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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ - http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Catholic Charity partners with Auckland Flower Show (18 Nov 2008)
A major Auckland charity, The Catholic Caring Foundation, has entered into
partnership with the iconic Auckland Flower Show at Alexandra Park from
November 20 to 23...
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'WEL-COM' - http://www.welcom.org.nz
News
Haere ra Fr Bernie: Fr Bernard Thomas Hehir, 3 March 1926 - 8 October 2008
... Lorna Bergin RIP:
A life of making a difference ... Farewell Sr Paula: Paula Brettkelly,
campaigner for all human rights, RIP
World News
Columns
Galatians: the Christian message on trial: Br Kieran examines the insults
... Archbishop's column: voting with integrity, by Archbishop John Dew ...
Second Corinthians Paul's most personal letter, by Kieran Fenn FMS
Schools
Sacred Heart Lower Hutt stands in tribute to long-time DRS Sr Josephine Kane
... Masterton principal sixth in the world: Jo Matthews of Chanel College at
the World Masters Swimming Championships ... Silverstream Vinnies: McEvedy
tradition overturned in favour of tattoos
Features
A reflection on the Holy Souls ... Book Review: Celebrating St Paul ...
Praying like a ruminating cow: Lectio Divina is an ancient Benedictine
spiritual practice ... The cathedral 160 years ago: the 160th anniversary of
the opening of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart ... Sister John Bosco
Fraser RSM RIP: A beloved teacher dies ... God gave us a gift in Sr
Jean-Marie: Sr Jean-Marie McErlane RIP
Palmerston North
Spring a time of hope for young: Young people and their place in the church
... Stroke changes retreat experience, by Fr Kevin Neal ... From prison to
grace: A Walk by Faith story
Reflect
Feast of Christ the King Year A: Matthew 25:31-46, by Veronica Lawson ...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
ARISS event - St. Teresa's School, South Wairarapa, New Zealand
http://www.southgatearc.org/news/november2008/ariss_event_2011.htm
An International Space Station Expedition school contact has been planned
with participants at St. Teresa's School, South Wairarapa, New Zealand on 20
November...
TVNZ. Giant leap for Kiwi kids (video report)
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/video_popup_windows_skin/2325339
A bunch of primary school students from Wairarapa are the first new
Zealanders to use amateur radio communications to make contact with the
international space station
Golden cross award comes to Fairfield (photo)
Taieri Herald
http://tinyurl.com/69byqm
A Fairfield woman's Golden Cross of Merit, conferred by the Polish
ambassador to New Zealand, is recognition not only of her work, but of many
others ...
Agriculture reformer led the way (obituary)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominionpost/4768663a24437.html
Paul Shanahan was at the heart of ground-breaking reforms in global
agricultural trade. Over four decades, starting with boyhood holidays on a
Gisborne sheep and cattle station and ending with his meticulous legal work
in Geneva, Switzerland, he negotiated agricultural agreements that improved
the fortunes of agriculture-based economies, including that of New
Zealand...
A mass of room for mass and the masses (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/4767370a22399.html
Worshippers will no longer be spilling on to the footpath at Christ the King
church. The Mt Roskill parish has moved to a bigger church on Richardson Rd,
where the first mass was held on Friday last week...
New principal bucks the brother trend
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dailynews/4764109a6554.html
The first lay principal to be named at Francis Douglas Memorial College is a
man with a mission. Martin Chamberlain, currently principal of the co-ed St
Peter's College in Gore, will join the New Plymouth school at the beginning
of term one next year.
New claims over sex abuse priest
http://www.theherald.com.au/news/local/news/general/new-claims-over-sex-abuse-pr\
iest/1366968.aspx
A New Zealand woman is seeking compensation from Maitland-Newcastle Catholic
diocese after alleging late priest Denis McAlinden sexually abused her when
he was sent to New Zealand in the 1980s. He was transferred to the Waikato
region of New Zealand in 1984 after he was moved from Maitland-Newcastle to
Western Australia in the early 1980s...
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
'Choose wisely'
A reading and discussion of Matthew 25:31-46 with Suzanne O'Rourke and Fr
David Kennerley at St Mary of the Angels, Wellington.
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'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand. Some current topics ...
How Are You ‘Suffering’ Today? (the last taboo) ... The New Springtime (on
supernatural hope) ... Charisms & a charismatic Church (on Archbishop Mark
Coleridge's address) ... Lead kindly Light (human suffering and enduring
hope) ... Lads and ladettes (on the "Ladette" phenomenon)
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncrcafe.org/node/2293
The context of Cardinal Stafford’s stark language
I’ve been speaking and writing lately about U.S.-Vatican ties under Obama; I
was at Colgate University earlier this week, for example, addressing
students and faculty on this very subject. As fate would have it, my
appearance coincided with a sharp reminder of the potential pitfalls in that
relationship, in the form of some remarkably incendiary language from
Cardinal Francis Stafford, an American who heads a Vatican court...
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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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EVENTS
'Hearts Aflame' Catholic Summer School
9-18 January 2008
St Bede's College, Christchurch
Details:
http://www.heartsaflame.org.nz/HA2009/tabid/1348/Default.aspx
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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 ]
Catholic Discipleship College, Takapuna, Auckland. Residential Leaders (Male
and Female)
http://www.cdc.ac.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' issue 303, November 2 - 15, 2008 p.27, at:
http://www.cdc.ac.nz/NewsEvents/tabid/1003/language/en-GB/Default.aspx
and from Fr Neil Vaney sm, Principal, CDC, tel: (09) 489-8197; e-mail:
fr.neil@cdc.ac.nz
National Project Coordinator. Youth and Young Adult Ministry
Details in 'NZ Catholic' No.304; Nov. 16-29 2008 p.27, at Goodworks:
http://www.goodworks.co.nz/job.asp?id=3866&catid=101&keywords=&page=1 , and
from Mike Hurdle or Catharina Vossen at MICAH Partners, PO Box 499,
Wellington; tel: (04) 499 4749, mobile: 021-552 929, fax: (04) 499 7375;
e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz . Applications close 28 November 2008.
'NZ Catholic' newspaper. Parish presenters.
Details in 'NZ Catholic' issue 303, November 2 - 15, 2008 p.23, and from
Dennis Augustine, Promotions and Advertising Manager, NZ Catholic, PO Box
147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1144; tel: (09) 360-3049; e-mail:
advertising@nzcatholic.org.nz
