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'WEL-COM'
http://www.welcom.org.nz/
The newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington and the diocese of Palmerston
North
From the June 2007 issue ...
Human rights the focus of PN ecumenical service (photo and story)
**News**
Mauri Ora graduates: Catholic schools staff learn about Maori customs and
protocol ... 'Those fire station nuns' speak out 30 years on: Trailblazer
Jacq Dromgool (Sr Jacq Thurston RSCJ) recalls life in the disused Newtown
fire station building ... More Launch Out candidates appointed: Two new lay
appointments have been made as the archdiocese continues to break new ground
in its administration and pastoral care.
**World News**
**Columns** by Kieran Fenn
Violence against children: What does the bible really say? ... Paradise
past, present or to come? An exploration of ideas in the origins of Paradise
... Paradise beginning or ending? Part two of a look at ideas behind the
origin of Paradise.
**Schools**
O'Shea Shield fought with passion and enthusiasm:St Patricks College
Silverstream the victors ... From an adventurous spirit: Chanel's Year 13
student Hanna Stewart sails on the Spirit of Adventure ... Year 9 technology
students celebrate healthy eating
**Features**
HIV/AIDS a growing challenge for Pacific nations ... Living in the now
brings inner peace ... A letter to parents, by Joy Cowley ... Changes to
pastoral appointments in Wellington West: The future of Karori, Wadestown
and the Cathedral parishes from 1 July ... Catholics return home in the
north: St Joseph's parish, Upper Hutt, celebrates two years of CRH ...
Walking his way in daily life: A retreat in daily life at Onslow
**Palmerston North**
The Aubert path to sainthood: Fr Anthony Malone OFM outlines the quest for
sainthood for Compassion Sisters foundress ... New teachers in Catholic
schools learn about the Catholic Church at principals' conference 2007 ...
Hui Aranga - Whanganui Maori converge on Whanganui for Easter hui
**Reflect**
Trinity Sunday 3 June 2007
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Cross travels from Ground Zero to Aramoana
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10444469
It's not the Olympic torch, but for young Catholics the Cross has the same
significance. The 4m-high wooden Cross, a gift from the late Pope John Paul
II to the youth of the world in 1984, has travelled through Asia, Europe,
America and even Ground Zero - the site of 9/11 - as part of the build-up to
next year's World Youth Day in Sydney...
Queen's birthday honours: Monsignor James Shannahan
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=301&objectid=10443477
82-year-old Orakei Parish priest Monsignor James Shannahan becomes a Member
of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the community...
Editorial: Prayer too much of a sacred cow
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=500818&objectid=10443798
Parliament's prayer is now unlikely to be removed, or de-Christianised. The
Prime Minister has seen to that with an emphatic distancing of herself and
her Government from the Speaker's survey of MPs on both possibilities. In
the tradition of Pontius Pilate, she has washed her hands of this matter.
National's John Key also sees no reason for change so the chances of a
crusade against the prayer are over, for now...
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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
Is now the time to beatify and canonize Pope Pius XII?
I want to float a counter-intuitive idea this week, which is that from the
point of view of Catholic-Jewish relations, the best thing the Vatican could
do right now would be to beatify and canonize Pope Pius XII immediately...
Also ...
Daily reports on the annual conference of the Catholic Theological Society
of America on the theme "Bishops in the Church."
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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/ ]
International Programmes Manager, Caritas Aotearoa NZ
http://www.caritas.org.nz/
Details in 'Wel-com' June 2007, p.6 and from Caritas Aotearoa NZ, PO Box
12-193 Wellington; e-mail: claire@caritas.org.nz; tel. (04) 496 1742.
Applications close 21 June 2007.
