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KIWICATH NEWS & NOTES - 13 June 2010
A weekly snapshot of Catholic life in New Zealand
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Dear readers,
Here's an interesting link:
Top 200 Most Popular Catholic Blogs by Google Subscribers
http://ericsammons.com/topcatholicblogs.html
Happy reading.
Mike L.
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'WEL-COM'
http://www.welcom.org.nz
** News **
Mercy colleges take main trophies in 2010 O'Shea contest
New director for bioethics centre
Californian warning on 'three strikes' legislation
** World News **
Thai locals seek refuge in Jesuits' Bangkok base
Timor-Leste turns 10 as it struggles against poverty
** Columns **
Editorial: O'Shea Shield inspires church
Archbishop John Dew: The new liturgy
** Schools **
O'Shea 2010 a triumph for Mercies
College prepares for 160th
Today's students more joyous about religion
** Features **
Reflections on Mothers' Day
Galileo, science and the church
Vatican II nothing passed, the lines are drawn
** Wellington **
More than 100 awarded for parish service
Prisoners share their grief
** Palmerston North **
Catholic schools day in Napier
Saved by the Resurrection post
Napier teacher dies
** Reflect **
12th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C Luke 8:26-39 Veronica Lawson rsm
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Double success for Sacred Heart (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/sport/3793435/Double-success-for-Sacred-Heart
New Plymouth's Sacred Heart Girls' College had double reason to celebrate this week. The school's senior netballers won the prized Mission Cup for the first time in 12 years and the hockey players won the Te Toa Catholic tournament for the first time in four years.
Choir massing for 'Requiem' (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/arts/109933/choir-massing-039requiem039
Faure's Requiem is a favourite choral work of the City of Dunedin Choir, which has performed it six times between 1972 and 1999. It is is about to sing it again in a concert, "Fauré and Friends", on Sunday afternoon in St Paul's Cathedral.
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
** Unexpected Opportunity **
A reflection on generosity by Sr Mary Scanlan.
** Pardoning generously **
* Luke 7:36 - 8:3 : a reading and discussion with Matthew Gardner and Vicky Wall.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** "God is the only treasure people desire to find in a priest" (The year of the Priest)
** "Dear Lisa, our president has been overthrown and replaced by general Krull.." (popular culture, plus a bit about Gaza)
** From Filia's Desk (Shane Jones' taste in movies)
** Poor 'hidden away' behind World Cup hype
** Going ga-ga over Gaza
** Queen's birthday honours.to which Queen? (Mary, Queen of Heaven)
** The gift of our schools. ("If you have taught them to pray you have taught them everything)
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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.
Struggling to understand a bishop's murder in Turkey
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/struggling-understand-bishops-murder-turkey
Anyone with even a passing familiarity with Catholicism in the Middle East probably knew Bishop Luigi Padovese, an Italian Capuchin who served as the Vicar of Anatolia and president of the bishops' conference in Turkey. Gregarious and articulate, Padovese was a passionate advocate of the church's mission in the region. In terms of the Christian/Muslim relationship, Padovese was also one of those rare voices not easily classified as either a hawk or a dove - hardly blind to the threats posed by Islamic radicalism, but still a man of dialogue through and through. Given that reputation, news last week that Padovese, 63, had been murdered by his longtime driver and aide in his summer residence outside Iskenderun, on Turkey's Mediterranean coast, triggered shock waves across the Catholic world...
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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-Zealand/292888828797
SMNZ Marists - the Society of Mary in New Zealand
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Auckland-New-Zealand/SMNZ-Marists/80022416689?v=wall
The Way: youth group of Waiwhetu Parish, Lower Hutt
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-WAY-Youth-Group/147130704238
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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 ]
Archdiocese of Wellington. Youth and Young Adult Ministry (one-year fixed-term position)
http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/?sid=16
Details in 'Wel-com' June 2010 p.5 and from Lorraine McArthur, Director, Archdiocesan Pastoral Services, tel: (04) 496 1706; email: l.mcarthur@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 25 June 2010.
