Sunday, August 6, 2017

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'NZ CATHOLIC' 


In issue no. 520, July 30 - Aug. 12 2017: NZ youth survey released ahead of synod ... Act now to oppose Act Party leader's euthanasia push, bishop urges ... Akld Catholic schools rank well in Metro analysis ... Sharing a loaf would be a better sign at Mass ... The real issue about the doctor-patient relationship ... Samuel Brebner: My inner turmoil about my old boss (Card. Pell) ... Solutions to pornography lie in society, not Govt: PM ... Concern from parishioner helps stop human trafficker ... Burning hearts for God at World Youth Day 2017 ... Book review: The Catholic Voices approach to defending the Faith
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
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Health Select Committee states 80% are opposed to medically-assisted dying
An overwhelming 80% of submissions to Parliament's Health Select Committee oppose medically-assisted dying, it was revealed in the Committee's Report on euthanasia and assisted suicide released yesterday.

Kiwi Doug Tennent could soon be back in PNG (photo, audio, text)
Catholic Church leaders hope that deported religious lay worker, Doug Tennent, will be let back into Papua New Guinea within days. Mr Tennent, a lawyer, was thrown out of the country illegally nearly two months ago.

Church damaged in suspicious fire (photo)
A ''disturbing'' suspected arson at a Catholic church in Alexandra ended with minimal damage, but could have been much worse, the fire officer in charge says.

Condolence Mass for Wenceslaus Anthony (photo)
It has now been confirmed that Catholic Church of Christ the King, located at 260 Richardson Road, Mt Roskill will be the venue for the Condolence Mass for Wenceslaus Anthony.

Loving couple married for 63 years die a few hours apart (photo)
Earlier this year, 93-year-old Kevin Feeney got a chest infection that morphed into the flu before becoming pneumonia. Family members rushed home from around the world, but on July 30 they got a call to say it was their mother and grandmother, Madeleine, 88, who had died.

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News Of The Schools
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Holy Cross, Papatoetoe: Sport: Holy Cross go after their fourth consecutive indoor bowls title (photo) 

Kavanagh College, Dunedin: Paedophile priest's pic taken down at Dunedin's Kavanagh College (photo) 

Roncalli College, Timaru: Teen endometriosis sufferer helping schoolgirls (photo) 

St Columban's, Hamilton: Low achiever at school turns the tables pioneering a programme to educate Hamilton boys 

St Francis Xavier, St Bernardette's, Dunedin: New principals at four city schools (photos) 

St Peter's College, Palmerston North: Young designer takes robots in to battle (photo) 

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INSPIRATIONAL TV


Matthew 17:1-9 The transfiguration

A reading and reflection with Zenaida Savill and John Teariki. 

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CRUX - Edited by John L. Allen Jr. and Inés San Martin


** Faith-filled 'transfiguration' underway in Syria, one child at a time
Aleppo has been one of the cities in Syria hardest hit by the country's vicious civil war, with children experiencing the horrors of war before they even go to school or swim in a neighborhood pool. An innovative 'Summer Oratory' run by the city's Latin rite parish, however, is said to be achieving a 'transfiguration' in those children, sowing the seeds of hope ...

** Gene editing: Gateway to Promised Land, or key to Pandora's box?
News that scientists for the first time successfully edited genes in human embryos created a stir this week. The work is controversial because it showed that scientists could manipulate life in its earliest stages and that those changes would then be inherited by future generations, if the embryo were allowed to grow into a baby. (The embryo in question was destroyed) ...

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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC PERIODICALS & NEWSLETTERS (UPDATED JANUARY 2017)

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

Catholic Diocese of Hamilton. 'Kete Korero'. https://issuu.com/search?q=%22kete+korero%22

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' https://catholic-diocese.squarespace.com/back-issues

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


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/

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NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS

Catholic Enquiry Centre. Reflections on the Sunday Gospel

Fr Frank Bird sm. Living the Word - http://livingtheword.org.nz

Marist Messenger. Daily Reflections (right-hand column) http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz

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