Sunday, February 3, 2008

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

TVNZ Close Up: Taking the veil (video report)
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/465467/1561309
Becoming a nun seems an archaic thing to do in this modern and increasingly
secular society, and yet the order of nuns at St Anthony's in Wanganui are
in no short supply ...

New college centre cause to celebrate
Manukau Courier
http://tinyurl.com/25rjj3
De La Salle College has special reason to celebrate the start of the new
school year. On Sunday, Helen Clark will open the school's new multipurpose
facility ...

Musical will fund big trip (photo)
Western Leader
http://tinyurl.com/28loyj
Special performances of the musical 'That's Life' are being held to help
get youngsters from the Glen Eden Catholic Church to the World Youth Day in
Sydney later this year...

Sister Paula moving on (photo)
Ruapehu Press
Part one: http://tinyurl.com/22u2at
Part two: http://tinyurl.com/27yrrb
Retirement is not a word that Sister Paula personally relates to - at 66
she's moving on from her work with Taumarunui's Catholic parishioners to
become a community leader of a retirement home in Auckland ...

Caritas responds to Zimbabwe crisis
http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/RMOI-7BE29L?OpenDocument
In the face of a continuing economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe,
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is contributing $50,000 to much needed water
supply and sanitation improvements in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second largest
city. The city of 1.5 million faces acute water shortages. Households are
getting 6 litres of water per person a day, instead of the minimum of 15
litres required by international standards...

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INSPIRATIONAL TV

http://inspirationaltv.net/

Snapshot: Parachute Music Festival, 2008
A short video postcard from Maria at Parachute Music Festival, Hamilton, New
Zealand. Parachute is a Christian music festival held each year. With an
estimated 30 000 young people attending, it is one of New Zealand's larger
regular music events. More about Parachute in 'Being Frank' (see below), and
more still at: http://www.parachutemusic.com/home.php

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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 ...

Academia and CIT
What I have been doing over the last couple of days is searching in
journals, magazines and books for a selection of the academic work of those
teaching at the Catholic Institute of Theology (CIT) to see if I can
ascertain whether or not the institute could rightly be deemed orthodox...

It’s true, I’m a Rageaholic…..I just can’t live without Rageahol!
Those people that know me know that I’m normally quite a placid person and
my anger is not easily roused. There are some situations however where I
feel it is my personal duty to get angry. This is a different kind of anger
from the ‘injustice anger’, or the ’sympathy to your plight anger’. One
of
these situations is road works that show a distinct lack of foresight...

War, war, what is it good for?
I guess I would be defined (insofar as I love being boxed into categories)
as a pacifist. Although I hold dear the importance of remembering and
honouring those who have fought in wars for their countries, I deplore war
and everything about it. Two very significant moments from my childhood had,
I think, a profound effect on my stance...

Providence
I was at Parachute Music Festival on the weekend…what a fantastically hot
and dusty affair indeed. The sustained temperature of early-30s from about
9am onwards made for a rather stifling heat most of the day. Nonetheless, it
was really a great weekend. Putting aside the music and all the
pre-programmed occurrences, it was a rather providential affair...

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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen

http://ncrcafe.org/node/507

Beefing up the Catholic in Catholic charities; Top Catholic Islamist takes a
break; Covering the Jesuit's General Congregation
Without a doubt, the push for robust assertion of traditional Catholic
identity is the most consequential mega-trend in the life of the church
today, and it is also the core of Benedict XVI's agenda as pope. Emboldened
by the election of John Paul II in 1978, the identity wave hit the arena of
liturgy first, then went on to engulf Catholic education, Catholic media,
priestly identity and formation, religious orders, and virtually every other
sphere of ecclesiastical life...

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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/ ]