27 may 2007

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

Retailers didn't voice Easter frustrations: Minister
http://www.dailypost.co.nz:80/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3735440&thesect\
ion=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=
Tourism Minister Damien O'Connor has outraged Rotorua retailers, claiming
they had not voiced their frustrations over Easter trading to him...

Mr Moderate set to go far
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=49&objectid=10441834
You should have respect for your elders. Hard work never hurt anybody.
Modesty is a virtue." For a young man burning with talent and ambition,
Waimakariri MP Clayton Cosgrove sounds like a voice from an older
generation. He describes himself as traditional, morally conservative,
old-fashioned even. Respect and teamwork are themes he continually harks
back to, as is loyalty...

Feuding Christian parties muddy National's waters, by Ben Thomas and David
Young
The National Business Review - 25 May 2007
Describes Gordon Copeland's background and political aspirations as the
co-founder of a new Christian party.
[This 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]

Sisters accused of showing no mercy to historic chapel (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4067628a6479.html
The Sisters of Mercy have applied to remove a Wellington chapel's heritage
protection, sparking a row over fears that the building -- worth an
estimated $10 million -- could be demolished and turned into townhouses.
Opened in 1924, the Our Lady of the Star of the Sea convent chapel in Fettes
Crescent has a category two rating with the Historic Places Trust...

Bloody Mary decision challenged by catholic bishops
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10440946
The controversial episode of the animated television show South Park which
featured a menstruating Virgin Mary was "tasteless, crass and ugly", New
Zealand's Catholic bishops told the High Court in Wellington today...

Cartoon 'offensive to all'
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4067721a1860.html
The Bloody Mary episode of the adult cartoon South Park, showing the Pope
being squirted with menstrual blood, offended good taste and decency,
whether or not you were Catholic, a judge has been told...

Catholic tastes
New Zealand Listener May 14-20 2007
http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3497/columnists/8834/catholic_tastes.html
It’s a wilting afternoon: 38 in the windless shade. A lone woman shuffles on
her knees down the middle of a baking concrete street, heading for the steps
of the basilica. She’s come to this Catholic shrine, in the city of Fatima
in central Portugal, to offer her suffering as penance to God... What’s
unusual today is that she is alone â€" normally, hundreds make the slow
painful crawl across concrete to the basilica’s steps, rain or shine...

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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ

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

Caritas welcomes Budget increase in overseas assistance (24 May 2007)
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, the Catholic agency for justice, peace and
development, strongly welcomes the additional spending for Overseas
Development Assistance given in this year’s Budget...

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NZ CATHOLIC EDUCATION OFFICE NEWSLETTER

'Lighting New Fires'
Edition Two and Supplement, May 2007
http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resourcesubpages/lighting-new-fires.html
Brief news items of interest partuiclalry to teachers in New Zealand
iontegrated schools, plus a record of achievements of integrated schools
throughout New Zealand; with a Catholic scholls' Supplement.

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INSPIRATIONAL TV

http://inspirationaltv.net/

The Angus family
Six months ago we filmed the development of the first Catholic farming
community in New Zealand, situated in the Wairarapa. We go back to find a
staggering pace of development at "Magnificat". This week ...

Angus cows have very strong maternal links, that can teach us a lot about
the innate bond between mother and child. We check in on the Angus cows at
the Magnificat farming community.

Reflections: Somes Island (Part 2)
Sister Mary continues her trek around mysterious Matiu/Somes Island in the
middle of Wellington harbour.

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PLEROMA CHRISTIAN SUPPLIES

http://www.pleroma.co.nz/

The long-established Pleroma mail order service now has a
commercial-standard Website with a comprehensive catalogue of Catholic
religious articles, multimedia and books.

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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

Wojtyla's gospel meets the New York theater
Of all the places to seek the legacy of Pope John Paul II, West 46th Street
in midtown Manhattan, just off Broadway and Times Square, is not the most
obvious spot to begin. Yet here, on the same block where aspiring actors
queue up for auditions in the Actor's Equity building, and in the shadow of
splashy billboards touting productions of "Legally Blonde" and Monty
Python's "Spamalot," passers-by are met with a grainy black-and-white
picture of an intense young Polish cleric, on a poster proclaiming "The
Karol Wojtyla Theatre Festival" ...

Daily News and Updates:
** German theologians demand 'intelligent restructuring' of Vatican's
doctrinal office
** Martini on Benedict's book: 'It's the book I wanted to write'
** CELAM update: The lasting legacy of liberation theology
** CELAM update: The 'greening' of the Latin American bishops
** Benedict XVI corrects the record on colonization of Latin America
** CELAM update: 'Option for the Poor' alive and well in Latin America
** CELAM update: A surprising ecumenical mood, despite 'anti-sectarian
avalanche'

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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/ ]

General Manager, Catholic Diocese of Dunedin
http://www.dn.catholic.org.nz/
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 20 - June 2 2007 p. 23, on the Otago Daily
Times Website (
http://employment.odt.co.nz/displayjob.php?JobID=30469&occupation%5B%5D=14 )
and from Nigel MacIntyre ( nigel.macintyre@ph.co.nz ) or Ross Hanson (
ross.hanson@ph.co.nz ), Polson Higgs, PO Box 5346, Dunedin. Tel: 03 477
9923. Applications close 28 May 2007