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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
Media Releases
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Thinking about the Election - 12 Aug 2005
They want your vote. Should they get it?
It is in the interests of political parties and candidates to know what the
public wants. So it comes back to us: we are the public. What do we want.
More importantly, what are our wants based on?
New Nuncio takes up his appointment - 12 Aug 2005
His Excellency Archbishop Charles Balvo, Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand and
other Pacific nations, arrived in New Zealand in late July to take up his
first appointment as Nuncio, based in the Nunciature at Lyall Bay,
Wellington.
Immigration Debate Threatens to Hijack Islamic Awareness Week - 11 Aug 2005
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, the Catholic agency for justice, peace and
development, has expressed dismay at the tone of the election immigration
debate, as refugees and migrants once again become political footballs.
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
No. 219, August 14-27, 2005
Young Kiwis off to World Youth Day
Auckland - A group of almost 100 New Zealanders will converge on Cologne,
Germany, on August 15 with about one million other young people for the 20th
World Youth Day....
Struggle "part of life" for blind seminarian
Auckland - The only blind seminarian to train as a priest in New Zealand,
Ken Joblin, says he does not want to be known as the blind priest but "the
priest that God wants me to be"....
Vatican envoy in first post as papal nuncio
Wellington - For New Zealand's new Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Charles
Balvo, the highlight of his diplomatic career until now was preparing the
way for Pope John Paul II's Jubilee Year visit to the Holy Land....
Also In Issue 219:
NATIONAL
Hibernian president re-elected ... Quakes precede retreat ... Passionist
dies ... ERO File ... "Discipline" bill gets support ... Abuse claim being
heard
FEATURES
Cologne has been admired since medieval times ... Announcer's Pope-death
hoax puts kicker off stride ... Kiwi organisers in Cologne touched by WYD
spirit ... Nuclear opposition reaffirmed ... Joy Cowley: The widow's
offering ... Thank-you gift ... SVP store manager showed warm spirit
OPINION
Peter Cullinane: Thinking about election issues and the society we want ...
Ronald Rolheiser: A mystical imagination ... Parish Diary: Ministers'
meetings ... Editorial: Youth at WYD will remember absent friend ... Malcolm
Evans ... Letters
INTERNATIONAL
Remarried divorcees should be welcome ... Women take part in "ordinations"
... Funding Zimbabwe would be "reckless" ... The Pope: Terrorism attacks
decried ... Blast victim's parents were Catholic-Muslim ... Illicit vaccines
may be used ... Galen to be blessed ... Latins turning Pentecostal ...
389,000 Catholics involved in diocesan bankruptcy ... Family celebrates
birth and mourns mother ... East Timor bishops call for justice ... Israel
attacks two popes ... Big funeral for man police shot ... Changes begin in
Curia ... Romero supporters have canonisation hopes boosted ... IRA pledge
welcomed by Pope
REGULAR FEATURES
Books, Monitor, Net Scene, Clips, Tape Deck, Young Adults, The Doolans,
Family Talk, Scripture, Feasts, Papal Prayer, Holy Lives, Kit's Corner, That
Word!, Photo Prayer, Cryptic Crossword, Who Said?, 40 Years Ago, Caption
Contest, Dio. Diary, Wit's End.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
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The St Joseph's Orphanage Case
Life in Catholic home `tough'
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/0,2106,3376018a6479,00.html
The brother of a woman suing Catholic authorities for abuse while in care
has hinted that nuns touched him inappropriately. The man was giving
evidence for the Catholic side of the case against his sister and he
defended Catholic Social Services' role in his upbringing...
Convicted priest denies abusing orphanage girl
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/0,2106,3374770a6479,00.html
A former priest with sex-crime convictions has denied sexually abusing a
girl at an Upper Hutt orphanage more than 30 years ago...
[The following stories are not available on the newspaper's free Website.
They can be read at public libraries, or via the libraries' free Newztext
service for borrowers]
Stuff - The Dominion Post - Local News - 11 Aug 2005
Mother 'refused efforts to reunite her children'
The mother of a woman accusing Catholic Social Services of negligence
rejected her own children and refused to have them reunited, a judge has
been told...
Stuff - The Dominion Post - Local News - 10 Aug 2005 P.9
Orphanage regime 'a loveless wasteland'
A Catholic orphanage in Upper Hutt in the 1960s would have done the Gestapo
proud, a High Court judge has been told.
In Wellington yesterday former orphanage girl Shirley Ford told the court
the orphanage was a loveless wasteland...
The Dominion Post, 9 Aug 2005, Edition 2, Page 5.
Orphanage put witness off kids
A woman has given evidence of five horrific years at an Upper Hutt orphanage
ruled by a tyrannical nun.
In the High Court at Wellington yesterday a woman, whose name was
suppressed, said her time at St Joseph's Orphanage convinced her not to have
children in case anything happened to her and they were put in care...
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School options unclear
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/0,2106,3376065a6568,00.html
The options for year 7 and 8 Catholic schooling in Invercargill next year
remained unclear yesterday after a meeting in the city. The Otago-Southland
Catholic diocese applied to Education Minister Trevor Mallard last year for
Verdon College to take on year 7 and 8 pupils so it could be in line with
state school in the city, which all run from year 7 to 13...
Don't buy it, by David Young
New Zealand Listener August 20-26 2005
http://www.listener.co.nz/default,4504.sm
When Catholic bishops called last month for a nationwide boycott of all
CanWest television and radio stations, their 500,000-strong flock didn't
seem to pay much attention. The bishops were incensed by C4's broadcast of
the cartoon series Popetown. According to the Catholic Church, the series
depicts the Pope as a "cretinous, dirty, spoilt brat". But the boycott call
was a dismal failure: there have been no obvious effects on CanWest's TV or
radio ratings. Had they looked to recent trends in the US, the bishops could
have learnt a lot about direct consumer action...
NZ Muslims told to be more open
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411365/604081
A steady stream of people is expected through the doors of mosques and
Islamic centres throughout the country on Saturday, as the Muslim community
tries to promote better understanding of their faith.
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WORLD YOUTH DAY, COLOGNE, GERMANY
16-21 August 2005
The New Zealand National Pilgrimage to WYD, Cologne
http://www.worldyouthday.org.nz
Helping hand offered to travelling teens
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/0,2106,3371304a6568,00.html
Three Gore teenagers are experiencing the trip of a lifetime to the Catholic
Church's world youth day as friends back home raised funds for them...
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Mary MacKillop ´patron of the fair go´
http://www.cathnews.com/news/508/44.php
In a message for [last Mondays'] feast of Blessed Mary MacKillop, Josephite
Congregational Leader Sr Katrina Brill has described her as 'one of our
Australian heroes', whose life story "embodies characteristics which are
integral to the Australian identity"...
Cardinal who opened windows
Open to God, Open to the World: the last testament, by Cardinal Franz König
(book review)
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/book_review.cgi/weekly
Faith's French revolution
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-01067
With the number of priests in steep decline, the laity is keeping the
Catholic church alive in rural France. It's a dramatic transformation borne
of necessity ...
The 60th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bomb attack is marked in Asia's
largest cathedral
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=3883
Nagasaki (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Commemoration ceremonies to mark the 60th
anniversary of the atomic bomb attack against Nagasaki started today at dawn
in Urakami cathedral, on the outskirts of the second Japanese city to be
hit. A special mass was celebrated in the church which at the time was Asia's
largest cathedral - 500 metres away from the centre of the explosion...
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ST THERESE OF LISIEUX: 2005 NEW ZEALAND PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE
19 September - 16 October 2005
http://www.theresepilgrimage.org.nz
The Pilgrimage of Grace of the relics of St Therese of Lisieux commences in
Auckland on Monday the 19th of September 2005. The special reliquary housing
the relics will be flown from the Carmelite monastery in Lisieux, north of
Paris, where St Thérèse lived her vocation as a Carmelite nun until her
death in 1897 at the age of 24. In September and October, her relics will be
brought to Catholic churches in cities and towns throughout New Zealand for
public veneration.
The Website for the Pilgrimage includes a full itinerary, a biography of St
Therese, an article on the spiritual significance of relics, and information
on Carmelite spirituality.
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OTHER EVENTS
Family Life International. Gospel of Life Conference
23-25 September 2005 Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna
Full details: http://www.fli.org.nz/?sid=19
"The History and Science of The Shroud of Turin" (Exhibition)
Lower NZI, Aotea Centre, THE EDGE, Auckland, New Zealand
Full description on:
http://www.shroud.co.nz/Exhibition.htm
[If you can't make it to the exhibition, you will find many of the
photographs from it at your public library in: 'The Turin shroud : the
illustrated evidence', by Ian Wilson and Barrie Schwortz, published by
Michael O'Mara, 2000 (232.966 WIL), or you can request it via Interloan. ML]
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Business Manager, Sisters of St Joseph, Kohimarama.
Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 31 - August 13 2005 p.27, on Netcheck at:
http://www.netcheck.co.nz/general/extended.asp?jobID=213886 and from David
Leach: david.leach@spencerscott.co.nz
Mission Co-ordinator, Mercy Hospital, Dunedin
Website: http://www.mercyhospital.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' 14-27 August 2005 p.19, and from Denise Cooney,
Executive Assistant, Mercy Hospital, Private Bag 1919, Dunedin. Tel (03) 467
6609; e-mail: denisec@mercyhospital.org.nz Applications close 31 August
2005.
"Mrs Doubtfire"
Single person or married couple required to run an active household in
Napier with four well-behaved school-aged children. Details in 'Wel-com'
August 2005, p.14, and from Kendall or Greg, tel: (06) 842 1325.
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
Media Releases
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Thinking about the Election - 12 Aug 2005
They want your vote. Should they get it?
It is in the interests of political parties and candidates to know what the
public wants. So it comes back to us: we are the public. What do we want.
More importantly, what are our wants based on?
New Nuncio takes up his appointment - 12 Aug 2005
His Excellency Archbishop Charles Balvo, Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand and
other Pacific nations, arrived in New Zealand in late July to take up his
first appointment as Nuncio, based in the Nunciature at Lyall Bay,
Wellington.
Immigration Debate Threatens to Hijack Islamic Awareness Week - 11 Aug 2005
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, the Catholic agency for justice, peace and
development, has expressed dismay at the tone of the election immigration
debate, as refugees and migrants once again become political footballs.
***************************************************
'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
No. 219, August 14-27, 2005
Young Kiwis off to World Youth Day
Auckland - A group of almost 100 New Zealanders will converge on Cologne,
Germany, on August 15 with about one million other young people for the 20th
World Youth Day....
Struggle "part of life" for blind seminarian
Auckland - The only blind seminarian to train as a priest in New Zealand,
Ken Joblin, says he does not want to be known as the blind priest but "the
priest that God wants me to be"....
Vatican envoy in first post as papal nuncio
Wellington - For New Zealand's new Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Charles
Balvo, the highlight of his diplomatic career until now was preparing the
way for Pope John Paul II's Jubilee Year visit to the Holy Land....
Also In Issue 219:
NATIONAL
Hibernian president re-elected ... Quakes precede retreat ... Passionist
dies ... ERO File ... "Discipline" bill gets support ... Abuse claim being
heard
FEATURES
Cologne has been admired since medieval times ... Announcer's Pope-death
hoax puts kicker off stride ... Kiwi organisers in Cologne touched by WYD
spirit ... Nuclear opposition reaffirmed ... Joy Cowley: The widow's
offering ... Thank-you gift ... SVP store manager showed warm spirit
OPINION
Peter Cullinane: Thinking about election issues and the society we want ...
Ronald Rolheiser: A mystical imagination ... Parish Diary: Ministers'
meetings ... Editorial: Youth at WYD will remember absent friend ... Malcolm
Evans ... Letters
INTERNATIONAL
Remarried divorcees should be welcome ... Women take part in "ordinations"
... Funding Zimbabwe would be "reckless" ... The Pope: Terrorism attacks
decried ... Blast victim's parents were Catholic-Muslim ... Illicit vaccines
may be used ... Galen to be blessed ... Latins turning Pentecostal ...
389,000 Catholics involved in diocesan bankruptcy ... Family celebrates
birth and mourns mother ... East Timor bishops call for justice ... Israel
attacks two popes ... Big funeral for man police shot ... Changes begin in
Curia ... Romero supporters have canonisation hopes boosted ... IRA pledge
welcomed by Pope
REGULAR FEATURES
Books, Monitor, Net Scene, Clips, Tape Deck, Young Adults, The Doolans,
Family Talk, Scripture, Feasts, Papal Prayer, Holy Lives, Kit's Corner, That
Word!, Photo Prayer, Cryptic Crossword, Who Said?, 40 Years Ago, Caption
Contest, Dio. Diary, Wit's End.
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*****************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
***********************************
The St Joseph's Orphanage Case
Life in Catholic home `tough'
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/0,2106,3376018a6479,00.html
The brother of a woman suing Catholic authorities for abuse while in care
has hinted that nuns touched him inappropriately. The man was giving
evidence for the Catholic side of the case against his sister and he
defended Catholic Social Services' role in his upbringing...
Convicted priest denies abusing orphanage girl
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/0,2106,3374770a6479,00.html
A former priest with sex-crime convictions has denied sexually abusing a
girl at an Upper Hutt orphanage more than 30 years ago...
[The following stories are not available on the newspaper's free Website.
They can be read at public libraries, or via the libraries' free Newztext
service for borrowers]
Stuff - The Dominion Post - Local News - 11 Aug 2005
Mother 'refused efforts to reunite her children'
The mother of a woman accusing Catholic Social Services of negligence
rejected her own children and refused to have them reunited, a judge has
been told...
Stuff - The Dominion Post - Local News - 10 Aug 2005 P.9
Orphanage regime 'a loveless wasteland'
A Catholic orphanage in Upper Hutt in the 1960s would have done the Gestapo
proud, a High Court judge has been told.
In Wellington yesterday former orphanage girl Shirley Ford told the court
the orphanage was a loveless wasteland...
The Dominion Post, 9 Aug 2005, Edition 2, Page 5.
Orphanage put witness off kids
A woman has given evidence of five horrific years at an Upper Hutt orphanage
ruled by a tyrannical nun.
In the High Court at Wellington yesterday a woman, whose name was
suppressed, said her time at St Joseph's Orphanage convinced her not to have
children in case anything happened to her and they were put in care...
*************************************
School options unclear
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/0,2106,3376065a6568,00.html
The options for year 7 and 8 Catholic schooling in Invercargill next year
remained unclear yesterday after a meeting in the city. The Otago-Southland
Catholic diocese applied to Education Minister Trevor Mallard last year for
Verdon College to take on year 7 and 8 pupils so it could be in line with
state school in the city, which all run from year 7 to 13...
Don't buy it, by David Young
New Zealand Listener August 20-26 2005
http://www.listener.co.nz/default,4504.sm
When Catholic bishops called last month for a nationwide boycott of all
CanWest television and radio stations, their 500,000-strong flock didn't
seem to pay much attention. The bishops were incensed by C4's broadcast of
the cartoon series Popetown. According to the Catholic Church, the series
depicts the Pope as a "cretinous, dirty, spoilt brat". But the boycott call
was a dismal failure: there have been no obvious effects on CanWest's TV or
radio ratings. Had they looked to recent trends in the US, the bishops could
have learnt a lot about direct consumer action...
NZ Muslims told to be more open
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411365/604081
A steady stream of people is expected through the doors of mosques and
Islamic centres throughout the country on Saturday, as the Muslim community
tries to promote better understanding of their faith.
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WORLD YOUTH DAY, COLOGNE, GERMANY
16-21 August 2005
The New Zealand National Pilgrimage to WYD, Cologne
http://www.worldyouthday.org.nz
Helping hand offered to travelling teens
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/0,2106,3371304a6568,00.html
Three Gore teenagers are experiencing the trip of a lifetime to the Catholic
Church's world youth day as friends back home raised funds for them...
********************************************************************************\
***************
FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Mary MacKillop ´patron of the fair go´
http://www.cathnews.com/news/508/44.php
In a message for [last Mondays'] feast of Blessed Mary MacKillop, Josephite
Congregational Leader Sr Katrina Brill has described her as 'one of our
Australian heroes', whose life story "embodies characteristics which are
integral to the Australian identity"...
Cardinal who opened windows
Open to God, Open to the World: the last testament, by Cardinal Franz König
(book review)
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/book_review.cgi/weekly
Faith's French revolution
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-01067
With the number of priests in steep decline, the laity is keeping the
Catholic church alive in rural France. It's a dramatic transformation borne
of necessity ...
The 60th anniversary of the Nagasaki atomic bomb attack is marked in Asia's
largest cathedral
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=3883
Nagasaki (AsiaNews/Agencies) - Commemoration ceremonies to mark the 60th
anniversary of the atomic bomb attack against Nagasaki started today at dawn
in Urakami cathedral, on the outskirts of the second Japanese city to be
hit. A special mass was celebrated in the church which at the time was Asia's
largest cathedral - 500 metres away from the centre of the explosion...
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*************************************
ST THERESE OF LISIEUX: 2005 NEW ZEALAND PILGRIMAGE OF GRACE
19 September - 16 October 2005
http://www.theresepilgrimage.org.nz
The Pilgrimage of Grace of the relics of St Therese of Lisieux commences in
Auckland on Monday the 19th of September 2005. The special reliquary housing
the relics will be flown from the Carmelite monastery in Lisieux, north of
Paris, where St Thérèse lived her vocation as a Carmelite nun until her
death in 1897 at the age of 24. In September and October, her relics will be
brought to Catholic churches in cities and towns throughout New Zealand for
public veneration.
The Website for the Pilgrimage includes a full itinerary, a biography of St
Therese, an article on the spiritual significance of relics, and information
on Carmelite spirituality.
********************************************************************************\
************************************
OTHER EVENTS
Family Life International. Gospel of Life Conference
23-25 September 2005 Bruce Mason Centre, Takapuna
Full details: http://www.fli.org.nz/?sid=19
"The History and Science of The Shroud of Turin" (Exhibition)
Lower NZI, Aotea Centre, THE EDGE, Auckland, New Zealand
Full description on:
http://www.shroud.co.nz/Exhibition.htm
[If you can't make it to the exhibition, you will find many of the
photographs from it at your public library in: 'The Turin shroud : the
illustrated evidence', by Ian Wilson and Barrie Schwortz, published by
Michael O'Mara, 2000 (232.966 WIL), or you can request it via Interloan. ML]
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**********************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Business Manager, Sisters of St Joseph, Kohimarama.
Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 31 - August 13 2005 p.27, on Netcheck at:
http://www.netcheck.co.nz/general/extended.asp?jobID=213886 and from David
Leach: david.leach@spencerscott.co.nz
Mission Co-ordinator, Mercy Hospital, Dunedin
Website: http://www.mercyhospital.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' 14-27 August 2005 p.19, and from Denise Cooney,
Executive Assistant, Mercy Hospital, Private Bag 1919, Dunedin. Tel (03) 467
6609; e-mail: denisec@mercyhospital.org.nz Applications close 31 August
2005.
"Mrs Doubtfire"
Single person or married couple required to run an active household in
Napier with four well-behaved school-aged children. Details in 'Wel-com'
August 2005, p.14, and from Kendall or Greg, tel: (06) 842 1325.
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