Sunday, January 17, 2010

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

Caritas Launches Huge International Response to Haitian Quake
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK1001/S00118.htm
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is accepting donations towards a huge international Caritas effort responding to the devastation of the magnitude 7 earthquake that struck the Caribbean nation of Haiti.

Filipinos celebrate (photos)
Manukau Courier
http://tinyurl.com/ydkd7pv
More than 7000 Filipinos are expected in Mangere this weekend as the annual Sinulog fiesta reaches its climax.

New Year Honours: Sister of Mercy shares tribute with all nurses (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/honoured-new-zealanders/news/article.cfm?c_id=513&objectid=166864
Sister Patricia Mary Hook, of the Sisters of Mercy religious order, has been made one of five distinguished companions of the NZ Order of Merit (DCNZM), for services to nursing and the community.

Time for Harry to move over (photo)
Piako Post
http://tinyurl.com/ydvv622
Morrinsville resident Harry van de Laar has finally decided to hang up his keys and retire from his driving duties with the Donny Van. The van drives the elderly to places and appointments they need to go to.

High praise for Sisters (photo)
Manukau Courier
http://tinyurl.com/ycjrl5y
There's a funny thing about being world famous in Wiri. Just ask Sisters of Mercy Anne Hurley and Margaret Martin.

Awarded for love (photo)
The Hutt News
http://tinyurl.com/yeak2qd
Alan Devlin, a descendant of John Cudby who came ashore at Petone in 1843, has spent much of his life since retiring 20 years ago serving newer immigrants - refugees - to the Hutt Valley.

Priest on case for NZ saint
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/3226962/Priest-on-case-for-NZ-saint
A Nelson priest is gathering evidence to convince the Vatican a New Zealand woman is worthy of sainthood. Father Maurice Carmody said Mother Suzanne Aubert was a New Zealand hero who worked tirelessly to help everyday New Zealanders.

Pompallier Catholic College
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/northland/local-news/whangarei-leader/3219927/Boost-It-wins-for-pupils
Young, sharp minds from Pompallier College have been given an insiders look at the world of business. Forty-eight year 10 students took part in a three-day practical business education programme, Student Enterprise Learning Link, or Sell, in December.

Divine intervention (13 Pah Rd Onetangi Waiheke Island)
New Zealand Herald — E016 — 16 January 2010
Nicky and Simon Cairns just know they will be kicking themselves once they sell their beautiful home, sitting high above Waiheke's Onetangi Beach. Their home is known as ``the church'', as that is what it was from the mid-1950s to the 1980s. It started life around 1936 as an ordinary home, a transitional design somewhere between a bungalow and a villa. In about 1954, the house was gifted to the Catholic Church by Eva Dolphin and named the Star of the Sea...

Related link:
13 Pah Rd Onetangi Waiheke Island: 16 photos
http://www.realestate.co.nz/1226974

Giving migrants a foundation for life
The Dominion Post — News — 14 Jan 2010 — Page 11
David Boyle, a New Zealand Catholic businessman is helping to bring sport, education and social welfare to disadvantaged migrant families in China's biggest city, Shanghai.

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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC PODCASTS

** Familia ** - Episode 16, Fri 1 January 2010

This month's edition of Familia features part two of a special two part interview with Dr. Gerard O'Shea. Gerard is the principal of a Catholic primary school in Melbourne as well as being a Ph.D. He recently visited New Zealand to talk about the challenges of being a Catholic parent, and to explain the new sexuality education program, based on Catholic teaching, which has implemented in his school with great success.

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** The Perfect Day (report from a honeymoon)
** “Why me, Lord? Where have I gone wrong?..." (Haiti, and suffering in the world)
** The great Christmas atheist vs. christian debate
** It’s hard to put a stone in a jar already full of sand… (on priorities and prayer)
** Stark truths (summary of an article on the history Islam and Christianity)
** Can you overstate the obvious nowadays? (purification of the vessels after communion)
** A universal Church

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

Every January for the last 10 years, a group of bishops from Europe, the United States and Canada visit the Middle East as part of a Vatican initiative knows as the "Holy Land Coordination." The aim of the exercise is to sensitize the prelates to the issues of the region so that once home, the bishops can lead their churches and societies in doing something about them. The visits also provide a form of moral support for the Assembly of Catholic Ordinaries of the Holy Land, launched in 1992 as the bishops' conference of the region - in effect, a way of underscoring that the Catholic world hasn't forgotten about them...

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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (news of Pope Benedict - video)

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EVENTS

Catholic Family Retreat
Theme "A Firm Foundation"
28th Jan - 1st Feb 2010
Keswick Camp Rotorua
Formation, fun, fellowship & faith for families of all shapes and sizes!
For more info or to register email sarahcox@catholic.org

Parachute Music Festival
Mystery Creek, Hamilton. 29 January - 1 February 2010
http://www.parachutemusic.com/festival

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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 ]

National Treasurer, The Society of St Vincent de Paul
http://www.svdp.org.nz
Details in 'Wel-com' December 2009 p.19, 'NZ Catholic' Dec 20 2009 - Jan 30 2010 No. 332 p.21, and from the National Office, tel. (04) 499 5070; PO Box 10815, Wellington.

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