Sunday, October 9, 2011

News & Notes - 9 October 2011

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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE

http://www.catholic.org.nz/news/fx-list-articles.cfm?ctype=MRART&loadref=50

Respect Life Sunday to focus on dying well (5 Oct 2011)

Catholics around New Zealand will be invited to reflect on the idea
that "the art of living well and the art of dying well are one", this
Sunday 9 October. The Day of Prayer to Respect Life is an annual
Catholic Church event and this year's theme centres on respecting and
protecting human life by the way we care for the dying. It also
encourages us to consider what it means to die well...

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'WEL-COM'

http://www.welcom.org.nz

**News**

We're the seventh least equal country in the world. Wellington Central
Labour MP calls for more affordable services
Catherine Manathunga 4 October 2011
Health services needed to be more affordable and accessible and
Aotearoa New Zealand should have a Minister for Children, he said...

Investing in childhood well-being vital for the growth of the nation -
economists
Margaret Connor 4 October 2011
As well as being about the absence of disease, well-being takes
account of social factors that influence how we live our daily lives.
We now know that people living with chronic disease can experience
high levels of well-being...

Cenacle poet second in major book prize. Anne Powell's poems 'the best'
30 September 2011
Wellington's Sr Anne Powell has beaten a large number of entrants as
runner-up in a lucrative writing competition for her latest book of
poetry, Tree of a Thousand Voices...

**Columns**

Verbum Domini 9: The Word of God in the Life of the Church
Kieran Fenn fms
The recommendation is made for a greater 'biblical apostolate, not
alongside other forms of pastoral work, but as a means of letting the
Bible inspire all pastoral work...

Editorial: Respect life born and unborn
Cecily McNeill
With the Church's call to Respect Life this month Catholics would do
well to consider some actions to create a society that gives all
children the chance to reach their potential to be fully human, fully
alive...

Archbishop's column: A special book launch
Archbishop John Dew
In the last few years I have been privileged to have been invited to a
number of book launches. The First Sunday of Advent (November 27) will
be more than a 'book' launch. It will be the opportunity to pray in a
different way and hopefully to have a new sense of the sacred...


**Features**

Respecting and celebrating life in all its glorious forms
4 October 2011
I can draw and I can do most things that people without cerebral palsy
do. You can help me by waiting for me at the door and by helping me up
and down the stairs...

They call us the sandwich generation
4 October 2011
We are the baby-boomers who revel in the joy of welcoming
grandchildren and who, at the same time, experience the challenges and
sadness of looking after and farewelling elderly parents...

All things are full of God - a dying mother's son's view of life
4 October 2011
I thrashed around in my own grief, not knowing what advice the son or
the doctor could best give or how best to be heard giving it. I
battled, I see now, with my own ideas about acceptance and how people
who are dying walk that tricky rope...


**Wellington**

Archdiocese explores 'intentional stewardship' in enhanced sharing at
major conference
Kate Mahony 30 September 2011
In his welcome, Archbishop John Dew said he had attended a similar
conference in Australia two years ago. Afterwards, he realised how
much stewardship challenged him to live a life of discipleship and not
just talk about it...


**Palmerston North**

Bishop launches swansong book. 'Openings to Renewal' favourably received.
Cecily McNeill 4 October 2011
'Careful scholarship, pastoral sensitivity and compassion permeate
each letter of this book. There is no one responsible for pastoral
care in parish or chaplaincy who could not profit from the analyses,
explanations and insights contained in each 'opening to renewal'
discussed by Bishop Cullinane...

Paeon to a pacifist Ferrari
Fr Kevin Neal 4 October 2011
These weapons can do quite enough harm and we hope and pray that NZ
troops won't have to use them. I think that's why I like Ferraris. As
far I know that's all their manufacturers do. They make impossibly
magnificent cars. Nothing else...

Prayer and the gospels in the face of injustice
Mary Betz 3 October 2011
Sometimes it is a prayer of not knowing the answers, a prayer of
anguish and lament. Sometimes it is a prayer of action, of protest, of
support. Often it must be a non-utilitarian prayer...

Reflect

28th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A: Matthew 22:1-14
Veronica Lawson rsm
The catastrophic famine in the Horn of Africa is challenging us and
indeed the whole developed world to consider our use of the planet's
resources. Today's gospel brings a warning...

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

The art of talking off the cuff (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/the-wellingtonian/features/5740247/The-art-o-talking-off-the-cuff
Tim Gordon talks about theatresports, the priesthood and being the
Meal Mates biscuit man.

Cost crisis for churches
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/dunedin/181246/cost-crisis-churches
Churches are working together to avoid an insurance crisis which could
have "radical and far-reaching" implications. Dunedin's historic
churches - including First Church, Knox Church, St Paul's Cathedral
and St Joseph's Cathedral - either no longer have earthquake insurance
or will have no cover by April next year.

Future of Christchurch cathedrals uncertain
http://www.starcanterbury.co.nz/news/future-christchurch-cathedrals-uncertain/1121792/
The future of Christchurch's earthquake-wrecked Anglican and Catholic
cathedrals is even more uncertain after the decision by the largest
insurer of New Zealand churches and heritage buildings to stop
offering earthquake cover.

Insurance snub shows some churches no mercy
http://tinyurl.com/3qqmr96
Some Taranaki churches may be left without earthquake insurance after
Ansvar NZ – hard-hit by the Christchurch earthquakes – announced it
will no longer offer them cover.

The dead tell tales: Frank Tutchen 1890-1944 (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/6ylyy8y
Josiah Frank Tutchen was one of New Zealand's most respected racehorse
trainers from the 1920s to 40s.

Hibernian rescue plan rejected
http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/money/5739517/Hibernian-rescue-plan-rejected
A fraud-hit credit union is being pushed into liquidation by the
Ministry of Economic Development which rejected a rescue plan backed
by its members and supervisors.

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News of the Schools
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Garin College, Nelson: Footballer toughs it out (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/42s8xkp

Hato Petera College, Auckland: Principal on a mission (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/3zsdxn2

McAuley High School, Otahuhu: Schoolgirl dies after flu (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/education/news/article.cfm?c_id=35&objectid=10750879

Pompallier Catholic College, Whangarei: Cosmonaut call wows students
(photo) http://www.northernadvocate.co.nz/news/cosmonaut-call-wows-students/1128028/

Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt: Schoolwork stolen http://tinyurl.com/3vualg8

Sacred Heart, Invercargill: School pupils in speedsters' path
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/5708234/School-pupils-in-speedsters-path

St James', Palmerston North: Cup inspires school dance moves (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/manawatu-standard/news/5748554/Cup-inspires-school-dance-moves

St Joseph's School Timaru: Mighty Quinn backs ABs (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/sport/rugby/world-cup-canterbury/5718751/Mighty-Quinn-backs-ABs

St Joseph's, Queenstown: Who dares wins... (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/queenstown/180419/who-dares-wins

St Joseph's, Morrinsville: Aussie supreme at school cup day (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/3p9rtus

St Joseph's, Paeroa: Palace play tomorrow (photo) http://tinyurl.com/3q2srna

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INSPIRATIONAL TV

http://inspirationaltv.net

'Assured'
Matthew 22:1-14, a reading and reflection with Stephen Ready and Manuel Antonio.

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LIGHT OF THE WORLD - Otago Access Radio

http://www.accessradio.org/public/programme.php?uid=1218074856-834

Programmes in October 2011:

9 – Fr Andrew Pinsent, of Oxford University's Ian Ramsay Centre,
discusses the relationships between faith and science and shares some
resources for RCIA.

16 – The Crusades: Myths and misconceptions debunked by Prof Jonathon
Riley-Smith

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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs

http://www.beingfrank.co.nz


** "Find married saints!" (the vital need for a variety of saintly role models)

** "A few weeks ago, I was a washed-up actor with a drinking
problem... (sometimes the way you deliver a message is more important
than the message itself)

** Apology. On friendship

** Dreams within Dreams; Realities within Realities (on watching the
movie 'Inception')

** Interview with Msgr Guido Pozzo (developments regarding the society
of St Pius X

** Chch Diocese giving up on Cathedral

See also Gavin Abraham's blog 'The Catholic Soapbox:
http://catholicsoapbox.com

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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen Jr

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

Religious freedom, Archbishop Fiorenza, and Catholic fun
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/religious-freedom-archbishop-fiorenza-and-catholic-fun

Predictions are always hazardous, but here's one I feel pretty good
about: 2011 will be remembered as the year when religious freedom came
into focus as the premier social and political concern of the Catholic
church in the early 21st century...

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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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NEWS OF THE CHURCH IN NZ AND THE WORLD

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EMPLOYMENT

[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised on
the Website the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]

Principal, The Catholic Institute of Aotearoa New Zealand
http://www.wcec.org.nz
Position description:
http://catholic.org.nz/resources/dsp-default.cfm?loadref=235
Details in 'NZ Catholic' September 25 - October 8 2011 p.22 and from
Executive Officer, NZCBC, PO Box 1937, Wellington 6140;
adickinson@nzcbc.org.nz ; tel (04) 496 1747