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'NZ CATHOLIC'

http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz

April 25 - May 8 2010 - No. 339

In this issue ... Archbishop treks 100km for Oxfam ... Marching for life in
Chch ... Bill seeks to clarify frozen embryos' status ... Film honours
college's war dead ... Pope Benedict's first five years largely impress NZ
observers ... Catholics need a better perspective on clerical sex abuse ...
Dialogue with secular society difficult but possible - part one of an
interview with Cardinal Francis Arinze

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

Brothers in arms (photo)
The Herald on Sunday
http://tinyurl.com/26hln4n
A memorial plaque in Auckland's Sacred Heart College chapel has inspired a moving documentary about past pupils of the school who died in past wars.

Catholics pay respects to early pioneers of the faith (photo)
North Shore Times
http://tinyurl.com/28mpuds
A celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of St Luke's Catholic Church on Bayswater Avenue began with a pilgrimage to the graves of Thomas and Mary Poynton at O'Neill's Point Cemetery.

Nun hurt in fall (full text)
The Dominion Post
http://tinyurl.com/2emxfpz
A 93-year-old Catholic nun from Jerusalem on the Whanganui River has been flown to Whanganui Hospital by the Square Trust rescue helicopter after falling and cutting her head. The accident happened while the nun was walking in the Hiruharama convent grounds about 3pm yesterday.

Hall to get new lease of life at school location (photo)
Cambridge Edition
http://tinyurl.com/27x7yon
Photo caption: St Peter's Catholic parish hall has been integrated into St Peter's School.

Crusaders mourn trainer
http://www.starcanterbury.co.nz/local/news/crusaders-mourn-trainer/3912928/

The Crusaders were mourning the loss of their strength and conditioning trainer Luke Andrew Thornley as they prepared for Saturday's home match against the Cheetahs. Players and a line-up of Canterbury rugby identities attended Mr Thornley's funeral at the Catholic Cathedral in the morning.

Catholic Concern for poor in Govt tax changes
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00244.htm
The Auckland Catholic Diocese Justice and Peace Commission has expressed concern about how the Government's proposed tax changes will impact upon lower-income families and individuals at a time when a significant number of families struggle to make ends meet.

Papal recognition (photo)
The Hutt News
http://tinyurl.com/y2ohfgk
Alan Devlin, a descendant of 1843 Petone arrival John Cudby, was presented with the Papal Award Benemerenti by Archbishop John Dew on March 14.

Team driving forward (photo)
St Bernard's College has a reputation as a top rugby stronghold.
The Hutt News
http://tinyurl.com/y5h887h

Sealy will become New Zealand's only full-time youth minister
http://www.br.psu.edu/Information/News/33017.htm
Rich Sealy, Catholic campus minister at [Pennsylvania State University, Beaver, near Pittsburgh] is leaving the campus for New Zealand, where he will spend at least two years as the country's only full-time youth minister. Sealy's wife and two children will be with him.

Hundreds Take Part In New Zealand's First March For Life
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/apr/10041907.html
Over 300 people marched in Christchurch on April 10 to highlight the value of all human life, and to speak out against abortion.

Schools follow rules on teaching abstinence
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/3599354/Schools-follow-rules-on-teaching-abstinence
Timaru children will not be taught to abstain from sex unless primary schools are directed by parents or the Education Ministry, despite a Family First survey showing three out of four parents of young children are all for it.

Aid agency disaster funding to be overhauled
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2010/04/20/1247fe65a8d0
The Government plans to overhaul the way aid agencies are funded for disaster relief work overseas. The director of the Catholic aid agency Caritas, Michael Smith, says more details are needed urgently.

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INSPIRATIONAL TV

http://inspirationaltv.net

** Family Visiting **
Jenny, DRS at St Catherine's College, on the rollercoaster ride that is being a family.

** Never Lost **
John 10:27-30 : a reading and discussion with Vicky Wall and Theresa Ulmer.

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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs

http://www.beingfrank.co.nz

** Imagine Life (the Imagine pro-life advertisements)
** "As long as I've got my health, and my millions of dollars ... I don't need anything else." (on persuading people to donate)
** A Peter-like Paradigm of Perpetual Conversion. (finding much to relate to in Peter)
** How little we know (a conversation on the history of the Mass)
** Christian Legal Centres Busy in the UK
** Physical Littleness and Mental Littleness (Archbishop Fulton Sheen's 'The Eternal Galilean')

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* NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS

Living the Word - Fr Frank Bird sm
http://livingtheword.wordpress.com

Reflect - Veronica Lawson RSM
http://www.welcom.org.nz/?sid=394

Daily Reflections (right-hand column)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz

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

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

Cardinal Castrillón must feel trapped
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/cardinal-castrillon-must-feel-trapped

For most of the last two decades, Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Clergy from 1996 to 2006, was widely considered a serious contender to become the first Latin American pope. Today, even if he weren't almost 81, Castrillón would have about as much chance of becoming pope as Sinead O'Connor. As the then-president of a Vatican commission that deals with traditionalist Catholics, he took the blame for the Holocaust-denying bishop fiasco in January 2009. Now Castrillón has achieved global infamy in light of a September 2001 letter he dispatched to a French bishop congratulating him for refusing to report an abuser priest to the police...

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FACEBOOK

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

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

'The Fifteenth Station'
http://www.facebook.com/station15

Hato Hohepa / St Joseph's Maori Girls' College
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Napier/Hato-Hohepa/101194467580?v=info

Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
http://ko-kr.facebook.com/pages/Youth-for-Family-and-Life-YFL-New-Zealan/292888828797

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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 ]

Managing Editor, 'NZ Catholic'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no.339 April 25 - May 8 2010 p.22, and from Kerry Coleman, tel: (09) 360-3005; e-mail: kerryc@cda.org.nz Applications close 16 May 2010.

Team member, CYT: Youth and Young Adult Ministries, Catholic Diocese of Christchurch.
http://www.cyt.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no.339 April 25 - May 8 2010 p.23, and from Chris Lysaght, Director, e-mail: clysaght@chch.catholic.org.nz ; tel: (03) 366 9869