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'WEL-COM'
The newspaper of the archdiocese of Wellington and the diocese of Palmerston
North
http://www.welcom.org.nz/
News
Maori ask for a voice at the top and a place in the body ... Survey to show
success of parish life ... 1967 development encyclical's message ever fresh:
JPD seminar on Populorum Progressio
Columns
Editorial: in the land of plenty .... Proclaiming the reign of God ... Who
did the bible's first murderer marry? His sister? A look at the symbolism of
Cain ...
Schools
Newest college plans more hostel beds: Garin College to build a third hostel
... Rachel's journey to the stage: Napier's Sacred Heart College Year 13
student Rachel Doohan tells of her preparation for a part in Cats ... The
oneness of humanity inspires winning speech: Sacred Heart College Lower Hutt
student wins national race speech competition ...
Features
Remembering Hiroshima: Pedro Arrupe's story ... Modern welfare state working
but not for very poor ... Hospital cleaners stand solid against
transnational
Wellington
Daily life retreats Catholic rugby club parties Life's a ball at Kohanga
Palmerston North
Enquiry centre visits river city ... Faith and Light truly brings faith and
light ... By the waters of Whanganui: Baptisms for 14 river people
Reflect
20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C: Luke 12:49-53
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
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Sister Loyola's 'garden of eat'n', by Ross Nolly
'New Zealand Lifestyle Block', Aug 2007; n.38:p.18-23
Summary: Eighty five-year-old Catholic Sister Loyola Galvin, ex-nurse and
avid organic gardener, is still busy gardening at the Home of Compassion.
[This article is not available online. The magazine 'New Zealand Lifestyle
Block' can be borrowed at public libraries]
Scoop And Peter Brown Talk Iranian Deportees
Friday, 17 August 2007, 4:25 pm
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0708/S00226.htm
This afternoon NZ First Immigration spokesperson Peter Brown attempted via a
press release to set the record straight on Iranian deportees. Scoop Media
caught up with Mr Brown via the telephone to gain some balance in the vexed
issue of what to do about those Iranian Christians held in NZ jails who
refuse to sign the official paperwork that would send them back to Iran, a
theocratic Muslim state...
Faiths to debate religious studies
http://www.spcm.org/Journal/spip.php?breve251
VisionNetwork NZ executive director Glyn Carpenter is calling on concerned
Christians to make the effort to attend next weekend’s New Zealand Religious
Diversity Forum, at which religious studies in secondary schools will be
discussed...
Plea to schools on student intake
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4163524a7694.html
More than 40 South Island schools have been told by the Education Ministry
they must set up enrolment schemes to limit their intake. They include four
religious integrated schools in Christchurch, a number of small rural
schools and several Canterbury primary schools...
Wedding contest outcry
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1501119/story.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=104571\
90
A radio station will tomorrow launch a controversial twist on its Stranger
Wedding competition - in which a bride will be presented with two potential
husbands at the altar. She won't know either of them and must make a
decision as to who to marry. The Edge station's new Three Strangers and a
Wedding competition has churches fuming - with one already turning down a
request to host the ceremony...
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
Reflection: Early settlers on Petone beach
Sister Mary walks along Petone beach with Jeff Drane and Pango, to discover
the site of New Zealand's first European settlement ...
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THE 15TH STATION
http://www.station15.co.nz/
A spoken commentary on news of Catholic interest published on the 15th of
every month. In the first of the series ...
the Pope's Motu Proprio on the Latin Rite of the Mass; the true definition
of a "Church"; is New Zealand a Christian country?; Ave Maria, a new
Catholic town; the Catholic identity and the NZ media. (The link to the
first programme is at the bottom of the home page: 'Direct download:
The_15th_Station_-_Episode_1.mp3')
"The 15th Station is the first Catholic Podcast (1) in New Zealand... Our
monthly podcast brings together fresh perspectives on Catholic news from
around the world. We also try to bring you up to speed with the big events
in the Church in New Zealand..."
(1) A podcast is a sound file which can be listened to on its Website or
transferred to a portable device such as an iPod for listening "on the go".
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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
The Catholic-Shi'a connection; Another Latin Mass note
While pundits fill the airwaves debating whether the American military surge
in Iraq is working, another surge continues to unfold in Iraq and across the
Islamic world, one potentially of far greater import for the 21st century:
the emergence of Shi'a Islam as an emboldened force, from Lebanon on the
Mediterranean coast all the way to Central Asia and the Indian
subcontinent...
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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, the Marist Brothers' Champagnat Partnership
http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/
Details in 'NZ Catholic' August 12-25 2007 p.23, and from Brother Douglas
Dawick, brdoug@paradise.net.nz; tel. (04) 972 6926; Applications close 24
August 2007.
Manager for Catholic Schools, Diocese of Palmerston North
Job description: http://www.pndiocese.org.nz/?sid=1405
Details in 'NZ Catholic' August 12-25 2007 p.23, and from Catholic Education
Office, tel. (06) 358 8079; fax: (06) 357 3624; email:
tmurphy@pndiocese.org.nz Applications close August 31 2007
