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NZ CATHOLIC
In issue no. 384, February 12-25 2012: Healing on agenda in Rome ... 10,000 celebrate Sinulog ... Judger Spiller ordained to diaconate in Hamilton ... Faith guides engineer's good works ... A legacy of loving care in the Pacific ... 50 years after Vatican II, debate continues ... The phenomenon and mystery of stigmata ... Jackie tells of the ache of singleness ... Wanaka's new church scoops award ... Advertising feature: Caritas - The Lent Appeal 2012
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Peter Pomare enjoying life after surgery (photo)
http://www.rotoruadailypost.co.nz/news/peter-enjoying-life-after-surgery/1268765/
Since returning to Rotorua after controversial brain surgery Peter Pomare has been enjoying quality time with his family.
Married for 65 years - good reason to celebrate (photo)
http://www.wanganuichronicle.co.nz/news/married-for-65-years-its-good-reason-to-celebrate/1268566/
Wanganui couple Tom and Nola Wright's eyes are always smiling, and 65 years of married life gives the devoted couple something to smile about. Yesterday they were on a spoil with good friends and their daughter at the Brick House where they celebrated the couple's wedding anniversary.
Church morphing into new cinema (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/wanaka/197403/church-morphing-new-cinema
Renovations to Wanaka's former Catholic church in Brownston St have begun as the owners of Cinema Paradiso prepare to begin a gradual relocation process to the building.
No quake insurance for Catholic church (photo)
http://www.ashburtonguardian.co.nz/news/todays-news/6551-no-quake-insurance-for-catholic-church.html
Ashburton's only category one historic building would cost $6.5 million to rebuild if it fell down in an earthquake, but there would be no insurance. Parishioners at the Church of the Holy Name and other Mid Canterbury Catholic churches are only just learning their buildings are not covered for earthquakes.
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News of the Schools
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Hato Petera College, Auckland: School takes on Japanese role (photo)
North Shore times
http://tinyurl.com/6q68x3r
Marian College, Christchurch: Girls' schools back in action
Christchurch Mail
http://tinyurl.com/7w9ee4s
Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt: Blessings on school's hall for all (photo)
The Hutt News
http://tinyurl.com/6mxjapq
St Mary's, Blenheim: St Mary's reunion of students from Form 2 in 1982 (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/6371115/St-Marys-pupils-roll-back-years
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
Reach out: Mark 1:40-45, a reading and commentary by Sister Stephanie Kitching.
Also: Reflect - Beginnings of Life, with Sister Mary Scanlan
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LIGHT OF THE WORLD - Otago Catholic Access Radio
http://www.accessradio.org/public/programme.php?uid=1218074856-834
2012-02-5 – Brennan Pursell talks about his book History in His Hands: A Christian Narrative of the West.
[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
** Comfort in a time of desolation (A homily by Fr Peter Cornwell)
** "The Servant Model"; We deserve better (the order of distributing communion)
** Vive Dickens! (On the 200th anniversary of Charles Dickens' birth)
** How are the schools, really?
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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
The Vatican gets religion on fighting abuse
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/vatican-gets-religion-fighting-abuse
I've been covering the "Toward Healing and Renewal" symposium this week, a major international summit on the sexual abuse crisis organized by Rome's Jesuit-run Gregorian University and co-sponsored by several Vatican departments. It brought together roughly 100 bishops and religious superiors from around the world ahead of a May deadline from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for bishops' conferences to submit their anti-abuse policies for review. I've been filing stories along the way, and I won't rehash that material here. Instead, I'll lay out the big picture to emerge from the summit, which I would express this way: The Vatican has gotten religion on the sexual abuse crisis...
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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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Pompallier's People: The Catholic Church in Aotearoa New Zealand
http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Catholic-Church-in-Aotearoa-New-Zealand/149916141686808
Bishop Patrick Dunn
http://www.facebook.com/bishoppatrick?sk=wall
Catholic Discipleship College
http://www.facebook.com/cdcnz?sk=wall
SMNZ Marists - the Society of Mary in New Zealand
http://www.facebook.com/Marists
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NEWS OF THE CHURCH IN NZ AND THE WORLD
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/author/luke/page/14/
http://vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/
http://www.romereports.com (video)
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (video news of Pope Benedict)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised on the Website of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]
** Leader of Adult Faith Formation – Catholic Diocese of Auckland **
Details on http://www.aucklandcatholic.org.nz/leader-of-adult-faith-formation-catholic-diocese-of-auckland/ and from: Leader, Parish & Pastoral Services Group,
Catholic Diocese of Auckland, Private Bag 47904, Ponsonby, Auckland 1144 Tel:360 3004; email: patl@cda.org.nz Applications close February 15th, 2012
** Young Adults Coordinator, Catholic Diocese of Christchurch **
Details on http://www.cyt.org.nz/?sid=1415 , in 'NZ Catholic' January 29 - February 11 2012 p.22, and from: Chris Lysaght, Catholic Youth Team Director, P O Box 4544 Christchurch. Tel (03) 353 0705 Email: clysaght@chch.catholic.org.nz Applications close 17th February 2012
** Communications Advisor, NZ Catholic Bishops' Conference
Details in 'Wel-com' February 2012 p.16, on http://www.catholic.org.nz/_uploads/_ckpg/files/Communications%20Advisor%20ad.pdf and from Mike Hurdle, MICAH Partners, tel (04) 499 4749; e-mail contact@micahpartners.co.nz Applications close 17 February 2012.
