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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Sale of Star of the Sea Chapel and Stella Maris Retreat and Conference
Centre, Seatoun (13 Sep 2007)
The sale of Star of the Sea Chapel and Stella Maris Retreat and Conference
Centre in Seatoun, announced this week, will enable the Sisters of Mercy to
direct further resources to their mission of education, health care and
community development...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Cathedral bells announce new look (text and video)
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411365/1351340
For the first time in two years the bells are ringing at St Patrick's
Cathedral, marking a new era for Auckland's religious community. The
extensive restoration left no stone unturned - from the new slate tile roof,
to the original 19th century mosaic floor discovered under the floor
boards...
St Patrick's follows an honoured tradition (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=500818&objectid=10463714
A mass tomb for six Catholic bishops has been built under the floor of the
newly restored St Patrick's Cathedral...
$13m rescue ends - time for a hooley
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?objectid=10462999
The $12.8 million restoration and conservation of the historic St Patrick's
Cathedral is finished, ready for a grand reopening this weekend...
Jackson saves Our Lady
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4198385a11.html
Director Peter Jackson has snapped up the 83-year-old chapel of Our Lady
Star of the Sea, which locals feared would be levelled by property
developers...
Stella Maris Retreat Centre and Chapel saved
Wingnut Films and Wellington City Council press release
http://wellington.govt.nz/news/display-item.php?id=3009
Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh have bought the historic Stella Maris Retreat
Centre and Star of the Sea Chapel in Seatoun. The purchase follows community
and Council concern at an application to the Environment Court to have the
heritage listing removed from the Chapel which would have taken away its
protection from possible demolition...
Emotional haka as Augustine farewelled (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=124&objectid=10463842
"Stay strong boys, stay strong. There is no weakness, we must stay strong.
We're here for August, and for his family. Boys, do you hear me, you must
stay strong." These words were chanted over and over by one of slain
Auckland teenager Augustine Borrell's best mates as he and more than 100
fellow Auckland Grammar boys huddled close to the ground at Mangere Lawn
Cemetery...
Tears, tributes at slain teen's Requiem (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=124&objectid=10463711
A large crowd of friends and relatives of Augustine Borrell packed out an
Otara church last night for a family service and Requiem Mass in memory of
the slain teenager. The 17-year-old was stabbed in the chest and killed at a
party in Herne Bay last weekend...
Funeral biggest show in city (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4202531a24035.html
Tribute was paid yesterday to Graham Condon as a father, uncle, mate,
athlete, brother and Christchurch City councillor. Hundreds of mourners
filled the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament...
Worldwide Connections Online
http://ncregister.com/site/article/4555/
Wellington, New Zealand â€" If Clare Omvig has her way, St. Raphael is about
to get even busier. One of seven archangels, St. Raphael is best known for
his role in wedding the Bible’s Tobiah with hard-luck Sarah (seven of her
previous bridegrooms had died). Omvig is counting on similar intercession
today, tabbing the “Angel of Love� as patron of her new Internet dating
site, New Zealand Catholic Matchmaker. Helping Tobiah and Sarah, though,
might have been an easier task than connecting today’s Catholic singles
living amid what Omvig calls a "lost generation" ...
Website aids quest for divine love
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4202612a19716.html
A new dating website wants to play matchmaker to lonely Catholics â€" but only
if they are straight. The site, www. catholicmatch maker. co.nz, excludes
homosexuals and will be launched on September 29 to coincide with the feast
of Raphael, the patron saint of happy meetings...
'Malicious' vandalism of church riles
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4198511a6571.html
A "malicious and terrible piece of vandalism" in Waimate last week has left
the St Patricks Basilica Restoration Trust devastated after windows in the
iconic Rose Window were broken...
Local sensations make NZ schoolboy rugby side
Taranaki Daily News â€" News â€" 10 Sep 2007 â€" Page 3
A record four Taranaki players have been selected in the New Zealand
secondary schools rugby squad. The four -- Francis Douglas Memorial
College's flanker Kane Barrett (17), prop Todd Curtis (17), first
five-eighth Rick McKenna (18) and New Plymouth Boys' High School hooker
Mitchell Campbell (17) -- have made the squad to tour Australia next
month... [This article is not available on the newspaper's free Website]
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
Latest: A mission to seamen
A closer look at a building that seems almost out of place - the Mission to
Seamen building nestled in Wellington's government district. Who built it,
and why was it built? Sister Mary investigates ...
'What's New', with Sandon and Karlene
A church-run Kiwisaver fund; NZ studies sexualisation of young girls; ISafe
call service for women; Why Sandon hates
Magpies
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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
Why is Fr. Peter Phan under investigation?
Over a decade ago, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger laid out with crystal
clarity what he saw as the greatest doctrinal threat of the day: a
confluence of what he described as "the a-religious and practical relativism
of Europe and America" with "Asia's negative theology," producing a profound
mutation in core Christian teachings -- with Christ seen as simply another
spiritual sage comparable to Buddha or Muhammad, and Christianity as one
valid religious path among many others...
Also: Backgrounder: Confusion has marked debate over providing food and
water ... Food and water for patients in vegetative state is obligatory,
Vatican says ... Vatican, bishops investigating Georgetown theologian Phan
... Case of embattled archbishop in Zimbabwe becomes Rorschach test ... John
Allen's daily blog of Pope Benedict's visit to Austria.
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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/ ]
Lay pastoral leader, Wellington West (Karori, Northland, Cathedral Parish)
Details in 'Wel-com' September 2007 p.4, in 'NZ Catholic' Sept. 9-22 2007
p.27, and from: The General Manager, Archdiocese of Wellington, PO Box 1937
Thorndon Wellington; e-mail: j.butterfield@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications
close 30 September 2007
