'NZ CATHOLIC'
Issue 238, Apr. 23-May 6, 2006
Full text from this issue ...
Family lobby launched by former radio host
Auckland - Bob McCoskrie, the former morning radio host on the Rhema
Christian broadcasting network, has launched the Family First Lobby...
New head named for Catholic Enquiry Centre
Wellington - Fr Allan Jones, SM, has been chosen as the new director of the
Catholic Enquiry Centre...
Bishops taking South Park complaint to authority
Hamilton - The New Zealand Catholic Bishops’ Conference has decided to lodge
a complaint with the Broadcasting Standards Authority over the Bloody Mary
episode of South Park...
Full contents ...
NATIONAL
NZ will be included in 2008 Sydney WYD ... Catholic will be NZ's next
Governor-General ... ASC chair seen to have conflict of interest ...
Creation by a higher being backed by half of NZers ... Bishops taking South
Park complaint to authority ... New head of Catholic Enquiry Centre named
... Nuncio presents papal medal ... Family lobby launched by former radio
host ... Ukrainian priest visits families in main centres ... Caritas NZ
strengthens ties with agency in Tanzania ... Military chaplains in retreat
... Charismatic group gets new chairman ... Mahitahi renamed
FEATURES
NZ bishop in the trenches ... The facts about the Gospel of Judas, and good
and evil ... Da Vinci Code "vaccine"? ... North Shore Dove gets own banner
... CWL jubilee at Pahiatua ... Marriage is important for the common good
OPINION
Ronald Rolheiser: Deeper things under the surface ... John Mackey:
Experiencing God's Kingdom in the Fourth Age of life ... Marty Williams:
Faith thrives at Reefton ... Editorial: Aussies seal Kiwis' role in WYD 2008
... Malcolm Evans ... Letters ... Vatican Letter: Experts ponder "the way of
beauty"
INTERNATIONAL
Road to Sydney begins with Vatican ceremony ... Judas "Gospel" seen as
"junk" ... Abstinence support is claimed to violate UN treaty ... Secular
cover for school ... Cardinal shocked ... Thousands march for changes in US
immigration laws ... Universities grapple with identity issues ... In Brief
... Cardinal urges more reverence ... First step in John Paul II's case
completed ... The Pope: Principles for public life are spelt out ...
Catholic Arab woman is Israeli MP ... Lefebvrists expect Vatican initiative
... Christians seen as moderating force in Lebanon
REGULAR FEATURES
Books, Monitor, Clips, Net Scene, Young Adults, Pope's Prayer, Scripture,
Feasts, Caption Contest, Who Said?, 40 Years Ago, Dio. Diary, Cryptic
Crossword, Photo Prayer, Holy Lives, Kit's Corner, That Word!, The Doolans,
Wit's End.
ADVERTISING FEATURE:
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Historian plans to teach Da Vinci Code in course
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/ED0604/S00074.htm
Auckland â€" A New Zealand historian says international bestseller The Da
Vinci Code is a sham â€" but plans to feature the story in a new course he
will teach at Massey University later this year as an example of how fiction
can popularise history...
Child sex extradition overturned
http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story/0,20281,18887682-5001028,00.html
The Australian Federal Court has ruled two Catholic clergymen should not be
extradited from NSW to New Zealand to face child sex charges...
Ruling stuns sex abuse campaigners
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/488120/704807
'Good-time Kiwi reminiscence flies in the face of memoir misery'. A review
of 'Something for the Birds', by Jacqueline Fahey
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/0,2106,3638308a6619,00.html
Fahey's perky, upbeat reminiscences are a welcome respite from the current
flood of miserable memoirs. Born in Timaru in 1930, she grew up during the
Depression and World War II. She claims to have been the "most strapped
girl" at Teschemakers convent school near Oamaru while a boarder there.
Later, because of her Irish Catholic background, she met hostility from the
snootier anglophile sections of Christchurch society when she was an art
student in that city...
"What makes a good Christian in 2006?" (video report)
http://www.tv3.co.nz/News/tabid/67/articleID/6687/Default.aspx
John Sinclair goes to an Easter Christian camp for young people to find
out...
Priest gears up for life in Rome
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/manawatustandard/0,2106,3639941a6502,00.html
At 36, Marcus Francis, the priest at Palmerston North's Cathedral of the
Holy Spirit isn't your stereotypical man of the cloth. Father Marcus is
enjoying his last Easter in New Zealand before going to Rome to study Canon
law for three years in June...
Easter trading fine says church
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/0,2106,3642272a6568,00.html
Rebel Wanaka retailers looking for a sign someone is on their side may have
found it in an unlikely place â€" the Catholic Church. A spokesman for the
Catholic Church of New Zealand said it had no objections to businesses
opening on the most sacred days of the Christian calendar...
Faith to the fore at Easter
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dailynews/0,2106,3639173a6002,00.html
Easter lived up to its reputation of being the busiest time on the Christian
calendar, with thousands flocking to Taranaki church services...
Soul food, by Julie Middleton
http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3439/columnists/5797/soul_food.html
The shy but smiling young women are cooking and serving excellent
French-Pacific cuisine. Many of them are dressed in the colourful,
neck-to-ankle “mission robes’’ common in the New Caledonian capital. But
on
the dot of 9.00pm, everything stops. Someone strums a guitar. The women turn
towards a poster of the Virgin Mary, the Bernadette of Lourdes version, and
sing, in English, then in French: “The world celebrates/God has just saved
us …’’
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
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'MARIST MESSENGER'
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/index.php
Full text from the April 2006 issue ...
Jonah and the Whale
“Just as Jonah was a sign to the people of Nineveh, the Son of Man will be a
sign to the people of today.� (Lk. 11.30) ...
Eileen: a saint for today?
Eileen O’Connor is not a household name in Australia today. And this is a
pity. The life she lived, the work she founded, the thousands of people
helped because of that work during her lifetime, and over the years since
her death in 1921, suggest she should be ranked in the 1900s alongside those
justly recognized heroines of the 1800s, Caroline Chisholm and Mary
MacKillop...
Mandatum - A Holy Thursday Story
God put on an apron and asked to wash my feet.
Focus Editoral
At the time of writing it is a tough time to be a Catholic in New Zealand.
Persecution means being oppressed because of one’s religious beliefs...
Also in this month's Marist Messenger
* Bethlehem has arrived * Say it with Flowers * Old Post * Holiness * He is
Risen * Present...aPoem * April Saints * Can You Bear it * A Minute or Two *
Children's Corner * Crossword by Appo * Remembering our Dead
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column by the National Catholic Reporter's full-time correspondent
in Rome, John L. Allen Jr.
This week ...
Benedict's Holy Week: Back to basics, The centrality of love, Service and
power, Preferential option for Africa; Other Items: Advances in artificial
reproduction; Condoms as a 'lesser evil'; Jesuit anniversaries; The Opus Dei
cartoon; Hans Küng on radio; and The 'Hope Monstrance'
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EVENTS
Eucharistic Convention 2006
http://www.eucharistic-convention.com
Logan Campbell Theatre, Auckland Showgrounds, Greenlane Rd., Auckland. 21 -
23 April 2006
Details on the Website, in 'NZ Catholic' April 9-22 2006 p.20 and from:
Eucharistic Convention, PO Box 4523, Auckland.
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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 ]
Vicar for Education, Archdiocese of Wellington
http://wn.catholic.org.nz
Details in 'Wel-com' April 2006 p.15, 'NZ Catholic' April 9-22 p.27, and
from the Archdiocesan General Manager, PO Box 1937, Wellingtpn.; e-mail:
j.butterfield@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 26 April 2006.
Director, Catholic Social Services, Wellington
http://wn.catholic.org.nz/catholicsocialservices.html
Details in 'Wel-com' April 2006 p.15, and from Mike Hurdle or Catharina
Vossen at MICAH Partenrs, tel: (04) 499 4749; mob.: 021 552 929; fax: (04)
499 73754; e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz; PO Box 499, Wellington.
Applications close 26 April 2006
