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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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