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NEWS & NOTES - 25 October 2009

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

Bishops play down Vatican move
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/2996411/Bishops-play-down-Vatican-move
Bishops in New Zealand have played down the potential impacts of a move by the Vatican to allow Anglicans to join the Catholic Church. Pope Benedict XVI has approved a move that will allow former Anglicans to take full Catholic communion.

Archbishops relaxed over Vatican reception
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0910/S00409.htm
The Archbishops of the Anglican Church here are relaxed about the Vatican’s moves to ease the way for some traditionalist Anglicans to join the Roman Catholic Church.

Kavanagh principal Paul Ferris to retire
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/79157/kavanagh-principal-paul-ferris-retire
Kavanagh College principal Paul Ferris has announced he will retire in July next year. The 61-year-old has been a principal for 34 years, 18 of them at Kavanagh College.

District loses 'Mr Helpfulness'
Piako Post
http://tinyurl.com/yztqfuy
Dave Cooper was a Morrinsville giant. He was the town's last mayor before amalgamation, a volunteer fireman for almost four decades, president of the RSA, and his shoulder was put to every community wheel that deserved his weight.

Home's new wing nears completion (photo)
Upper Hutt Leader
http://tinyurl.com/yfgwbnm
Construction of the Home of Compassion's new 16-bed wing for people with dementia is nearly finished.

All the world's his stage (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/arts/2987865/All-the-worlds-his-stage
Lower Hutt sports fanatic Sepelini Mua'au is more at home on the rugby league field than performing in a Shakespearean play. The 16-year-old St Bernard's College pupil was one of 24 Kiwis pupils selected to spend three weeks observing, studying and performing Shakespeare's plays in England.

Tongan priest leads appeal for island home
http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/2985536/Tongan-priest-leads-appeal-for-island-home
Marlborough's Tongan Catholic priest, Wellington-based Father Mateo Kivalu, is following his Niuatoputapu tsunami appeal with a month-long visit to Tonga to help his people. When he returns at the end of November he wants to be accepted as a New Zealand permanent resident, and to be able to build on his spiritual and pastoral care work here.

Maria Widagdo: The path to independence (photo)
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/10/21/maria-widagdo-the-path-independence.html
An interview with Dr Maria Wi-dagdo, director of the Yakkum Rehabilitation Center for handicapped children and young adults in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, which was co-founded by a New Zealander, the late Colin McLennan. The Center's Website: http://www.rehabilitasi-yakkum.or.id

A tale of two missionaries and a historian (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/ygexrxu
Taupo Times
A story written more than 100 years ago by one French missionary about another has found its way back into print.

US Peace Activist John Dear To Visit From 28 Oct.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0910/S00289.htm
American peace activist, author, lecturer and 2008 Nobel Prize nominee John Dear will be in New Zealand for a week from 28 October to speak at public lectures throughout the country. He will also meet with members of the group who caused an estimated $1m damage in an attack on a US spybase in 2008. The Prime Minister described the attack as a “senseless act of criminal vandalism”.

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INSPIRATIONAL TV - http://inspirationaltv.net

Praying the Scriptures: A reading and reflection on Mark 10:46-52 with Fr Paul Coleman SJ, an exponent of the Ignatian method of prayer.

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'BEING FRANK' - http://www.beingfrank.co.nz

New Zealand Catholic Blogs. Some current topics ...

Talk about a conversion at gunpoint… (video: robbery suspect prays with victim) ... Travel diary (the churches of Florence; Mass in Europe) ... Angli-CAN! (Fr George Rutler, a convert from the Anglican Communion, on the new Apostolic Constitution) ... Signs of peace… (the Sign of Peace at Mass in DR Congo) ... Equal, but very very different (marriage in practice) ... A longing for happiness and peace (Pope Benedict's address to young people in the Czech Republic)

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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.

http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic

Where do Catholics and Anglicans stand now?
http://ncronline.org/news/what-vaticans-welcome-anglicans-means

This week's big Vatican story is obviously the decision to create special structures, called "personal ordinariates", to welcome Anglicans seeking to join the Catholic church. In some reports, the move was touted as a bold gambit to end the schism that began with the English Reformation in the 16th century -- a dubious bit of spin, given that the actual number of Anglicans likely to sign up for one of these ordinariates will almost certainly be quite small...

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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH

http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz

http://www.romereports.com (video)

http://www.youtube.com/vatican (news of Pope Benedict - video)

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EMPLOYMENT

[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Vacancies section of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]

[Vacancies for Catholic youth workers are advertised on the Vacancies page of Connect.org.nz: http://www.connect.org.nz ]

Editor, Tui Motu InterIslands
http://www.tuimotu.org
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