4 March 2007

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

New action centre has pupils dancing for joy
http://tinyurl.com/2g4m3p
Striking theatrical poses in the fold-out mirrors of Aquinas College's new
dance studio, Anneke Price and her fellow dancers, who are practising for
the musical Joseph and his Technicolour Dreamcoat, are in a room any dancer
would dream of watching their reflection in...

Church rejects Jesus tomb claim (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/3976382a11.html
Kiwi Catholics are up in arms over new claims that a cave found 26 years ago
in Jerusalem contained the remains of Jesus Christ - and that he may have
had a son...

Sacred Heart, 50 years on (photo)
http://www.ashburtonguardian.co.nz/index.asp?articleid=8957
It was 50 years ago that 15 girls began in the small form three class of
Sacred Heart College in Ashburton.
After most of them had not seen each other since they left school two to
four years later, 13 of them got together for a reunion at the weekend...

Radio NZ. Nine to Noon. NCEA Incentives (audio file)
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/ntn/ncea_incentives
St Thomas of Canterbury College is offering incentives to students who
achieve excellence in NCEA.

Jim Hopkins: Worst violence is abortion
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/author/story.cfm?a_id=7&objectid=10425293
"What hasn't been said to date is that any morally consistent campaign to
eliminate violence against our babies - as Sue Bradford repeatedly calls
them - must begin where the violence is worst. And it must begin at the
beginning. By all means pass a law preventing us from beating our babies.
But only after you've passed a law preventing us from aborting those
babies..."


[The following article 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]

'Ice storm', by Greg Meylan, in: Sunday Star Times, 18 Feb 2007; p.C1,4
Topics: The ethical questions raised by embryonic stem cell research. The
Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Technology (ACART) is gathering
public submissions to inform its policy recommendations. 8000 frozen embryos
are stored in New Zealand laboratories after being left over from IVF
treatments; their potential use in research. Contributions by: ACART chair
Dr Sylvia Rumball and ACART member David Tamatea, Otago University ethicist
Grant Gillett, Dr Richard Fisher of Fertility Associates, Voice for Life
Auckland president Bernard Moran, Auckland University researchers Dr Bronwen
Connor, Dr Richard Faull and Dr Marewa Glover, and John Kleinsman of the
Catholic research organisation the Nathaniel Centre.

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CARITAS AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND

http://www.caritas.org.nz/?sid=1035

Caritas Lent Appeal 2007
Theme: Our love is to real and active (cf 1 John 3:18)

The Caritas Lent Appeal starts on Ash Wednesday, 21 February 2007, and runs
through to Palm Sunday on 1 April 2007. The Lent Appeal is the annual appeal
for Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, the Catholic agency for justice, peace and
development.

Resources for the Lent Appeal 2007 on this Website ...

- Parish Resources
- Lent Coordinator Kit
- Lenten Reflection Programme
- International Speakers for Lent
- Schools Resources

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TUI MOTU INTERISLANDS

http://www.tuimotu.org/

In the February 2007 issue ...

- Bringing something hopeful to birth â€" Waitangi Day: - Glynn Cardy
- Men Matter - Richard Rohr
- Making entrepreneurs of the young - Professor Ivan Snook
- Crunch time in Fiji - Mike Field, Fr Kevin Barr and others
- The Queen â€" a study in power - Kevin Toomey; Paul Sorrell

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SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL

Newsletter: Summer 2006-2007
http://www.svdp.org.nz/?sid=3&id=129

Four pages, packed with news and photos of the Society's activities in New
Zealand and overseas.

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THE FAR EAST

http://www.columban.org.au/the_far_east.html

The magazine of the New Zealand and Australian members of St comban's
Missionary Society

Full text selections from the January 2007 issue ...

# Editorial
# The Director's Message
# Befriending strangers: A Filipina lay missionary in Ireland learns about
migrants and herself.
# New faces elected

Full contents ...

1 Backbone of the workforce. Remittances keep many countries afloat.
2 Befriending strangers. A Filipina lay missionary befriends immigrants in
Ireland.
3-4 New faces elected. The International leadership team of the Columban
Fathers.
4-5 A pioneering life. Columban Sr Gabriel O’Mahony RIP
5 Jack Snack. It’s not easy being five and a half years old.
6 Reflection - A year of hope and promise
7 Fr Hubert Hayward RIP. Obituary.
8 A movie making priest. Obituary â€" Fr John Vaughan.
9-11 A case for outrage. Overseas workers deserve justice.
12-13 UN Millennium Development Goal 4. Reduce child mortality.
14-15 Mission World & Director
16-17 Life and death for sale. It’s about safe food.
18 Embracing strangers. No one likes strangers but God does.
19-20 Modern day slavery: Today new forms of slavery are emerging in the
world.

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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)

http://www.cathcom.org.nz/

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

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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen

http://ncrcafe.org/node/507

Weekly Analysis:
Ecology makes the Catholic mega-trend list
Perhaps the week in which Al Gore turned green into gold by winning an Oscar
for "An Inconvenient Truth" offers an appropriate moment to say that I've
finally been persuaded to include "Ecology and Natural Resources" in my list
of the top ten "Mega-Trends" shaping global Catholicism...

Also:
- Of Mount Athos, ecumenism, and real estate in Heaven
- Four cautions as crisis builds about priest-collaborators under the
Communists
- Former Vatican insider and archbishop was Communist informant, book
asserts

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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/ ]

Programme Co-ordinator, Te Ngakau Waiora Mercy Spirituality Centre,
Auckland.
http://www.mercycentreauckland.org.nz/
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Feb 25-Mar 10 2007 p.23, and from Sister Rita
Vessey, tel: (09) 638 6238; e-mail: mercycentreauckland@xtra.co.nz


Habitat for Humanity, Greater Auckland. Restore operations manager; Restore
shop assistant manager; Project manager; Part-time accountant
http://www.habitatnz.co.nz/AffiliatePages/2_greaterauckland.html
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Feb 18-Feb 24 2007 p.23 and from Warren Jack,
e-mail: warren@habitatgreaterauckland.org; tel: (09) 271 3357


Family Life International. Bethlehem House Crisis Pregnancy Centre.
Caregivers (full or part-time)
http://www.pregnantandworried.org.nz/
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Jan 28- Feb 10 2007 p.23, and from Colleen, e-mail
coli.fli@xtra.co.nz; tel: (09) 279 2413 or (09) 422 2185