Sunday, November 18, 2012

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

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Denis McAlinden
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In the shadow of evil (photo)
The Catholic church in Tokomaru Bay, Gisborne, is like many in small-town New Zealand - a picture of safety and innocence. It's hard to imagine that the pretty little wooden chapel with the blue roof has been caught up in a top-level inquiry into the sexual abuse of children, which was launched in Australia but is likely to extend to this country.

NZ Bishop can't find any warnings about priest (text and audio interview with Bishop Browne)
The Bishop of Hamilton says he can't find any records warning about a paedophile priest who was sent to the city from Australia in 1984. The late Father Denis McAlinden, who is known to have abused dozens of girls as young as four over nearly five decades, spent at least six months in the Hamilton diocese.

Catholic church to investigate own handling of paedophile priest (text and audio interview with Archbishop Dew)
The leader of the Catholic church in New Zealand says church officials will investigate the handling of a now-dead paedophile priest in the 1980s. Serial child sex offender Father Denis McAlinden, who abused dozens of young girls over nearly five decades, spent a year in New Zealand in 1984 before being sent to Papua New Guinea.

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Work to start on South Dunedin park plan (photo)
A big project in South Dunedin is about to get into full swing after three years of planning and fundraising. The historic St Patrick's Basilica is to undergo restoration work and in the next month or two the presbytery next door will be demolished to make way for a public park.

Church groups at odds on their definitions of marriage
A select committee has begun hearing the more than 20,000 submissions on a bill to legalise gay and transgender marriages. 

Radio New Zealand. Afternoons with Jim Mora. Monte celebrates 30 years (audio)
For the past three decades the Monte Cecilia Trust in Auckland has been providing emergency housing to families in need. To mark this anniversary, the Trust returns to where it all began – the Pah Homestead, which was home to the Trust for its first twenty years. An interview with Sister Mary Foy (Chairperson) and David Zussman (Trust Executive).

Saint remembered
Central Leader
The work and legacy of Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta will be honoured at Christ the King Catholic Church in Mt Roskill on Sunday.

Churches come together to run Karori foodbank (photo)
Five Karori churches are coming together as a community to run the Karori Foodbank from next year.

Film reviews: How far is Heaven 
Otago Daily Times
The Southland Times

Church repair/redesign wins award (photo)
A Gisborne architect firm did more than a patch-up job when it was contracted to address leaky-building issues at Gisborne's Catholic church. Its efforts won it the Public Architecture prize at the 2012 Gisborne/Hawke's Bay Architecture Awards.

Hearing on plan for city brothel begins today
Arguments over plans for a high-rise brothel in the centre of Auckland will be heard today.

Crash victim 'felt at home in Queenstown' (photo)
A little peace came yesterday for the family of Carolina Patron Costas when her mother, father and brother visited the scene of the crash in which she died on a busy Wakatipu road.

Centenarian celebrates surrounded by family (photo)
Family comes "first, last and middle" for Kath Kennedy, so it seems fitting she shares her 100th birthday today with great-great-grandson Jonty Kennedy, who is exactly 91 years younger than Mrs Kennedy. The Alexandra woman raised a family of nine children with her late husband Jack...

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News of the Schools
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Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt: School exam woes for top golfer (photo) http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/sport/college-sport/7947111/School-exam-woes-for-top-golfer





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INSPIRATIONAL TV


Being transformed
Mark 13: 24-32 - Changes, a reading and reflection by Sister Stephanie Kitching rsm

Also: Welcoming change: Endings are beginnings, a reflection by Sister Mary Scanlon lcm

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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC PODCASTS

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LIGHT OF THE WORLD - Otago Catholic Access Radio
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[Choose the "Click to download" link. The sound quality of the other one is terrible - ml]

11 November - Paul Thigpen talks about The Last Judgment.

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STATION XV
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Episode 62 — Commission, Canonisation, Apparition

In this month's episode, James and Gavin discuss the big news out of Australia: the establishment of a Royal Commission into institutional responses to child sexual abuse, with the Catholic Church currently public enemy #1 in the country. There's even a question over the possibility of a similar New Zealand inquiry. What has happened in New Zealand, though, is the "quiet" opening of a new abortion clinic. There wasn't much quiet in the northern hemisphere, though, with the canonisation of seven new saints and the US bishops speaking on moral issues making a fair amount of noise. Meanwhile, in Malaysia, is this an apparition of Our Lady?

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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs


** The long range view… and World Birth Control Day… yikes!

** Some reasons for optimism this week

** In praise of our Priests

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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC PERIODICALS & NEWSLETTERS

'NZ Catholic' is a national newspaper published by the Catholic Bishop of Auckland. http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz 

Catholic Diocese of Hamilton. 'Kete Korero'. http://proudtobecatholic.org.nz/news-events/kete-korero/

Catholic Dioceses of Palmerston North and Wellington. 'Wel-com'  http://www.welcom.org.nz

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

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


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

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


The elderly as the church's swing state, and sparing a thought for Syria

It's probably tempting to chalk up Pope Benedict XVI's visit to a Roman home for the elderly run by the Community of Sant'Egidio on Monday either as a meaningless photo-op or, at best, as a cute human interest story: The world's most visible elderly man telling fellow senior citizens, "It's beautiful to be old!" Yet anyone who grasps the world's demographic trajectory these days may well view Benedict's outing the same way political reporters saw President Barack Obama's and Gov. Mitt Romney's recent expeditions in Ohio: as high-stakes outreach to the church's most important "swing state" ...

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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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FACEBOOK

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SMNZ Marists - the Society of Mary in New Zealand

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NEWS OF THE CHURCH IN NZ AND THE WORLD






http://www.youtube.com/vatican (video news of Pope Benedict)

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EVENTS

Parachute Music Festival, Hamilton, 25-27 January 2013

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EMPLOYMENT

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