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NZCBC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CatholicNZ/
** Cardinal John Dew, NZCBC president, on All Souls' Day ...
** Fr Neil Vaney SM, the Catholic Discovery pastoral director, is making Christmas podcasts ...
** Applications close next Sunday 6 November for young people from around Aotearoa New Zealand to join the pilgrimage to World Youth Day in Lisbon next year ...
** Caritas Aotearoa NZ welcomes the Government's call for a conditional moratorium on deep sea mining in international waters, until strong environmental rules can be agreed and backed up by robust science ...
** Catholic Discovery has an essay looking at All Saints Day ...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS.
It takes a long time to appoint a bishop
It takes a long time to appoint a bishop, says Steve Lowe, Bishop of Auckland and Secretary of the NZ Catholic Bishops Conference. Lowe is responding to a piece by Luke Coppen in The Pillar, suggesting the Vatican has forgotten about New Zealand's need to find two bishops.
'Inaugural legacy scholarship awarded to deserving St. John's College student'
The inaugural Legacy Scholarship, led by St. John's College prefects, has been awarded to a deserving student. Toko Turipa, in Year 11, was not expecting to win the scholarship, awarded to an existing student who embodies the values and habits of a St John's Man ...
Bragging rights for St Kevin's in Gillette Cup
The best of the best in Otago secondary schools cricket were battling it out over the long weekend. Both the Gillette Cup and McCullum Cup cricket tournaments were held in Dunedin. St Kevin's College and Waitaki Boys' High School both sent their first and second XIs to compete ...
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THIRTY-FIRST SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (C)
Today's Mass, celebrated by Monsignor Bernard Kiely in the parish of the Good Shepherd, Balmoral, Auckland can be viewed at:
Sunday Mass is also broadcast on Shine TV (Freeview channel 25) at 2 pm and live streamed at:
https://www.shinetv.co.nz/videos/live (only viewable in New Zealand).
New Zealand Commentaries on the Sunday Readings:
Inspired Word: A video reading and commentary on the gospel of the day by Rev. Canon Jenny Wilkens and Very Rev. Frank Nelson at St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington:
Luke 20:27-38 The question about rising from death
Sunday homilies of Fr Anthony Trenwith (audio): http://station15.co.nz/
Marist Messenger. Daily Reflections: https://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/
Fr Frank Bird sm. Living the Word: Sundays of the Year: Discussion Guide - https://livingtheword.org.nz/
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CRUX - Edited by John L. Allen Jr. and Inés San Martin
Fraternity is built by daily choosing love, pope tells Catholics in Bahrain
Pope Francis celebrated Mass for Catholics in Bahrain Saturday, telling attendees of the liturgy to always act with love and fraternity, even amid difficult and oppressive situations, as this is the only real path to peace ...
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EMPLOYMENT
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Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised on the Website of the Education Gazette:
Vacancies at Caritas Aotearoa:
Job vacancies in the Catholic dioceses of ...
Hamilton: https://www.cdh.org.nz/jobs
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
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New Zealand Catholic
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'NZ Catholic' is a national newspaper published by the Catholic Bishop of Auckland. https://nzcatholic.org.nz/
Catholic Diocese of Hamilton. 'Kete Korero'.
Catholic Dioceses of Palmerston North and Wellington. 'Wel-com' http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/welcom/
Catholic Diocese of Christchurch. 'Inform'
https://chchcatholic.nz/?sid=25 (Latest news - Latest Inform)
Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. Pastoral Newsletter
The Nathaniel Centre. The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report' http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/
NZ Catholic Education Office. 'Lighting New Fires'
St Columban's Mission Society. 'The Far East'
Society of Mary. 'Marist Messenger'
Society of Saint Vincent de Paul NZ.
https://www.svdp.org.nz/resources/ Newsletters. News in Brief:
'Tui Motu Interislands'. An independent Catholic magazine.
https://tuimotu.org/ Scroll down to Articles, Explore More
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