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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

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Monte Cecilia
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School to face closure
Central Leader
http://tinyurl.com/y9esl5r
A Hillsborough school community is in shock after a decision by the Auckland City Council to take the land it sits on.

School's future uncertain
Central Leader
http://tinyurl.com/y9retpw

School and church at odds over move
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/6759208/school-and-church-at-odds-over-move/

Monte Cecilia School Given Death Sentence By Council
http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/monte-cecilia-school-given-death-sentence-council/5/37230

Delay wanted over acquisition of school
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2010/02/03/1247f1772777

Secret Decision On Monte Cecilia School's Closure A Shocker
http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/secret-decision-monte-cecilia-school039s-closure-shocker/5/36888

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Unknown Peace (photo)
Central Leader
http://tinyurl.com/ydewgfe
Being the wild card has proved to be the winner for a local reggae band. Eight-piece group Unknown Peace beat the odds to come out on top at the traditionally rock-dominated Battle of the Bands national finals recently.

People the principal concern (photo)
The Timaru Herald
http://tinyurl.com/ya7h8o6
Twenty-four hours in the life of David Armstrong, the principal of Timaru's Sacred Heart School.

Dom - a nun for 80+ years (photo)
The Southland Times
http://tinyurl.com/yenhnx3
The death at the weekend of Sister Mary Dominic, a Mercy nun living at Calvary Home in Invercargill for the past 14 months, brought to an end what is thought to be one of the longest lives of an ordained professed religious in Australasia.

Bibby's big birthday bash (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/3275589/Bibby-s-big-birthday-bash
Although her ancestors were among Puhoi's first Bohemian founders, it was to her childhood home of Mangawhai that Bibby Cotter's memories increasingly returned as her 100th birthday approached.

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INSPIRATIONAL TV

http://inspirationaltv.net

** Holiday Renewal **
Jenny O'Brien on school holidays

** Spreading the net **
Luke 5: 1-11, a reading and commentary by Fr Ted Tyler

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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs

http://www.beingfrank.co.nz

** Economic Fertility (The 'Population Bomb')
** "Oh! My son doesn't stand a chance! The whole world's gone gay!" (the UK Equality Bill)
** I love your work, Ricky Gervais but not your ethics (eugenics)
** What would Jesus have done? Tongue poking or not? (at Mass in Kinshasa)
** Is sexual reproduction an example of irreducible complexity?
** Putting your money where stupid is (Telecom's donation to the FPA)
** How to stop worrying and start living (on reading 'How to stop worrying and start living')

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

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

A Dallas experiment in orthodoxy and openness
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/dallas-experiment-orthodoxy-and-openness

In Georges Bernanos' Diary of a Country Priest, the elderly Curé de Torcy gives his young priest friend a bit of advice about proclaiming the Gospel: "The Word of God is a red-hot iron," he says. "Truth is meant to save you first, and the comfort comes later." One could probably craft a meditation on the state of the Catholic soul today in terms of the tension between those two values -- truth and comfort. The $64,000 question is, can we do both? Can the Catholic church be both the "sacrament of the unity of the human race" and a fearless evangelical force? ...

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FACEBOOK

Bishop Pat Dunn's diary
http://www.facebook.com/bishoppatrick

Catholic Discipleship College
http://www.facebook.com/cdcnz

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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

Catholic Youth Conference for school years 10-13
5-7 March 2010
St Thomas More Catholic Church, 17 Gloucester Road, Mt Maunganui 3116
Theme: "Set Free" (Galatians 5:1)
Conference site: http://www.catholicyouth.co.nz
Video promo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0cNWXK7_-g

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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 ]

Director, Catholic Family and Community Services, Auckland
http://www.cfcs.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' No. 333, Jan 31 - Feb 13 2010 p.23, 'Wel-com' February 2010 p.16, and from Eric Allan, Catholic Family and Community Services, tel: (09) 378 9650 Applications close 17 February 2009.

Archdiocese of Wellington. Assistant Advisor, Youth and Young Adult Ministry
http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/?sid=16
Details in 'Wel-com' February 2010 p.19, and from Lorraine McArthur, Director, Archdiocesan Pastoral Services, tel: (04) 496 1706; e-mail: l.mcarthur@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 19 February 2010