Sunday, July 2, 2023


NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE


Online NZ Catholic Directory is now live (30 June 2023)
The upgraded online version of the NZ Catholic Directory has gone live! It has a new website with enhanced features and an updated design. Visit it now at www.directory.catholic.org.nz ...



** The upgraded online version of the NZ Catholic Directory has gone live! It has a new website with enhanced features and an updated design. Visit it now at www.directory.catholic.org.nz

** Our Caritas staff are preparing to celebrate YCC Day tomorrow with many of our schools to raise funds for Oecusse School in Timor-Leste ...

** A reminder! St Mary's School, Blenheim, is celebrating its 150th Jubilee from tomorrow, Friday 30 June,  to this Sunday 3 July. The jubilee website with full details of events is here ...

** Dr John Kleinsman of the bishops' Nathaniel Centre for Bioethics has restated the Church position on surrogacy, following a Government decision to make law changes including giving "clarity over payments surrogates can receive from parents"  ...

** This Friday, June 30, is Caritas YCC Day for all Catholic schools across Aotearoa NZ. Help Oecusse School in Timor-Leste while having a fun non-uniform day for a gold coin.

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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS

St Joseph's in song to celebrate: Concert marks 125 years of services (Paywalled. Accessible via PressReader through the public library).
Bush Telegraph 26 Jun 2023 
Dannevirke's St Joseph's Catholic Church celebrated its 125th anniversary with a concert this month, entertaining more than 100 music lovers. World-class tenor Patrick Power and renowned soprano Cindy O'Sullivan were the highlights of the afternoon, each singing six songs in two brackets ... 

St Kevin's triumphs in historic rugby rivalry
Otago Daily Times 1 Jul 2023
Oamaru was divided in two halves yesterday as another chapter in a nearly 80year rivalry was written. The annual interschool between Waitaki Boys' High School and St Kevin's College 1st XVs was played in front of a bumper crowd ...

They're still in love': couple celebrate 70th wedding anniversary
A platinum wedding anniversary celebrates endurance and the purity of true love. For Oamaru couple Isabella and Lou Coffey, both qualities are clearly still true. Holding hands tightly at their 70th wedding anniversary on Tuesday, surrounded by friends and family, they loved being together, it was plain to see ...

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THIRTEENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME (A)


Today's Mass, celebrated by Pa Peter Tipene at St Mary Immaculate Conception Parish, Avondale, 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 Readings for the Sundays of the Year:

Sunday homilies of Fr Anthony Trenwith (podcast): Homily for the 13th Sunday in Ordinary Time:

Marist Laity NZ. Living the Word: 13th Sunday Year A. Radical Hospitality In Jesus' Name

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


Pope charges new doctrine czar to spurn 'immoral methods' in defense of the faith
In what's likely to be seen as a classic example of the adage that "personnel is policy," Pope Francis on Saturday tapped an Argentine archbishop widely seen as a close ally and ghostwriter for several major papal documents as the Vatican's new doctrinal czar ...

Pope's peace envoy meets pro-Putin Russian Orthodox leader
Continuing his peace mission on behalf of Pope Francis amid the war in Ukraine, Italian Cardinal Matteo Zuppi met Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and other leaders of the Russian Orthodox Church Thursday, just days after the Orthodox prelates stood uniformly behind Russian President Vladimir Putin during a short-lived insurrection by Wagner Group mercenaries ...

Pope says imitating Jesus is more than 'rigid observance' of rules
Honoring Saints Peter and Paul, the patrons of Rome, on their liturgical feast day, Pope Francis said understanding and imitating Jesus is not a matter of following doctrinal formulas or the "rigid observance" of rules and norms. Rather, it means letting go of preconceived convictions and daily being transformed by his love in order to spread the Gospel to others ...

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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 ...


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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND


The six dioceses:

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New Zealand Catholic 
Periodicals & Newsletters
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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. Newsletter

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

St Columban's Mission Society. 'The Far East' 

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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NZ Catholic Bishops' Conference

Catholic Discovery NZ (Catholic Enquiry Centre)

'NZ Catholic' newspaper

Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand

Catholic Theological College

Holy Cross Seminary

Marist Seminary, Auckland NZ

Society of St Vincent de Paul NZ

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