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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
** Caritas responds to strife in Kenya (11 Jan 2008)
** Nominations sought for National Catholic Youth Ministry Award Scheme
(08 Jan 2008)
** 2008 New Year's Day homily from Benedict XVI (08 Jan 2008)
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
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JEREMY GRAY SM
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Trainee priest who sacrificed life farewelled
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4348103a11.html
The bravery and faith of a young trainee priest who sacrificed his own
life to help save an eight-year-old boy were celebrated at his funeral in
Christchurch yesterday...
Trainee priest's sacrifice earns `saint-like status' (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10485853
Hundreds farewell trainee priest in Chch
http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/NationalNews/HundredsfarewelltraineepriestinChch/tabid\
/423/articleID/43089/cat/64/Default.aspx#top
Hero priest farewelled in Christchurch
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411365/1537711
Ex-SC man's great sacrifice
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/timaruherald/4346218a6010.html
A former Waimate man has died in New Caledonia while trying to rescue a
young boy. He would have shied away from being called a hero yet former
Waimate man Jeremy Gray died selflessly and true to his Christian
principles...
Automatic translation of a report in the New Caledonian newspaper:
http://tinyurl.com/2bxlyx
The original article in French, with enlargable photograph:
http://www.info.lnc.nc/articles/article_1586_394.htm
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OTHER NEWS
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Historic mass in Northland
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10486270
Catholics are planning to converge on the remote Torata Point in Northland
on Sunday to commemorate 170 years since the first Mass was celebrated in
New Zealand...
Students spread joy of season with festive song (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/2287jt
[Concert at Tokoroa resthome by pupils of Bishop Edward Gaines School]
Christmas songs in Jerusalem (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/yucop7
The 27 members of the Taumarunui community choir, plus family and friends,
visited the restored and rededicated church on the Whanganui-Pipiriki Road
to sing Christmas carols for the people of Jerusalem (Hiruharama)...
Irish walks to whet Kiwi tourists' appetites
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4346568a2181.html
A love match spawned nearly 60 years ago on the foxhunting fields of the
Irish province of Munster between a Limerick Catholic and a South Canterbury
Protestant will bear further fruit this year when their daughter, Rachel
Ryan, escorts a touring group from New Zealand...
Life full of song rewarded
http://tinyurl.com/2hbwra
Playing the organ at St Patrick's Church in Napier every weekend has been a
habit for Pauline Hill over the past 40 or so years, but there was a time
when this lady had a fan club...
Radio NZ. 'Summer Noelle'. Interview with Mike Grimshaw
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/summernoelle/mike_grimshaw
The senior lecturer of religious studies at Canterbury University talks
about New Zealand in church, and religion in politics.
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WORLD YOUTH DAY, 15-20 July 2008
http://www.worldyouthday.org.nz/
Youths scrub for pope (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4350315a6497.html
Fatima Sauaga is carwashing her way to the Pope. The 22-year-old is a team
leader for St Joseph’s Youth Group who are scrubbing and shining vehicles to
make it to Sydney for World Youth Day.
Sjana joins world's youth at special day in Sydney (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/ytnsjv
Past St Anthony's Catholic School student Sjana Levin hopes to meet the pope
this year when she attends the World Youth Day in Sydney ...
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'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz/
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper.
Some recent topics:
** 'The Many Faces of Freemasonry' (12 Jan)
** 'Help' (10 Jan)
This Sunday at Auckland’s Mt Eden Prison is Catholic Sunday (second and
fifth Sundays of the month are ours!) and I’ve just had word that they’re
possibly going to cancel the ministry this week for a lack of volunteers...
** 'Tribute to a true Kiwi hero' (8 Jan)
Some of you may be aware of the fact that Jeremy Gray, a young New Zealand
Marist Seminarian died in New Caledonia last week. I consider myself blessed
to have known Jeremy as a friend ...
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
'Samoan violence'
Do we have a false perception of Polynesian crime and violence from our
media? Br Chris Maney, who spent 20 years in Samoa, shares his insights ...
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Highlights from papal homilies and addresses. From the 'no sense of humor'
file
College football fans probably felt a bit deflated this Tuesday, since the
Bowl Championship Series, always their favorite time of year, came to a
close Monday night. For Vatican devotees, Tuesday likewise brought a twinge
of melancholy, and for much the same reason: the annual "bowl championship
series" of papal teaching, which begins in mid-December with a message for
the World Day of Peace, ended Monday with the pope's address to the
diplomatic corps accredited to the Holy See...
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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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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
