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NEWS & NOTES - 2 August 2009
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'WEL-COM' - August 2009
http://www.welcom.org.nz
News
Pope's call for stewardship heard strongly in Upper Hutt ... Hutt Global conference on Paul embraces new technology ... Caritas, bishops call for prisoner reconciliation
World News
Timor-Leste turns 10 as it struggles against poverty ... Papuan justice worker tells of undermining of rights ... West Papuan priest risks life to speak of oppression ...
Columns
Editorial: A smack as a 'good' parenting tool? ... Archbishop's Column: Speaking the truth in love ... Guest editorial: We believed the lie
Schools
St Cath's new charity initiative ... Hutt school tops wearable arts ... Marist St Pat's takes the prized Swindale after eight tries
Features
Blessed John XXIII the church's man of the moment ... Receiving communion on the tongue ... Ministers of word and sacrament
Wellington
Old hands steer pathway into a new era ... Newtown People's Market a regular ... The cathedral 160 years ago
Palmerston North
Global poverty must be tackled from the ground up ... A time to reflect on the meaning of ordained ministry ... The joys and puzzles of reunions
Reflect
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year B
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Religious artwork on tour (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/features/arts-entertainment/2708564/Religious-artwork-on-tour
Thousands of New Zealanders will see an unusual piece of religious art when an icon of French priest St John Vianney, known as the Cure of Ars, tours New Zealand during the next year.
Articulate letters do not lack humour
Bryan James reviews 'Letters on the Go, the correspondence of Suzanne Aubert'
http://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/books/67843/articulate-letters-do-not-lack-humour
Their Lordships were suspicious, with good reason - " . . . she receives a very large sum annually from very wealthy people in this Dominion, as hush money, to look after the results of vice in high places. It is well-known that they are not the children of the poor . . ." - for this was, after all, a French nun clearly with substantial funds and property, who refused to hand them over to the Church...
[There's a longer reviuew of 'Letters on the Go' by Fr John Mori SM in the Northern Advocate — A009 — 01 August 2009]
End walkway nightmare, says principal (photo)
http://www.northernadvocate.co.nz/local/news/end-walkway-nightmare-says-principal/3902166/
A succession of "strange people" offering cigarettes and drugs to primary school children - has a principal calling for a walkway beside his school to be closed. Daniel Pepper, the principal of Kaitaia's Pompallier Catholic School, said he had real concerns for the safety of his 158 pupils.
Roger, Tana and Ritchie hit town (photo)
High Country Community Herald
http://tinyurl.com/loza84
Children attended St Joseph's School, Pleasant Point dressed as their favourite sports personality recently.
Name in clay (photo)
Horowhenua Mail
http://tinyurl.com/krzwkx
Student Evania Sewell with her name captured forever in the pavers at Levin's St Joseph's Catholic School.
Kazakhstan school a world away from St Patrick's (photos)
The Horowhenua Mail
http://tinyurl.com/nren3r
From teaching Kiwi kids to teaching in a school in Kazakhstan has been a fascinating journey for Trish Scott of Paraparaumu.
College recycles old computers (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/northland/local-news/whangarei-leader/2676793/College-recycles-old-computers
Retired technology has been piling up at Pompallier Catholic College for more than five years – that is until eDay came to town.
PNG Archbishop: Aid projects should be partnerships
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=47992
The Catholic Archbishop of Mount Hagen in Papua New Guinea, Douglas Young, says the relationship between aid donors and recipients in the Pacific should not be viewed as merely rich people helping the poor.
"Adopted cops" go back to school
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/5754095/adopted-cops-go-back-to-school/
Seven Manawatu police officers have been "adopted" by Feilding's Hato Paora College in a scheme aiming to improve relationships between the police and students.
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INSPIRATIONAL TV - http://inspirationaltv.net
** Choosing a parish **
** What sign will we get? **
A reading and commentary on John 6:24-35 with Very Rev. Frank Nelson and Rev. Jenny Wilkins at St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington.
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'BEING FRANK' - http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
New Zealand Catholic Blogs. Some current topics ...
Show Me The Community (experiencing community at the parish level) ... Sweet or Savoury? (infallibility in daily life) ... Visible sign of an inward reality (the meaning of wearing crucifixes) ... Critique of weak technique (on reading the letters in 'NZ Catholic')
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic
Benedict XVI’s very own shade of green
Pope Benedict XVI’s track record on the environment already has been robust enough to justify a book-length treatment, 'Ten Commandments for the Environment' by Woodeene Koenig-Bricker, in which he’s proclaimed the greenest pope in history. This week brought three additional signals of the pope’s remarkable ecological sensitivity ...
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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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EVENTS
Diocese of Palmerston North Youth Festival. 'Real life! Real Power!
Saturday 5 September 2009 10:00 am - 4 pm, Convenionja Centre, 354 Main Street, Palmerston North. Detaiuls in 'Wel-com' August 2009 p.20 and from Paul Skippen, tel: (06) 354 1780 ext 844; Mobile: 021 976 483; e-mail: pskippen@pndiocese.org.nz
2009 International Conference: Life, Faith and Family
October 2-4, Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna, Auckland
Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 26 - Aug. 8 2009 p.8, from Family Life International, tel (09) 279 2413, fax (09) 279 2418; e-mail: life@fli.org.nz; and on http://www.fli.org.nz
Joshua Catholic Men's Fellowship. Men's Retreats
2-4 October 2009, St Patrick's College, Silverstream, Upper Hutt
16-18 October 2009 Willow Park, Eastern Beach, Auckland
Details on http://www.joshua.org.nz and from John Kinney tel. (04) 475 5541
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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 ]
New Zealand Bible Society. Chief Executive
http://www.biblesociety.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 26 - Aug. 8 2009 p.28, and on the Society's Website. Applications close 25 September 2009.
Parish Presenters, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper
Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 26 - Aug. 8 2009 p.23, and from Dennis Augustine, Promotiona and Advertising Manager, 'NZ Catholic', PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1144; tel: (09) 360 3049; e-mail: advertising@nzcatholic.org.nz
