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"Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jona! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven. And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." (St Matthew's Gospel 16:13-19)
[From the Gospel Reading for the Solemnity of Sts Peter and Paul, Apostles]
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
Renewing the parish: 4 Speak up for God s sake, by Marian Tolley The Tablet (UK) 21/06/2003 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?tablet-00755 Parish renewal begins when readers of the World proclaim it in the conviction that God is speaking. Then congregations sit up and listen....
Renewing the parish 5: At the Spirit café, by David Payne The Tablet (UK) Saturday, 28 June 2003 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?tablet-00759 To support new fire, parishes need small groups. But how to form them? The director of Catholic Evangelisation Services explains the CaFE programme...
Timor Leste: Help us if you can Catholic Leader (Brisbane) 29 June, 2003 http://www.catholicleader.com.au/index.php?pgnum=2.5 East Timor, now officially called Timor Leste, may have celebrated its first birthday as a nation, but assistance is still badly needed. Salesian Brother Michael Lynch, a regular visitor to Australia's near neighbour, tells of the new country's needs...
Half empty or half full? Crunching numbers to look at Church's future http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/20030620.htm Catholic News Service Jun-20-2003 Vatican City (CNS) -- Statisticians are supposed to be brutally honest, and the Vatican's number crunchers are no exception. So when the latest figures on the Universal Church came out in June, there was good news and bad news -- good enough to put a smile on the faces of Vatican optimists and bad enough to raise eyebrows among the worrywarts...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"Prostitution Reform Bill Passes in New Zealand" Crosswalk.com http://www.crosswalk.com/news/1206715.html Pacific Rim Bureau (CNSNews.com) - By a single vote, New Zealand lawmakers Wednesday passed a bill decriminalizing prostitution, following months of sustained lobbying by religious and public policy groups who worry about the likely consequences of the proposed changes....
"Sex-trade law won't mean more brothels: mayor" Mytown.co.nz: Hawkes Bay 26.06.2003 http://tinyurl.com/fhdk [Comments on the decriminalisation of prostitution by among others Msgr. Tim Hannigan of Napier and the Anglican bishop of Waiapu John Bluck]
"Bringing law to a lawless land" (photo) NZ Herald 28.06.2003 http://tinyurl.com/fhdn The proposed Anzac intervention in the Solomon Islands could find career British policeman William Morrell, 48, in charge of a multi-national force aimed at returning the rule of law to what was once known as the Happy Isles. William and his wife Mary have been married for 27 years and are kindred spirits in that easy-going way that successful long-term couples have. The parents of two grown children, they say their Catholic faith is a vital component in their happy life....
"An eye for hidden lives" (photo) NZ Herald 26.06.2003 http://tinyurl.com/fhdq [Review of a retrospective exhibition of the work of art photographer Anne Noble at the New Gallery, Auckland] Extract: The most impressive of all of Noble's groups is the one she made when living In the Presence of Angels, among Benedictine nuns, an environment only a sympathetic Catholic woman could penetrate. This essay provides the outstanding photographs in the show with the most telling details, which are a combination of piety and oddity, quiet and hidden passion....
"State school ministry's priority " Otago Daily Times 25-June 2003 http://tinyurl.com/fhds Wanaka Primary School is further up the queue for capital funding than the Catholic primary school proposed for the town, the Ministry of Education says. The primary school board fears plans by Dunedin Bishop Len Boyle to open a Catholic school from a temporary Brownston St site next year will disrupt negotiations with the ministry for land for a new middle school and funds for new classrooms....
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'WHALE RIDER'
US Catholic Bishops' Conference Movie Reviews http://www.usccb.org/movies/w/whalerider.htm [Extract] Evocative coming-of-age tale set among contemporary New Zealand Maoris where a 12-year-old girl (Keisha Castle-Hughes) secretly trains to become the warrior-like tribal leader against the fierce objections of her tradition-bound grandfather, the aging chief (Rawiri Paratene). Castle-Hughes makes a radiant debut as the loving child whose youth belies her emotional and spiritual maturity. Indeed, her willingness to sacrifice herself for her people is Christ-like, and her ability to forgive her grandfather's many slights deeply touching. Writer-director Niki Caro sensitively weds the ancient culture's rites to hardscrabble times, in the process dramatically exploring the role of community, change, and father figures in the formation of youngsters....
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EVENTS
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
September 2003 'NZ Catholic' newspaper's National Art and Faith Competition Closing date: September 19 2003; works to be in by September 30; exhibition opens October 3. For paintings of a spiritual nature demonstrating the vitality, joy and hope found in Christian beliefs. Three categories, including one for works relating to Mary the mother of Jesus, and one for icons. Prizes to the value of $4750 Entry forms from "Art competition", NZ Catholic, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034. Tel: (09) 524 8322. E-mail: artrel@xtra.co.nz
Sunday, June 29, 2003
Sunday, June 22, 2003
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And as they were eating, he took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body." And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it. And he said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. Truly, I say to you, I shall not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God." And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
[From the Gospel Reading for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ]
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
'NZ Catholic' No 164, June 15-28, 2003 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
"Fall in Catholic weddings slows " Traditional parish weddings are now a thing of the past for most New Zealand Catholics, and some parish priests are far from happy about it....
"Diverse kinds of service honoured " A Catholic doctor, dentist, school principal and an advocate for children's literature were among those named in the Queen's Birthday Honours for 2003 as Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM)....
"Principal's long contribution is recognised " When Colleen Roche leaves Carmel College this term after 12 years as principal, she will take with her the nation's "thank you", a Queen's Birthday honour....
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CATHOLIC WEB TV
http://www.catholictv.net
In the summary, which plays automatically when the home page opens: "Absolutely Positively Catholic": a video report on this month's gathering of 70 Catholic teenagers 19 from throughout Wellington Archdiocese.
New videos, linked from the home page:
** Bishop John Dew on the role of peacemakers
** Fr John Greally on keeping the spirit of Pentecost in our daily lives.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
** TESCHEMAKERS FIRE **
"$3.5m international college dream survives the flames " NZ Herald June 21, 2003 http://tinyurl.com/ewy1 A Japanese businessman says he will pursue his dream of setting up an international organic health sciences college at the historic Teschemakers School site near Oamaru, in spite of a fire that destroyed two of the main buildings of the former Catholic girls boarding school....
"Historic buildings could rise again after fire " INL 18 June 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2543071a11,00.html
"Fire leaves feeling of devastation. Many thankful chapel survived " (photo) ODT Wednesday, 18-June 2003 http://tinyurl.com/ewy4
"Associated with Teschemakers for 25 years. Nun woken by blaze" ODT 18-June 2003 http://tinyurl.com/ewy5
"Arson not suspected, police say. Insurance assessors at Teschemakers " ODT Thursday, 19-June 2003 http://tinyurl.com/ewy7
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"In God's Hands: Faith Still Brings Solace To Millions " Time Magazine June 8, 2003 http://www.time.com/time/europe/html/030616/story.html (Article continues on five further pages, linked at the bottom of p.1) In 1966, a TIME cover story pondered the fate of Christianity and asked, Is God dead? The magazine wasn't the first to pose the question — theologians have lamented society's secularization for centuries — nor would it be the last. He's still not dead, but these days in Europe, He's not always in the same old places. So it's worth asking: Where has God — and Christian faith — gone? ...
"Former Dunedin priest faces abuse charges " ODT Friday, 20-June 2003 http://tinyurl.com/ewy8 A former Dunedin Roman Catholic priest has been committed for trial on multiple child sex abuse charges, dating back to the late 1950s....
"Colourful couple sell Tom's Tavern " Manawatu Evening Standard 28 May 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/0,2106,2506744a6869,00.html The man once dubbed the Mayor of Marton Junction this week retires from the hotel trade. after a colourful career spanning 35 years. Tom Tasker, former amateur boxer and wrestler, coal merchant, carrier and, by heritage, inveterate Catholic Irishman, has sold Tom's Tavern to part-time employee Merv Pedder...
"It's a long way from Tipperary " (photo) Waikato Times 06 June 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/0,2106,2527918a6578,00.html Irish priest Father Bill Wood has notched up 60 years' service in New Zealand, including the Waikato. David O'Siochain traces his life....
"MPs waver on sex-trade bill " NZ Herald 21.06.2003 http://tinyurl.com/ewya Wavering by a handful of National Party MPs may spell the end of an attempt to legalise prostitution. Church leaders have sent an open letter to MPs opposing the bill signed by senior members of the Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist churches and the Salvation Army...
"MPs blitzed in prostitute fight " INL 21 June 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2546018a11,00.html Opponents are mounting a final campaign to stop the decriminalisation of prostitution ahead of a historic vote on Wednesday likely to overturn 100-year-old sex laws. An open letter to Parliament signed by more than 30 church leaders, including more than 20 Catholic and Anglican bishops, yesterday urged MPs to throw out the Prostitution Reform Bill, which has survived previous votes by narrow margins....
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NZ CATHOLIC EDUCATION OFFICE
"Lighting New Fires": a newsletter for NZ Integrated Schools Issue 3 June 2003 and Catholic Schools' Supplement http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/lightingnewfires.shtml
In the Newsletter : Editorial, by Br Pat Lynch: Implications of the statistical survey of young NZers ... NZ Foundation for Character Education National Conference ... Budget Highlights for Education... Innovations Fund to Help School Alliances ... Developing Best Teaching Practice ... New Health and Safety Legislative Requirements ... Notable achievements of NZ Catholic school pupils and staff ... Updated Internet Safety Kit Launched ... Twelfth New Zealand International Education Conference ... Te Mana Korero Resource Promotes Improved Learning ... 2003 United Nations International Year of Freshwater – Facts to Ponder ... New Zealand Children Help Project K Youth Charity... UNESCO Culture of Peace Programme – Local Research ... School Property Guide Review ... What do Poor Urban Teenagers Want? ...
LNF Catholic Schools' Supplement:
National Pooling of Attendance Dues ... Poster Promoting Teaching in a Catholic School ... Catholic Schools’ Convention ... ‘Brown flight’, ‘bright flight’ and Catholic schools ... Laureate Awards for Distinguished Contributors to Catholic Education ... Congratulations to our New Principals ... Innovative Practices in NZ Catholic schools ... International Gathering of Young Lasallians ... Praying on Your Five Fingers ... Worthwhile Reading ... Catholic Education Office in Tonga requests assistance ... Liturgy Planning Website Worth Investigating
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POPE JOHN PAUL IN BOSNIA
This weekend Pope john Paul is making a one-day visit to Banja Luka in Serbian Bosnia, the birthplace of Ivan Merz (1896-1928), a Catholic layman whom the pope will beatify.
The papal visit in text, photos and video: http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=world&cat=pope_john_paul_ii
About Ivan Merz: http://www.ivanmerz.hr/international/Uvodna_english.htm
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EVENTS
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
And as they were eating, he took bread, and blessed, and broke it, and gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body." And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he gave it to them, and they all drank of it. And he said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many. Truly, I say to you, I shall not drink again of the fruit of the vine until that day when I drink it new in the kingdom of God." And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
[From the Gospel Reading for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ]
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
'NZ Catholic' No 164, June 15-28, 2003 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
"Fall in Catholic weddings slows " Traditional parish weddings are now a thing of the past for most New Zealand Catholics, and some parish priests are far from happy about it....
"Diverse kinds of service honoured " A Catholic doctor, dentist, school principal and an advocate for children's literature were among those named in the Queen's Birthday Honours for 2003 as Officers of the New Zealand Order of Merit (ONZM)....
"Principal's long contribution is recognised " When Colleen Roche leaves Carmel College this term after 12 years as principal, she will take with her the nation's "thank you", a Queen's Birthday honour....
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CATHOLIC WEB TV
http://www.catholictv.net
In the summary, which plays automatically when the home page opens: "Absolutely Positively Catholic": a video report on this month's gathering of 70 Catholic teenagers 19 from throughout Wellington Archdiocese.
New videos, linked from the home page:
** Bishop John Dew on the role of peacemakers
** Fr John Greally on keeping the spirit of Pentecost in our daily lives.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
** TESCHEMAKERS FIRE **
"$3.5m international college dream survives the flames " NZ Herald June 21, 2003 http://tinyurl.com/ewy1 A Japanese businessman says he will pursue his dream of setting up an international organic health sciences college at the historic Teschemakers School site near Oamaru, in spite of a fire that destroyed two of the main buildings of the former Catholic girls boarding school....
"Historic buildings could rise again after fire " INL 18 June 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2543071a11,00.html
"Fire leaves feeling of devastation. Many thankful chapel survived " (photo) ODT Wednesday, 18-June 2003 http://tinyurl.com/ewy4
"Associated with Teschemakers for 25 years. Nun woken by blaze" ODT 18-June 2003 http://tinyurl.com/ewy5
"Arson not suspected, police say. Insurance assessors at Teschemakers " ODT Thursday, 19-June 2003 http://tinyurl.com/ewy7
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"In God's Hands: Faith Still Brings Solace To Millions " Time Magazine June 8, 2003 http://www.time.com/time/europe/html/030616/story.html (Article continues on five further pages, linked at the bottom of p.1) In 1966, a TIME cover story pondered the fate of Christianity and asked, Is God dead? The magazine wasn't the first to pose the question — theologians have lamented society's secularization for centuries — nor would it be the last. He's still not dead, but these days in Europe, He's not always in the same old places. So it's worth asking: Where has God — and Christian faith — gone? ...
"Former Dunedin priest faces abuse charges " ODT Friday, 20-June 2003 http://tinyurl.com/ewy8 A former Dunedin Roman Catholic priest has been committed for trial on multiple child sex abuse charges, dating back to the late 1950s....
"Colourful couple sell Tom's Tavern " Manawatu Evening Standard 28 May 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/0,2106,2506744a6869,00.html The man once dubbed the Mayor of Marton Junction this week retires from the hotel trade. after a colourful career spanning 35 years. Tom Tasker, former amateur boxer and wrestler, coal merchant, carrier and, by heritage, inveterate Catholic Irishman, has sold Tom's Tavern to part-time employee Merv Pedder...
"It's a long way from Tipperary " (photo) Waikato Times 06 June 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/0,2106,2527918a6578,00.html Irish priest Father Bill Wood has notched up 60 years' service in New Zealand, including the Waikato. David O'Siochain traces his life....
"MPs waver on sex-trade bill " NZ Herald 21.06.2003 http://tinyurl.com/ewya Wavering by a handful of National Party MPs may spell the end of an attempt to legalise prostitution. Church leaders have sent an open letter to MPs opposing the bill signed by senior members of the Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist and Baptist churches and the Salvation Army...
"MPs blitzed in prostitute fight " INL 21 June 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2546018a11,00.html Opponents are mounting a final campaign to stop the decriminalisation of prostitution ahead of a historic vote on Wednesday likely to overturn 100-year-old sex laws. An open letter to Parliament signed by more than 30 church leaders, including more than 20 Catholic and Anglican bishops, yesterday urged MPs to throw out the Prostitution Reform Bill, which has survived previous votes by narrow margins....
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NZ CATHOLIC EDUCATION OFFICE
"Lighting New Fires": a newsletter for NZ Integrated Schools Issue 3 June 2003 and Catholic Schools' Supplement http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/lightingnewfires.shtml
In the Newsletter : Editorial, by Br Pat Lynch: Implications of the statistical survey of young NZers ... NZ Foundation for Character Education National Conference ... Budget Highlights for Education... Innovations Fund to Help School Alliances ... Developing Best Teaching Practice ... New Health and Safety Legislative Requirements ... Notable achievements of NZ Catholic school pupils and staff ... Updated Internet Safety Kit Launched ... Twelfth New Zealand International Education Conference ... Te Mana Korero Resource Promotes Improved Learning ... 2003 United Nations International Year of Freshwater – Facts to Ponder ... New Zealand Children Help Project K Youth Charity... UNESCO Culture of Peace Programme – Local Research ... School Property Guide Review ... What do Poor Urban Teenagers Want? ...
LNF Catholic Schools' Supplement:
National Pooling of Attendance Dues ... Poster Promoting Teaching in a Catholic School ... Catholic Schools’ Convention ... ‘Brown flight’, ‘bright flight’ and Catholic schools ... Laureate Awards for Distinguished Contributors to Catholic Education ... Congratulations to our New Principals ... Innovative Practices in NZ Catholic schools ... International Gathering of Young Lasallians ... Praying on Your Five Fingers ... Worthwhile Reading ... Catholic Education Office in Tonga requests assistance ... Liturgy Planning Website Worth Investigating
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POPE JOHN PAUL IN BOSNIA
This weekend Pope john Paul is making a one-day visit to Banja Luka in Serbian Bosnia, the birthplace of Ivan Merz (1896-1928), a Catholic layman whom the pope will beatify.
The papal visit in text, photos and video: http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=world&cat=pope_john_paul_ii
About Ivan Merz: http://www.ivanmerz.hr/international/Uvodna_english.htm
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EVENTS
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
Sunday, June 15, 2003
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
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WEL-COM June 2003 Newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington and the Diocese of Palmerston North http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/wellington/
"A climate of change for parishes " Discussions continued and options were identified. Now we have to act. Four priests turned 75 last year, but elected to continue in their parishes. Two more will be 75 this year. Another priest retired from parish ministry. So 2003 is likely to be the last year in which we have a priest resident in each parish ...
"Land grab - A catalogue of abuse and dispossession of Wellington Maori during the 19th Century" At Wellington’s Pipitea Marae on 17 May, the Waitangi Tribunal released a long awaited report on land sales in the Port Nicholson Block. Called Te Whanganui a Tara Me Ona Takiwa, the report offers a detailed account of the way that Maori living in Wellington and the Hutt Valley lost their land to European settlers. It’s a story of greed, deceit and injustice perpetrated by those who saw themselves as civilized, cultured men....
** Adoptions: Special feature **
"Surprising opposition to adoption" The woman in charge of New Zealand’s adoption service, Mary Iwanek, is opposed to adoption
"Black tea and bread" For breakfast and dinner the children living in Georgian orphanages are given hot, black tea and a piece of bread ...
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Medjugorje News June 2003 http://www.homebusinesslink.com/issue30.html In this issue: Introduction ... The Medjugorje Story ... Our Lady's Messages ... From the Editor ... Excerpts from Medjugorje Press Bulletins ..... Excerpts from Children of Medjugorje ... Email from Fr Bohan, Zambia .... From a Zambian Prison .... Iraqi Visionary Explains... Review of Wellington Eucharistic Convention ... 20th Yearly Apparition of Mirjana Soldo ... The Rosary Crusade ... The Miracle Healing of Singer David Parkes ... A World-Wide Convention of Demons ... Kevin Mooney's Story ... Medjugorje Must be Recognised ... A Response to Criticism ... The Power of the Rosary .... Fr Schiffer of Hiroshima ... Divine Wonders of the Blessed Sacrament ... The Swap ... Of Exorcism, Angels and a Prayer
"Signpost to home", by Sheila Keefe The Tablet (UK) http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?tablet-00748 There are more inactive than active parishioners in any parish: 10 potential returning Catholics for every non-Catholic who is received into the Church. A large number of these would like to come back but do not believe they can; many of those who believe they can, do not know how. Build bridges to them, and your parish will swell. This is what happened in my parish of St Joseph’s, Upminster, in east London, back in 1995....
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"New Christian Party Registered" IRN 14/06/2003 http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,3779-2448974,00.html A new political party is now officially registered by the Electoral Commission. Destiny New Zealand is a Christian party, with its members initially drawn from the Destiny Church in Auckland....
Vow to block school Otago Daily Times 7-June 2003 http://tinyurl.com/eami Wanaka Primary School's board of trustees has vowed to pursue every avenue to stop a second primary school opening in the town. In a statement yesterday the board said the timing of the Catholic Diocese's announcement of a proposal to build a primary school in Wanaka was unfortunate and unproductive....
"School plan not threat to community's quest. Funding fears unfounded " ODT 9-June 2003 http://tinyurl.com/eamj A Catholic school will not be a threat to the Wanaka community's quest for seamless education, says Dunedin Catholic education office director Tony Hanning....
"Catholic Group Supports Prostitution Bill" IRN/Reuters 11/06/2003 http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,3779-2439969,00.html The Prostitution Reform Bill has guarded support in an unlikely quarter. As the bill comes before Parliament again today, the Catholic Women's League is standing by its belief that the sex industry should be decriminalised....
"Mel Gibson says his Christ film won't offend Jews and Roman Catholics" Associated Press Jun. 13, 2003 http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/6085231.htm Mel Gibson is cautioning Catholics and Jews not to jump to conclusions, promising his forthcoming film about Jesus Christ will "inspire, not offend" them....
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CARITAS AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
The New Zealand Catholic bishops' agency for justice peace and development has re-designed its Website, at http://www.caritas.org.nz
Its main sections include ... World JPD News ... Treaty of Waitangi ... Caritas around the World ... Social Justice Week ... Caritas in Schools (JPD resources for pupils and teachers) ... Caritas for Kids (activities for primary-age children) ... International Emergencies ... Caritas Update (illustrated newsletter) ... Links
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EVENTS
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
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WEL-COM June 2003 Newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington and the Diocese of Palmerston North http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/wellington/
"A climate of change for parishes " Discussions continued and options were identified. Now we have to act. Four priests turned 75 last year, but elected to continue in their parishes. Two more will be 75 this year. Another priest retired from parish ministry. So 2003 is likely to be the last year in which we have a priest resident in each parish ...
"Land grab - A catalogue of abuse and dispossession of Wellington Maori during the 19th Century" At Wellington’s Pipitea Marae on 17 May, the Waitangi Tribunal released a long awaited report on land sales in the Port Nicholson Block. Called Te Whanganui a Tara Me Ona Takiwa, the report offers a detailed account of the way that Maori living in Wellington and the Hutt Valley lost their land to European settlers. It’s a story of greed, deceit and injustice perpetrated by those who saw themselves as civilized, cultured men....
** Adoptions: Special feature **
"Surprising opposition to adoption" The woman in charge of New Zealand’s adoption service, Mary Iwanek, is opposed to adoption
"Black tea and bread" For breakfast and dinner the children living in Georgian orphanages are given hot, black tea and a piece of bread ...
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Medjugorje News June 2003 http://www.homebusinesslink.com/issue30.html In this issue: Introduction ... The Medjugorje Story ... Our Lady's Messages ... From the Editor ... Excerpts from Medjugorje Press Bulletins ..... Excerpts from Children of Medjugorje ... Email from Fr Bohan, Zambia .... From a Zambian Prison .... Iraqi Visionary Explains... Review of Wellington Eucharistic Convention ... 20th Yearly Apparition of Mirjana Soldo ... The Rosary Crusade ... The Miracle Healing of Singer David Parkes ... A World-Wide Convention of Demons ... Kevin Mooney's Story ... Medjugorje Must be Recognised ... A Response to Criticism ... The Power of the Rosary .... Fr Schiffer of Hiroshima ... Divine Wonders of the Blessed Sacrament ... The Swap ... Of Exorcism, Angels and a Prayer
"Signpost to home", by Sheila Keefe The Tablet (UK) http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?tablet-00748 There are more inactive than active parishioners in any parish: 10 potential returning Catholics for every non-Catholic who is received into the Church. A large number of these would like to come back but do not believe they can; many of those who believe they can, do not know how. Build bridges to them, and your parish will swell. This is what happened in my parish of St Joseph’s, Upminster, in east London, back in 1995....
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"New Christian Party Registered" IRN 14/06/2003 http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,3779-2448974,00.html A new political party is now officially registered by the Electoral Commission. Destiny New Zealand is a Christian party, with its members initially drawn from the Destiny Church in Auckland....
Vow to block school Otago Daily Times 7-June 2003 http://tinyurl.com/eami Wanaka Primary School's board of trustees has vowed to pursue every avenue to stop a second primary school opening in the town. In a statement yesterday the board said the timing of the Catholic Diocese's announcement of a proposal to build a primary school in Wanaka was unfortunate and unproductive....
"School plan not threat to community's quest. Funding fears unfounded " ODT 9-June 2003 http://tinyurl.com/eamj A Catholic school will not be a threat to the Wanaka community's quest for seamless education, says Dunedin Catholic education office director Tony Hanning....
"Catholic Group Supports Prostitution Bill" IRN/Reuters 11/06/2003 http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,3779-2439969,00.html The Prostitution Reform Bill has guarded support in an unlikely quarter. As the bill comes before Parliament again today, the Catholic Women's League is standing by its belief that the sex industry should be decriminalised....
"Mel Gibson says his Christ film won't offend Jews and Roman Catholics" Associated Press Jun. 13, 2003 http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/6085231.htm Mel Gibson is cautioning Catholics and Jews not to jump to conclusions, promising his forthcoming film about Jesus Christ will "inspire, not offend" them....
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CARITAS AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
The New Zealand Catholic bishops' agency for justice peace and development has re-designed its Website, at http://www.caritas.org.nz
Its main sections include ... World JPD News ... Treaty of Waitangi ... Caritas around the World ... Social Justice Week ... Caritas in Schools (JPD resources for pupils and teachers) ... Caritas for Kids (activities for primary-age children) ... International Emergencies ... Caritas Update (illustrated newsletter) ... Links
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EVENTS
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
Sunday, June 8, 2003
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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE -PASTORAL LETTER, CODE OF ETHICS
Following their May conference, the New Zealand Catholic bishops issued a Pastoral Letter on the Rosary : http://www.catholic.org.nz/news/rosary.htm In their letter - also available from Catholic Communications as a small brochure - the bishops suggest Scripture readings and prayers to accompany each of the four Mysteries (i.e. the traditional ones, and the new Mysteries of Light) in the light of Pope John Paul's recent Apostolic Letter recommending ways of obtaining the rosary's full spiritual benefits - Rosarium Virginis Mariae: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/
In a statement accompanying their new Code of Ethics for Church Volunteers http://www.catholic.org.nz/news/ethicschurchvol.htm - issued for the protection of the volunteers, of those whom they serve, and of the Church, - the bishops emphasise the importance and value of voluntary work to the Church's mission. They point out that in their work volunteers represent the Church and their words and actions are judged in the light of Church's faith and mission
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
"NZ Catholic" No 163, May 1 - 14, 2003 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
"NZ bishops publish letter on the Rosary " Wellington -The 10 Catholic bishops of New Zealand have published a letter outlining the reasons for and benefits of praying the Rosary...
"NZ Iraqis finally get their own priest " Auckland - New Zealand¹s Catholic Chaldeans and other Iraqi Catholics finally have their own priest. Fr Fawzi Koro arrived in Auckland in May after serving as a priest to Chaldean Catholics in Greece...
Old leather suitcase reveals forgotten letters from 1843 Auckland -It's the stuff of romantic novels -the find of a battered suitcase containing official letters by Church dignitaries dating back to 1843, about church lands and even a tabernacle key...
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"The Best Days, the Worst Days", by Michael McGirr Australian Catholics, Winter 2003 http://www.australiancatholics.com.au/articles/03winter1.html Melina Marchetta’s first novel, "Looking for Alibrandi", was one of the highest-selling novels by a first author of all time and had huge success as a film. Ten years later, she has released her next book. "Saving Francesca" is set in a world which she knows well. As in "Looking for Alibrandi", the book which made her name, she explores the lives of young people in their final years of Catholic schooling....
"Renewing the parish 1 : Fired by the Spirit" Cormac Murphy-O’Connor The Tablet (UK) Saturday, 31 May 2003 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?tablet-00745 The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster is convinced that small groups hold the key to parish renewal. This is the first article in a new Tablet series...
"From Vatican Two to today" : Address to Catalyst for Renewal's bishops' forum Archbishop George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney http://www.sydney.catholic.org.au/html/addresess/add_300503.htm "I am grateful to the Secretary and Committee of the Catalyst for Renewal for the invitation to speak to you. It is generally useful for Catholics to talk together about the work of Christ and the Church which is so dear to us all. Quite a few people suggested to me that I should not talk here because they wondered whether your agenda was the same as groups such as "We are Church" in Austria or "Call to Action" in the United States ... but I felt there was such good will and openness in the committee that came to invite me to this gathering that I was justified in speaking to you..." [Main topics of Archbishop Pell's address: 1962-1965 the Years of the Second Vatican Council ... The Achievements of Vatican II ... Where Are We Now? ... Conscience ... What Is To Be Done? ... Summing-up]
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"Heartening' interest in proposed school" Otago Daily Times Friday, 6-June 2003 (full text) The Catholic Diocese of Dunedin says it has had a heartening response from parents wanting to enrol their children in a new Wanaka Catholic school from next year. Dunedin Catholic Education Office director Tony Hanning said several expressions of interest had been received since a public meeting in Wanaka last week, attended by Bishop Len Boyle. "It is too early to speculate a number but certainly there's interest there and some from parents of pre-schoolers as well," Mr Hanning said when contacted on Wednesday. All the expressions of interest so far had come from families already living in Wanaka. Once Education Minister Trevor Mallard gives approval, the Catholic Education Office will begin negotiating a formal integration agreement with the Ministry of Education.
"Hokitika lotto winner gives away one-tenth of winnings " NZ Herald 02.06.2003 http://tinyurl.com/dq7s The anonymous Hokitika winner of the November 30 Lotto draw has given one-tenth of their winnings away. Christchurch Catholic Bishop John Cunneen said the winner of Lotto Draw 804 had donated the money to a trust to be known as the Saint Francis Charitable Trust....
"Future looking bright for Futuna" (photo) MyTown.co.nz: Wellington 05.06.2003 http://tinyurl.com/dq7t After two years obtaining a building permit the $20 million Futuna housing development on Karori’s Friend Street has properties on the market. With the historic Futuna Chapel as its centrepiece, Futuna [for fifty years, the Society of Mary's Wellington retreat centre - ML] is set in native bush and features well-appointed units ...
"Catholic Brother faces new charges" TVNZ Jun 06, 2003 http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,195824-1-7,00.html The number of charges against a former Catholic brother accused of sex abuse today rose to 31. Some 30 fresh charges were laid against Bernard Kevin McGrath in the Christchurch District Court....
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EVENTS
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE -PASTORAL LETTER, CODE OF ETHICS
Following their May conference, the New Zealand Catholic bishops issued a Pastoral Letter on the Rosary : http://www.catholic.org.nz/news/rosary.htm In their letter - also available from Catholic Communications as a small brochure - the bishops suggest Scripture readings and prayers to accompany each of the four Mysteries (i.e. the traditional ones, and the new Mysteries of Light) in the light of Pope John Paul's recent Apostolic Letter recommending ways of obtaining the rosary's full spiritual benefits - Rosarium Virginis Mariae: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/
In a statement accompanying their new Code of Ethics for Church Volunteers http://www.catholic.org.nz/news/ethicschurchvol.htm - issued for the protection of the volunteers, of those whom they serve, and of the Church, - the bishops emphasise the importance and value of voluntary work to the Church's mission. They point out that in their work volunteers represent the Church and their words and actions are judged in the light of Church's faith and mission
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"NZ Catholic" No 163, May 1 - 14, 2003 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
"NZ bishops publish letter on the Rosary " Wellington -The 10 Catholic bishops of New Zealand have published a letter outlining the reasons for and benefits of praying the Rosary...
"NZ Iraqis finally get their own priest " Auckland - New Zealand¹s Catholic Chaldeans and other Iraqi Catholics finally have their own priest. Fr Fawzi Koro arrived in Auckland in May after serving as a priest to Chaldean Catholics in Greece...
Old leather suitcase reveals forgotten letters from 1843 Auckland -It's the stuff of romantic novels -the find of a battered suitcase containing official letters by Church dignitaries dating back to 1843, about church lands and even a tabernacle key...
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"The Best Days, the Worst Days", by Michael McGirr Australian Catholics, Winter 2003 http://www.australiancatholics.com.au/articles/03winter1.html Melina Marchetta’s first novel, "Looking for Alibrandi", was one of the highest-selling novels by a first author of all time and had huge success as a film. Ten years later, she has released her next book. "Saving Francesca" is set in a world which she knows well. As in "Looking for Alibrandi", the book which made her name, she explores the lives of young people in their final years of Catholic schooling....
"Renewing the parish 1 : Fired by the Spirit" Cormac Murphy-O’Connor The Tablet (UK) Saturday, 31 May 2003 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?tablet-00745 The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster is convinced that small groups hold the key to parish renewal. This is the first article in a new Tablet series...
"From Vatican Two to today" : Address to Catalyst for Renewal's bishops' forum Archbishop George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney http://www.sydney.catholic.org.au/html/addresess/add_300503.htm "I am grateful to the Secretary and Committee of the Catalyst for Renewal for the invitation to speak to you. It is generally useful for Catholics to talk together about the work of Christ and the Church which is so dear to us all. Quite a few people suggested to me that I should not talk here because they wondered whether your agenda was the same as groups such as "We are Church" in Austria or "Call to Action" in the United States ... but I felt there was such good will and openness in the committee that came to invite me to this gathering that I was justified in speaking to you..." [Main topics of Archbishop Pell's address: 1962-1965 the Years of the Second Vatican Council ... The Achievements of Vatican II ... Where Are We Now? ... Conscience ... What Is To Be Done? ... Summing-up]
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"Heartening' interest in proposed school" Otago Daily Times Friday, 6-June 2003 (full text) The Catholic Diocese of Dunedin says it has had a heartening response from parents wanting to enrol their children in a new Wanaka Catholic school from next year. Dunedin Catholic Education Office director Tony Hanning said several expressions of interest had been received since a public meeting in Wanaka last week, attended by Bishop Len Boyle. "It is too early to speculate a number but certainly there's interest there and some from parents of pre-schoolers as well," Mr Hanning said when contacted on Wednesday. All the expressions of interest so far had come from families already living in Wanaka. Once Education Minister Trevor Mallard gives approval, the Catholic Education Office will begin negotiating a formal integration agreement with the Ministry of Education.
"Hokitika lotto winner gives away one-tenth of winnings " NZ Herald 02.06.2003 http://tinyurl.com/dq7s The anonymous Hokitika winner of the November 30 Lotto draw has given one-tenth of their winnings away. Christchurch Catholic Bishop John Cunneen said the winner of Lotto Draw 804 had donated the money to a trust to be known as the Saint Francis Charitable Trust....
"Future looking bright for Futuna" (photo) MyTown.co.nz: Wellington 05.06.2003 http://tinyurl.com/dq7t After two years obtaining a building permit the $20 million Futuna housing development on Karori’s Friend Street has properties on the market. With the historic Futuna Chapel as its centrepiece, Futuna [for fifty years, the Society of Mary's Wellington retreat centre - ML] is set in native bush and features well-appointed units ...
"Catholic Brother faces new charges" TVNZ Jun 06, 2003 http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,195824-1-7,00.html The number of charges against a former Catholic brother accused of sex abuse today rose to 31. Some 30 fresh charges were laid against Bernard Kevin McGrath in the Christchurch District Court....
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EVENTS
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
Sunday, May 25, 2003
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
[The 'NZ Catholic' Website - http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz - was not functioning last night or this morning. I reported the problem to the paper's e-mail address, just in case. Hopefully all will be well by next weekend. Mike L.]
"The Far East" March 2003 http://www.columban.org.au/tfe/TFE_Current.htm Full text articles from the magazine of the New Zealand and Australian members of St Columban's Missionary Society...
Editorial: "A world focus on freshwater " The UN highlights a growing concern for all of us by declaring 2003 the International Year of Freshwater. The idea behind this initiative is to encourage people everywhere to become more aware of the need to be good stewards of our water resources. The lead given by the UN should help us to give our attention to the use and abuse of one of the most precious elements on earth....
"The gift of water" The Book of Job recommends learning from nature as a pathway to spiritual growth. Meditation on the gift of water as the source of life leads us to ponder our human actions in its use or abuse. It can lead us to develop the virtues of humility, justice and temperance and to shun their opposites, arrogance, greed and waste....
"A scarce resource" The water situation in the Middle East and North Africa today is precarious. Competition between adjacent countries for access to water resources is causing friction which could lead to outright hostilities in the future....
"Solidarity in action" The doll-making class of the Mother of Mercy Women's House in Lima, Peru, was beginning to look like "Santa's Workshop." The women from this shantytown were preparing an order to go to the parish of Parramatta, Australia, and they were making sure that everything was "just right" before the dolls were sent off. For most of these women, this was the first order they had for their dolls and it meant so much to them....
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"Trophy win a surprise for student " (photo) Manawatu Evening Standard 15 May 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/0,2106,2475509a6502,00.html Dallas Maru didn't think he had any chance of winning the scripture reading section of the O'Shea Catholic Secondary Schools competition. He wasn't even in the room for the announcement. But he didn't miss out on the official prizegiving, which was held at the end of the week-long competition, where he was presented with the Catherine McAuley Cup....
"The bells are ringing for 100 years of education " Rotorua Review 16 May 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/bayofplenty/0,2106,2477891a6663,00.html Former students now living throughout Australasia are to converge on the city next month for the centennial celebration of the Sisters of St Joseph and Catholic education in Rotorua....
"Hospice care the answer, meeting told " Manawatu Evening Standard 15 May 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/0,2106,2475503a6502,00.html Good hospice care takes a great deal of sting out of the euthanasia debate, according to speakers at a gathering in Palmerston North last night. About 40 people turned out for the session that was advertised as "not a debate", with a line-up of speakers generally opposed to the Death with Dignity Bill, due to be introduced to Parliament this month....
"Ex-brother appears in court on sex charge " 24 May 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2495872a11,00.html A former brother at St John of God's Marylands school has appeared in court charged with sodomy. The arrest of Bernard McGrath was the first in the police operation investigating brothers and staff at the Halswell residential school....
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EVENTS
July 6-10 2003 "Active 8 Celebrate" National Catholic Youth Event, Christchurch http://www.connect.org.nz/wazzup/index.html
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
[The 'NZ Catholic' Website - http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz - was not functioning last night or this morning. I reported the problem to the paper's e-mail address, just in case. Hopefully all will be well by next weekend. Mike L.]
"The Far East" March 2003 http://www.columban.org.au/tfe/TFE_Current.htm Full text articles from the magazine of the New Zealand and Australian members of St Columban's Missionary Society...
Editorial: "A world focus on freshwater " The UN highlights a growing concern for all of us by declaring 2003 the International Year of Freshwater. The idea behind this initiative is to encourage people everywhere to become more aware of the need to be good stewards of our water resources. The lead given by the UN should help us to give our attention to the use and abuse of one of the most precious elements on earth....
"The gift of water" The Book of Job recommends learning from nature as a pathway to spiritual growth. Meditation on the gift of water as the source of life leads us to ponder our human actions in its use or abuse. It can lead us to develop the virtues of humility, justice and temperance and to shun their opposites, arrogance, greed and waste....
"A scarce resource" The water situation in the Middle East and North Africa today is precarious. Competition between adjacent countries for access to water resources is causing friction which could lead to outright hostilities in the future....
"Solidarity in action" The doll-making class of the Mother of Mercy Women's House in Lima, Peru, was beginning to look like "Santa's Workshop." The women from this shantytown were preparing an order to go to the parish of Parramatta, Australia, and they were making sure that everything was "just right" before the dolls were sent off. For most of these women, this was the first order they had for their dolls and it meant so much to them....
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"Trophy win a surprise for student " (photo) Manawatu Evening Standard 15 May 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/0,2106,2475509a6502,00.html Dallas Maru didn't think he had any chance of winning the scripture reading section of the O'Shea Catholic Secondary Schools competition. He wasn't even in the room for the announcement. But he didn't miss out on the official prizegiving, which was held at the end of the week-long competition, where he was presented with the Catherine McAuley Cup....
"The bells are ringing for 100 years of education " Rotorua Review 16 May 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/bayofplenty/0,2106,2477891a6663,00.html Former students now living throughout Australasia are to converge on the city next month for the centennial celebration of the Sisters of St Joseph and Catholic education in Rotorua....
"Hospice care the answer, meeting told " Manawatu Evening Standard 15 May 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/0,2106,2475503a6502,00.html Good hospice care takes a great deal of sting out of the euthanasia debate, according to speakers at a gathering in Palmerston North last night. About 40 people turned out for the session that was advertised as "not a debate", with a line-up of speakers generally opposed to the Death with Dignity Bill, due to be introduced to Parliament this month....
"Ex-brother appears in court on sex charge " 24 May 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2495872a11,00.html A former brother at St John of God's Marylands school has appeared in court charged with sodomy. The arrest of Bernard McGrath was the first in the police operation investigating brothers and staff at the Halswell residential school....
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EVENTS
July 6-10 2003 "Active 8 Celebrate" National Catholic Youth Event, Christchurch http://www.connect.org.nz/wazzup/index.html
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
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Sunday, May 18, 2003
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CATHOLIC WEB TV
At http://www.catholic.tv.net .....
Pilgrims to World Youth Day in Vancouver last year recall the time they spent at centres for the homeless, street people and the mentaly ill in that city, and how their their view of social justice was affected.
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FROM THE SECULAR MEDIA
"Sacred Heart College is 100 years old" The Holmes Show - Friday May 16 (Video) http://tvone.nzoom.com/programmes/holmes/story.html?story_2003_archive.inc Sacred Heart College in Auckland is 100 years old this weekend. It has produced numerous All Blacks and great musicians; Holmes speaks to a few of them (and even let's a few of them speak) …
"Plan to use foetuses for drug research collapses " NZ Herald 17.05.2003 http://tinyurl.com/bz4k An international company's bid to use aborted New Zealand babies for controversial research foundered late yesterday when the Capital Coast Health Board suddenly withdrew its support....
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Protecting children from Internet predators, by William J. Byron, S.J. http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/May2003/Feature1.asp Over the past several years I served on a committee to develop tools and strategies to protect children from pornography on the Internet. When the committee's work was done, I decided to try some of the strategies it had recommended at Holy Trinity Parish in Washington, D.C., where I am pastor ...
Papua New Guinea - evangelisation through song and dance: Saint Francis musical produced entirely by young people reaps huge success http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2003/0305/09_59.html
Mary As Seen by Orthodox, Protestants, and Catholics Round Table Reflects on "Mary and the Churches" http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=35611
Iraq - “Twelve years of UN sanctions reduced the Iraqi people to poverty but now we look with hope to the future” http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2003/0305/09_67.html
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AT THE LIBRARY
[Both of these titles are in the NZ public library system. If your local library hasn't got them, you can request them on interloan]
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Spirituality in Aotearoa New Zealand ... He kupu whakawairua : Catholic voices Edited by Helen Bergin and Susan Smith Auckland, N.Z. : Accent, 2002.
Fifteen well-known Catholic authors record their views on aspects on spirituality in New Zealand, among them: Henare Tate on Maori spirituality; Chris Duthie-Jung on whether young Catholics are wanted and welcome in the Church; Neil Darragh on the spirituality of the priesthood; Hugh Laracy on the Catholic Church's history in NZ; Ann Gilroy on Pakeha women's spirituality. Accompanying the Catholics' contributions are four responses from writers outside the Catholic church: Robyn McPhail, Maurice Andrew, Laurie Guy and Rosemary Neave.
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God and the world : believing and living in our time : a conversation between Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and Peter Seewald. Publisher San Francisco, Calif. : Ignatius, 2002.
[The publisher writes] During his years as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, well-known Vatican prelate Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger has given three in-depth interviews. The first two interviews have become best selling books: The Ratzinger Report and Salt of the Earth. Because of the tremendous reception those books received, the Cardinal agreed to do another interview with journalist Peter Seewald, who had done the very popular Salt of the Earth interview. This third in-depth interview addresses deep questions of faith and the living of that faith in the modern world.
The interview took place over three full days spent at the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino in a setting of the silence, prayer, and hospitality of the monks. The seasoned journalist, who had fallen away from the faith but eventually returned to the Church, once again provided a very stimulating, well-prepared series of wide-ranging questions on profound issues. The Cardinal responds with candor, frankness and deep insight, giving answers that are sometimes surprising and always thought provoking.
"When Cardinal Ratzinger sat opposite me in the Abbey and patiently recounted to me the Gospel and the belief of Christendom from the beginning of the world to its end, something of the mystery that holds the world together became more tangible. 'Creation itself', he said, 'bears within itself an ordered pattern from which we can understand the ideas of God — and even the right way to live.' " --- Peter Seewald
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EVENTS
July 6-10 2003 "Active 8 Celebrate" National Catholic Youth Event, Christchurch http://www.connect.org.nz/wazzup/index.html
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
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CATHOLIC WEB TV
At http://www.catholic.tv.net .....
Pilgrims to World Youth Day in Vancouver last year recall the time they spent at centres for the homeless, street people and the mentaly ill in that city, and how their their view of social justice was affected.
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FROM THE SECULAR MEDIA
"Sacred Heart College is 100 years old" The Holmes Show - Friday May 16 (Video) http://tvone.nzoom.com/programmes/holmes/story.html?story_2003_archive.inc Sacred Heart College in Auckland is 100 years old this weekend. It has produced numerous All Blacks and great musicians; Holmes speaks to a few of them (and even let's a few of them speak) …
"Plan to use foetuses for drug research collapses " NZ Herald 17.05.2003 http://tinyurl.com/bz4k An international company's bid to use aborted New Zealand babies for controversial research foundered late yesterday when the Capital Coast Health Board suddenly withdrew its support....
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
Protecting children from Internet predators, by William J. Byron, S.J. http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/May2003/Feature1.asp Over the past several years I served on a committee to develop tools and strategies to protect children from pornography on the Internet. When the committee's work was done, I decided to try some of the strategies it had recommended at Holy Trinity Parish in Washington, D.C., where I am pastor ...
Papua New Guinea - evangelisation through song and dance: Saint Francis musical produced entirely by young people reaps huge success http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2003/0305/09_59.html
Mary As Seen by Orthodox, Protestants, and Catholics Round Table Reflects on "Mary and the Churches" http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=35611
Iraq - “Twelve years of UN sanctions reduced the Iraqi people to poverty but now we look with hope to the future” http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2003/0305/09_67.html
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AT THE LIBRARY
[Both of these titles are in the NZ public library system. If your local library hasn't got them, you can request them on interloan]
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Spirituality in Aotearoa New Zealand ... He kupu whakawairua : Catholic voices Edited by Helen Bergin and Susan Smith Auckland, N.Z. : Accent, 2002.
Fifteen well-known Catholic authors record their views on aspects on spirituality in New Zealand, among them: Henare Tate on Maori spirituality; Chris Duthie-Jung on whether young Catholics are wanted and welcome in the Church; Neil Darragh on the spirituality of the priesthood; Hugh Laracy on the Catholic Church's history in NZ; Ann Gilroy on Pakeha women's spirituality. Accompanying the Catholics' contributions are four responses from writers outside the Catholic church: Robyn McPhail, Maurice Andrew, Laurie Guy and Rosemary Neave.
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God and the world : believing and living in our time : a conversation between Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and Peter Seewald. Publisher San Francisco, Calif. : Ignatius, 2002.
[The publisher writes] During his years as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, well-known Vatican prelate Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger has given three in-depth interviews. The first two interviews have become best selling books: The Ratzinger Report and Salt of the Earth. Because of the tremendous reception those books received, the Cardinal agreed to do another interview with journalist Peter Seewald, who had done the very popular Salt of the Earth interview. This third in-depth interview addresses deep questions of faith and the living of that faith in the modern world.
The interview took place over three full days spent at the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino in a setting of the silence, prayer, and hospitality of the monks. The seasoned journalist, who had fallen away from the faith but eventually returned to the Church, once again provided a very stimulating, well-prepared series of wide-ranging questions on profound issues. The Cardinal responds with candor, frankness and deep insight, giving answers that are sometimes surprising and always thought provoking.
"When Cardinal Ratzinger sat opposite me in the Abbey and patiently recounted to me the Gospel and the belief of Christendom from the beginning of the world to its end, something of the mystery that holds the world together became more tangible. 'Creation itself', he said, 'bears within itself an ordered pattern from which we can understand the ideas of God — and even the right way to live.' " --- Peter Seewald
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EVENTS
July 6-10 2003 "Active 8 Celebrate" National Catholic Youth Event, Christchurch http://www.connect.org.nz/wazzup/index.html
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
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Sunday, May 11, 2003
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GOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY -WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS
On the Website "Vocations.org.nz" - http://vocations.org.nz - Kiwi Catholic laypeople, priests and religious give personal testimonies about the the challenges and rewards of their respective vocations.
The main "Vocations" page on the NZ Catholic Bishops' Website -http://www.catholic.org.nz - has links to our bishops' pastoral letters on vocations to the priesthood and religious life, and to a directory of the more than forty religious orders active in New Zealand, with links to their Websites.
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'NZ Catholic' No 161, May 4 - 17, 2003 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
"Hundreds enter Church at Easter " Several hundred people In New Zealand were welcomed into the Church at Easter...
"Wanganui women take initiative over euthanasia " More than 350 people attended a successful public forum on euthanasia on April 23, organised by two local women who had become tired of the publicity being received by pro-euthanasia advocates...
"Chemical abortions approved by court " The threat against unborn babies has grown with a High Court judgement by Judge Eddie Durie on April 10...
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'Marist Messenger', May 2003 http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
Full text: ** May Focus - Is there a void? Is there something or someone missing? ** New Zealand's first priest - Fr Catherin Louis Servant sm ** That Sunday Sermon : How to profit from sermons, good, bad and mediocre ** A minute with Fr Paddy Cahill ** Marist Spirituality - Tasting God
From the world's online Catholic media (links): Protecting children from Internet predators ... We are a resurrection people ... Gardening with Mary ... Stuck between rainbow and the cross... Good stewards of the earth ... Finding a busy God
This Months Recommended Links: Bible Study: A Catholic Approach ... The National Catholic Rural Life Conference ... Photo-Poetry essay ... The Passion of Jesus ... Music That Inspires
Also in the print edition : The Immaculate Conception ... My problem with Free Will ... Sigrid Undset - a Catholic author ... The Cure of Ars - a model priest ... Eucharistic Adoration ... The Truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. ... What is Our Lady's crown in heaven? ... Message for World Mission Day
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'Wel-com' May 2003 http://www.welcom.org.nz/
Fr Timothy Radcliffe's challenging reflections on the Holocaust and 11 September ... Wel-com survey reveals high level of satisfaction among our readers ... Chrism Mass reflection on crises faced by today's clergy, by Cardinal Williams ... Do we as parents hold back on vocations? ... Should I stay or should I go? [recollections of a former seminarian] ... Suppressing freedom of speech [breast cancer and abortion] ... Making connections between disability and spirituality ... Elective Caesarean sections are becoming an extension of a woman's right to choose ... Making time for God ... Iraqi Christians pleased over Saddam’s fall but fear for future ... Baby teeth offer another effective source of stem cells ... Mahitahi - a revised agency of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops' Conference ... “Ecclesia de Eucharistia” — the Pope’s 14th and most personal encyclical... Otago academic challenges allegations made against the Catholic Church [Holocaust author Daniel Goldhagen's interview by Linda Clark]... When transnational companies patent GM seeds ... Courts open the way for chemical abortion in N.Z.
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Priests and People (UK) May 2003 http://www.priestsandpeople.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?priestsppl-00086
"Kitsch, culture and the laughing Madonna", by Tina Beattie [Tina Beattie, author of the recent book God’s Mother, Eve’s advocate,* teaches theology at Digby Stuart College, University of Surrey, Roehampton. Here she describes her move from a Protestant upbringing which was suspicious of Mary to a Catholicism whose symbolic femininity ‘led me for the first time to seriously consider the significance of being a woman in the eyes of God’.]
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"Legendary Haast horseman " Otago Daily Times Saturday, 3-May 2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf53 On Wednesday the funeral cortege of Haast cattle drover and horseman Kevin Nolan was led from Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church by musterer daughter Anne Nolan on horseback. Her father was one of the last links to pioneer days in the South Westland region...
"Queenstown becomes Godzone" (photo) ODT Friday, 9-May 2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf5c Queenstown is blessed this week with the presence of 10 Catholic bishops, who are in the resort for a national conference. The Catholic Bishops Conference, representing all six New Zealand dioceses, had spent five days discussing "a broad spectrum" of issues, Bishop Peter Cullinane, of Palmerston North, said yesterday....
"Catholic priests at first assembly " ODT Saturday, 3-May 2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf5e Half of Dunedin's active Roman Catholic priests are attending the first national assembly of New Zealand's catholic clergy. The 25 priests, including the Bishop of Dunedin, the Most Rev Len Boyle, are attending a five-day gathering in Blenheim this week....
"Gay men in bid for surrogate's baby " NZ Herald 08.05.2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf5g New Zealand's first application by two gay men to have a surrogate's baby will force authorities to decide on the rights of the child to have a mother.... [The report includes a statement on the issue by John Kleinsman, spokesman for the Nathaniel Catholic Bioethics Centre]
"Trips into the dark explore what it means to be human " ODT Saturday, 3-May 2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf58 Wellington author Elizabeth Knox drew on nightmares and deep-seated fears to nourish her latest novel about vampires in France. But the award-winning author is not scared what people will think of her new novel, Daylight , which uses Catholic saints, priests and traditions to tell her story about a New Zealand man who falls in love with a vampire in France....
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CATHOLIC WEB TV
Wellington Archdiocesan Media Centre: "Catholictv.net" http://www.catholictv.net
In this week's site preview (which starts automatically when you open the Catholictv.net home page), there's an extended a preview of a forthcoming report about the national assembly of priests at Blenheim a week ago. Also on the site this week ...
*** Bishop John Dew message for Good Shepherd Sunday, the World Day of Prayer for Vocations
*** John Kleinsman of Wellington's Nathaniel Catholic Bioethics Centre talks about the proposed euthanasia bill.
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EVENTS
July 6-10 2003 "Active 8 Celebrate" National Catholic Youth Event, Christchurch http://www.connect.org.nz/wazzup/index.html
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
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GOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY -WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS
On the Website "Vocations.org.nz" - http://vocations.org.nz - Kiwi Catholic laypeople, priests and religious give personal testimonies about the the challenges and rewards of their respective vocations.
The main "Vocations" page on the NZ Catholic Bishops' Website -http://www.catholic.org.nz - has links to our bishops' pastoral letters on vocations to the priesthood and religious life, and to a directory of the more than forty religious orders active in New Zealand, with links to their Websites.
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
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'NZ Catholic' No 161, May 4 - 17, 2003 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
"Hundreds enter Church at Easter " Several hundred people In New Zealand were welcomed into the Church at Easter...
"Wanganui women take initiative over euthanasia " More than 350 people attended a successful public forum on euthanasia on April 23, organised by two local women who had become tired of the publicity being received by pro-euthanasia advocates...
"Chemical abortions approved by court " The threat against unborn babies has grown with a High Court judgement by Judge Eddie Durie on April 10...
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'Marist Messenger', May 2003 http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
Full text: ** May Focus - Is there a void? Is there something or someone missing? ** New Zealand's first priest - Fr Catherin Louis Servant sm ** That Sunday Sermon : How to profit from sermons, good, bad and mediocre ** A minute with Fr Paddy Cahill ** Marist Spirituality - Tasting God
From the world's online Catholic media (links): Protecting children from Internet predators ... We are a resurrection people ... Gardening with Mary ... Stuck between rainbow and the cross... Good stewards of the earth ... Finding a busy God
This Months Recommended Links: Bible Study: A Catholic Approach ... The National Catholic Rural Life Conference ... Photo-Poetry essay ... The Passion of Jesus ... Music That Inspires
Also in the print edition : The Immaculate Conception ... My problem with Free Will ... Sigrid Undset - a Catholic author ... The Cure of Ars - a model priest ... Eucharistic Adoration ... The Truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. ... What is Our Lady's crown in heaven? ... Message for World Mission Day
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'Wel-com' May 2003 http://www.welcom.org.nz/
Fr Timothy Radcliffe's challenging reflections on the Holocaust and 11 September ... Wel-com survey reveals high level of satisfaction among our readers ... Chrism Mass reflection on crises faced by today's clergy, by Cardinal Williams ... Do we as parents hold back on vocations? ... Should I stay or should I go? [recollections of a former seminarian] ... Suppressing freedom of speech [breast cancer and abortion] ... Making connections between disability and spirituality ... Elective Caesarean sections are becoming an extension of a woman's right to choose ... Making time for God ... Iraqi Christians pleased over Saddam’s fall but fear for future ... Baby teeth offer another effective source of stem cells ... Mahitahi - a revised agency of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops' Conference ... “Ecclesia de Eucharistia” — the Pope’s 14th and most personal encyclical... Otago academic challenges allegations made against the Catholic Church [Holocaust author Daniel Goldhagen's interview by Linda Clark]... When transnational companies patent GM seeds ... Courts open the way for chemical abortion in N.Z.
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Priests and People (UK) May 2003 http://www.priestsandpeople.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?priestsppl-00086
"Kitsch, culture and the laughing Madonna", by Tina Beattie [Tina Beattie, author of the recent book God’s Mother, Eve’s advocate,* teaches theology at Digby Stuart College, University of Surrey, Roehampton. Here she describes her move from a Protestant upbringing which was suspicious of Mary to a Catholicism whose symbolic femininity ‘led me for the first time to seriously consider the significance of being a woman in the eyes of God’.]
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"Legendary Haast horseman " Otago Daily Times Saturday, 3-May 2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf53 On Wednesday the funeral cortege of Haast cattle drover and horseman Kevin Nolan was led from Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church by musterer daughter Anne Nolan on horseback. Her father was one of the last links to pioneer days in the South Westland region...
"Queenstown becomes Godzone" (photo) ODT Friday, 9-May 2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf5c Queenstown is blessed this week with the presence of 10 Catholic bishops, who are in the resort for a national conference. The Catholic Bishops Conference, representing all six New Zealand dioceses, had spent five days discussing "a broad spectrum" of issues, Bishop Peter Cullinane, of Palmerston North, said yesterday....
"Catholic priests at first assembly " ODT Saturday, 3-May 2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf5e Half of Dunedin's active Roman Catholic priests are attending the first national assembly of New Zealand's catholic clergy. The 25 priests, including the Bishop of Dunedin, the Most Rev Len Boyle, are attending a five-day gathering in Blenheim this week....
"Gay men in bid for surrogate's baby " NZ Herald 08.05.2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf5g New Zealand's first application by two gay men to have a surrogate's baby will force authorities to decide on the rights of the child to have a mother.... [The report includes a statement on the issue by John Kleinsman, spokesman for the Nathaniel Catholic Bioethics Centre]
"Trips into the dark explore what it means to be human " ODT Saturday, 3-May 2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf58 Wellington author Elizabeth Knox drew on nightmares and deep-seated fears to nourish her latest novel about vampires in France. But the award-winning author is not scared what people will think of her new novel, Daylight , which uses Catholic saints, priests and traditions to tell her story about a New Zealand man who falls in love with a vampire in France....
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CATHOLIC WEB TV
Wellington Archdiocesan Media Centre: "Catholictv.net" http://www.catholictv.net
In this week's site preview (which starts automatically when you open the Catholictv.net home page), there's an extended a preview of a forthcoming report about the national assembly of priests at Blenheim a week ago. Also on the site this week ...
*** Bishop John Dew message for Good Shepherd Sunday, the World Day of Prayer for Vocations
*** John Kleinsman of Wellington's Nathaniel Catholic Bioethics Centre talks about the proposed euthanasia bill.
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EVENTS
July 6-10 2003 "Active 8 Celebrate" National Catholic Youth Event, Christchurch http://www.connect.org.nz/wazzup/index.html
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
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