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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Service to be held in Wellington to thank chaplains and volunteers (full
text)
TV3 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 07:17a.m.
The trust which helps funds hospital chaplains says the sector's appeal week
is not just about raising money. The week starts today with an ecumenical
church service in Wellington to thank the country's 57 full time chaplains
and the 250 volunteer assistants. Almost half of their salary is paid
through public donations, with the rest coming from a mix of government and
district health board funding. Reverend Anne Moody is the Chair of the
Interchurch Council for Hospital Chaplins and says last year they were
overwhelmed with donations.
Wine ban wins award for journalist
http://www.cathnews.com/news/709/120.php
New Zealand Catholic journalist Gavin Abraham has won a major church award
for an article exposing a ban on altar wine in kiwi prisons...
Pumpkin's mum a "kind, loving wife"
http://www.cathnews.com/news/709/106.php
On her Chinese language blog, the mother of the child abandoned at
Melbourne's Southern Cross railway station describes herself as a Catholic
who reads the Bible and tries to "be a kind, loving wife"...
MP spared over shambolic birth of new Christian party (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=49&objectid=10465227
The political response to independent MP Gordon Copeland's crazy week in
Parliament over the formation of a broad-church Christian party has been
somewhat muted...
Churches snub Christian party
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/4207720a6000.html
Plans for a new pan-Christian party may be foundering over claims by one of
its co-leaders that he was ambushed, as churches distance themselves from
the new venture.
Bishop upstages announcement of Christian party
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=500818&objectid=10464517
Destiny Church leader Brian Tamaki's personal political ambitions appear to
have upset plans for the launch of a new Christian political party next
month...
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NEWSLETTERS
NZ Catholic Education Office. 'Lighting New Fires' Newsletter - Edition
five, September 2007
http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resourcesubpages/lighting-new-fires.html
News and achivements of integrated schools throughout New Zealand, with a
Catholic Schools' Supplement
Christchurch Catholic Diocese. Inform, September 2007
http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=25
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THE NATHANIEL CENTRE - The NZ Catholic Bioethics Centre
'The Nathaniel Report' - Issue 22
http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/?sid=84
Full text:
Editorial: Principles and Process : Lessons from Winter
Culture is “the first voice of the sacred� and the ethical and cultural
principles of participation, protection and partnership contained in the
Treaty of Waitangi provide a rich backdrop for the healer’s art when
integrated into best practice (New Zealand Catholic Bishops’ Conference
Submission to the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification â€" 2000) ...
HIV-AIDS â€" Understanding the Power of Stigma
In this article Dr. Michael McCabe looks at the origins and nature of
stigma. Stigmatisation arises from a place deep within us â€" it involves the
labelling of a person or group of persons as being unworthy of inclusion in
the human community. Those with HIV-AIDS have been subject to isolation,
blame and prejudice. As Christians, the ministry of Jesus is highly
instructive in shaping a pastoral response to the stigmatised...
Also in this issue ...
Reflecting on Prenatal Detecting
The technology associated with prenatal testing is redefining the knowledge
frameworks that shape our attitudes to, and experiences of, pregnancy and
childbirth. Society has developed certain “unwritten rules� about how
parents should respond to the information generated by prenatal testing.
Just as we have been debating what it means to “die with dignity� so, writes
John Kleinsman, we also need to reflect on what it means to be “conceived in
dignity�.
Confronting the Distortions: Mothers of Children with Down Syndrome and
Prenatal Testing
Dr. Lisa Bridle, mother of Sean who has Down syndrome, has interviewed
seventeen mothers of children with Down syndrome about how they experience
the ethical and personal choices associated with prenatal testing. Drawing
on the findings of her own research, Dr. Bridle illustrates how the
perspective of mothers of children with Down syndrome disrupts many of the
assumptions which underpin prenatal testing.
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THE FAR EAST - The magazine of St Columban's Mission Scoety, Australian and
NZ region
http://www.columban.org.au/publications/the_far_east.html
In the September 2007 issue (full text) ...
# Editorial
# Sister with get up and go
# The lesson of the bamboo tree
# The power of a welcome
# Reflection - When scriptures read us
# Starting from behind scratch
# Biblical Banners
# Death or Life in Prison
# Mission World
# from the Director
# We are gifts to each other
# Lifelines for Laoag
# Pieces of a puzzle
# When the earth danced
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TUI MOTU INTERISLANDS
http://www.tuimotu.org/
Editorial: Under Threat (full text)
The threat to our planet’s well-being is covered this month. First, an
article by Colin Tudge (pp 11-13) on enlightened agriculture, emphasising
the importance of variety in the food we grow and eat. Second (pp 6-8), an
account of a recent lecture by environmentalist Tim Flannery. Flannery
leaves us in no doubt about the global warming crisis. His treatment is
straightforward and compelling. Both of these pieces are highly critical of
current human activities. Yet both are optimistic. The basic theme is â€"
human beings have created the mess: humans can solve it...
Also in this issue ...
** End of the world or a new beginning - Tim Flannery
** Does faith or ideology rule our lives - Jim Consedine
** Who is my God? - Joan Chittister
** Gandhi series: Commerce without morality - John Gallaher
** The road to Parihaka - Mary Scanlon
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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
Racism 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/ ]
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
