FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

Time left used to help others (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10677768
37-year-old Tracy Whiston is battling motor neurone disease (MND), which has no known cure. She may only have a handful of years to live. But the Auckland woman is using the time she has left to help others with the disease. Tracy has set up a trust to raise money for families affected by the debilitating disease and has inspired a wave of fundraising efforts at St Mary's Catholic School in Ellerslie.

Temporary home prepared for pupils (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/4190335/Temporary-home-prepared-for-pupils
Workers have started preparing classrooms at Christchurch's Catholic Cathedral College for St Paul's School pupils, who will start classes on the site on October 11.

Legendary Queenstown hostess dies (photo
The Southland Times
http://tinyurl.com/2dsvvl3
Iris O'connell, who died at the age of 101 in Dunedin this month, was Queenstown's queen of hospitality in her heyday.

`Breathtakingly beautiful' gardens (photo)
The Marlborough Express
http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/community-papers/4175052/Breathtakingly-beautiful-gardens
Rambling spring gardens and winding paths revealing hidden glades, are part of the magic and intrigue of the Seddon Combined Churches Garden Tour.

Pacific tsunami one year on
http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/pacific-tsunami-one-year-caritas-rebuilds-tonga-and-samoa/5/65264
One year on from the Pacific tsunami that claimed almost 200 lives, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand has allocated the half-a-million dollars New Zealanders donated to its tsunami appeal, primarily to housing projects across Samoa and Tonga.

Pious Catholic met an early grave
Western Leader
http://tinyurl.com/23lt4t9
An article about the Lonergan family grave at Waikumete

Karl du Fresne: We don’t need to wait for our leaders to supply bread and circuses
The Dominion Post
http://tinyurl.com/2ak97kt
Karl du Fresne on Pope Benedict's visit to Britain

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Sainthood changes church to St Mary's (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/regions/south-otago/128498/sainthood-changes-church-st-marys
Balclutha's Catholic parishioners are gearing up to celebrate the legacy of soon-to-be-saint Mary MacKillop, helper of disadvantaged families in rural communities more than 100 years ago.

Paedophile priest bad news for nun
Waikato Times
http://tinyurl.com/26thp8a
The order of nuns co-founded by Mary MacKillop agrees that Australia’s first saint was excommunicated by the Catholic Church for exposing a paedophile priest.

Links to woman of faith revealed
The Daily Post — A006 — 30 September 2010
An article about Mary MacKillop in Rotorua. The full text can be read via the public libraries 'Newztext' service.

By the same author (Gertrude McGowan RSJ) 'Rotorua Pilgrimage: Mary McKillop in Rotorua (photos)
http://www.marymackillop.org.au/_uploads/rsfil/00014.pdf

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NEW WEBSITE

Funeral Mass Planner Guide
http://www.catholicfunerals.co.nz/httpdocs/index.cfm
This website has been approved by the Wellington Archdiocese and contains their policy on the Order of Christian Burials.

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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs

http://www.beingfrank.co.nz

** What’s Wrong With The Church? (and what to do about it, by Fr Dwight Longernecker)
** “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” (on alien life and evolution)
** Contemplation in Silence
** What Remains? (making a mark in an age of transience)
** A prophetic utterance? (Have we altered the faith in its liturgy? )
** Social Justice Week came and went…

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INSPIRATIONAL TV

http://inspirationaltv.net

'Being the steward'
Jenny O'Brien on the stewardship of creation

'Servant' - Luke 17:5-10, a reading and discussion with Rev Alison Camplin and Canon Jenny Wilkens at St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington.

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MAGAZINES AND NEWSLETTERS

Marist Messenger - October 2010
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz

NZ Catholic Education Office newsletter
http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resourcesubpages/lighting-new-fires.html
'Lighting New Fires' and Catholic Schools' Supplement - August 2010
'Good News and the News' - July 2010

Catholic Diocese of Christchurch newsletter 'Inform' - August 2010
http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=25

Marist Brothers' Marist Family News - June 2010
http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/Marist%20Family%20News.htm

The Nathaniel Centre - The NZ Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report - Issue thirty-one, 19 August 2010

Tui Motu InterIslands - September 2010
http://www.tuimotu.org/articles

Society of St Vincent de Paul. News
http://www.svdp.org.nz/index.php/current-news/

St Columban's Mission Society. 'The Far East' - September 2010
http://www.columban.org.au/?MID=200510192652

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NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS

Living the Word - Fr Frank Bird sm http://livingtheword.org.nz

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

Two weeks' worth of hope
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/two-weeks-worth-hope

When I'm on the lecture circuit, one of the most common questions I get is this: "Where do you see hope in the church?" Implicit, of course, is the assumption that hope is hard to find. The premise is understandable, because the case for despair is often depressingly easy to make. Yet I also can't help feeling that one has to be almost deliberately blind not to see signs of hope everywhere, if you but look around...

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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

Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Youth-For-Family-and-Life-CFC-YFL/113115662062621

SMNZ Marists - the Society of Mary in New Zealand
http://www.facebook.com/Marists

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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 ]

Education Officer, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand
http://www.caritas.org.nz
Details in 'Wel-com' October 2010 p.19, and from http://www.bigsplash.co.nz , job reference 293192 Applications close 12 October 2010.

Principal organist and deputy director of music, St Mary of the Angels, Wellington
http://www.smoa.org.nz
Details in 'Wel-com' October 2010 p.17 and from the Parish Secretary, St Mary of the Angels, 17 Boulcott Street, Wellington 6011. E-mail: smoaoffice@xtra.co.nz ; tel: 04 473 8074