Sunday, July 29, 2007

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

Schoolgirls play at World Cup
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4140338a7694.html
St Catherine's College will soon be the answer to the trivia question: What
New Zealand team other than the All Blacks competed at the 2007 Rugby World
Cup?

Orphan Reef says goodbye
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4138150a6479.html
Tears mixed with laughter as more than 100 mourners gathered at St Andrew's
Catholic church in the Wellington suburb of Newlands yesterday to farewell
South African couple Brent and Rene Coombes ...

Believing without belonging a sign of the times ?
Kiwis are saying one thing but doing another â€" or so it appears.
http://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?article13627
Christchurch NZ â€" Figures from various denominations highlight one of New
Zealand’s unexplored mysteries â€" the gap between religious adherence in the
five-yearly census and actual church attendance...

Generosity helps gifted pianist to blossom
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4136107a6479.html
Elijah is tickling the ivories on a new $8000 piano after the community
rallied to raise funds for the 12-year-old Porirua prodigy...

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INSPIRATIONAL TV

http://inspirationaltv.net/

An education from the past ...
Sister Mary tours one of New Zealand's finest chapels, made for a school run
by nuns in Wellington in the 1900's. What can this building from a vanished
era still teach us about educating our kids today?

University of life
Former schoolteacher and National MP Nicky Wagner thinks too many
non-academic kids are leaving school, does the answer lie in teaching kids a
trade while at school ...

A long way
Iraqi friends Dorin and Sonia talk to their school's Religious Education
teacher ..

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NEWSLETTERS

'Lighting New Fires', and Catholic Schools' Supplement, July 2007
The NZ Catholic Education Office's newsletter for Integrated Schools
http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resourcesubpages/lighting-new-fires.html

Christchurch Diocese Newsletter 'Inform' - June 2007
http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=25

Edmund Rice Network Newsletter - June 2007
http://www.edmundrice.org.nz/index.php?page=/newsletter/newsletter.htm

Society of St Vincent de Paul Newsletter - Winter 2007
http://www.svdp.org.nz/dox/winter07.pdf

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'TUI MOTU INTERISLANDS'
An independent Catholic magazine

http://www.tuimotu.org/

Articles in the July 2007 issue include ...

** Editorial: The Lay vocation (full text on the Website)
** The lay vocation - John Kleinsman, Margaret Harding, Elisabeth Nicholson
** Voices of young refugees - Lisa Beech, Tim Chiswell
** 7 deadly sins: new Gandhi series - Sue Bradford
** Parihaka celebrated … young students from Christian schools in Dunedin -
Richard Kerr-Bell
** Scripture - Kathleen Doherty interviews Damian Wynn-Williams

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'THE FAR EAST'

The monthly magazine of the Australian and New Zealand members of St
Columban's Mission Society

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

In the July issue ...

# Editorial: Is belief only for fanatics?
# From China to Australia
# Why is he doing this?
# Celebrating Gold
# Homeward Bound
# Who will the children be?
# Dyeing naturally in Korea
# Slipping into life
# Obituary
# Mission World
# From the Director
# So far so good
# Mother dies at 17
# Looking back and forward

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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

Benedict, environmental movement promises recovery of natural law tradition
One could say that summer 2007 is when the Vatican decided to go green.
First came an announcement in June that more than 1,000 photovoltaic panels
will be installed atop the Paul VI Audience Hall, allowing the building to
utilize solar energy for light, heating and cooling. A month later, the
Vatican became the first state in Europe to go completely carbon-neutral,
signing an agreement with a Hungarian firm to reforest a sufficiently large
swath of Hungary's Bükk National Park to offset its annual CO2 emissions...

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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/ ]

Director, Marist Alternative Education Centre, Glenfield, North Shore
http://www.maristaeu.co.nz/
Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 29-Aug 11 2007 p.23, and from Chairperson,
Marist Alternative Education Trust Board, PO Box 102080, North Shore Mail
Centre, Auckland. Applications close 15 August 2007.

Prison Chaplain, Auckland Women's Prison, Wiri
Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 29-Aug 11 2007 p.23, and from Eric Allen,
Director, Catholic Family and Community Services, tel: (09) 378 9650.

Manager, Suzanne Aubert Compassion Centre, Wellington
http://www.compassion.org.nz/centres/compassioncentre.htm
Details in 'Wel-com' July 2007 p.14, 'NZ Catholic' July 15-28 2007 p.28, and
from Carmel Daly, tel. 027 247 9752; carmel@acqumen.co.nz Applications
close 30 July 2007.

Pastoral Assistant (Administration), St Patrick's Parish, Napier.
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no. 269, July 1 - 14 2007 p.23, 'Wel-com' July 2007
p.14, and from the parish office, 4 Munroe St., Napier 4110. Tel. (06) 835
3621; fax. (06) 834 4088; e-mail: stpatsnp@ramhb.co.nz Applications close
31 July 2007.

Assistant, Archbishop of Wellington
http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no. 269, July 1 - 14 2007 p.23 and from John
Butterfield, General Manager, Archdiocese of Wellington, tel. (04) 496 1788;
e-mail: j.butterfield@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 31 July 2007

Heritage Foundation Co-ordinator, St Michael's Parish, Remuera.
http://www.catholicremuera.org.nz/Issue%2024-3.pdf (page 3)
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no. 269, July 1 - 14 2007 p.23 and from St
Michael's Heritage Foundation, PO Box 99-559, Newmarket. Margaret Twomey,
tel. (09) 529 1766; e-mail: twomey@clear.net.nz