Kiwicath News and Notes

Sunday, April 22, 2012

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

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Anzac Day 2012

Salute to bravery (photo)
The New Zealand Herald
http://tinyurl.com/885ggfm
Other than news coverage of Anzac ceremonies, it seems the main networks have surrendered significant marking of our most popular national day to Maori Television. Maori TV'S focus for the day will be on D Company in the 28th Maori Battalion. Matai Smith will present from Te Aute College in Hawkes Bay, where 250 former pupils served in the 28th Maori Battalion during World War II, including Te Moananui-a-kiwa Ngarimu, who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery and gallantry. But it is another medalled member of D Company who is the focus of the evening's main documentary, Charlie Shelford, Rebel Hero (8.30pm)...

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Nun champion of Christchurch psychiatric day care
Sister Oliver (Nellie) Plunkett, b. Penrith, New South Wales, 1921; d. Christchurch, April 7, 2012
The Press
http://tinyurl.com/84gkjqt
Establishing New Zealand's first private psychiatric day-care centre was meant to be a three-month job for Australian nun Sister Oliver Plunkett. Sixty years after setting up the centre, on the corner of Bealey Ave and Durham St, Sister Oliver was still in Christchurch.

'Save Erskine' campaign pops up
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/capital-life/6773074/Save-Erskine-campaign-pops-up
A young photographer has taken up the cause of Erskine College, launching a campaign to save the red-stickered heritage building. Steven Buck completed an art course at the Island Bay site when The Learning Connexion was based there, and fell in love with its architecture and history.

Catholic agency objects to speed of youth welfare changes
http://www.voxy.co.nz/politics/catholic-agency-objects-speed-youth-welfare-changes/5/120981
Catholic social justice agency Caritas warns that children are being endangered by the speed of legislative change - just as children are put at risk by excessive speed on our roads.

Catholics sidelined in Square battle
The Dominion Post
http://tinyurl.com/7q4czbc
There is so little debate and discussion going on about the demolition/rebuild of the Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, the white flanks of which are now startlingly revealed after the demolition of surrounding brick buildings.

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News of the Schools
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John Paul College, Rotorua: Two schools top NCEA average http://www.rotoruadailypost.co.nz/news/two-schools-top-ncea-average/1333843/

Marian School, Hamilton: Soloist has family ties (photo) Hamilton Press http://tinyurl.com/7mjho3u

Sacred Heart College, Auckland: Sprinter breaks national record for age group (photo) East and Bays Courier http://tinyurl.com/7zv6gsg

Sacred Heart College, Auckland: You can't wrap them in cotton wool, says grieving dad (photo) http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10799409

Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt: Ocean offers space (photo) The Hutt News http://tinyurl.com/6ow59ex

Sacred Heart Girls' College, New Plymouth: Champion teen takes knocks in her stride (photo) Taranaki Daily News http://tinyurl.com/7vn8vj3

St Joseph's, Arrowtown: Appeal against Catholic school dismissed http://www.stuff.co.nz/southland-times/news/6783377/Appeal-against-Catholic-school-dismissed

St Joseph's, Upper Hutt: Stacks of hand speed (photo) http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/local-papers/upper-hutt-leader/6761439/Stacks-of-hand-speed

Star of the Sea, Howick: School gets cultured (photo) http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/eastern-courier/6773006/School-gets-cultured

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INSPIRATIONAL TV

http://inspirationaltv.net

Peace: Luke 24: 35 - 48, a reading and reflection with Rev. Canon Jenny Wilkens and Very Rev. Frank Wilson at St Paul's Cathedral.

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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC PODCASTS

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The View from Down Here
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http://station15.co.nz

April 17, 2012: This week's episode is brought to you by the word "drop", as in Rick Santorum drops out of the Republican primary race, a Democratic strategist drops the ball in her party's alleged affinity with women, and President Obama's staff drop a large group of secret service agents for their indiscretions while supposedly protecting the president in Colombia. Oh, and a group of progressive Catholics try to drop the hammer on Republican up-and-comer Paul Ryan's budget proposal. Brendan, Tim and Gavin discuss those stories and more in The View from Down Here.

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Station XV
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http://station15.co.nz

Episode 55 — Faith revivals in New Zealand and Cuba? (April 15, 2012)
A new study suggests many young New Zealanders might be becoming more religious while other peers are turning away from faith. Which will win out? The panel discusses that research and analyses the possible impact of Pope Benedict's trip to Cuba, as well as the semiannual controversial billboard from a prominent Anglican parish in Auckland. We'd love to hear from our listeners, so feel free to post comments with your feedback.

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LIGHT OF THE WORLD - Otago Catholic Access Radio
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http://www.accessradio.org/public/programme.php?uid=1218074856-834

15 April 2012 – Tony Brandt and Chris Stewart comment on mistakes to avoid in talking about the faith. Each week, Kevin Flaherty reads from 'The Joy of Knowing Christ'.

[Choose the "Click to download" link. The sound quality of the other one is terrible - ml]

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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs

http://www.beingfrank.co.nz

** Quick Question (If you could get any Catholic speaker to come to your diocese, who would it be and why?)

** Time to Consecrate time - Step one, the day.

** How will you celebrate the season of Easter? (What would a person of the Resurrection be like?)

** "The church 'owns' the liturgy…"

** More on Kiwi revival (God reported alive in NZ)

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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC PERIODICALS & NEWSLETTERS

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

Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. 'The Tablet' http://www.cdd.org.nz/the-tablet

NZ Catholic Education Office. 'Lighting New Fires' http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resources/resources_lighting_new_fires.html

NZ Catholic Education Office. 'Good News and the News' http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resources/resources_good_news.html

Society of Mary. 'Marist Messenger' http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz

The Nathaniel Centre. The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report' http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/?sid=5

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

'Tui Motu Interislands'. An independent Catholic magazine. http://www.tuimotu.org/articles

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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen Jr

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

Benedict XVI a pope of ironies
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/benedict-xvi-pope-ironies

For Benedict XVI, this has been a week of milestones. The pontiff turned 85 on Monday, making him the oldest pope in the last 110 years and one of just six to reign past 85 in the last half-millennium. On Thursday, Benedict also marked the seventh anniversary of his election to the papacy in April 2005. Yet if we take the last seven years into view, not just the last week, the picture changes considerably. Quite often, the most intriguing feature of this papacy isn't how Benedict has confirmed expectations, but rather how he's confounded them. Indeed, if John Paul II was a "pope of firsts" and a "pope of surprises," Benedict XVI may well go down as a "pope of ironies." The following are eight such defining ironies, meaning sharp contrasts between the stereotypes and mythology that surrounded Benedict at the beginning versus the lived reality of his reign...

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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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Catholic Discipleship College
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