basilica ready for congregation
The Southland Times 24 Nov 2007 Page: 11
Six months after moving out, the congregation will be back today at St Mary’s
Basilica in Invercargill. Weekday and Sunday masses have been held at St
Mary’s Hall while the basilica underwent a complete internal
refurbishment... [This story is no available on the newspaper's free
Website, but can can be read at the public library]
Together at last
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4285861a6565.html
Four years ago, The Southland Times grumped: "There's a book about us that
doesn't exist. Why?" The complaint was simple enough. Dan Davin's Southland
stories were famous but not at all well read. Well, neat, here they are,
each of them, in The Gorse Blooms Pale, beautifully edited by academic Janet
Wilson. These stories, mostly drawn from Davin's Irish Catholic boyhood in a
Protestant 1920s Invercargill, will detonate memories among older
Southlanders and throw plenty of shafts of light into our past for younger
readers...
NZ gaffe says UK's Queen married in Catholic church
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/2007/11/24/132187/NZ-gaffe.htm
Wellington, New Zealand -- There were red faces at New Zealand's Government
House after an official press release suggested Britain's Queen Elizabeth
II -- head of the Church of England -- married in a Roman Catholic church 60
years ago...
Workout key for blind octogenarian (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4284307a6497.html
She may have just celebrated her 80th birthday, but Mary Johnson has no
plans to slow down. The plucky senior citizen completes 100 situps every day
in her room at
Selwyn Village retirement home in Pt Chevalier...
Op shops get hip to the value of vintage (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4284245a19716.html
Who can resist the idea of finding a retro gem among the more mundane
offerings on the racks at the local charity shop? Something handcrafted
lurking under the linen or a collectible piece of Crown Lynn behind the
crockery...
Spent lifetime helping others
http://tinyurl.com/245omc
Jean Gadd was, like the Red Cross she served so well for over 50 years,
"always there" for everyone ...
San Antonio calls out for Catholic kids (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2ydzmd
San Antonio School in Eastbourne has a roll of 29 but on current enrolments
that could drop to 17 next year ...
The 'lady in black' was Hutt character (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/22oawv
Lower Hutt has lost another character with the passing in Levin of Mabel
Serkovitch, known for decades to many mid-city locals as the Lady in Black
or the Black Widow ...
Working kids need adult protection - Caritas
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4278671a13.html
Children who work need the same level of protection as adult workers doing
similar tasks, says the Catholic social justice agency Caritas Aotearoa New
Zealand. Caritas research and advocacy officer Lisa Beech says that for many
working children it was not happening...
The Government is rejecting calls for a minimum age of employment for
children who do paid work.
http://www.radionz.co.nz:80/news/latest/200711181350/government_rejects_call_for\
_minimum_work_age
Child welfare campaigners want the Government to fully comply with the
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and ban children under
a certain age from employment...
Police ads in show draw church ire
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4278891a11.html
A family group has blasted a decision by the police to carry on advertising
during TV3's controversial programme, Californication...
School covered up sex abuse claims
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4286947a10.html
A Manawatu school investigating a sexual abuse complaint against its
principal appears to have attempted to cover up accusations made by a second
boy involved...
Principal on more sex charges
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4282210a12855.html
A principal accused of sexually assaulting his students has also been
charged with three more historic offences. Elvis Dobson Shepherd, known as
Tihirau Shepherd, 46, now faces nine sex charges, four of which were against
students at Hato Paora College, a Catholic Maori boarding school near
Feilding...
****************************************************
THE FIFTEENTH STATION (audio)
http://station15.libsyn.com/
In the podcast for Wed, 14 November 2007 ...
'Counting is hard'
This month we talk about another TV show denigrating our Faith, a pebble
that looks like Our Lady, a group that thinks the Iraq war is punishment for
the U.S. stance on homosexuality and the NZ bishop's strategic vision for
the next five years. Oh, and we show that it's harder than you think to
name Ten Commandments.
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
'The red hat goes to the pastor'
Baseball manager Leo Durocher may not have meant the phrase "nice guys
finish last" in quite the sense it's usually understood, but it nonetheless
captures the reality that cut-throat tactics are often a more direct route
to advancement than humility and kindness. While things are supposed to be
different in the church, that's not always the case, which is perhaps what
makes the elevation of Archbishop John Foley to the College of Cardinals
this Saturday especially satisfying...
***************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Caritas responds to Cyclone SIDR Bangladesh (21 Nov 2007)
Catholic humanitarian agency Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand will provide
$50,000 to its Caritas Bangladesh partner working to help survivors of
super-cyclone Sidr. Over 3000 people have died, and the figure could rise to
10,000. Millions have been affected...
***************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Renewed St Mary’s Basilica ready for congregation
The Southland Times 24 Nov 2007 Page: 11
Six months after moving out, the congregation will be back today at St Mary’s
Basilica in Invercargill. Weekday and Sunday masses have been held at St
Mary’s Hall while the basilica underwent a complete internal
refurbishment... [This story is no available on the newspaper's free
Website, but can can be read at the public library]
Together at last
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4285861a6565.html
Four years ago, The Southland Times grumped: "There's a book about us that
doesn't exist. Why?" The complaint was simple enough. Dan Davin's Southland
stories were famous but not at all well read. Well, neat, here they are,
each of them, in The Gorse Blooms Pale, beautifully edited by academic Janet
Wilson. These stories, mostly drawn from Davin's Irish Catholic boyhood in a
Protestant 1920s Invercargill, will detonate memories among older
Southlanders and throw plenty of shafts of light into our past for younger
readers...
NZ gaffe says UK's Queen married in Catholic church
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/2007/11/24/132187/NZ-gaffe.htm
Wellington, New Zealand -- There were red faces at New Zealand's Government
House after an official press release suggested Britain's Queen Elizabeth
II -- head of the Church of England -- married in a Roman Catholic church 60
years ago...
Workout key for blind octogenarian (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4284307a6497.html
She may have just celebrated her 80th birthday, but Mary Johnson has no
plans to slow down. The plucky senior citizen completes 100 situps every day
in her room at
Selwyn Village retirement home in Pt Chevalier...
Op shops get hip to the value of vintage (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4284245a19716.html
Who can resist the idea of finding a retro gem among the more mundane
offerings on the racks at the local charity shop? Something handcrafted
lurking under the linen or a collectible piece of Crown Lynn behind the
crockery...
Spent lifetime helping others
http://tinyurl.com/245omc
Jean Gadd was, like the Red Cross she served so well for over 50 years,
"always there" for everyone ...
San Antonio calls out for Catholic kids (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2ydzmd
San Antonio School in Eastbourne has a roll of 29 but on current enrolments
that could drop to 17 next year ...
The 'lady in black' was Hutt character (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/22oawv
Lower Hutt has lost another character with the passing in Levin of Mabel
Serkovitch, known for decades to many mid-city locals as the Lady in Black
or the Black Widow ...
Working kids need adult protection - Caritas
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4278671a13.html
Children who work need the same level of protection as adult workers doing
similar tasks, says the Catholic social justice agency Caritas Aotearoa New
Zealand. Caritas research and advocacy officer Lisa Beech says that for many
working children it was not happening...
The Government is rejecting calls for a minimum age of employment for
children who do paid work.
http://www.radionz.co.nz:80/news/latest/200711181350/government_rejects_call_for\
_minimum_work_age
Child welfare campaigners want the Government to fully comply with the
United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and ban children under
a certain age from employment...
Police ads in show draw church ire
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4278891a11.html
A family group has blasted a decision by the police to carry on advertising
during TV3's controversial programme, Californication...
School covered up sex abuse claims
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4286947a10.html
A Manawatu school investigating a sexual abuse complaint against its
principal appears to have attempted to cover up accusations made by a second
boy involved...
Principal on more sex charges
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4282210a12855.html
A principal accused of sexually assaulting his students has also been
charged with three more historic offences. Elvis Dobson Shepherd, known as
Tihirau Shepherd, 46, now faces nine sex charges, four of which were against
students at Hato Paora College, a Catholic Maori boarding school near
Feilding...
****************************************************
THE FIFTEENTH STATION (audio)
http://station15.libsyn.com/
In the podcast for Wed, 14 November 2007 ...
'Counting is hard'
This month we talk about another TV show denigrating our Faith, a pebble
that looks like Our Lady, a group that thinks the Iraq war is punishment for
the U.S. stance on homosexuality and the NZ bishop's strategic vision for
the next five years. Oh, and we show that it's harder than you think to
name Ten Commandments.
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
'The red hat goes to the pastor'
Baseball manager Leo Durocher may not have meant the phrase "nice guys
finish last" in quite the sense it's usually understood, but it nonetheless
captures the reality that cut-throat tactics are often a more direct route
to advancement than humility and kindness. While things are supposed to be
different in the church, that's not always the case, which is perhaps what
makes the elevation of Archbishop John Foley to the College of Cardinals
this Saturday especially satisfying...
***************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Sunday, November 18, 2007
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
In Issue 279, November 18-December 1, 2007 ...
NATIONAL
Controversial TV3 show sends six advertisers packing ... Ratings changes
will cost some schools fundings ... Principal appears in court ... Old rite
again in Dunedin ... Dads' key role stressed ... Mass for suffering children
... Reshuffle no comfort to pro-lifers ... Graves finally get a makeover ...
Better work conditions sought for children ... Pompallier printing workshop
... Archbishop Dew kept on Ice by rough weather ... St Thomas teams most
enterprising ... Waikanae parish celebrates 25 years ... Peaceful resistance
honoured ... Verdon College marks 25 years ... Wellington Dove turns 15 ...
ERO File
FEATURES
Dead culture has evangelical lessons for the Church today ... Seminarians
evangelise on the Internet ... Cardinal hopes for Internet apostolate ... NZ
priests complete 50 years on the Ice ... Joshua aid team helps mission in
Vanuatu ... Kiwi chaplain's life busy in the Solomons ... College celebrates
40th anniversary ... Nun made speech life member ... Congress seen as good
for "the young Church"
OPINION
Ronald Rolheiser: Our longing for God's justice ... Brendan Woodnutt: Our
young people need us to share the truth of Jesus ... Joseph Ryan:
Journalism's duty is to tell the truth ... Editorial: TV shows being used to
justify sin ... Malcolm Evans ... Letters
INTERNATIONAL
Pell warns of dangers in proposed bill of rights ... Ecological damage hurts
poor most, says archbishop ... The Pope: Anti-life products not for Catholic
chemists ... Catholic agency backs efforts for clean-up in gold mining ...
Priests want probe into Samsung ... Killed clergy remembered ... Legal
process even with terror: Vatican ... Prayer urged for deceased ... 2002
Roman Missal draft translation completed ... Holy Land religious leaders out
to reduce violence ... Equality is of people, not faiths, says Amato ...
Knoll rolls nipple in name ... Obsessed priest put on leave ... Bishop for
legalised prostitution ... A blessing of light ... Vatican notes clerical
resistance ... Chinese told no need for patriotic association ... Candidates
ignorant? ... In Brief
REGULAR FEATURES
Papal Prayer, Young Adults, Books, Monitor, Clips, Catholic.Geek, Tape Deck,
Scripture, Feasts, Liturgical Calendar, The Doolans, Family Talk, Caption
Contest, Who Said?, 40 Years Ago, Dio. Diary, Cryptic Crossword, That Word!,
Holy Lives, Kit's Corner, Photo Prayer, Wit's End.
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
TV programme "Californication" (12 Nov 2007)
There has been considerable comment on the programme “Californication�, the
first episode of which screened last Thursday on TV3. The broadcaster's PR
spin describes this programme, euphemistically, as ‘edgy’. Once again they
appear to be pushing the boundaries to test how far they can go in
disregarding broadcasting codes that require standards of decency and good
taste to be upheld...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
More advertisers withdraw from Californication
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/071116/3/2g5k.html
Two more companies have pulled their advertising from the controversial TV3
series Californication but police continue to support the show, says a
family values lobby group...
More advertising pulled from risqué TV3 show
http://tinyurl.com/34qxh7
The Ministry of Economic Development is the latest in a series of
advertisers to withdraw from controversial new TV3 show Californication...
Students make a meal of hearty lunchtime snacks
http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikatotimes/4274184a6579.html
The art of lunch-making was evident at two Hamilton schools this week as
pupils tucked into well- thought-out, hearty lunches containing a variety of
food. Children at Fairfield Intermediate School and St Joseph's Catholic
School, both in Clarkin Rd, put paid to a Massey University study which
found only one in 10 packed school lunches met nutritional guidelines...
Church agency finds delivery kids as young as six years
http://tinyurl.com/2wqtam
A survey by Catholic agency Caritas says children as young as six are doing
paid work. It surveyed 30 children in Wairarapa, Hutt, Wellington, Nelson,
Blenheim and Westport who are employed as delivery workers...
Radio NZ. Insight. Child Labour (audio file)
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/inst/child_labour
Insight looks at whether NZ should have a minimum work age to stop the under
13s being employed. Caritas's researcher is interviewed.
Noelle McCarthy: Flying and a question of faith
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=500818&objectid=10476513
I don't consider myself a religious person under normal circumstances, but I
can't catch a plane without becoming an ardent Catholic during take-off and
landing...
Curriculum for new world (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4274504a24035.html
There have been concerns a stronger emphasis in the new school curriculum on
integrity and diversity and being able to think creatively will create more
work for already busy schools and that children will be taught how to hold a
conversation at the expense of learning how to add up. The Education
Ministry's senior manager for curriculum, teaching and learning, Mary
Chamberlain, says such concerns are misplaced. St Bernadette's School in
Christchurch is a prime example of how Chamberlain's vision can work...
Easter Sunday may become holiday
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1318360/1448466
The government is looking at making Easter Sunday a public holiday in an
effort to clear up the rules about shops opening on that day...
Witch-hunt leaves staff in fear for jobs
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4274300a11.html
A witch-hunt to find the source who alerted media to allegations of sexual
abuse at Palmerston North's Hato Paora College has staff at the school
fearing for their jobs...
Fiji bishop may face NZ and Australia travel ban
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=36450
There is uncertainty whether the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Fiji,
Archbishop Petero Mataca, will be allowed to travel to Australia and New
Zealand to attend church meetings...
Hopes common sense will save sunday schools (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4269935a6571.html
South Canterbury sunday schools are calling for common sense as a review of
the Education Act could force them to be licensed...
'I would like an explanation'
The Dominion Post 17 Nov 2007 Page: 26
For the second year running, Catholic Schools Board Ltd, the company owned
by the Catholic Church’s Wellington archdiocese and Palmerston North
diocese, has announced fee increases of more than 10 per cent for every
pupil at their state-integrated schools ... [This letter is not available on
the newspaper's free Website. The paper can be read at the public library]
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
Coffee Break: A manager's personal life (part two)
Peter Andrews works as a manager in a team charged with ensuring that our
Executive (in other words Cabinet Ministers) are well supported. Why does he
and his wife also choose to spend his spare time at the local hospital? ...
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
The John Jay study of clergy sex abuse challenges evangelical Catholics
Perhaps it's a measure of how badly the image of American Catholicism has
been tarnished as a result of the sexual abuse crisis that so many bishops,
meeting in Baltimore Nov. 12-15, could seem relieved at the news that the
church's record on the abuse of minors is actually no better, but also no
worse, than anybody else's...
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
In Issue 279, November 18-December 1, 2007 ...
NATIONAL
Controversial TV3 show sends six advertisers packing ... Ratings changes
will cost some schools fundings ... Principal appears in court ... Old rite
again in Dunedin ... Dads' key role stressed ... Mass for suffering children
... Reshuffle no comfort to pro-lifers ... Graves finally get a makeover ...
Better work conditions sought for children ... Pompallier printing workshop
... Archbishop Dew kept on Ice by rough weather ... St Thomas teams most
enterprising ... Waikanae parish celebrates 25 years ... Peaceful resistance
honoured ... Verdon College marks 25 years ... Wellington Dove turns 15 ...
ERO File
FEATURES
Dead culture has evangelical lessons for the Church today ... Seminarians
evangelise on the Internet ... Cardinal hopes for Internet apostolate ... NZ
priests complete 50 years on the Ice ... Joshua aid team helps mission in
Vanuatu ... Kiwi chaplain's life busy in the Solomons ... College celebrates
40th anniversary ... Nun made speech life member ... Congress seen as good
for "the young Church"
OPINION
Ronald Rolheiser: Our longing for God's justice ... Brendan Woodnutt: Our
young people need us to share the truth of Jesus ... Joseph Ryan:
Journalism's duty is to tell the truth ... Editorial: TV shows being used to
justify sin ... Malcolm Evans ... Letters
INTERNATIONAL
Pell warns of dangers in proposed bill of rights ... Ecological damage hurts
poor most, says archbishop ... The Pope: Anti-life products not for Catholic
chemists ... Catholic agency backs efforts for clean-up in gold mining ...
Priests want probe into Samsung ... Killed clergy remembered ... Legal
process even with terror: Vatican ... Prayer urged for deceased ... 2002
Roman Missal draft translation completed ... Holy Land religious leaders out
to reduce violence ... Equality is of people, not faiths, says Amato ...
Knoll rolls nipple in name ... Obsessed priest put on leave ... Bishop for
legalised prostitution ... A blessing of light ... Vatican notes clerical
resistance ... Chinese told no need for patriotic association ... Candidates
ignorant? ... In Brief
REGULAR FEATURES
Papal Prayer, Young Adults, Books, Monitor, Clips, Catholic.Geek, Tape Deck,
Scripture, Feasts, Liturgical Calendar, The Doolans, Family Talk, Caption
Contest, Who Said?, 40 Years Ago, Dio. Diary, Cryptic Crossword, That Word!,
Holy Lives, Kit's Corner, Photo Prayer, Wit's End.
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
TV programme "Californication" (12 Nov 2007)
There has been considerable comment on the programme “Californication�, the
first episode of which screened last Thursday on TV3. The broadcaster's PR
spin describes this programme, euphemistically, as ‘edgy’. Once again they
appear to be pushing the boundaries to test how far they can go in
disregarding broadcasting codes that require standards of decency and good
taste to be upheld...
****************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
More advertisers withdraw from Californication
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/071116/3/2g5k.html
Two more companies have pulled their advertising from the controversial TV3
series Californication but police continue to support the show, says a
family values lobby group...
More advertising pulled from risqué TV3 show
http://tinyurl.com/34qxh7
The Ministry of Economic Development is the latest in a series of
advertisers to withdraw from controversial new TV3 show Californication...
Students make a meal of hearty lunchtime snacks
http://www.stuff.co.nz/waikatotimes/4274184a6579.html
The art of lunch-making was evident at two Hamilton schools this week as
pupils tucked into well- thought-out, hearty lunches containing a variety of
food. Children at Fairfield Intermediate School and St Joseph's Catholic
School, both in Clarkin Rd, put paid to a Massey University study which
found only one in 10 packed school lunches met nutritional guidelines...
Church agency finds delivery kids as young as six years
http://tinyurl.com/2wqtam
A survey by Catholic agency Caritas says children as young as six are doing
paid work. It surveyed 30 children in Wairarapa, Hutt, Wellington, Nelson,
Blenheim and Westport who are employed as delivery workers...
Radio NZ. Insight. Child Labour (audio file)
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/inst/child_labour
Insight looks at whether NZ should have a minimum work age to stop the under
13s being employed. Caritas's researcher is interviewed.
Noelle McCarthy: Flying and a question of faith
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=500818&objectid=10476513
I don't consider myself a religious person under normal circumstances, but I
can't catch a plane without becoming an ardent Catholic during take-off and
landing...
Curriculum for new world (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4274504a24035.html
There have been concerns a stronger emphasis in the new school curriculum on
integrity and diversity and being able to think creatively will create more
work for already busy schools and that children will be taught how to hold a
conversation at the expense of learning how to add up. The Education
Ministry's senior manager for curriculum, teaching and learning, Mary
Chamberlain, says such concerns are misplaced. St Bernadette's School in
Christchurch is a prime example of how Chamberlain's vision can work...
Easter Sunday may become holiday
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/1318360/1448466
The government is looking at making Easter Sunday a public holiday in an
effort to clear up the rules about shops opening on that day...
Witch-hunt leaves staff in fear for jobs
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4274300a11.html
A witch-hunt to find the source who alerted media to allegations of sexual
abuse at Palmerston North's Hato Paora College has staff at the school
fearing for their jobs...
Fiji bishop may face NZ and Australia travel ban
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=36450
There is uncertainty whether the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Fiji,
Archbishop Petero Mataca, will be allowed to travel to Australia and New
Zealand to attend church meetings...
Hopes common sense will save sunday schools (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4269935a6571.html
South Canterbury sunday schools are calling for common sense as a review of
the Education Act could force them to be licensed...
'I would like an explanation'
The Dominion Post 17 Nov 2007 Page: 26
For the second year running, Catholic Schools Board Ltd, the company owned
by the Catholic Church’s Wellington archdiocese and Palmerston North
diocese, has announced fee increases of more than 10 per cent for every
pupil at their state-integrated schools ... [This letter is not available on
the newspaper's free Website. The paper can be read at the public library]
****************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
Coffee Break: A manager's personal life (part two)
Peter Andrews works as a manager in a team charged with ensuring that our
Executive (in other words Cabinet Ministers) are well supported. Why does he
and his wife also choose to spend his spare time at the local hospital? ...
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
The John Jay study of clergy sex abuse challenges evangelical Catholics
Perhaps it's a measure of how badly the image of American Catholicism has
been tarnished as a result of the sexual abuse crisis that so many bishops,
meeting in Baltimore Nov. 12-15, could seem relieved at the news that the
church's record on the abuse of minors is actually no better, but also no
worse, than anybody else's...
***************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Catholic Church sells Tablet press (photo) Otago Daily Times 11 Nov. 2004 http://tinyurl.com/4vyuo One of the country’s oldest printing houses — responsible for 130 years production of the Catholic newspaper, The Tablet — has been sold by the Church to Christchurch family-owned Spectrum Print...
Catholic Education Office says UNESCO report into success of 1989 reforms of NZ's education system is flawed (full text) NZCity 9 November 2004 http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.asp?id=44803 There is a warning not to put too much stock in a UNESCO report on education. The global study claims there is no way of knowing if the 1989 reforms of New Zealand's education system has been beneficial. It says we lack minority input at Board of Trustee level. Catholic Education Office Chief Executive Pat Lynch says the problem with the report is that it has only taken a once-over-lightly look at New Zealand. He says it did not even begin to compare today's system with the old one and it is not an in-depth study of New Zealand and is unbalanced. He says it is disappointing that an international report would make these damning statements without taking a close look at what is going on.
Biotech issues 'as NZ ages' Stuff Business News 08 November 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3089150a13,00.html New Zealand will probably be faced with increasingly difficult decisions about biotechnology as the population ages, a British expert says. Sandy Thomas, director of the independent think-tank the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, has been in New Zealand talking to government departments and the Bioethics Council about personalised medicine...
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
The papal message on the death of Yasser Arafat and speculation on its implications are reported by the Catholic missionary news service AsiaNews.it at: http://www.asianews.it/geo.php?l=en&geo=57
Pope Sees Beauty as a Means of Evangelization Necessary to Make the Luminous Face of God Shine, He Says http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=61679 Vatican City, Nov. 9, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Attending the Public Session of the Pontifical Academies today, the Pope said that "the path of beauty" is the "privileged itinerary for the encounter between the Christian faith and the cultures of our time and a precious instrument for the formation of the young generations"....
Study reveals church loss of credibility http://www.cathnews.com/news/411/49.php The findings of a major church-backed research project [in Australia] suggest that the reputation of the Church is sinking faster than that of the government, legal system, banks and media....
New Ordinance on Religions does not provide freedom, says the Archbishop of Hue. “Pray for our Church. The government wants to control religious sentiment http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1848 Huê (AsiaNews) – The new Ordinance on Beliefs and Religions adopted by the government of Vietnam does not satisfy Catholic Bishops. The new rules do not grant the Church the freedom it needs to organise its own affairs...
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
International News
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
Papal sympathy to Palestinians on Arafat death Life Offices urge continued public debate on abortion Pell says Islam could be the new communism Vinnies and ACU organise learning for the homeless Test results show student religious knowledge on the rise Irish archbishop issues guidelines to keep funerals Christian
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CATHOLICTV.NET
Wellington Archdiocesan Media Centre
http://www.catholictv.net
New video files:
The Wellington Archdiocesan Family Life Office is ten years old. Family Life Office advisor Sue Devereux tells its story to Dave Ross ...
The Seasons of Advent is upon us. Prepare ye the Way of the Lord. Archdiocesan Liturgy advisor, Fr. John Greally, explains ...
New Zealand now has it’s own Unknown Warrior, brought back from the battlefields of France. Highlights from the March through Wellington ...
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CARITAS AOTEAROA NZ
http://www.caritas.org.nz
Public Meeting: The State of Human Rights in Aceh 11 November, 2004: In May 2003, the Indonesian province of Aceh was placed under Martial Law and some 50,000 Indonesian troops began an offensive to crush the separatist Free Aceh Movement ( Gerakan Aceh Merdeka or GAM). In the process, human rights groups report a wave of killings and arrests of innocent civilians. Martial Law was lifted earlier this year, but the troops remain and the situation is little improved....
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TUI MOTU INTERISLANDS
An independent Catholic magazine
http://www.tuimotu.org
From the November issue ...
Editorial: Battle of the titans (full text) "Battle of the Titans" is a somewhat melodramatic title: one at which Hans Küng would instantly demur. It is chosen to set in contrast two differing world-views of Roman Catholicism. Do we see the Catholic Church as a basically inward-looking institution? Do we see it still as the ‘tempest-toss’d church’ of the traditional hymn? ....
Also in the November issue: Encounter With Hans Küng – Frank Hoffman Vatican Hijacked By GE Lobby – Peter Murnane Reflecting On Luke – Susan Smith Celebrating Difference – Glynn Cardy I Have A Dream – Humphrey O’Leary
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AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
These books can be borrowed at public libraries in many places, or requested via interloan. Non-fiction shelf numbers may vary from library to library.
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Miracle girl Author: Scribner, Keith. Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2003. Reviews: http://www.keithscribner.com/miraclegirl.html Summary: A beautiful Vietnamese-American girl has been appearing in the dreams of residents of Hudson City, and there are reports that injured limbs, sinus headaches, and tonsillitis are clearing up all over town. Raised on Watergate and Vietnam and nurtured on the materialism of the eighties and nineties, John Quinn manages real estate for the Hudson Catholic diocese, but he's a man of little faith and is certain the girl is a fraud. As "miracle fever" sweeps the town, the bishop directs Quinn to investigate ...
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925.51 The seashell on the mountaintop : a story of science, sainthood, and the humble genius who discovered a new history of the earth Author: Cutler, Alan. Publisher: London : Heinemann, 2003. Review: http://www.curledup.com/seashell.htm The Catholic Encyclopedia. "Nicolaus Steno" http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14286a.htm Notes: Dubbed "the founder of modern geology", danish scientist Nicolaus Steno (a.k.a. Niels Stensen, 1638-1686) was the first man to suggest that the existence of fossils demanded a much longer history for the Earth than the roughly 6000 years suggested by the Bible. Steno's work was ignored for over a century: he himself dropped his geological studies, converted to Catholicism and later became a bishop; in 1988 he was beatified by Pope John Paul I.
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for November 12, 2004: Post election water-cooler talk; Six years after the Synod for America; The Vatican in the Italian press, a cautionary tale; Preparatory document for the Bishops' Synod on the Eucharist; Conference on palliative care; Focolare conference for communicators; Dialogue with Islam
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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 ]
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Assistant Editor, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper
The national Catholic newspaper 'NZ Catholic' seeks a senior journalist for the position of assistant editor, with the prospect of taking over the managing editorship of this award-winning publication.
Besides a strong newspaper background, and writing and subbing strengths, the successful applicant will have a personal commitment to and knowledge of the Catholic Church, and an enthusiasm for the mission of the Catholic press.
The managing editor, who reports to a board of management, is responsible for NZ Catholic¹s editorial direction, strategic planning and business operations. Leadership and management skills are required.
A competitive salary, including superannuation, is provided for this Auckland-based position.
Inquiries and applications should be made to the managing editor, Pat McCarthy, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland; tel. (09) 360-3069; email catholic@iconz.co.nz Applications close December 6, 2004.
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Presenters, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper 'NZ Catholic' wishes to employ skilled communicators to act as presenters for the paper at parish Masses. Details in 'NZ Catholic' Nov. 14-27 2004 p.26, and from Dennis Augustine, Promotions and Advertising Manager, 'NZ Catholic', PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034; e-mail: catholic@iconz.co.nz
Edmund Rice Network, New Zealand. National Co-ordinator http://www.edmundrice.org.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 17-30 2004 p.23 and from Br Paul Robertson, St Peter's College, mountain Rd., Auckland 1003. Tel (09) 524 8108 ext 313; e-mail: admin@st-peters.school.nz Applications close 15 November 2004
Christian Blind Mission International: Office assistant (20 hours pw; two positions), Newmarket, Auckland http://www.cbmi.org/cbm_new_zealand.htm Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 31 - Nov. 13 2004 p.19, and from CBMI, tel. (09) 522 0902 Applications close 22 November 2004
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EVENTS
Parachute Music Festival Mystery Creek, Hamilton January 28-31 2005
The annual Christian music festival, takes place on Auckland Anniversary weekend (last weekend of January) at Totara Springs Christian Camp, Matamata.
Parachute Festival Website: http://websites.parachutemusic.com/festival/2005/default_noflash.asp
Parachute Music New Zealand: http://www.parachutemusic.com
Catholics@Parachute: The young Catholic presence at Australasia's biggest Christian music festival is growing by the year.. The National Council for Young Catholics coordinates the bulk purchase of tickets and the set-up of a Catholic village on site. Contact Jamie Cox: jamiec@cdh.org.nz
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Catholic Church sells Tablet press (photo) Otago Daily Times 11 Nov. 2004 http://tinyurl.com/4vyuo One of the country’s oldest printing houses — responsible for 130 years production of the Catholic newspaper, The Tablet — has been sold by the Church to Christchurch family-owned Spectrum Print...
Catholic Education Office says UNESCO report into success of 1989 reforms of NZ's education system is flawed (full text) NZCity 9 November 2004 http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.asp?id=44803 There is a warning not to put too much stock in a UNESCO report on education. The global study claims there is no way of knowing if the 1989 reforms of New Zealand's education system has been beneficial. It says we lack minority input at Board of Trustee level. Catholic Education Office Chief Executive Pat Lynch says the problem with the report is that it has only taken a once-over-lightly look at New Zealand. He says it did not even begin to compare today's system with the old one and it is not an in-depth study of New Zealand and is unbalanced. He says it is disappointing that an international report would make these damning statements without taking a close look at what is going on.
Biotech issues 'as NZ ages' Stuff Business News 08 November 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3089150a13,00.html New Zealand will probably be faced with increasingly difficult decisions about biotechnology as the population ages, a British expert says. Sandy Thomas, director of the independent think-tank the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, has been in New Zealand talking to government departments and the Bioethics Council about personalised medicine...
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
The papal message on the death of Yasser Arafat and speculation on its implications are reported by the Catholic missionary news service AsiaNews.it at: http://www.asianews.it/geo.php?l=en&geo=57
Pope Sees Beauty as a Means of Evangelization Necessary to Make the Luminous Face of God Shine, He Says http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=61679 Vatican City, Nov. 9, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Attending the Public Session of the Pontifical Academies today, the Pope said that "the path of beauty" is the "privileged itinerary for the encounter between the Christian faith and the cultures of our time and a precious instrument for the formation of the young generations"....
Study reveals church loss of credibility http://www.cathnews.com/news/411/49.php The findings of a major church-backed research project [in Australia] suggest that the reputation of the Church is sinking faster than that of the government, legal system, banks and media....
New Ordinance on Religions does not provide freedom, says the Archbishop of Hue. “Pray for our Church. The government wants to control religious sentiment http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1848 Huê (AsiaNews) – The new Ordinance on Beliefs and Religions adopted by the government of Vietnam does not satisfy Catholic Bishops. The new rules do not grant the Church the freedom it needs to organise its own affairs...
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
International News
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
Papal sympathy to Palestinians on Arafat death Life Offices urge continued public debate on abortion Pell says Islam could be the new communism Vinnies and ACU organise learning for the homeless Test results show student religious knowledge on the rise Irish archbishop issues guidelines to keep funerals Christian
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CATHOLICTV.NET
Wellington Archdiocesan Media Centre
http://www.catholictv.net
New video files:
The Wellington Archdiocesan Family Life Office is ten years old. Family Life Office advisor Sue Devereux tells its story to Dave Ross ...
The Seasons of Advent is upon us. Prepare ye the Way of the Lord. Archdiocesan Liturgy advisor, Fr. John Greally, explains ...
New Zealand now has it’s own Unknown Warrior, brought back from the battlefields of France. Highlights from the March through Wellington ...
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CARITAS AOTEAROA NZ
http://www.caritas.org.nz
Public Meeting: The State of Human Rights in Aceh 11 November, 2004: In May 2003, the Indonesian province of Aceh was placed under Martial Law and some 50,000 Indonesian troops began an offensive to crush the separatist Free Aceh Movement ( Gerakan Aceh Merdeka or GAM). In the process, human rights groups report a wave of killings and arrests of innocent civilians. Martial Law was lifted earlier this year, but the troops remain and the situation is little improved....
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TUI MOTU INTERISLANDS
An independent Catholic magazine
http://www.tuimotu.org
From the November issue ...
Editorial: Battle of the titans (full text) "Battle of the Titans" is a somewhat melodramatic title: one at which Hans Küng would instantly demur. It is chosen to set in contrast two differing world-views of Roman Catholicism. Do we see the Catholic Church as a basically inward-looking institution? Do we see it still as the ‘tempest-toss’d church’ of the traditional hymn? ....
Also in the November issue: Encounter With Hans Küng – Frank Hoffman Vatican Hijacked By GE Lobby – Peter Murnane Reflecting On Luke – Susan Smith Celebrating Difference – Glynn Cardy I Have A Dream – Humphrey O’Leary
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AT THE PUBLIC LIBRARY
These books can be borrowed at public libraries in many places, or requested via interloan. Non-fiction shelf numbers may vary from library to library.
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Miracle girl Author: Scribner, Keith. Publisher: New York : Riverhead Books, 2003. Reviews: http://www.keithscribner.com/miraclegirl.html Summary: A beautiful Vietnamese-American girl has been appearing in the dreams of residents of Hudson City, and there are reports that injured limbs, sinus headaches, and tonsillitis are clearing up all over town. Raised on Watergate and Vietnam and nurtured on the materialism of the eighties and nineties, John Quinn manages real estate for the Hudson Catholic diocese, but he's a man of little faith and is certain the girl is a fraud. As "miracle fever" sweeps the town, the bishop directs Quinn to investigate ...
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925.51 The seashell on the mountaintop : a story of science, sainthood, and the humble genius who discovered a new history of the earth Author: Cutler, Alan. Publisher: London : Heinemann, 2003. Review: http://www.curledup.com/seashell.htm The Catholic Encyclopedia. "Nicolaus Steno" http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14286a.htm Notes: Dubbed "the founder of modern geology", danish scientist Nicolaus Steno (a.k.a. Niels Stensen, 1638-1686) was the first man to suggest that the existence of fossils demanded a much longer history for the Earth than the roughly 6000 years suggested by the Bible. Steno's work was ignored for over a century: he himself dropped his geological studies, converted to Catholicism and later became a bishop; in 1988 he was beatified by Pope John Paul I.
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for November 12, 2004: Post election water-cooler talk; Six years after the Synod for America; The Vatican in the Italian press, a cautionary tale; Preparatory document for the Bishops' Synod on the Eucharist; Conference on palliative care; Focolare conference for communicators; Dialogue with Islam
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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 ]
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Assistant Editor, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper
The national Catholic newspaper 'NZ Catholic' seeks a senior journalist for the position of assistant editor, with the prospect of taking over the managing editorship of this award-winning publication.
Besides a strong newspaper background, and writing and subbing strengths, the successful applicant will have a personal commitment to and knowledge of the Catholic Church, and an enthusiasm for the mission of the Catholic press.
The managing editor, who reports to a board of management, is responsible for NZ Catholic¹s editorial direction, strategic planning and business operations. Leadership and management skills are required.
A competitive salary, including superannuation, is provided for this Auckland-based position.
Inquiries and applications should be made to the managing editor, Pat McCarthy, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland; tel. (09) 360-3069; email catholic@iconz.co.nz Applications close December 6, 2004.
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Presenters, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper 'NZ Catholic' wishes to employ skilled communicators to act as presenters for the paper at parish Masses. Details in 'NZ Catholic' Nov. 14-27 2004 p.26, and from Dennis Augustine, Promotions and Advertising Manager, 'NZ Catholic', PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034; e-mail: catholic@iconz.co.nz
Edmund Rice Network, New Zealand. National Co-ordinator http://www.edmundrice.org.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 17-30 2004 p.23 and from Br Paul Robertson, St Peter's College, mountain Rd., Auckland 1003. Tel (09) 524 8108 ext 313; e-mail: admin@st-peters.school.nz Applications close 15 November 2004
Christian Blind Mission International: Office assistant (20 hours pw; two positions), Newmarket, Auckland http://www.cbmi.org/cbm_new_zealand.htm Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 31 - Nov. 13 2004 p.19, and from CBMI, tel. (09) 522 0902 Applications close 22 November 2004
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EVENTS
Parachute Music Festival Mystery Creek, Hamilton January 28-31 2005
The annual Christian music festival, takes place on Auckland Anniversary weekend (last weekend of January) at Totara Springs Christian Camp, Matamata.
Parachute Festival Website: http://websites.parachutemusic.com/festival/2005/default_noflash.asp
Parachute Music New Zealand: http://www.parachutemusic.com
Catholics@Parachute: The young Catholic presence at Australasia's biggest Christian music festival is growing by the year.. The National Council for Young Catholics coordinates the bulk purchase of tickets and the set-up of a Catholic village on site. Contact Jamie Cox: jamiec@cdh.org.nz
Sunday, November 11, 2007
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Christians and Jews boycott TV3 (07 Nov 2007)
The Wellington Council of Christians and Jews is urging their congregants to
boycott TV3 for one week starting this Thursday, 8 November...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
[The following two stories include brief descriptions of obscenities in a
Catholic setting]
Californication boycott
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/071110/2/2dc6.html
TV3 is unmoved at a decision by two companies to pull their advertising from
a programme which has been called 'offensive and pornographic'...
Raunchy Californication doesn't upset too many
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/071108/3/2cn2.html
Only a small number of viewers have complained to TV3 about last night's
screening of controversial new show Californication...
Pupils love Italian experience
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/4255607a20379.html
A chance-in-a-lifetime experience gave two Turakina Maori Girls' College the
opportunity to see the Pope in Vatican City and enjoy the hospitality of an
Italian family.
Gambling Money, by Todd Rebecca
The Press, 9 Nov 2007, Edition 2, Page 3.
[Includes a list of the top ten churches in Christchurch that received
gaming machine profits. This story is not available on the newspaper's free
Website. It can be read at public libraries and via the libraries' free
Newztext service for borrowers]
Goodbye to Sunday school
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/071108/2/2cm5.html
Education Minister Chris Carter has confirmed that a gathering of three
children under adult supervision constitutes an early childhood education
unit, so must be fully licensed...
Many learning of charges by media
http://tinyurl.com/22aduw
Staff and students at Hato Paora College were told yesterday their
principal, Tihirau Shepherd, is facing sex charges...
Hato Paora headmaster on sex charges (text and video reports)
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411365/1435153
The headmaster of a Catholic Maori boys' boarding school near Palmerston
North has appeared in court on six sex related charges...
St Joseph's win awards at touch tournament
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4265026a6523.html
St Joseph's School [Kaikoura] is churning out considerate sports people, if
its success at a recent touch rugby tournament is anything to go by. Two
teams entered the Top of the South Catholic Schools All Saints Touch Rugby
Tournament at St Paul's School in Richmond last Friday, both winning the
fair play award in their competitions...
Battle won after 27 years (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/ysjs2b
Brian Cronin no longer feels like he's in a war zone when he visits his
parents' graves. The 73-year-old has been campaigning for the past 27 years
to have the dilapidated Catholic section of Waikumete cemetery upgraded...
School proud of NEiTA nomination (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2adja3
A Taumarunui teacher has been nominated for a National Excellence in
Teaching award. Maria Gillard, from St Patrick's Catholic School, was
nominated by members of the community ...
Dedicated volunteer duo through to semis (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/29xwqk
Two dedicated Cambridge volunteer coaches, Don Willoughby and Diana
Galletta, have made it into the semifinal round of Watties Volunteer Coach
of the Year awards...
Last Iranian released from prison
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/1433311
New Zealand's longest-serving remand prisoner in history has been
celebrating freedom after nearly four years behind bars. Iranian Amir
Mohebbi has now returned to his Kiwi wife and children, the youngest, a
daughter named Merala was born during his time in prison...
Liturgy for ‘lost’ children
Waikato Times 5 Nov 2007 Page: 5
The first Liturgy for Lost Children was offered at the Roman Catholic
Cathedral in Hamilton recently. Led by the Anglican and Catholic bishops,
the service was attended by more than 100 people... [This story is not
available on the newspaper's free Website. It can be read at the public
library]
Cancer vaccine won't promote promiscuity, say Catholics
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10474237
New Zealand's Catholic Church hierarchy has rejected a claim that
vaccinating 12-year-old girls against a sexually transmitted infection to
prevent cervical cancer would "promote promiscuity"...
End of the road for priest
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4261535a6568.html
After 27 years in the priesthood, David Johnston, who has headed Sacred
Heart parish in Invercargill since 1998 and before that St Thomas Aquinas
Catholic parish in Winton, has hung up his robes...
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
Coffee Break: A manager's personal life
Peter Andrews organises some of the most important business for Cabinet
members. Why do he and his wife also choose to spend their spare time at the
local hospital? ...
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Christians and Jews boycott TV3 (07 Nov 2007)
The Wellington Council of Christians and Jews is urging their congregants to
boycott TV3 for one week starting this Thursday, 8 November...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
[The following two stories include brief descriptions of obscenities in a
Catholic setting]
Californication boycott
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/071110/2/2dc6.html
TV3 is unmoved at a decision by two companies to pull their advertising from
a programme which has been called 'offensive and pornographic'...
Raunchy Californication doesn't upset too many
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/071108/3/2cn2.html
Only a small number of viewers have complained to TV3 about last night's
screening of controversial new show Californication...
Pupils love Italian experience
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/4255607a20379.html
A chance-in-a-lifetime experience gave two Turakina Maori Girls' College the
opportunity to see the Pope in Vatican City and enjoy the hospitality of an
Italian family.
Gambling Money, by Todd Rebecca
The Press, 9 Nov 2007, Edition 2, Page 3.
[Includes a list of the top ten churches in Christchurch that received
gaming machine profits. This story is not available on the newspaper's free
Website. It can be read at public libraries and via the libraries' free
Newztext service for borrowers]
Goodbye to Sunday school
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/071108/2/2cm5.html
Education Minister Chris Carter has confirmed that a gathering of three
children under adult supervision constitutes an early childhood education
unit, so must be fully licensed...
Many learning of charges by media
http://tinyurl.com/22aduw
Staff and students at Hato Paora College were told yesterday their
principal, Tihirau Shepherd, is facing sex charges...
Hato Paora headmaster on sex charges (text and video reports)
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411365/1435153
The headmaster of a Catholic Maori boys' boarding school near Palmerston
North has appeared in court on six sex related charges...
St Joseph's win awards at touch tournament
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4265026a6523.html
St Joseph's School [Kaikoura] is churning out considerate sports people, if
its success at a recent touch rugby tournament is anything to go by. Two
teams entered the Top of the South Catholic Schools All Saints Touch Rugby
Tournament at St Paul's School in Richmond last Friday, both winning the
fair play award in their competitions...
Battle won after 27 years (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/ysjs2b
Brian Cronin no longer feels like he's in a war zone when he visits his
parents' graves. The 73-year-old has been campaigning for the past 27 years
to have the dilapidated Catholic section of Waikumete cemetery upgraded...
School proud of NEiTA nomination (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2adja3
A Taumarunui teacher has been nominated for a National Excellence in
Teaching award. Maria Gillard, from St Patrick's Catholic School, was
nominated by members of the community ...
Dedicated volunteer duo through to semis (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/29xwqk
Two dedicated Cambridge volunteer coaches, Don Willoughby and Diana
Galletta, have made it into the semifinal round of Watties Volunteer Coach
of the Year awards...
Last Iranian released from prison
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411749/1433311
New Zealand's longest-serving remand prisoner in history has been
celebrating freedom after nearly four years behind bars. Iranian Amir
Mohebbi has now returned to his Kiwi wife and children, the youngest, a
daughter named Merala was born during his time in prison...
Liturgy for ‘lost’ children
Waikato Times 5 Nov 2007 Page: 5
The first Liturgy for Lost Children was offered at the Roman Catholic
Cathedral in Hamilton recently. Led by the Anglican and Catholic bishops,
the service was attended by more than 100 people... [This story is not
available on the newspaper's free Website. It can be read at the public
library]
Cancer vaccine won't promote promiscuity, say Catholics
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10474237
New Zealand's Catholic Church hierarchy has rejected a claim that
vaccinating 12-year-old girls against a sexually transmitted infection to
prevent cervical cancer would "promote promiscuity"...
End of the road for priest
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4261535a6568.html
After 27 years in the priesthood, David Johnston, who has headed Sacred
Heart parish in Invercargill since 1998 and before that St Thomas Aquinas
Catholic parish in Winton, has hung up his robes...
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
Coffee Break: A manager's personal life
Peter Andrews organises some of the most important business for Cabinet
members. Why do he and his wife also choose to spend their spare time at the
local hospital? ...
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Sunday, November 4, 2007
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'NZ CATHOLIC' - No. 278 Nov. 4-17 2007
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
NATIONAL
NZ bishops want one institution at tertiary level ... Doctor: Church fails
to appreciate women ... Diocesan managers get together ... Artwork too
valuable to keep ... Teaching responds to crisis ... Palmerston North
jubilarians celebrate ... Air NZ response to in-flight movie worries pleases
Family First ... Three men ordained as deacons ... Christian parties to
fight for vote ... NZ province closes ... NZ media interest in religion
focuses on the weird, expert says ... Wanganui student to tread boards at
Globe Theatre ... Papal award for service ... Ka pai kapa haka ... Ex-prison
minister dies ... 252 days to World Youth Day 2008 ... ERO File
FEATURES
Bishops give their vision for Church in NZ: Faith-filled, Christ-centred ...
The arbitrary God of Islam ... Graduates help faith programme celebrate ...
Lower Hutt parish now 60 ... NZ company animates series of biblical films
OPINION
Ronald Rolheiser: On turning 60 ... Bruce Duncan: Social issues offer
religious new way of Gospel witness ... Parish Diary: Vatican II no excuse
now ... Editorial: Bishops' vision is worth working for ... Malcolm Evans
... Letters ... Vatican Letter
INTERNATIONAL
Pope names 23 new cardinals ... Pope seen in fire? ... Church helping to
combat infertility, says doctor ... Bishops attacked for abortion pills
decision ... Catholic doctors want tighter abortion law ... The Pope: Church
music should evolve ... TV tape reveals sex offer ... Women to celebrate ...
Bishop apologises ... "Lost" texts to be published ... Abortion advocates
accused of twisting law ... Mariology expert wants more sympathy for
visionaries ... Traditional Anglicans seek communion ... In Brief ... A
nuclear Iran wins conditional backing ... Church gets HIV blame ... Women
fight trafficking ... 1962 missal published ... A blessed miracle?
REGULAR FEATURES
Papal Prayer, Young Adults, Books, Monitor, Clips, Catholic.Geek, Tape Deck,
Scripture, Feasts, Liturgical Calendar, The Doolans, God in the Garden,
Caption Contest, Who Said?, 40 Years Ago, Dio. Diary, Cryptic Crossword,
That Word!, Holy Lives, Kit's Corner, Photo Prayer, Wit's End.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Singing the same song (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=18&objectid=10473865
There are times when New Zealand music grabs us by the throat: Hinewehi Mohi
singing our national anthem in Maori at the 1999 Rugby World Cup; Whirimako
Black singing live in the build-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics; Moana
Maniapoto wowing yet another crowd with her band, Moana and the Tribe. There
is a connection between these Maori divas. All went to St Joseph's Maori
Girls College in Napier. And all came under the influence of Georgina
Kingi...
Church brands TV sex shocker 'evil'
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4260779a15596.html
[The article briefly describes obscene acts in a Catholic setting from the
television series "Californication' which is to be broadcast on TV3, and
reactions by Lyndsay Freer of Catholic communications and Bishop Pat Dunn]
Mataca Could Get Slap On Wrist: Kiwi Religious Prof (text and audio)
http://www.niufm.com/?t=3&View=FullStory&newsID=2537
Auckland : A New Zealand religious professor has joined the debate over
whether the head of Fiji's Catholic Church should've accepted a position on
the comittee for the controversial People's Charter...
Easter trading a step closer
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=49&objectid=10473824
New Zealanders may gain a public holiday with all the shopping they want as
the Government prepares to launch a debate over Easter Sunday...
Oderings again fined for trading on Good Friday
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4258230a19753.html
Oderings Nurseries has received its perennial fine after again defying Good
Friday trading laws, but this time will pay much less.
Special service for priest (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4258164a6497.html
A large crowd will gather around a small tombstone on a hill at Waikumete
Cemetery this Sunday. They will join Catholic priest David Mullins as he
conducts a service from 4.30pm at the grave of an old colleague, Father
James McGrath, a highly respected parish priest at Avondale, who died in
1985...
School block named for murdered priest (photo)
Western Leader 1 Nov 2007
http://tinyurl.com/2dhyw8
A new 10-classroom block at Liston College is named after a Catholic priest
who was murdered in El Salvador ...
Shop miracle of longevity
The Press (Chch) 27 Oct 2007 Page: 19
[This interview with Bernard Wilkins, manager of The Catholic Shop in
Chancery Lane, Christchurch, is not available on the newspaper's free
Website. It can be read at the public library]
Mid-city chapel a clinic of calm. In rags or in pinstripes, all are welcome
to find solace here
http://www.challengeweekly.co.nz/Vol_64_Issue_No_31.html
[An article about Holy Cross Chapel, adjacent to The Catholic Shop in
Christchurch]
Grieving parents to visit bush site
http://www.bayofplentytimes.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3753477&the\
section=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=
The grieving parents of Tauranga pilot Aleisha O'Reilly plan to visit the
site where their daughter's plane crashed into thick bush...
Concern over removal of natural justice from Immigration Bill
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0710/S00392.htm
Caritas and the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference have joined forces
to make a joint submission about the Immigration Bill. Caritas is
particularly concerned about aspects of the Bill that are contrary to the
principles of natural justice, including the extension of the use of
undisclosed classified information...
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
'That building on the hill'
St Gerard's Monastery, overlooking Wellington harbour, is an iconic
brick-coloured building which for 100 years has watched over the city.
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Signs of life in Latin America
When President Nicanor Duarte of Paraguay arrived at the Vatican on Monday
for a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI, he planned to present the pontiff with
a multi-colored poncho as a symbol of Latin America -- home to almost half
the world's 1.1 billion Catholics, and a region dubbed by Pope John Paul II
as "the Continent of Hope" ...
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. Catholic Youth Workers.
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 7-20 2007 p.22, in 'Wel-com' October 2007
p.17, on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics -
http://ncyc.org.nz/ - and from Dunedin Catholic Youth Council, Private Bag
1941, Dunedin, New Zealand; email: gerardaynsley@actrix.co.nz Applications
close: 9 November 2007
Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington. Diocesan Car Fund Trust.
Administration/Secretarial
http://www.carfund.org.nz/
Details in 'Wel-com' October 2007 p.14 and from Ray Lyndsay, General
Manager, Dioocesan Car Fund Trust, Catholic Centre, Wellington. Tel: (04)
496 1705; e-mail: diocars@wn.catholic.org.nz
'NZ CATHOLIC' - No. 278 Nov. 4-17 2007
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
NATIONAL
NZ bishops want one institution at tertiary level ... Doctor: Church fails
to appreciate women ... Diocesan managers get together ... Artwork too
valuable to keep ... Teaching responds to crisis ... Palmerston North
jubilarians celebrate ... Air NZ response to in-flight movie worries pleases
Family First ... Three men ordained as deacons ... Christian parties to
fight for vote ... NZ province closes ... NZ media interest in religion
focuses on the weird, expert says ... Wanganui student to tread boards at
Globe Theatre ... Papal award for service ... Ka pai kapa haka ... Ex-prison
minister dies ... 252 days to World Youth Day 2008 ... ERO File
FEATURES
Bishops give their vision for Church in NZ: Faith-filled, Christ-centred ...
The arbitrary God of Islam ... Graduates help faith programme celebrate ...
Lower Hutt parish now 60 ... NZ company animates series of biblical films
OPINION
Ronald Rolheiser: On turning 60 ... Bruce Duncan: Social issues offer
religious new way of Gospel witness ... Parish Diary: Vatican II no excuse
now ... Editorial: Bishops' vision is worth working for ... Malcolm Evans
... Letters ... Vatican Letter
INTERNATIONAL
Pope names 23 new cardinals ... Pope seen in fire? ... Church helping to
combat infertility, says doctor ... Bishops attacked for abortion pills
decision ... Catholic doctors want tighter abortion law ... The Pope: Church
music should evolve ... TV tape reveals sex offer ... Women to celebrate ...
Bishop apologises ... "Lost" texts to be published ... Abortion advocates
accused of twisting law ... Mariology expert wants more sympathy for
visionaries ... Traditional Anglicans seek communion ... In Brief ... A
nuclear Iran wins conditional backing ... Church gets HIV blame ... Women
fight trafficking ... 1962 missal published ... A blessed miracle?
REGULAR FEATURES
Papal Prayer, Young Adults, Books, Monitor, Clips, Catholic.Geek, Tape Deck,
Scripture, Feasts, Liturgical Calendar, The Doolans, God in the Garden,
Caption Contest, Who Said?, 40 Years Ago, Dio. Diary, Cryptic Crossword,
That Word!, Holy Lives, Kit's Corner, Photo Prayer, Wit's End.
****************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Singing the same song (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=18&objectid=10473865
There are times when New Zealand music grabs us by the throat: Hinewehi Mohi
singing our national anthem in Maori at the 1999 Rugby World Cup; Whirimako
Black singing live in the build-up to the 2004 Athens Olympics; Moana
Maniapoto wowing yet another crowd with her band, Moana and the Tribe. There
is a connection between these Maori divas. All went to St Joseph's Maori
Girls College in Napier. And all came under the influence of Georgina
Kingi...
Church brands TV sex shocker 'evil'
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4260779a15596.html
[The article briefly describes obscene acts in a Catholic setting from the
television series "Californication' which is to be broadcast on TV3, and
reactions by Lyndsay Freer of Catholic communications and Bishop Pat Dunn]
Mataca Could Get Slap On Wrist: Kiwi Religious Prof (text and audio)
http://www.niufm.com/?t=3&View=FullStory&newsID=2537
Auckland : A New Zealand religious professor has joined the debate over
whether the head of Fiji's Catholic Church should've accepted a position on
the comittee for the controversial People's Charter...
Easter trading a step closer
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=49&objectid=10473824
New Zealanders may gain a public holiday with all the shopping they want as
the Government prepares to launch a debate over Easter Sunday...
Oderings again fined for trading on Good Friday
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4258230a19753.html
Oderings Nurseries has received its perennial fine after again defying Good
Friday trading laws, but this time will pay much less.
Special service for priest (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4258164a6497.html
A large crowd will gather around a small tombstone on a hill at Waikumete
Cemetery this Sunday. They will join Catholic priest David Mullins as he
conducts a service from 4.30pm at the grave of an old colleague, Father
James McGrath, a highly respected parish priest at Avondale, who died in
1985...
School block named for murdered priest (photo)
Western Leader 1 Nov 2007
http://tinyurl.com/2dhyw8
A new 10-classroom block at Liston College is named after a Catholic priest
who was murdered in El Salvador ...
Shop miracle of longevity
The Press (Chch) 27 Oct 2007 Page: 19
[This interview with Bernard Wilkins, manager of The Catholic Shop in
Chancery Lane, Christchurch, is not available on the newspaper's free
Website. It can be read at the public library]
Mid-city chapel a clinic of calm. In rags or in pinstripes, all are welcome
to find solace here
http://www.challengeweekly.co.nz/Vol_64_Issue_No_31.html
[An article about Holy Cross Chapel, adjacent to The Catholic Shop in
Christchurch]
Grieving parents to visit bush site
http://www.bayofplentytimes.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3753477&the\
section=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=
The grieving parents of Tauranga pilot Aleisha O'Reilly plan to visit the
site where their daughter's plane crashed into thick bush...
Concern over removal of natural justice from Immigration Bill
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0710/S00392.htm
Caritas and the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference have joined forces
to make a joint submission about the Immigration Bill. Caritas is
particularly concerned about aspects of the Bill that are contrary to the
principles of natural justice, including the extension of the use of
undisclosed classified information...
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
'That building on the hill'
St Gerard's Monastery, overlooking Wellington harbour, is an iconic
brick-coloured building which for 100 years has watched over the city.
***************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Signs of life in Latin America
When President Nicanor Duarte of Paraguay arrived at the Vatican on Monday
for a meeting with Pope Benedict XVI, he planned to present the pontiff with
a multi-colored poncho as a symbol of Latin America -- home to almost half
the world's 1.1 billion Catholics, and a region dubbed by Pope John Paul II
as "the Continent of Hope" ...
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. Catholic Youth Workers.
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 7-20 2007 p.22, in 'Wel-com' October 2007
p.17, on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics -
http://ncyc.org.nz/ - and from Dunedin Catholic Youth Council, Private Bag
1941, Dunedin, New Zealand; email: gerardaynsley@actrix.co.nz Applications
close: 9 November 2007
Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington. Diocesan Car Fund Trust.
Administration/Secretarial
http://www.carfund.org.nz/
Details in 'Wel-com' October 2007 p.14 and from Ray Lyndsay, General
Manager, Dioocesan Car Fund Trust, Catholic Centre, Wellington. Tel: (04)
496 1705; e-mail: diocars@wn.catholic.org.nz
Sunday, October 28, 2007
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'WEL-COM' - The newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington and the diocese
of Palmerston North
http://www.welcom.org.nz/
New in October ...
**Columns**
Editorial: to comfort or disturb; The role of the Catholic media, by Cecily
McNeill
Many readers would be surprised, astounded even, to think that what they
read in their Catholic newspapers and magazines should be anything but
comforting to those disturbed by these changing times...
Will the Tower of Babel ever be built? Genesis revisited, by Kieran Fenn FMS
Genesis 11:1-9 tells of an enormous building that the first ancestors of the
human race began to build, tall enough to reach the heavens...
The question of Noah and his descendants. More on the Genesis story, by
Kieran Fenn FMS
Can we take Noah's story literally when the list in Genesis 10 mentions only
people of black and white races? Nothing is said of other ethnic groups
because the author of the list knew only the Near East of his time...
**Features**
Drawing the community together - Kathlyn's story
The life of Kathlyn Shanahan began shakily. Her parents, Fiona and Grant
Shanahan, chose to adopt her as a sibling for their son Patrick...
The first baby photo: just another Kodak moment or what?
Some ethical commentators speak of prenatal screening as a "conveyor belt"
that couples find themselves on without thinking. Many couples are totally
unaware of the full implications of having an ultrasound scan...
Support for families who have a child with a disability
Ways in which people can support families in caring for a child with a
disability...
**Reflect** (Veronica Lawson RSM)
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time C. Luke 18:9-14
The parable of the Pharisee and the toll collector follows that of the
persistent widow and the unjust judge. Luke frames the parable with comments
about being just or in right relationship...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Catholic Church property for sale
http://tinyurl.com/2s3vub
Knock-Na-Gree, a 12.9ha property used for hundreds of school camps and
corporate conferences over the past seventy years, is up for sale...
Virgin stone back on the market (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4248093a10.html
Christchurch woman Lisa-Marie Corlet listed a 1cm-wide pebble with a picture
resembling the Virgin Mary on it on Trade Me this week with a buy now price
of $50,000. This morning, after The Press ran a story about the pebble,
someone with a New Zealand email address bought it. The stone is now back on
the market for $70,000 after the bid was exposed as a fraud...
The divine in the everyday
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4250317a4560.html
Following a call to our readers to match the Virgin Pebble found by
Christchurch woman Lisa-Marie Corlet on Kaikoura's South Beach, Stuff has
uncovered at least one more "miraculous" image of the Virgin Mary. Interest
in the Virgin Pebble was high, with Corlet listing it for sale on TradeMe
with a buy-now price of $50,000. Yesterday, we asked our readers to tell us
what they saw in the pebble found by Corlet and to submit their own
miraculous images in everyday objects...
Knocking on heavenly wood (photos)
http://www.times.co.nz/cms/our_homes_today/2007/10/art100018234.php
Some properties have that “special something�. It could be the view, the
garden, the interior ambience or perhaps it’s that the structural bones are
in exactly the right place. But it’s not often that a house comes up for
sale that has been blessed and used by a Pope...
The Ponsonby Madonna (photo)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0710/S00244.htm
Auckland Art Gallery proudly unveils a masterpiece of New Zealand art this
Saturday. Tony Fomison’s The Ponsonby Madonna will go on public display for
the first time since being gifted to Auckland Art Gallery by a private
donor. Commissioned for St Paul’s College chapel 25 years ago, the mural had
become too valuable for the Ponsonby school to protect and insure...
Art gifted to benefit youth
Manawatu Standard 26 Oct 2007 Page: 4
Jack Register with paintings he’s donated for a World Youth Day fundraiser.
The city artist has donated the two works â€" Christopher Chook, and Pam and
Paul Pukeko â€" for next week’s World Youth Day event. The fundraiser,
organised by the Catholic... [This story is not avaialble on the newspaper's
free Website. It can be read at public libraries.]
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
Coffeebreak: A coffee with Jocelyn
Jocelyn is an archivist and Catholic convert; she talks about her work, life
and family, over coffee at Olive cafe...
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THE FIFTEENTH STATION
In the podcast for Sunday 14 October 2007 ...
'Censorship, Politics and the Pope's Cat'
It's an interesting discussion this week, as we talk about the BSA
redefining common decency, the inability for Christian political parties to
succeed in New Zealand, and the life of the Pope - told through the eyes of
a cat!
***************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Bishop Pierre Claverie of Algeria: Patron for the dialogue of cultures
A perennial temptation with saints, whether of the formally canonized
variety or not, is to reduce their lives to bumper stickers. Thus Mother
Teresa becomes a feel-good symbol for care of the poor and sick, Oscar
Romero an icon of liberation theology, and JosemarÃa Escrivá the face of
traditional, militant Catholicism. The late Bishop Pierre Claverie of Oran,
Algeria, who was assassinated in 1996, and whose cause for sainthood
recently opened along with 18 other martyrs of a bloody civil war that left
150,000 Algerians dead, could be a prime candidate for just such a
simplification...
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Catholic Archdiocese of Wellingon. Lay Pastoral Leader, Wellington Central
http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/?sid=93&do=detail&type=parish&id=3302
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 7-20 2007 p.22, in 'Wel-com' October 2007 p.5
and from The General Manager, Archdiocese of Wellingon, PO Box 1937,
Wellington; e-mail: j.butterfield@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 31
October 2007.
Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. Catholic Youth Workers.
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 7-20 2007 p.22, in 'Wel-com' October 2007
p.17, on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics -
http://ncyc.org.nz/ - and from Dunedin Catholic Youth Council, Private Bag
1941, Dunedin, New Zealand; email: gerardaynsley@actrix.co.nz Applications
close: 9 November 2007
Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington. Diocesan Car Fund Trust.
Administration/Secretarial
http://www.carfund.org.nz/
Details in 'Wel-com' October 2007 p.14 and from Ray Lyndsay, General
Manager, Dioocesan Car Fund Trust, Catholic Centre, Wellington. Tel: (04)
496 1705; e-mail: diocars@wn.catholic.org.nz
'WEL-COM' - The newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington and the diocese
of Palmerston North
http://www.welcom.org.nz/
New in October ...
**Columns**
Editorial: to comfort or disturb; The role of the Catholic media, by Cecily
McNeill
Many readers would be surprised, astounded even, to think that what they
read in their Catholic newspapers and magazines should be anything but
comforting to those disturbed by these changing times...
Will the Tower of Babel ever be built? Genesis revisited, by Kieran Fenn FMS
Genesis 11:1-9 tells of an enormous building that the first ancestors of the
human race began to build, tall enough to reach the heavens...
The question of Noah and his descendants. More on the Genesis story, by
Kieran Fenn FMS
Can we take Noah's story literally when the list in Genesis 10 mentions only
people of black and white races? Nothing is said of other ethnic groups
because the author of the list knew only the Near East of his time...
**Features**
Drawing the community together - Kathlyn's story
The life of Kathlyn Shanahan began shakily. Her parents, Fiona and Grant
Shanahan, chose to adopt her as a sibling for their son Patrick...
The first baby photo: just another Kodak moment or what?
Some ethical commentators speak of prenatal screening as a "conveyor belt"
that couples find themselves on without thinking. Many couples are totally
unaware of the full implications of having an ultrasound scan...
Support for families who have a child with a disability
Ways in which people can support families in caring for a child with a
disability...
**Reflect** (Veronica Lawson RSM)
30th Sunday in Ordinary Time C. Luke 18:9-14
The parable of the Pharisee and the toll collector follows that of the
persistent widow and the unjust judge. Luke frames the parable with comments
about being just or in right relationship...
******************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Catholic Church property for sale
http://tinyurl.com/2s3vub
Knock-Na-Gree, a 12.9ha property used for hundreds of school camps and
corporate conferences over the past seventy years, is up for sale...
Virgin stone back on the market (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4248093a10.html
Christchurch woman Lisa-Marie Corlet listed a 1cm-wide pebble with a picture
resembling the Virgin Mary on it on Trade Me this week with a buy now price
of $50,000. This morning, after The Press ran a story about the pebble,
someone with a New Zealand email address bought it. The stone is now back on
the market for $70,000 after the bid was exposed as a fraud...
The divine in the everyday
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4250317a4560.html
Following a call to our readers to match the Virgin Pebble found by
Christchurch woman Lisa-Marie Corlet on Kaikoura's South Beach, Stuff has
uncovered at least one more "miraculous" image of the Virgin Mary. Interest
in the Virgin Pebble was high, with Corlet listing it for sale on TradeMe
with a buy-now price of $50,000. Yesterday, we asked our readers to tell us
what they saw in the pebble found by Corlet and to submit their own
miraculous images in everyday objects...
Knocking on heavenly wood (photos)
http://www.times.co.nz/cms/our_homes_today/2007/10/art100018234.php
Some properties have that “special something�. It could be the view, the
garden, the interior ambience or perhaps it’s that the structural bones are
in exactly the right place. But it’s not often that a house comes up for
sale that has been blessed and used by a Pope...
The Ponsonby Madonna (photo)
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0710/S00244.htm
Auckland Art Gallery proudly unveils a masterpiece of New Zealand art this
Saturday. Tony Fomison’s The Ponsonby Madonna will go on public display for
the first time since being gifted to Auckland Art Gallery by a private
donor. Commissioned for St Paul’s College chapel 25 years ago, the mural had
become too valuable for the Ponsonby school to protect and insure...
Art gifted to benefit youth
Manawatu Standard 26 Oct 2007 Page: 4
Jack Register with paintings he’s donated for a World Youth Day fundraiser.
The city artist has donated the two works â€" Christopher Chook, and Pam and
Paul Pukeko â€" for next week’s World Youth Day event. The fundraiser,
organised by the Catholic... [This story is not avaialble on the newspaper's
free Website. It can be read at public libraries.]
****************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
Coffeebreak: A coffee with Jocelyn
Jocelyn is an archivist and Catholic convert; she talks about her work, life
and family, over coffee at Olive cafe...
***************************************************
THE FIFTEENTH STATION
In the podcast for Sunday 14 October 2007 ...
'Censorship, Politics and the Pope's Cat'
It's an interesting discussion this week, as we talk about the BSA
redefining common decency, the inability for Christian political parties to
succeed in New Zealand, and the life of the Pope - told through the eyes of
a cat!
***************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Bishop Pierre Claverie of Algeria: Patron for the dialogue of cultures
A perennial temptation with saints, whether of the formally canonized
variety or not, is to reduce their lives to bumper stickers. Thus Mother
Teresa becomes a feel-good symbol for care of the poor and sick, Oscar
Romero an icon of liberation theology, and JosemarÃa Escrivá the face of
traditional, militant Catholicism. The late Bishop Pierre Claverie of Oran,
Algeria, who was assassinated in 1996, and whose cause for sainthood
recently opened along with 18 other martyrs of a bloody civil war that left
150,000 Algerians dead, could be a prime candidate for just such a
simplification...
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Catholic Archdiocese of Wellingon. Lay Pastoral Leader, Wellington Central
http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/?sid=93&do=detail&type=parish&id=3302
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 7-20 2007 p.22, in 'Wel-com' October 2007 p.5
and from The General Manager, Archdiocese of Wellingon, PO Box 1937,
Wellington; e-mail: j.butterfield@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 31
October 2007.
Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. Catholic Youth Workers.
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 7-20 2007 p.22, in 'Wel-com' October 2007
p.17, on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics -
http://ncyc.org.nz/ - and from Dunedin Catholic Youth Council, Private Bag
1941, Dunedin, New Zealand; email: gerardaynsley@actrix.co.nz Applications
close: 9 November 2007
Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington. Diocesan Car Fund Trust.
Administration/Secretarial
http://www.carfund.org.nz/
Details in 'Wel-com' October 2007 p.14 and from Ray Lyndsay, General
Manager, Dioocesan Car Fund Trust, Catholic Centre, Wellington. Tel: (04)
496 1705; e-mail: diocars@wn.catholic.org.nz
Sunday, October 21, 2007
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
In issue 277, October 21 - Nov 3, 2007 ...
NATIONAL
Bishops reveal vision for future church ... Sport is more than results says
Pope ... Flaws seen in immigration bill ... Pro-life group wins latest legal
round ... Many French WYD visitors expected ... Delay in Roman Missal
programme ... Catholic journalism scholar still sought ... Chaplaincy
congress an eye-opener ... Invercargill widower ordained a deacon ... Marist
makes final profession ... Hamilton bishops stand for life ... Changes made
to NZ Catholic subs ... Sisters in Tauranga celebrate bicentenary ...
Columban priest dies in Rotorua ... Queen visits centenarian ... Toby wins
with letter ... 266 days to World Youth Day ... 2008 ERO file
FEATURES
Wrong views of conscience have been ruinous, says bishop ... Why technology
needs ethics ... Priests see ministerial gifts in action through retreat
leader Joy Cowley ... New Caledonia hosts NZ missioners ... Opening of
Christchurch life centre also occasion for special announcement ... Wanganui
man wins international honour ... Emergency housing trust turns 25 ...
School's trolley derby a hit in the Far North
OPINION
Ronald Rolheiser: Lost is a place too ... Arthur Serratelli: Liturgy exposes
our humility ... Gavin Abraham: Cathedral encounters confirm wonderful ways
... Others Say: Showing our love in politics ... Editorial: PM's call for
right to life is inconsistent ... Malcolm Evans ... Letters
INTERNATIONAL
Meeting with Iran's president gives hope ... Refugees challenge countries to
respect human rights ... Mother Teresa's cause progresses ... Christian
travel tightened ... The Pope: Be wary in going against terror ... Bishops
urge work for unity ... Church thrives in Vietnam diocese ... Marian claims
ruled out ... Breast cancer and abortion linked ... Catholics being
reconciled to Confession ... Peace-seeking Muslim leaders approach Pope ...
Demanding seminary draws in men ... Amnesty loses Aussie support ... In
Brief ... Lay group buys team ... Peace can't follow injustice: Cardinal ...
Fijian bishops co-chair
REGULAR FEATURES
Papal Prayer, Young Adults, Books, Monitor, Clips, Catholic.Geek, Tape Deck,
Scripture, Feasts, Church Calendar, 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.
ADVERTISING FEATURE
Serra International
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Pope's house in NZ up for sale (video report)
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411365/1410564
It has been over 20 years since Pope John Paul 2 visited New Zealand but an
unusual piece of Pope memorabilia has just come up for sale. The Kitset
House the Pontiff used during his short stay in NZ has been home for the
past nine years to a Howick family and they say its been specially blessed.
Back in 1986, the three bedroom house was the base for the Pope during his
flying visit to Auckland but today its the home base for Ray and Dianne and
their two children, but not for much longer.
Radio New Zealand. Te Ahi Kaa. Celebration of the 140th anniversary of St
Joseph's Maori Girls College (audio report in English and Maori)
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/teahikaa/whiringa_a_nuku_14
St Josephs Maori Girls College (SMGC) in Napier was established by four
Catholic nuns and Father E. Reignier S.M in 1867 as part of a desire to
educate Maori girls. In its 140 years, legions of Maori women have passed
through the school. Join some of the old girls as they relive their school
days at the anniversary celebrations that took place from the 29th to 30th
September, 2007. Wiremu Parker recorded the centenary celebrations in 1967
and on Nga Taonga Korero we hear highlights from the powhiri...
[The following story is not available on the newspapers' free Websites, but
can be read at the public library]
'Godzone nuns in 2007' The Dominion Post 20 Oct 2007 Page: 59
'Sisters still doing it for themselves and God' The Timaru Herald 20
Oct 2007 Page: 28
'Changing the habit of a lifetime' The Southland Times 20 Oct 2007
Page: 5
At quarter to five in the evening, the doors to the Suzanne Aubert
Compassion Centre soup kitchen open and there to greet the throng is the
smiling face of Sister Catherine Hannan. She welcomes each person as they
arrive, and knows the names of most...
Much-Loved Nurse Remembered By Colleagues
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0710/S00233.htm
Waikato Hospital colleagues are mourning the loss of Pacita Yusores San
Juan, 51, the nurse who died in an accident on State Highway 1 north of
Huntly on Tuesday...
Josephites plan for the future
http://www.cathnews.com/news/710/86.php
Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart from Australia, New Zealand, Peru
and Ireland gathered at St Joseph’s Baulkham Hills on Sunday, October 14,
for their 25th General Chapter...
Victim waits for contact
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4244004a6530.html
Hart Cox, the 78-year-old Christchurch farmer shot by a teenager who escaped
from a Christchurch Catholic residential school 41 years ago, has yet to
hear from the St John of God Order...
Sacred Heart girl wins speech contest (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4244100a6571.html
Sacred Heart School pupil Amy Beeby collected the Toastmasters Shield for
best speaker at the recent Timaru District Council Speech Competition...
[The following two stories are on Fairfax Media's community newspapers'
Website. Click the magnifying glass at the bottom of the page to enlarge the
text. Drag the page about with the mouse cursor to bring the story into
view]
Murals shine a light on St Joseph's Catholic School (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2pobkv
Rooms three and five unveiled murals last Monday at St Joseph's Catholic
School in Morrinsville.
St Peter's Catholic students top quiz (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2knd8f
A team of students from St Peter's School, Cambridge, surprised the field,
and even themselves, when they won a recent Waikato quiz.
****************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Global South underrepresented in college of cardinals
In naming 23 new cardinals on Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI chose to
acknowledge one bit of demographic reality, but largely ignored a much
bigger one. Americans have noted, and rightly so, that the nomination of
Archbishop Daniel DiNardo in Houston accurately reflects a shift in Catholic
population in the United States away from the East Coast, towards the South
and Southwest. From a global point of view, however, the new crop of
cardinals is remarkably unrepresentative of where Catholics are today...
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
National Centre for Religious Studies. Resource Developers (2)
http://www.ncrs.org.nz/
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 21 - Nov. 3 2007 p.22, in 'Wel-com' October
2007 p.14 and from The Director, NCRS, PO Box 1937, Wellington 6140. Tel:
(04) 496 1761; e-mail: ncrsnz@clear.net.nz Applications close 26 October
2007.
Catholic Archdiocese of Wellingon. Lay Pastoral Leader, Wellington Central
http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/?sid=93&do=detail&type=parish&id=3302
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 7-20 2007 p.22, in 'Wel-com' October 2007 p.5
and from The General Manager, Archdiocese of Wellingon, PO Box 1937,
Wellington; e-mail: j.butterfield@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 31
October 2007.
Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. Catholic Youth Workers.
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 7-20 2007 p.22, in 'Wel-com' October 2007
p.17, on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics -
http://ncyc.org.nz/ - and from Dunedin Catholic Youth Council, Private Bag
1941, Dunedin, New Zealand; email: gerardaynsley@actrix.co.nz Applications
close: 9 November 2007
Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington. Diocesan Car Fund Trust.
Administration/Secretarial
http://www.carfund.org.nz/
Details in 'Wel-com' October 2007 p.14 and from Ray Lyndsay, General
Manager, Dioocesan Car Fund Trust, Catholic Centre, Wellington. Tel: (04)
496 1705; e-mail: diocars@wn.catholic.org.nz
'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
In issue 277, October 21 - Nov 3, 2007 ...
NATIONAL
Bishops reveal vision for future church ... Sport is more than results says
Pope ... Flaws seen in immigration bill ... Pro-life group wins latest legal
round ... Many French WYD visitors expected ... Delay in Roman Missal
programme ... Catholic journalism scholar still sought ... Chaplaincy
congress an eye-opener ... Invercargill widower ordained a deacon ... Marist
makes final profession ... Hamilton bishops stand for life ... Changes made
to NZ Catholic subs ... Sisters in Tauranga celebrate bicentenary ...
Columban priest dies in Rotorua ... Queen visits centenarian ... Toby wins
with letter ... 266 days to World Youth Day ... 2008 ERO file
FEATURES
Wrong views of conscience have been ruinous, says bishop ... Why technology
needs ethics ... Priests see ministerial gifts in action through retreat
leader Joy Cowley ... New Caledonia hosts NZ missioners ... Opening of
Christchurch life centre also occasion for special announcement ... Wanganui
man wins international honour ... Emergency housing trust turns 25 ...
School's trolley derby a hit in the Far North
OPINION
Ronald Rolheiser: Lost is a place too ... Arthur Serratelli: Liturgy exposes
our humility ... Gavin Abraham: Cathedral encounters confirm wonderful ways
... Others Say: Showing our love in politics ... Editorial: PM's call for
right to life is inconsistent ... Malcolm Evans ... Letters
INTERNATIONAL
Meeting with Iran's president gives hope ... Refugees challenge countries to
respect human rights ... Mother Teresa's cause progresses ... Christian
travel tightened ... The Pope: Be wary in going against terror ... Bishops
urge work for unity ... Church thrives in Vietnam diocese ... Marian claims
ruled out ... Breast cancer and abortion linked ... Catholics being
reconciled to Confession ... Peace-seeking Muslim leaders approach Pope ...
Demanding seminary draws in men ... Amnesty loses Aussie support ... In
Brief ... Lay group buys team ... Peace can't follow injustice: Cardinal ...
Fijian bishops co-chair
REGULAR FEATURES
Papal Prayer, Young Adults, Books, Monitor, Clips, Catholic.Geek, Tape Deck,
Scripture, Feasts, Church Calendar, 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.
ADVERTISING FEATURE
Serra International
*********************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Pope's house in NZ up for sale (video report)
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411365/1410564
It has been over 20 years since Pope John Paul 2 visited New Zealand but an
unusual piece of Pope memorabilia has just come up for sale. The Kitset
House the Pontiff used during his short stay in NZ has been home for the
past nine years to a Howick family and they say its been specially blessed.
Back in 1986, the three bedroom house was the base for the Pope during his
flying visit to Auckland but today its the home base for Ray and Dianne and
their two children, but not for much longer.
Radio New Zealand. Te Ahi Kaa. Celebration of the 140th anniversary of St
Joseph's Maori Girls College (audio report in English and Maori)
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/teahikaa/whiringa_a_nuku_14
St Josephs Maori Girls College (SMGC) in Napier was established by four
Catholic nuns and Father E. Reignier S.M in 1867 as part of a desire to
educate Maori girls. In its 140 years, legions of Maori women have passed
through the school. Join some of the old girls as they relive their school
days at the anniversary celebrations that took place from the 29th to 30th
September, 2007. Wiremu Parker recorded the centenary celebrations in 1967
and on Nga Taonga Korero we hear highlights from the powhiri...
[The following story is not available on the newspapers' free Websites, but
can be read at the public library]
'Godzone nuns in 2007' The Dominion Post 20 Oct 2007 Page: 59
'Sisters still doing it for themselves and God' The Timaru Herald 20
Oct 2007 Page: 28
'Changing the habit of a lifetime' The Southland Times 20 Oct 2007
Page: 5
At quarter to five in the evening, the doors to the Suzanne Aubert
Compassion Centre soup kitchen open and there to greet the throng is the
smiling face of Sister Catherine Hannan. She welcomes each person as they
arrive, and knows the names of most...
Much-Loved Nurse Remembered By Colleagues
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0710/S00233.htm
Waikato Hospital colleagues are mourning the loss of Pacita Yusores San
Juan, 51, the nurse who died in an accident on State Highway 1 north of
Huntly on Tuesday...
Josephites plan for the future
http://www.cathnews.com/news/710/86.php
Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart from Australia, New Zealand, Peru
and Ireland gathered at St Joseph’s Baulkham Hills on Sunday, October 14,
for their 25th General Chapter...
Victim waits for contact
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4244004a6530.html
Hart Cox, the 78-year-old Christchurch farmer shot by a teenager who escaped
from a Christchurch Catholic residential school 41 years ago, has yet to
hear from the St John of God Order...
Sacred Heart girl wins speech contest (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4244100a6571.html
Sacred Heart School pupil Amy Beeby collected the Toastmasters Shield for
best speaker at the recent Timaru District Council Speech Competition...
[The following two stories are on Fairfax Media's community newspapers'
Website. Click the magnifying glass at the bottom of the page to enlarge the
text. Drag the page about with the mouse cursor to bring the story into
view]
Murals shine a light on St Joseph's Catholic School (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2pobkv
Rooms three and five unveiled murals last Monday at St Joseph's Catholic
School in Morrinsville.
St Peter's Catholic students top quiz (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2knd8f
A team of students from St Peter's School, Cambridge, surprised the field,
and even themselves, when they won a recent Waikato quiz.
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Global South underrepresented in college of cardinals
In naming 23 new cardinals on Wednesday, Pope Benedict XVI chose to
acknowledge one bit of demographic reality, but largely ignored a much
bigger one. Americans have noted, and rightly so, that the nomination of
Archbishop Daniel DiNardo in Houston accurately reflects a shift in Catholic
population in the United States away from the East Coast, towards the South
and Southwest. From a global point of view, however, the new crop of
cardinals is remarkably unrepresentative of where Catholics are today...
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
National Centre for Religious Studies. Resource Developers (2)
http://www.ncrs.org.nz/
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 21 - Nov. 3 2007 p.22, in 'Wel-com' October
2007 p.14 and from The Director, NCRS, PO Box 1937, Wellington 6140. Tel:
(04) 496 1761; e-mail: ncrsnz@clear.net.nz Applications close 26 October
2007.
Catholic Archdiocese of Wellingon. Lay Pastoral Leader, Wellington Central
http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/?sid=93&do=detail&type=parish&id=3302
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 7-20 2007 p.22, in 'Wel-com' October 2007 p.5
and from The General Manager, Archdiocese of Wellingon, PO Box 1937,
Wellington; e-mail: j.butterfield@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 31
October 2007.
Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. Catholic Youth Workers.
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Oct. 7-20 2007 p.22, in 'Wel-com' October 2007
p.17, on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics -
http://ncyc.org.nz/ - and from Dunedin Catholic Youth Council, Private Bag
1941, Dunedin, New Zealand; email: gerardaynsley@actrix.co.nz Applications
close: 9 November 2007
Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington. Diocesan Car Fund Trust.
Administration/Secretarial
http://www.carfund.org.nz/
Details in 'Wel-com' October 2007 p.14 and from Ray Lyndsay, General
Manager, Dioocesan Car Fund Trust, Catholic Centre, Wellington. Tel: (04)
496 1705; e-mail: diocars@wn.catholic.org.nz
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