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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**
Opposition to proposed changes to Easter trading; Former Anglican priest new
lay pastoral leader; Learning from Asia
**World News**
Bearing fruit in Timor Leste; The 1967 Middle East war 40 years on and still
raging; Timor Leste in election turmoil
**Columns**
Archbishop's column: Dedicating the year to God, by Archbishop John Dew;
Kieran Fenn FMS: From the beginning - a pattern in Adam and Eve; Cecily
McNeill: A new Jesuit leader
**Schools**
Carterton school gets down to earth; Viard choir in US barbershop contest;
Wilton school joins dolphin protection call
**Features**
A postmodern Christianity; Book review: The Seeking Feet, by Rosaleen
Conway; Reflecting on moving on
**Wellington**
Karen Holland installed in Sth Wellington; WCEC graduation December 13,
2007; Distance learning course helps those on faith journey
**Palmerston North**
Fr Kevin Neal on his recovery from stroke. Part five; Hato Paora principal
faces sex charges; Whanganui reunion for class of '54: Sacred Heart College
Old Girls get together
**Reflect**
Third Sunday of Lent Year A John 4:5-42
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Research centre head arrives (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/3cm3fg
The newly-appointed head of New Zealand’s first Centre for International
Health says he has a ‘‘sobering responsibility’’ ahead. The Centre for
International Health was established using a $1.5 million grant from the
Sisters of Mercy, the Catholic order which runs Dunedin’s Mercy Hospital,
and a matching government grant...
Attempt to grab kid fails
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4410277a6002.html
A distraught mother says two men who tried to abduct her five-year-old
daughter from St Patrick's Catholic Primary School in Kaponga have robbed a
little girl of her innocence...
Katikati market proves popular (photos)
Hauraki Herald
http://tinyurl.com/3ycv93
Early in the afternoon, St Pius X Catholic Church committee spokesperson
Pauline van Rijen was wondering if anyone would turn up at all to the
inaugural night of the Katikati plant and produce market ...
Radio NZ. Nine to Noon. Religious leadership and World Youth Day (audio
file)
http://www.radionz.co.nz/audio/national/ntn/religious_leadership_and_world_youth\
_day
Kathryn Ryan interviews Cardinal George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney.
Church may have to reveal its records
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10493846
A weighty court judgment has bolstered a woman's case to view secret
information held by the Catholic Church about her. The unnamed woman wants
to find out what her husband said about her in the process of getting their
marriage annulled through the church...
Te Aroha school creates new look (photo)
Piako Post
http://tinyurl.com/yp3enp
St Joseph's Catholic School in Te Aroha has just finished renovations on old
buildings and construction of new ones ...
Outdoor Mass at Harcourt Park
Upper Hutt Leader
http://tinyurl.com/248lae
Upper Hutt's and Stokes Valley's three Catholic parishes are combining for
an outdoor Mass at Harcourt Park this Sunday, February 24 ...
Battered priest ready to turn other cheek
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominionpost/4407356a23955.html
Almost three months after being attacked during a break-in at his church
house, Masterton priest Julian Wagg is prepared to turn the other cheek...
Concern over abortion rise
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/nelsonmail/4409860a6510.html
The Abortion Supervisory Committee has recently released its annual report,
which shows 359 abortions were carried out in Nelson in 2006. Nationally,
there were 17,934 abortions in 2006, 400 more than in 2005...
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
4 million dreams: Part 2
Sister Stephanie interviews Mary-Alice Arthur, founder of the 4 Million
Dream Project, to help the 4 million New Zealanders to talk to each other
about the direction we all want the country moving in.
'What's New'
St Valentine's Day: does it really have any religious meaning?
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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 ...
Work to live, or live to work?
"I’m sorry. I can’t come in today. Religious holiday. The feast of…
Maximum
Occupancy."
Trying something different (Protestant vs Catholic styles of worship)
’til death do us part…
Eyes Front! (on celebrating Mass facing the altar)
Prayer and ministry
Fortitude
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Many are curious about Vatican’s take on ’08 presidential race
Next week, the annual “Catholic Social Ministry Gathering� will take place
in Washington, D.C. Sponsored by 19 Catholic organizations, it’s an
important annual get-together for Catholics who, in one way or another, are
involved in social action and political advocacy on behalf of human life,
justice and peace. Inevitably, the elections and the question of the
“Catholic vote� will be much in the air. It’s likely, too, that talk
around
the edges will focus on how Pope Benedict XVI’s upcoming April 15-20 visit
to the United States might be read in terms of the dynamics of an election
year...
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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/ ]
