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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS' MEDIA RELEASES
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
** Caritas dispels refugee myths (6 Jun 2008)
** 4000 international pilgrims soon to arrive prior to World Youth Day (4
June 2008)
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'WEL-COM' - The newspaper of the Catholic Archdiocese of Wellington and the
Diocese of Palmerston North
http://www.welcom.org.nz
From the June 2008 issue ...
News
Girls cream O'Shea Shield ... Something vital just clicked - WYD legacy
online ... We've built a cathedral - now let's fill it! Pilgrims to World
Youth Day thank supporters ... Caritas helps 60,000 cyclone survivors in
Myanmar ... Caritas warns of genocide in Zimbabwe, calls for arms ban ...
Death of Sri Lanka church worker in bomb blast ...
Columns
The Year of St Paul, pilgrim and missionary. Kieran Fenn FMS ... Provision
for the Latin Mass. Archbishop John Dew ... Editorial: How the poor stay on
the margins. Cecily McNeill ...
Schools
Masterton principal sixth at the World Masters Swimming Championships ...
Silverstream Vinnies ... St Joseph's School, New Plymouth, mines history for
class names ...
Features
Waihopai, divination and resisting empire ... Euthanasia and the dignity of
palliative care ... Developing sabbath spirituality: restoring life's rhythm
... The Cathedral of the Sacred Heart 160 years ago ... Sister John Bosco
Fraser RSM RIP ... Sr Jean-Marie McErlane RIP
Palmerston North
Hato Paora retreat for Sydney ... The RNZAF drops by St Peters ... St Peters
third in O'Shea
Reflect
Tenth Sunday in Ordinary Time Year A. Matthew 9:9-13. Veronica Lawson RSM
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FROM THE SECULAR MEDIA
Catholic parishes brace for 4000 pilgrims
http://www.stuff.co.nz:80/4572395a11.html
New Zealand Catholic parishes are bracing themselves as they prepare to host
4000 international pilgrims heading for World Youth Day in Sydney next
month...
Scholarship for St Pat's student
Upper Hutt Leader
http://tinyurl.com/6kqxmq
St Patrick's Silverstream student Angus Oliver has been presented with the
Kiley Family Memorial Trust Scholarship for 2008 ...
Students showcase talent (photo)
Whangarei Leader
http://tinyurl.com/3epwrv
The Sheila winn Festival of shgakespeare in Schools has come and gone again
with Pompallier Catholic college and Kamo High School students walking away
with four out of five awards ...
An end of an era in Stratford (photo)
The Stratford Press
http://tinyurl.com/45ohsm
This past weekend, the Catholic Parish community said farewell to the
Sisters of the Mission ending 111 years of service in the Stratford
community.
Conversion for convent
Stuff â€" Taranaki Daily News â€" Taranaki Daily News â€" 3 Jun 2008
A Stratford convent is to be resurrected as a backpackers lodge. Tramping
and tourism business the Eastern Taranaki Experience is taking over the
former Roman Catholic convent in Miranda St.
Acts of faith, by Steve Hart
Employment Today, May 2008; n.128:p.12-14
Interview with Kerry Coleman, general manager of the Catholic Diocese of
Auckland, about the changes implemented at the organisation which resulted
in its being placed seventh in the 2007 Unlimited/JRA Best Places to Work
survey for small to medium workplaces. [This magazine may be found at some
public libraries. Issue 128 can ordered from the publishers:
http://www.employmenttoday.co.nz ]
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'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper. Some recent topics ...
IVF, entertainment, and morality ... Appreciation for the elderly ... The
fragility of life ... "Boys and girls: you are the favourites of Jesus" ...
Youth week and hoodies ... God save the Queen ... Gender imbalance in the
Church?
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EVENTS
World Youth Day
Sydney, 14-20 July 2008
http://www.wyd.org.nz
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
The radical witness of Houston's Casa Juan Diego; Tony Blair's new 'Faith
Foundation'
In a recent NCR cover story I described a phenomenon in Texas I called
"Evangelical transfer," meaning ways in which the state's strong Evangelical
Protestant ethos shapes the Catholic experience. This week, I want to
describe another "evangelical" face of Texas Catholicism, this time in the
sense of lives lived in radical witness to the values of the Gospel...
Also: A new generation looks at John Paul's theology of the body and the
family ... Christianity and Islam 'neither twins nor strangers' ...
Catholicism's changing face and the dangers of denial ... Young theologians
today face 'paranoia,' new Fordham prof says
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
http://www.romereports.com (video)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Parish Presenters, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper
Details in 'NZ Catholic' June 1-14 2008 p.19, and from Dennis Augustine,
Promotions and Advertising Manager, NZ Catholic, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby,
Auckland 1144; tel: (09) 360 3049; e-mail:advertising@nzcatholic.org.nz
Camp Director. Ministry Camps Co-ordinator (2 positions). El Rancho
Christian Holiday Park, Kapiti Coast
http://www.elrancho.co.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26, at
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/ERwork.htm and from adelle@elrancho.co.nz ; tel.
(04) 902 6287
Live-in Support People, Mt Tabor Trust, Mt Albert and Helensville
http://www.supportoptions.co.nz/support/provider.aspx?pID=919&l=1&sID=318
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26 and from Mike, Marie or Joanne,
tel. (09) 420 9701.
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Sunday, May 25, 2008
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FROM THE SECULAR MEDIA
Radio NZ. 'Spectrum'. "The silence and the light"
http://www.radionz.co.nz/nr/programmes/spectrum
In this radio documentary, Jack Perkins visits the Futuna chapel of the
Society of Mary's former retreat centre in the Wellington suburb of Karori -
an unequalled example of New Zealand’s religious architecture. Its 50 year
history is an inspirational story of dedication and survival... [The
programme will be archived at the above link after the broadcast this
afternoon]
Pacific beauty in to win (photo; video)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4556908a6497.html
Beauty queen Amily Helena Faleafaga has just been crowned Miss Samoa New
Zealand and will compete with others from around the globe for the main
title in Apia in September...
Budget Comment - Poorest Miss Out
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0805/S00398.htm
New Zealand’s poorest citizens continue to miss out in the Labour
Government’s
ninth Budget, according to Catholic social justice agency Caritas Aotearoa
New Zealand...
Online Initiatives Launched for World Youth Day
Thursday, 22 May 2008, 1:53 pm
Press Release: Catholic Communications
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0805/S00230.htm
The much-awaited re-launch of Connect.org.nz was celebrated yesterday with
the ceremonial ‘first click’ by Wellington World Youth Day Ambassador, Josie
Leota, and Fr James Lyons, the parish priest of Sacred Heart Cathedral in
Wellington...
4000 NZers booked to take part in World Youth Day
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4554802a11.html
Thousands of young New Zealanders will travel to Australia in July to take
part in World Youth Day, presided over by Pope Benedict XVI...
Aust nun won't have sainthood by July
May 20, 2008 11:29 PM
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411366/1789879
Mother Mary MacKillop is unlikely to be named Australia's first saint named
during Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Sydney in July...
Adventurer turned pilgrim walks his way in Spain (photo)
Hauraki Herald
http://tinyurl.com/6pjsnj
Robin Plummer is off on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.
Breakers' balls a big hit with the kids (photo)
Hauraki Herald
http://tinyurl.com/5tgycp
Students at St Joseph's Catholic School in Paeroa show their appreciation to
the Champions Programme. [I remember a similar photo with article in a
northern hemisphere newspaper in which the writer hastened to reassure
alarmed readers that bare feet were commonplace in rural New Zealand schools
and not a sign of abject poverty - ml]
A sweet treat of fresh apples (photo)
Hauraki Herald
http://tinyurl.com/5thlyf
St Joseph's School, Paeroa is part of the Apples in Schools initiative.
More room for faithful in revamped cathedral
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/4558443a6579.html
A multimillion-dollar renovation of Hamilton East's Cathedral of the Blessed
Virgin Mary is set to bring a touch of European grandeur to the former
parish church...
Seeking brothers@church.com
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4554977a28.html
A 300-year-old religious order is embracing modern technology - including
publishing a brother blog - in a bid to attract new members. The Catholic De
La Salle brotherhood yesterday launched a website - http://
www.delasallebrothers.com - that provides intimate details of their
previously private world...
Girls hope Spikey will keep drinks safe (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4554894a11.html
Three entrepreneurial Christchurch high school students believe they might
just have found a way to eliminate the scourge of drink-spiking from New
Zealand. Catholic Cathedral College Year 12 students Rodelyn Avila, Hannah
Freestone and Jeanette Butler have become the legal distributors of a
stopper which fits into the neck of a drink bottle...
New Zealand archbishop comes to Inland area to observe lay people running
parishes
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_archbishop21.29417f4.\
html
A New Zealand archbishop is in the Inland area [of San Diego, California]
this week to learn from the San Bernardino diocese's reliance on lay people
and nuns to run some of its parishes. Archbishop John Dew of Wellington, New
Zealand, said two of his employees visited the Inland area earlier this
month to see firsthand the diocese's approach and "came home raving about
San Bernardino" ...
Holocaust recalled (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/4554713a22396.html
10-year-old Vera O’Brien was told she was setting off on an adventure when
her parents managed to get her out of Prague just as the Nazi holocaust
began. She lived the last 39 years of her life in Papakura and wrote a book,
Journey to Life, about her extraordinary and poignant story before her death
last year...
Churches reject campaign advice
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=286&objectid=10511422
Six mainstream churches have rejected advice from the Electoral Commission
that they should register as third parties to run a $100,000 campaign on
social justice before this year's election...
The life of Leonard George (photo)
Taupo Times
http://tinyurl.com/6fdhps
Taupo has farewelled one of its first restaurateurs, long-standing resident
and well-known entrepreneur Leonard George Lee ...
Long service (photo)
Taieri Herald
http://tinyurl.com/68l4o9
Four senior Catholic priests, three from Mosgiel, celebrated a total of more
than 200 years' service to the Church, recently ...
Debts hurt church
Taieri Herald
http://tinyurl.com/55kje9
A seminar for Catholic parish treasurers on Saturday drew more thyan 60
people from throughout Otago and Southland to the Holy Cross Centre, Mosgiel
...
Together at last, after 70 years
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4553786a11.html
They were teenage sweethearts separated by war and sectarian prejudice. Now
Phil O'Neill and Joan Dean are about to marry, nearly 70 years after he
first intended to propose...
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
'Angel in the City'
John 6:51-58: the Gospel reading for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of
Christ, discussed by Rev. Frank Nelson, Dean of St Paul's (Anglican)
Cathedral, Wellington, and Deacon Ellie Sanderson with occasional commentary
by baby Zachary.
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'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz/
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper. Some recent topics ...
Homosexuals and seminary admission ... the Church and the Rwanda genocide
... Relaunch of the Catholic youth site Connect.org.nz ... Clerical attire
... On treating a person as "people" ... Pemtecost
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EVENTS
World Youth Day
Sydney, 14-20 July 2008
http://www.wyd.org.nz/
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Seeking dialogue with 'Islam of the people'
Though the parallel shouldn't be pushed too far, in some ways
Christian/Muslim relations today might be compared to where things stood
with personal computers back in the early 1980s. Everybody knew PCs were the
future, but they wouldn't change the world until a simple, appealing, and
reasonably standard way of making them work emerged...
*************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Camp Director. Ministry Camps Co-ordinator (2 positions). El Rancho
Christian Holiday Park, Kapiti Coast
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26, at
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/ERwork.htm and from adelle@elrancho.co.nz ; tel.
(04) 902 6287
Live-in Support People, Mt Tabor Trust, Mt Albert and Helensville
http://www.supportoptions.co.nz/support/provider.aspx?pID=919&l=1&sID=318
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26 and from Mike, Marie or Joanne,
tel. (09) 420 9701.
Religious Education Ministry, The Gift Centre, Auckland
http://www.supportoptions.co.nz/support/provider.aspx?pID=897&l=1&sID=318
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 18-31 2008 p.22 and from Brian Nicholas, The
Gift Centre, 28A Telford Avenue, Balmoral, Auckland. Tel. (09) 620 9524;
fax: (09) 620 9520; e-mail: giftcentre@xtra.co.nz
FROM THE SECULAR MEDIA
Radio NZ. 'Spectrum'. "The silence and the light"
http://www.radionz.co.nz/nr/programmes/spectrum
In this radio documentary, Jack Perkins visits the Futuna chapel of the
Society of Mary's former retreat centre in the Wellington suburb of Karori -
an unequalled example of New Zealand’s religious architecture. Its 50 year
history is an inspirational story of dedication and survival... [The
programme will be archived at the above link after the broadcast this
afternoon]
Pacific beauty in to win (photo; video)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4556908a6497.html
Beauty queen Amily Helena Faleafaga has just been crowned Miss Samoa New
Zealand and will compete with others from around the globe for the main
title in Apia in September...
Budget Comment - Poorest Miss Out
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0805/S00398.htm
New Zealand’s poorest citizens continue to miss out in the Labour
Government’s
ninth Budget, according to Catholic social justice agency Caritas Aotearoa
New Zealand...
Online Initiatives Launched for World Youth Day
Thursday, 22 May 2008, 1:53 pm
Press Release: Catholic Communications
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0805/S00230.htm
The much-awaited re-launch of Connect.org.nz was celebrated yesterday with
the ceremonial ‘first click’ by Wellington World Youth Day Ambassador, Josie
Leota, and Fr James Lyons, the parish priest of Sacred Heart Cathedral in
Wellington...
4000 NZers booked to take part in World Youth Day
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4554802a11.html
Thousands of young New Zealanders will travel to Australia in July to take
part in World Youth Day, presided over by Pope Benedict XVI...
Aust nun won't have sainthood by July
May 20, 2008 11:29 PM
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411366/1789879
Mother Mary MacKillop is unlikely to be named Australia's first saint named
during Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Sydney in July...
Adventurer turned pilgrim walks his way in Spain (photo)
Hauraki Herald
http://tinyurl.com/6pjsnj
Robin Plummer is off on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela.
Breakers' balls a big hit with the kids (photo)
Hauraki Herald
http://tinyurl.com/5tgycp
Students at St Joseph's Catholic School in Paeroa show their appreciation to
the Champions Programme. [I remember a similar photo with article in a
northern hemisphere newspaper in which the writer hastened to reassure
alarmed readers that bare feet were commonplace in rural New Zealand schools
and not a sign of abject poverty - ml]
A sweet treat of fresh apples (photo)
Hauraki Herald
http://tinyurl.com/5thlyf
St Joseph's School, Paeroa is part of the Apples in Schools initiative.
More room for faithful in revamped cathedral
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/4558443a6579.html
A multimillion-dollar renovation of Hamilton East's Cathedral of the Blessed
Virgin Mary is set to bring a touch of European grandeur to the former
parish church...
Seeking brothers@church.com
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4554977a28.html
A 300-year-old religious order is embracing modern technology - including
publishing a brother blog - in a bid to attract new members. The Catholic De
La Salle brotherhood yesterday launched a website - http://
www.delasallebrothers.com - that provides intimate details of their
previously private world...
Girls hope Spikey will keep drinks safe (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4554894a11.html
Three entrepreneurial Christchurch high school students believe they might
just have found a way to eliminate the scourge of drink-spiking from New
Zealand. Catholic Cathedral College Year 12 students Rodelyn Avila, Hannah
Freestone and Jeanette Butler have become the legal distributors of a
stopper which fits into the neck of a drink bottle...
New Zealand archbishop comes to Inland area to observe lay people running
parishes
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_archbishop21.29417f4.\
html
A New Zealand archbishop is in the Inland area [of San Diego, California]
this week to learn from the San Bernardino diocese's reliance on lay people
and nuns to run some of its parishes. Archbishop John Dew of Wellington, New
Zealand, said two of his employees visited the Inland area earlier this
month to see firsthand the diocese's approach and "came home raving about
San Bernardino" ...
Holocaust recalled (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/4554713a22396.html
10-year-old Vera O’Brien was told she was setting off on an adventure when
her parents managed to get her out of Prague just as the Nazi holocaust
began. She lived the last 39 years of her life in Papakura and wrote a book,
Journey to Life, about her extraordinary and poignant story before her death
last year...
Churches reject campaign advice
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=286&objectid=10511422
Six mainstream churches have rejected advice from the Electoral Commission
that they should register as third parties to run a $100,000 campaign on
social justice before this year's election...
The life of Leonard George (photo)
Taupo Times
http://tinyurl.com/6fdhps
Taupo has farewelled one of its first restaurateurs, long-standing resident
and well-known entrepreneur Leonard George Lee ...
Long service (photo)
Taieri Herald
http://tinyurl.com/68l4o9
Four senior Catholic priests, three from Mosgiel, celebrated a total of more
than 200 years' service to the Church, recently ...
Debts hurt church
Taieri Herald
http://tinyurl.com/55kje9
A seminar for Catholic parish treasurers on Saturday drew more thyan 60
people from throughout Otago and Southland to the Holy Cross Centre, Mosgiel
...
Together at last, after 70 years
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4553786a11.html
They were teenage sweethearts separated by war and sectarian prejudice. Now
Phil O'Neill and Joan Dean are about to marry, nearly 70 years after he
first intended to propose...
*******************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
'Angel in the City'
John 6:51-58: the Gospel reading for the Solemnity of the Body and Blood of
Christ, discussed by Rev. Frank Nelson, Dean of St Paul's (Anglican)
Cathedral, Wellington, and Deacon Ellie Sanderson with occasional commentary
by baby Zachary.
*******************************************************
'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz/
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper. Some recent topics ...
Homosexuals and seminary admission ... the Church and the Rwanda genocide
... Relaunch of the Catholic youth site Connect.org.nz ... Clerical attire
... On treating a person as "people" ... Pemtecost
*****************************************************
EVENTS
World Youth Day
Sydney, 14-20 July 2008
http://www.wyd.org.nz/
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Seeking dialogue with 'Islam of the people'
Though the parallel shouldn't be pushed too far, in some ways
Christian/Muslim relations today might be compared to where things stood
with personal computers back in the early 1980s. Everybody knew PCs were the
future, but they wouldn't change the world until a simple, appealing, and
reasonably standard way of making them work emerged...
*************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Camp Director. Ministry Camps Co-ordinator (2 positions). El Rancho
Christian Holiday Park, Kapiti Coast
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26, at
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/ERwork.htm and from adelle@elrancho.co.nz ; tel.
(04) 902 6287
Live-in Support People, Mt Tabor Trust, Mt Albert and Helensville
http://www.supportoptions.co.nz/support/provider.aspx?pID=919&l=1&sID=318
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26 and from Mike, Marie or Joanne,
tel. (09) 420 9701.
Religious Education Ministry, The Gift Centre, Auckland
http://www.supportoptions.co.nz/support/provider.aspx?pID=897&l=1&sID=318
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 18-31 2008 p.22 and from Brian Nicholas, The
Gift Centre, 28A Telford Avenue, Balmoral, Auckland. Tel. (09) 620 9524;
fax: (09) 620 9520; e-mail: giftcentre@xtra.co.nz
Sunday, May 18, 2008
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'NZ CATHOLIC' - Issue 291, May 18-31 2008
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
ssue 291, May 18 - 31, 2008
NATIONAL
Dominicans were warned about anti-war action ... Pill plan condemned for
several reasons ... Dunedin honours priest jubilarians ... Feedback sought
on priests' clericals ... Caritas pledged $64,000 for cyclone relief work in
Myanmar ... Christchurch Catholic radio goes into recess ... Govt attitude
to suicide book described as incongruous ... Wanganui St Mary's auction
raises $16,000 ... Pro-lifer drops plans for entry into politics ...
Organiser says remit not meant to be anti-Catholic ... Colleges farewell
long-serving staff ... Silver anniversary for NZ Catholic feature ... From
DP to rector of church ... 56 days to World Youth Day 2008 ... ERO File ...
Success celebrated at graduation
FEATURES
Catholic peace group says it's proud of spy-dome action ... Mixed reaction
to raid ... Ploughshares takes name from Isaiah ... Master calligrapher's
Bible "is a work for eternity" ... Preparing our hearts and minds for the
celebration of Mass: Introduction to Module Three of Worshipping under
Southern Skies ... PNG missionary takes a break after 28 years in a hard
field ... Dove gathering in Taupo launches retreat series ... Brother's long
service to chaplaincy recognised ... Auckland impresses two WYD men from
India
OPINION
Ronald Rolheiser: Hatred and the Gospel ... Brendan Malone: Grand Theft Auto
represents a culture in crisis ... Thomas Rosica: "Peter was among us" at
the White House, at Ground Zero and at Catholic institutions ... Editorial:
Good cause, but criminal act regrettable ... Malcolm Evans ... Letters
INTERNATIONAL
Catholics in China pray for blessing on Games ... Swiss respect "dignity" of
plants ... Ex-mayor criticised over Communion ... Liturgical renewal is
"irreversible" ... The Pope: "Healthy" laicism observed in US ... Saddam's
deputy on trial ... Conflict in Japan ... No reconciliation ... Ballooning
priest lost at sea ... Lack of will causing food prices rises, says Vatican
... Cardinal urges Anglicans to identify their place ... Universities told
to live Faith ... Records closed to Mormons ... Bishop bans non-Mass
Communion ... Pope calls for largesse, mercy for Myanmar ... Italian mum
dies to save her baby ... In Brief
REGULAR FEATURES
Papal Prayer, Young Adults, Books, Monitor, Clips, Catholic.Geek, Tape Deck,
Scripture, Feasts, Liturgical Calendar, The Doolans, Family Talk, Caption
Contest, Who Said?, 40 Years Ago, Dio. Diary, Cryptic Crossword,That Word!,
Holy Lives, Kit's Corner, Photo Prayer, Wit's End.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Caritas Reaching Those In Need In Burma/Myanmar
Press Release: Caritas Aotearoa 13-05 16:47-2008
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0805/S00200.htm
Catholic aid agency Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is working through Catholic
Church partners on the ground in Burma/Myanmar to ensure aid gets to people
who need it...
Making Poverty History Message Must Be Heard
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0805/S00221.htm
The messages carried by the historic Make Poverty History petition that was
delivered to Parliament one year ago today - 15 May - must continue to be
heard, says the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services (NZCCSS)...
School evacuated after "volcanic eruption" (photo)
Ruapehu Press
http://tinyurl.com/3mtqyn
Last Tuesday, the noise of a helicopter and the sounds of the fire engine,
ambulance and police car converged on St Patrick's Catholic School ...
Tears flow as Wyndham identity returns (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4523766a6568.html
Tears of joy were shed at the Wyndham cemetery yesterday as Teddy Traynor
was reunited with his beloved wife Annie on the day, 100 years ago, they
were joined in matrimony...
End nigh for St Brigid's
http://stuff.co.nz/manawatustandard/4525178a20379.html
St Brigid's Catholic church in Feilding, built in 1925, is to be demolished
to make way for a new building, more suited to today's liturgical
services...
Simple life stands out at 100 (photo)
http://stuff.co.nz/auckland/4526663a22402.html
Kath O’Neill has many happy memories collecting shellfish on the beaches in
the Hokianga where she grew up. Certainly stocks were more plentiful when
the Henderson Valley resident, who has just celebrated her 100th birthday,
was a child in rural Panguru...
Obi-Wan is my brother
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4550096a6566.html
The Catholic church has made its peace with the Jedi, ET and those reptilian
chestbusters from the Alien movies. At least in theory, writes The Southland
Times in an editorial...
[The following articles are not available on the publications' free
Websites, but can be read at the public library]
Sex scandal awaits trial
Manawatu Standard â€" News â€" 15 May 2008 â€" Page 1
The Government is refusing to release a report detailing claims Hato Paora
College was warned not to employ former principal Tihirau Shepherd, who is
set to stand trial on sex charges...
Joyful mystery, by Bill McKay
Architecture New Zealand, Mar/Apr 2008; n.2:p.62-63
Abstract : Examines the architecture and artwork of St Joseph’s Catholic
Church in Grey Lynn, nearly fifty years after it was built.
Myths and miracles, by Sarah Catherall
Dominion Post, 10 May 2008; p.E1-2
Abstract : Considers the differing views over the validity of the Christian
and Muslim tenet of the Virgin Birth of Mary, asking various people their
opinion. Talks to John Dew (Catholic Archbishop of Wellington), Mark Bull
Allen (member Destiny Church), Margaret Mayman (Presbyterian minister),
Kerry Prendergast, Jayed Khan (President, Federated Islamic Associations of
NZ), Richard Randerson (Anglican bishop), Gordon Copeland (Catholic MP), Jim
Veitch (Presbyterian minister, New Testament scholar), Ian Harris (religious
columnist), Kate Harcourt, Greg Dawes (religious studies lecturer), and Paul
Morris (religious studies academic).
A lack of reason and logic
The Dominion Post 15 May 2008 Page: 14
It’s very disappointing that Graeme Davidson (Religion and Ethics, May
10-11) cannot put reason and logic ahead of permissive ideology. It’s also
disappointing that he chooses disingenuously to confuse Catholic Church
moral law with papal opinion. He...
Believe the Creed wholeheartedly
The Dominion Post 15 May 2008 Page: 16
I read your feature on the Virgin Birth with interest (Long Weekend, May
10-11). I was professor of religious studies at Otago University from
1992-2005. It’s a basic postulate of religious studies that all religions
are treated with equal empathy and...
Anti-miracle brigade is fading
The Dominion Post 15 May 2008 Page: 16
What on earth prompted you to select a largely biased group to comment on
the doctrine of the Virgin Birth (Long Weekend, May 10-11)? Only one
denominational leader was chosen. Where were the others and scholars or
someone from the New Zealand Bible...
*******************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
'Angel in the City'
John 3:16-18: a reading and discussion with Suzanne and Fr David Kennerly in
the hall of St Mary of the Angels, Wellington
*******************************************************
'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz/
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper. Some recent topics ...
Mary and the month of May ... Report from Rwanda ... Catechising young
people ... Seriously bad Catholic liturgy (video) ... Catholics and US
politics ... Happy Mother's Day
*****************************************************
EVENTS
World Youth Day
Sydney, 14-20 July 2008
http://www.wyd.org.nz/
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Atheist scholar is ally (with reservations) in Benedict’s fight against
relativism
Ever since his famous warning about a "dictatorship of relativism" shortly
before his election three years ago, Pope Benedict XVI has been trying to
kick-start a global conversation about truth. In particular, Benedict yearns
for a new look at truth within the Western secular academy, that exotic
region where Jacques Derrida’s relativist maxim "there is nothing outside
the text" has, ironically, achieved the status of a near-absolute. This
weekend, in the enchanting Alpine setting of Lugano, Switzerland, a
cross-section of prominent Western intellectuals is taking up the papal
challenge...
*************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Camp Director. Ministry Camps Co-ordinator (2 positions). El Rancho
Christian Holiday Park, Kapiti Coast
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26, at
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/ERwork.htm and from adelle@elrancho.co.nz ; tel.
(04) 902 6287
Live-in Support People, Mt Tabor Trust, Mt Albert and Helensville
http://www.supportoptions.co.nz/support/provider.aspx?pID=919&l=1&sID=318
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26 and from Mike, Marie or Joanne,
tel. (09) 420 9701.
Religious Education Ministry, The Gift Centre, Auckland
http://www.supportoptions.co.nz/support/provider.aspx?pID=897&l=1&sID=318
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 18-31 2008 p.22 and from Brian Nicholas, The
Gift Centre, 28A Telford Avenue, Balmoral, Auckland. Tel. (09) 620 9524;
fax: (09) 620 9520; e-mail: giftcentre@xtra.co.nz
'NZ CATHOLIC' - Issue 291, May 18-31 2008
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
ssue 291, May 18 - 31, 2008
NATIONAL
Dominicans were warned about anti-war action ... Pill plan condemned for
several reasons ... Dunedin honours priest jubilarians ... Feedback sought
on priests' clericals ... Caritas pledged $64,000 for cyclone relief work in
Myanmar ... Christchurch Catholic radio goes into recess ... Govt attitude
to suicide book described as incongruous ... Wanganui St Mary's auction
raises $16,000 ... Pro-lifer drops plans for entry into politics ...
Organiser says remit not meant to be anti-Catholic ... Colleges farewell
long-serving staff ... Silver anniversary for NZ Catholic feature ... From
DP to rector of church ... 56 days to World Youth Day 2008 ... ERO File ...
Success celebrated at graduation
FEATURES
Catholic peace group says it's proud of spy-dome action ... Mixed reaction
to raid ... Ploughshares takes name from Isaiah ... Master calligrapher's
Bible "is a work for eternity" ... Preparing our hearts and minds for the
celebration of Mass: Introduction to Module Three of Worshipping under
Southern Skies ... PNG missionary takes a break after 28 years in a hard
field ... Dove gathering in Taupo launches retreat series ... Brother's long
service to chaplaincy recognised ... Auckland impresses two WYD men from
India
OPINION
Ronald Rolheiser: Hatred and the Gospel ... Brendan Malone: Grand Theft Auto
represents a culture in crisis ... Thomas Rosica: "Peter was among us" at
the White House, at Ground Zero and at Catholic institutions ... Editorial:
Good cause, but criminal act regrettable ... Malcolm Evans ... Letters
INTERNATIONAL
Catholics in China pray for blessing on Games ... Swiss respect "dignity" of
plants ... Ex-mayor criticised over Communion ... Liturgical renewal is
"irreversible" ... The Pope: "Healthy" laicism observed in US ... Saddam's
deputy on trial ... Conflict in Japan ... No reconciliation ... Ballooning
priest lost at sea ... Lack of will causing food prices rises, says Vatican
... Cardinal urges Anglicans to identify their place ... Universities told
to live Faith ... Records closed to Mormons ... Bishop bans non-Mass
Communion ... Pope calls for largesse, mercy for Myanmar ... Italian mum
dies to save her baby ... In Brief
REGULAR FEATURES
Papal Prayer, Young Adults, Books, Monitor, Clips, Catholic.Geek, Tape Deck,
Scripture, Feasts, Liturgical Calendar, The Doolans, Family Talk, Caption
Contest, Who Said?, 40 Years Ago, Dio. Diary, Cryptic Crossword,That Word!,
Holy Lives, Kit's Corner, Photo Prayer, Wit's End.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Caritas Reaching Those In Need In Burma/Myanmar
Press Release: Caritas Aotearoa 13-05 16:47-2008
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0805/S00200.htm
Catholic aid agency Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is working through Catholic
Church partners on the ground in Burma/Myanmar to ensure aid gets to people
who need it...
Making Poverty History Message Must Be Heard
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0805/S00221.htm
The messages carried by the historic Make Poverty History petition that was
delivered to Parliament one year ago today - 15 May - must continue to be
heard, says the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services (NZCCSS)...
School evacuated after "volcanic eruption" (photo)
Ruapehu Press
http://tinyurl.com/3mtqyn
Last Tuesday, the noise of a helicopter and the sounds of the fire engine,
ambulance and police car converged on St Patrick's Catholic School ...
Tears flow as Wyndham identity returns (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4523766a6568.html
Tears of joy were shed at the Wyndham cemetery yesterday as Teddy Traynor
was reunited with his beloved wife Annie on the day, 100 years ago, they
were joined in matrimony...
End nigh for St Brigid's
http://stuff.co.nz/manawatustandard/4525178a20379.html
St Brigid's Catholic church in Feilding, built in 1925, is to be demolished
to make way for a new building, more suited to today's liturgical
services...
Simple life stands out at 100 (photo)
http://stuff.co.nz/auckland/4526663a22402.html
Kath O’Neill has many happy memories collecting shellfish on the beaches in
the Hokianga where she grew up. Certainly stocks were more plentiful when
the Henderson Valley resident, who has just celebrated her 100th birthday,
was a child in rural Panguru...
Obi-Wan is my brother
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4550096a6566.html
The Catholic church has made its peace with the Jedi, ET and those reptilian
chestbusters from the Alien movies. At least in theory, writes The Southland
Times in an editorial...
[The following articles are not available on the publications' free
Websites, but can be read at the public library]
Sex scandal awaits trial
Manawatu Standard â€" News â€" 15 May 2008 â€" Page 1
The Government is refusing to release a report detailing claims Hato Paora
College was warned not to employ former principal Tihirau Shepherd, who is
set to stand trial on sex charges...
Joyful mystery, by Bill McKay
Architecture New Zealand, Mar/Apr 2008; n.2:p.62-63
Abstract : Examines the architecture and artwork of St Joseph’s Catholic
Church in Grey Lynn, nearly fifty years after it was built.
Myths and miracles, by Sarah Catherall
Dominion Post, 10 May 2008; p.E1-2
Abstract : Considers the differing views over the validity of the Christian
and Muslim tenet of the Virgin Birth of Mary, asking various people their
opinion. Talks to John Dew (Catholic Archbishop of Wellington), Mark Bull
Allen (member Destiny Church), Margaret Mayman (Presbyterian minister),
Kerry Prendergast, Jayed Khan (President, Federated Islamic Associations of
NZ), Richard Randerson (Anglican bishop), Gordon Copeland (Catholic MP), Jim
Veitch (Presbyterian minister, New Testament scholar), Ian Harris (religious
columnist), Kate Harcourt, Greg Dawes (religious studies lecturer), and Paul
Morris (religious studies academic).
A lack of reason and logic
The Dominion Post 15 May 2008 Page: 14
It’s very disappointing that Graeme Davidson (Religion and Ethics, May
10-11) cannot put reason and logic ahead of permissive ideology. It’s also
disappointing that he chooses disingenuously to confuse Catholic Church
moral law with papal opinion. He...
Believe the Creed wholeheartedly
The Dominion Post 15 May 2008 Page: 16
I read your feature on the Virgin Birth with interest (Long Weekend, May
10-11). I was professor of religious studies at Otago University from
1992-2005. It’s a basic postulate of religious studies that all religions
are treated with equal empathy and...
Anti-miracle brigade is fading
The Dominion Post 15 May 2008 Page: 16
What on earth prompted you to select a largely biased group to comment on
the doctrine of the Virgin Birth (Long Weekend, May 10-11)? Only one
denominational leader was chosen. Where were the others and scholars or
someone from the New Zealand Bible...
*******************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
'Angel in the City'
John 3:16-18: a reading and discussion with Suzanne and Fr David Kennerly in
the hall of St Mary of the Angels, Wellington
*******************************************************
'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz/
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper. Some recent topics ...
Mary and the month of May ... Report from Rwanda ... Catechising young
people ... Seriously bad Catholic liturgy (video) ... Catholics and US
politics ... Happy Mother's Day
*****************************************************
EVENTS
World Youth Day
Sydney, 14-20 July 2008
http://www.wyd.org.nz/
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Atheist scholar is ally (with reservations) in Benedict’s fight against
relativism
Ever since his famous warning about a "dictatorship of relativism" shortly
before his election three years ago, Pope Benedict XVI has been trying to
kick-start a global conversation about truth. In particular, Benedict yearns
for a new look at truth within the Western secular academy, that exotic
region where Jacques Derrida’s relativist maxim "there is nothing outside
the text" has, ironically, achieved the status of a near-absolute. This
weekend, in the enchanting Alpine setting of Lugano, Switzerland, a
cross-section of prominent Western intellectuals is taking up the papal
challenge...
*************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Camp Director. Ministry Camps Co-ordinator (2 positions). El Rancho
Christian Holiday Park, Kapiti Coast
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26, at
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/ERwork.htm and from adelle@elrancho.co.nz ; tel.
(04) 902 6287
Live-in Support People, Mt Tabor Trust, Mt Albert and Helensville
http://www.supportoptions.co.nz/support/provider.aspx?pID=919&l=1&sID=318
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26 and from Mike, Marie or Joanne,
tel. (09) 420 9701.
Religious Education Ministry, The Gift Centre, Auckland
http://www.supportoptions.co.nz/support/provider.aspx?pID=897&l=1&sID=318
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 18-31 2008 p.22 and from Brian Nicholas, The
Gift Centre, 28A Telford Avenue, Balmoral, Auckland. Tel. (09) 620 9524;
fax: (09) 620 9520; e-mail: giftcentre@xtra.co.nz
Sunday, May 11, 2008
*****************************************************
CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
Access to Morning After Pill sends wrong message
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Bishop Peter Cullinane, spokesperson on bioethical issues for the New
Zealand Catholic Bishops’ Conference says we should be seriously concerned
about reports that the Auckland District Health Board might be making it
even easier to access the morning after pill: "Is it our aim to encourage
sexual activity outside of marriage or to discourage it?" ...
4000 pilgrims to come
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0805/S00065.htm
With less than three months till World Youth Day in Sydney, the Catholic
Church in New Zealand is gearing up to host 4000 international young
pilgrims, as well as despatching 4000 home-grown pilgrims later on to the
event in Sydney...
*****************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Caritas Pledges US$50,000 to Burma/Myanmar Relief
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0805/S00155.htm
Catholic humanitarian agency Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand has pledged an
initial US$50,000 (NZ$64,000) to an international Caritas response to the
Burma cyclone...
Caritas Accepting Donations Towards Cyclone Nargis Relief
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/caritasnz/121012960854.htm
Catholic humanitarian agency Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is accepting
donations towards relief in Burma/Myanmar where cyclone Nargis has killed at
least 22,500 people, with over 40,000 still missing.
University bans sex claim girl
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sundaynews/4520882a15620.html
The university to which a 15-year-old Catholic schoolgirl had been sneaking
so she could stay in one of its dorms with her 20-year-old boyfriend, banned
the teen...
Ringing the changes
Manawatu Standard â€" Business â€" 10 May 2008 â€" Page 2
[This in-depth article on the history and special features of Palmerston
North's Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, illustrated with several photographs,
is not available on the newspaper's free Website. It can be read at the
public library and via the libraries' free 'Newztext' service for borrowers]
New priest 'finds his feet' in city (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4518339a6568.html
The new St Patrick's parish priest will hold his first mass in Invercargill
tomorrow, but already the waiting line for baptisms is growing...
A Battle For Peace (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10509201
Opinions are divided on the actions of three anti-war protesters, including
a Catholic priest, charged with damaging a landmark spy base in the name of
peace. Catherine Masters reports ...
60 years wed 'nothing to write home about' (photo)
The Wellingtonian
http://tinyurl.com/6fvz2w
Gerry and Pat Homes celebrated their 60th wedding anniversay at Tawa's
Bucket Tree restaurant last weekend, an event few couples achieve these days
...
'Caring' Alex has designs on success
East and Bays Courier
http://tinyurl.com/4k5rcc
Alexandra Riley's passion for architercture stems from designing and
building houses for her Barbies as a child. Now, her dream is to study
architecture and use her skills to help Third World countries ..
Priest to celebrate 50 years on Tuesday (photo)
Piako Post
http://tinyurl.com/3sywzu
Father John Magill will say Mass at St Joseph's Church in Te Aroha next
Tuesday to commemorate his 50th anniversary as a Catholic priest ...
Bishop questions girls' access to pill
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10508413
A Catholic bishop says widening young girls' access to the morning-after
contraceptive pill could increase their vulnerability to unwanted sex.
Papal honour for Hutt man (photo)
Hutt News
http://tinyurl.com/5uaudo
A lifetime of voluntary service to his Church and community by Lower Hutt
man Beranrd O'Sullivan has been recognised by Pope Benedict XVI ...
Play group for children and parents (photo)
Taupo Times
http://tinyurl.com/5exy7l
The Ministry of Education has found a prime venue for a new and exciting
Pacifica early childhood play group in Taupo. St Patrick's Catholic School
has agreed to loan out a classroom where the new play group will be based
...
A concert for all music lovers (photo)
Rodney Times
http://tinyurl.com/64kl5o
A church fundraising concert will be held by the Bayswood Quintet on Sunday
May 18 at St John's Catholic Church in Orewa ...
Faith, fantasy and barbarians in public lectures
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0805/S00061.htm
Issues of faith and fantasy in the lives and writings of J.R.R. Tolkien and
C.S.Lewis, and the relationship between the Roman Empire and modern-day
barbarians will be explored in two forthcoming lectures at The University of
Auckland...
*******************************************************
'WEL-COM' - The newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington and the Diocese
of Palmerston North
http://www.welcom.org.nz/
From the May 2008 issue ...
**News**
Caritas Pledges US$50,000 to Burma/Myanmar Relief ... Pollution and Catholic
social teaching at French Pass
**World News**
**Columns**
Editorial: in search of truth in reporting ... Archbishop's column: World
Communications Day ... Philemon: baptism ... changes everything
**Schools**
Silverstream Vinnies ... St Joseph's School, New Plymouth, renames its
classrooms ... School students in solidarity with the world's poor
**Features**
Student's cancer death prompts teacher's close crop ... Vocations: what on
earth am I doing? ... Archbishop's Holy Thursday letter - after Papa
**Wellington**
Rai retreat for WYD pilgrims ... Sisters act Johnsonville style for local
pilgrims ... Newtown Festival and World Youth Day
**Palmerston North**
The complex way of God's love ... A working holiday in Stratford ... St
Peter's budding authors learn from the master
*******************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
'Snapshot'
The girls at Villa Maria College, Christchurch are giving blood for
Inspirational.tv, to help up to 3 people...
'Angel in the City'
A reading and discussion of John 20:19-23 with Suzanne and Fr David
Kennerley, from the crypt of St Mary of the Angels, Wellington.
*******************************************************
'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz/
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper. Some recent topics ...
Reality shows in bad taste ... The morning-after pill .. Bearing witness on
the commute ... Fr Murnane's protests ... Partner vs spouse ... Good
parties, fun times and faith
*****************************************************
EVENTS
World Youth Day
Sydney, 14-20 July 2008
http://www.wyd.org.nz/
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Lessons to learn from the papal trip
On Wednesday I spoke at the annual World Communications Day luncheon of the
Diocese of Brooklyn, hosted by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio. For this group of
media professionals in the New York area, as well as local Catholics, I was
asked to ruminate on lessons to be learned from the visit of Pope Benedict
XVI to the United States...
*************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Camp Director. Ministry Camps Co-ordinator (2 positions). El Rancho
Christian Holiday Park, Kapiti Coast
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26, at
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/ERwork.htm and from adelle@elrancho.co.nz ; tel.
(04) 902 6287
Live-in Support People, Mt Tabor Trust, Mt Albert and Helensville
http://www.supportoptions.co.nz/support/provider.aspx?pID=919&l=1&sID=318
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26 and from Mike, Marie or Joanne,
tel. (09) 420 9701.
CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
Access to Morning After Pill sends wrong message
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Bishop Peter Cullinane, spokesperson on bioethical issues for the New
Zealand Catholic Bishops’ Conference says we should be seriously concerned
about reports that the Auckland District Health Board might be making it
even easier to access the morning after pill: "Is it our aim to encourage
sexual activity outside of marriage or to discourage it?" ...
4000 pilgrims to come
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0805/S00065.htm
With less than three months till World Youth Day in Sydney, the Catholic
Church in New Zealand is gearing up to host 4000 international young
pilgrims, as well as despatching 4000 home-grown pilgrims later on to the
event in Sydney...
*****************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Caritas Pledges US$50,000 to Burma/Myanmar Relief
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0805/S00155.htm
Catholic humanitarian agency Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand has pledged an
initial US$50,000 (NZ$64,000) to an international Caritas response to the
Burma cyclone...
Caritas Accepting Donations Towards Cyclone Nargis Relief
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/caritasnz/121012960854.htm
Catholic humanitarian agency Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is accepting
donations towards relief in Burma/Myanmar where cyclone Nargis has killed at
least 22,500 people, with over 40,000 still missing.
University bans sex claim girl
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sundaynews/4520882a15620.html
The university to which a 15-year-old Catholic schoolgirl had been sneaking
so she could stay in one of its dorms with her 20-year-old boyfriend, banned
the teen...
Ringing the changes
Manawatu Standard â€" Business â€" 10 May 2008 â€" Page 2
[This in-depth article on the history and special features of Palmerston
North's Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, illustrated with several photographs,
is not available on the newspaper's free Website. It can be read at the
public library and via the libraries' free 'Newztext' service for borrowers]
New priest 'finds his feet' in city (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4518339a6568.html
The new St Patrick's parish priest will hold his first mass in Invercargill
tomorrow, but already the waiting line for baptisms is growing...
A Battle For Peace (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10509201
Opinions are divided on the actions of three anti-war protesters, including
a Catholic priest, charged with damaging a landmark spy base in the name of
peace. Catherine Masters reports ...
60 years wed 'nothing to write home about' (photo)
The Wellingtonian
http://tinyurl.com/6fvz2w
Gerry and Pat Homes celebrated their 60th wedding anniversay at Tawa's
Bucket Tree restaurant last weekend, an event few couples achieve these days
...
'Caring' Alex has designs on success
East and Bays Courier
http://tinyurl.com/4k5rcc
Alexandra Riley's passion for architercture stems from designing and
building houses for her Barbies as a child. Now, her dream is to study
architecture and use her skills to help Third World countries ..
Priest to celebrate 50 years on Tuesday (photo)
Piako Post
http://tinyurl.com/3sywzu
Father John Magill will say Mass at St Joseph's Church in Te Aroha next
Tuesday to commemorate his 50th anniversary as a Catholic priest ...
Bishop questions girls' access to pill
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10508413
A Catholic bishop says widening young girls' access to the morning-after
contraceptive pill could increase their vulnerability to unwanted sex.
Papal honour for Hutt man (photo)
Hutt News
http://tinyurl.com/5uaudo
A lifetime of voluntary service to his Church and community by Lower Hutt
man Beranrd O'Sullivan has been recognised by Pope Benedict XVI ...
Play group for children and parents (photo)
Taupo Times
http://tinyurl.com/5exy7l
The Ministry of Education has found a prime venue for a new and exciting
Pacifica early childhood play group in Taupo. St Patrick's Catholic School
has agreed to loan out a classroom where the new play group will be based
...
A concert for all music lovers (photo)
Rodney Times
http://tinyurl.com/64kl5o
A church fundraising concert will be held by the Bayswood Quintet on Sunday
May 18 at St John's Catholic Church in Orewa ...
Faith, fantasy and barbarians in public lectures
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0805/S00061.htm
Issues of faith and fantasy in the lives and writings of J.R.R. Tolkien and
C.S.Lewis, and the relationship between the Roman Empire and modern-day
barbarians will be explored in two forthcoming lectures at The University of
Auckland...
*******************************************************
'WEL-COM' - The newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington and the Diocese
of Palmerston North
http://www.welcom.org.nz/
From the May 2008 issue ...
**News**
Caritas Pledges US$50,000 to Burma/Myanmar Relief ... Pollution and Catholic
social teaching at French Pass
**World News**
**Columns**
Editorial: in search of truth in reporting ... Archbishop's column: World
Communications Day ... Philemon: baptism ... changes everything
**Schools**
Silverstream Vinnies ... St Joseph's School, New Plymouth, renames its
classrooms ... School students in solidarity with the world's poor
**Features**
Student's cancer death prompts teacher's close crop ... Vocations: what on
earth am I doing? ... Archbishop's Holy Thursday letter - after Papa
**Wellington**
Rai retreat for WYD pilgrims ... Sisters act Johnsonville style for local
pilgrims ... Newtown Festival and World Youth Day
**Palmerston North**
The complex way of God's love ... A working holiday in Stratford ... St
Peter's budding authors learn from the master
*******************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
'Snapshot'
The girls at Villa Maria College, Christchurch are giving blood for
Inspirational.tv, to help up to 3 people...
'Angel in the City'
A reading and discussion of John 20:19-23 with Suzanne and Fr David
Kennerley, from the crypt of St Mary of the Angels, Wellington.
*******************************************************
'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz/
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper. Some recent topics ...
Reality shows in bad taste ... The morning-after pill .. Bearing witness on
the commute ... Fr Murnane's protests ... Partner vs spouse ... Good
parties, fun times and faith
*****************************************************
EVENTS
World Youth Day
Sydney, 14-20 July 2008
http://www.wyd.org.nz/
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Lessons to learn from the papal trip
On Wednesday I spoke at the annual World Communications Day luncheon of the
Diocese of Brooklyn, hosted by Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio. For this group of
media professionals in the New York area, as well as local Catholics, I was
asked to ruminate on lessons to be learned from the visit of Pope Benedict
XVI to the United States...
*************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Camp Director. Ministry Camps Co-ordinator (2 positions). El Rancho
Christian Holiday Park, Kapiti Coast
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26, at
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/ERwork.htm and from adelle@elrancho.co.nz ; tel.
(04) 902 6287
Live-in Support People, Mt Tabor Trust, Mt Albert and Helensville
http://www.supportoptions.co.nz/support/provider.aspx?pID=919&l=1&sID=318
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26 and from Mike, Marie or Joanne,
tel. (09) 420 9701.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
*****************************************************
'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
In issue no. 290, May 4 - 17 2008 ...
Education feature (8 pages): New curriculum delights educators ...
Non-preference places in demand among non-Catholic families ... Children's
behaviour may nor be worse but there are some who test school resources ...
Colleges fired up for WYD trip ... Building boom in North and South .. Faith
should be tangible in schools
******************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Cops quiz girls' hostel
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sundaynews/4509423a15596.html
The manager of a Catholic girls' boarding school devised a plan for the
20-year-old boyfriend of a just-turned 15-year-old student to visit the
hostel so they could see each other...
Going back to the Latin (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4507341a13135.html
The move from the Latin Catholic mass to services in English was designed to
make Catholicism more accessible, so why is the Christchurch diocese
bringing back the daily Latin mass? Rebecca Todd reports...
Couple to be reunited ... after 54 years (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4507483a6565.html
The late Edward John Traynor begins a journey next week that will bring him
home to be laid to rest with his beloved wife on the day of their 100th
wedding anniversary. Inseparable in life, Teddy and Annie Traynor ended
their days buried hundreds of miles apart â€" her in the Traynor family plot
at Wyndham cemetery, him in the Porirua cemetery...
Crowds mark Anzac Day
Ruapehu Press
http://tinyurl.com/3s2mz7
The returned servicemen's headstones at the Taumarunui cemetry still gleamed
after the work put in by the Catholic Youth Group last year ...
Spokesperson says Catholic Church doesn't support hunger strikes (photo)
(includes audio clip)
http://tinyurl.com/5gmgvm
The Catholic Church say hunger strikes are not a valid form of protest and
it is not the Christian way...
Spy base priest's activist past (+photos, video)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10507272
A Catholic priest who took in and kept tabs on freed Algerian asylum seeker
Ahmed Zaoui is one of three people charged with inflicting an embarrassing
blow to a top-secret spy base...
Catholic Worker Movement marks 75th anniversary without fanfare
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0802398.htm
Washington (CNS) -- Seventy-fifth anniversary or not, lunch still must be
served at the New York Catholic Worker's Maryhouse. Hungry people will be
waiting, as they are every day... [Related link:
http://www.catholicworker.org.nz/who.html ]
Radio New Zealand. 'He Rourou'
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons
In two interviews, Father Philip Cody talks with Ana Tapiata about the
cooperation, bonding and friendship that happens at the Hui Aranga, the
Easter Assembly of Maori Catholics. (in Maori)
A jubilee for St Josephs
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaruherald/4500570a6571.html
Temuka's St Josephs School will hold its 125th jubilee at Labour Weekend...
South's Filipinos gather for their day in church (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4498731a6568.html
A 60-strong group of Catholic Filipinos made history in Winton on Sunday
when they manned the 10am Sunday mass in the church of St Thomas Aquinas...
Addington school hit by arson (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4501809a6530.html
Police and fire safety officers are investigating a suspicious fire at
Sacred Heart School in Addington this morning...
[The following stories are not available on the newspapers' free Websites.
They can be read at the public library, and some are accessible via the
public libraries' free 'Newztext' service for borrowers]
Saffron tower on hold as legal advice sought
The National Business Review - 02 May 2008
The hearing of an application for a 46-storey apartment tower overlooking St
Patrick's Square in Auckland's central business district was adjourned this
week with a long list of questions to answer...
Letters to the Editor
The Timaru Herald 1 May 2008 Page: 7
Fr Geoff Gray writes: On behalf of all my long-suffering and misunderstood
brothers and sisters in the Catholic church, I would like to assure Richard
Gunther (April 28) that we also believe that "by grace you have been saved
through faith...and it is the gift of God."...
New father calls for sympathy for priest-stalker
Sunday Star Times 27 Apr 2008 Page: 8
The Catholic Church is sending another relatively young priest to St Patrick’s
parish in Invercargill, where an obsessed parishioner sent his predecessor
fleeing...
Cantabrians ready for world gathering on World Youth Day (no link)
Stuff â€" The Press â€" Canterbury â€" 29 Apr 2008
More than 500 Canterbury Catholics will attend the world's largest youth
event in July...
*******************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
'Angel in the City'
Matthew 28:16-20: A reading and commentary by Dean Frank Nelson of St Paul's
Cathedral, Wellington.
*******************************************************
'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz/
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper. Some recent topics ...
Reading about Islam ... How Benedict XVI will make history ... Political
correctenss and sexually-transmitted disease ... Zimbabwe: what's the
answer? ... Ideas of success and happiness
*****************************************************
EVENTS
World Youth Day
Sydney, 14-20 July 2008
http://www.wyd.org.nz/
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Interview with Ambassador Glendon; A possible papabile
Mary Ann Glendon is the eighth Ambassador of the United States to the Holy
See, and by most measures she's probably the nominee least in need of
on-the-job training. Glendon is a veteran Vatican insider, having
represented the Holy See at the 1995 Beijing conference of the United
Nations on women, and having served as president of the Pontifical Academy
of Social Sciences -- the first woman to head a pontifical academy. A
professor at the Harvard Law School, she's also an expert on international
legal theory...
*************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Camp Director. Ministry Camps Co-ordinator (2 positions). El Rancho
Christian Holiday Park, Kapiti Coast
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26, at
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/ERwork.htm and from adelle@elrancho.co.nz ; tel.
(04) 902 6287
Live-in Support People, Mt Tabor Trust, Mt Albert and Helensville
http://www.supportoptions.co.nz/support/provider.aspx?pID=919&l=1&sID=318
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26 and from Mike, Marie or Joanne,
tel. (09) 420 9701.
'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
In issue no. 290, May 4 - 17 2008 ...
Education feature (8 pages): New curriculum delights educators ...
Non-preference places in demand among non-Catholic families ... Children's
behaviour may nor be worse but there are some who test school resources ...
Colleges fired up for WYD trip ... Building boom in North and South .. Faith
should be tangible in schools
******************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Cops quiz girls' hostel
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sundaynews/4509423a15596.html
The manager of a Catholic girls' boarding school devised a plan for the
20-year-old boyfriend of a just-turned 15-year-old student to visit the
hostel so they could see each other...
Going back to the Latin (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4507341a13135.html
The move from the Latin Catholic mass to services in English was designed to
make Catholicism more accessible, so why is the Christchurch diocese
bringing back the daily Latin mass? Rebecca Todd reports...
Couple to be reunited ... after 54 years (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4507483a6565.html
The late Edward John Traynor begins a journey next week that will bring him
home to be laid to rest with his beloved wife on the day of their 100th
wedding anniversary. Inseparable in life, Teddy and Annie Traynor ended
their days buried hundreds of miles apart â€" her in the Traynor family plot
at Wyndham cemetery, him in the Porirua cemetery...
Crowds mark Anzac Day
Ruapehu Press
http://tinyurl.com/3s2mz7
The returned servicemen's headstones at the Taumarunui cemetry still gleamed
after the work put in by the Catholic Youth Group last year ...
Spokesperson says Catholic Church doesn't support hunger strikes (photo)
(includes audio clip)
http://tinyurl.com/5gmgvm
The Catholic Church say hunger strikes are not a valid form of protest and
it is not the Christian way...
Spy base priest's activist past (+photos, video)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10507272
A Catholic priest who took in and kept tabs on freed Algerian asylum seeker
Ahmed Zaoui is one of three people charged with inflicting an embarrassing
blow to a top-secret spy base...
Catholic Worker Movement marks 75th anniversary without fanfare
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0802398.htm
Washington (CNS) -- Seventy-fifth anniversary or not, lunch still must be
served at the New York Catholic Worker's Maryhouse. Hungry people will be
waiting, as they are every day... [Related link:
http://www.catholicworker.org.nz/who.html ]
Radio New Zealand. 'He Rourou'
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/afternoons
In two interviews, Father Philip Cody talks with Ana Tapiata about the
cooperation, bonding and friendship that happens at the Hui Aranga, the
Easter Assembly of Maori Catholics. (in Maori)
A jubilee for St Josephs
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaruherald/4500570a6571.html
Temuka's St Josephs School will hold its 125th jubilee at Labour Weekend...
South's Filipinos gather for their day in church (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4498731a6568.html
A 60-strong group of Catholic Filipinos made history in Winton on Sunday
when they manned the 10am Sunday mass in the church of St Thomas Aquinas...
Addington school hit by arson (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4501809a6530.html
Police and fire safety officers are investigating a suspicious fire at
Sacred Heart School in Addington this morning...
[The following stories are not available on the newspapers' free Websites.
They can be read at the public library, and some are accessible via the
public libraries' free 'Newztext' service for borrowers]
Saffron tower on hold as legal advice sought
The National Business Review - 02 May 2008
The hearing of an application for a 46-storey apartment tower overlooking St
Patrick's Square in Auckland's central business district was adjourned this
week with a long list of questions to answer...
Letters to the Editor
The Timaru Herald 1 May 2008 Page: 7
Fr Geoff Gray writes: On behalf of all my long-suffering and misunderstood
brothers and sisters in the Catholic church, I would like to assure Richard
Gunther (April 28) that we also believe that "by grace you have been saved
through faith...and it is the gift of God."...
New father calls for sympathy for priest-stalker
Sunday Star Times 27 Apr 2008 Page: 8
The Catholic Church is sending another relatively young priest to St Patrick’s
parish in Invercargill, where an obsessed parishioner sent his predecessor
fleeing...
Cantabrians ready for world gathering on World Youth Day (no link)
Stuff â€" The Press â€" Canterbury â€" 29 Apr 2008
More than 500 Canterbury Catholics will attend the world's largest youth
event in July...
*******************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
'Angel in the City'
Matthew 28:16-20: A reading and commentary by Dean Frank Nelson of St Paul's
Cathedral, Wellington.
*******************************************************
'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz/
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper. Some recent topics ...
Reading about Islam ... How Benedict XVI will make history ... Political
correctenss and sexually-transmitted disease ... Zimbabwe: what's the
answer? ... Ideas of success and happiness
*****************************************************
EVENTS
World Youth Day
Sydney, 14-20 July 2008
http://www.wyd.org.nz/
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Interview with Ambassador Glendon; A possible papabile
Mary Ann Glendon is the eighth Ambassador of the United States to the Holy
See, and by most measures she's probably the nominee least in need of
on-the-job training. Glendon is a veteran Vatican insider, having
represented the Holy See at the 1995 Beijing conference of the United
Nations on women, and having served as president of the Pontifical Academy
of Social Sciences -- the first woman to head a pontifical academy. A
professor at the Harvard Law School, she's also an expert on international
legal theory...
*************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Camp Director. Ministry Camps Co-ordinator (2 positions). El Rancho
Christian Holiday Park, Kapiti Coast
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26, at
http://www.elrancho.co.nz/ERwork.htm and from adelle@elrancho.co.nz ; tel.
(04) 902 6287
Live-in Support People, Mt Tabor Trust, Mt Albert and Helensville
http://www.supportoptions.co.nz/support/provider.aspx?pID=919&l=1&sID=318
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 4-17 2008 p.26 and from Mike, Marie or Joanne,
tel. (09) 420 9701.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
*****************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Students spend lunch with police (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4493882a6497.html
Students at Hato Petera College got to share their lunch hour with the
police. The North Shore police community problem solving team organised a
sausage sizzle at the Northcote school last Wednesday to help students
fundraise for a trip to Sydney in July for World Youth Day...
Catholic clergy for Christchurch recruited abroad
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/4492648a6530.html
The Christchurch Catholic diocese is bringing in two priests from the
Philippines early next month, as well as one from India and a Latin-speaking
priest from the United States. Four young Vietnamese men will also be
sponsored to New Zealand, in the hope that they will qualify as priests in
future...
Community stalwart and local politician
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4492476a16897.html
Known affectionately as the "eyes and ears of Clyde", John Shand died
suddenly last week leaving a big gap in the community and local politics...
Visiting leader says time for church to acknowledge abuse
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/4492518a6530.html
Pope Benedict's apology to people who have been abused by clergy is an
opportunity for Catholic churches worldwide to take responsibility for
people abused under their care, a visiting expert says. United States
psychotherapist Mike Lew is in Christchurch to lead a weekend retreat with
the Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse Trust (MSSAT)...
Time running out for charities
http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4489747a6430.html
With 10 weeks to go before the Charities Act takes full force, charitable
groups that have not registered best get on with the business or risk being
taxed as a business...
The "hidden" graveyard: KoroKoro Catholic cemetery (photo)
The Hutt News
http://tinyurl.com/62zqee
Few people driving past the piece of land with the large memorial at the
foot of Korokoro Hill know that it is actually a cemetery and therefore
sacred land ...
Gift for the grieving, by Kerre Woodham
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=500818&objectid=10505118
Although I was raised a Catholic, I don't have the gift of faith. I know
that term ``the gift of faith'' will set the teeth of non-believers on edge.
But having faith or belief really is a gift. I've seen dying men who are
believers and dying men who were empathetic atheists and, from my
experience, those who have some sort of faith have a much easier time of it
dying...
*******************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
Reflection: a peaceful garden (broadband and dial-up versions)
Sister Mary goes to a Japanese Peace Garden, and thinks about recent events
like the anniversary of the Wahine sinking, but why is she so happy?
Angel in the City
John 14:15-21: a reading and discussion with Dean Frank Nelson of St Paul's
Cathedral, Wellington and his colleague Irene.
*******************************************************
'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz/
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper. Some recent topics ...
The Early Church and the role of women ... Anzac Day, war and morality ..
Matt Maher's latest album ... Defining marriage, a North American view ...
The media and Pope Benedict .. The normalisation of sex shops
*****************************************************
MAGAZINES & NEWSLETTERS
Society of St vincent de Paul. April 2008 Newsletter
http://www.svdp.org.nz/index.php/current-news/
'Tui Motu Interislands' - an independent Catholic magazine. April 2008
http://www.tuimotu.org/
*****************************************************
EVENTS
World Youth Day
Sydney, 14-20 July 2008
http://www.wyd.org.nz/
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
The story behind the pope's meeting with sex abuse victims; Cardinal
O'Malley interview
Prior to Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States, some handlers
worried that the American media would impose the sexual abuse crisis as the
trip's dominant storyline. As it turns out, those fears were misplaced --
the media didn't impose the crisis upon the pope, he imposed it on us...
*************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Property Asset Manager, Auckland Diocese
http://www.administrationaucklandcatholic.org.nz/Property/tabid/871/Default.aspx
Details in 'NZ Catholic' April 6 - 19, 2008 p.23, on
http://jobs.search4.co.nz/job/view/2jn34z/search/ao/auckland/real-estate/
and from David Randall, Pompallier Diocesan Centre, tel: (09) 360 3031;
e-mail: davidr@cda.org.nz Applications close 21 April 2008
Part-time Experienced Counsellor, Catholic Social Services, Wellington
http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/?sid=153
Details in 'Wel-com' April 2008 p.17 and from The director, Catholic social
Services, PO Box 9408, Wellington 6141. Applications close 24 April 2008.
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Students spend lunch with police (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4493882a6497.html
Students at Hato Petera College got to share their lunch hour with the
police. The North Shore police community problem solving team organised a
sausage sizzle at the Northcote school last Wednesday to help students
fundraise for a trip to Sydney in July for World Youth Day...
Catholic clergy for Christchurch recruited abroad
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/4492648a6530.html
The Christchurch Catholic diocese is bringing in two priests from the
Philippines early next month, as well as one from India and a Latin-speaking
priest from the United States. Four young Vietnamese men will also be
sponsored to New Zealand, in the hope that they will qualify as priests in
future...
Community stalwart and local politician
http://www.stuff.co.nz/southlandtimes/4492476a16897.html
Known affectionately as the "eyes and ears of Clyde", John Shand died
suddenly last week leaving a big gap in the community and local politics...
Visiting leader says time for church to acknowledge abuse
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/4492518a6530.html
Pope Benedict's apology to people who have been abused by clergy is an
opportunity for Catholic churches worldwide to take responsibility for
people abused under their care, a visiting expert says. United States
psychotherapist Mike Lew is in Christchurch to lead a weekend retreat with
the Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse Trust (MSSAT)...
Time running out for charities
http://www.stuff.co.nz/thepress/4489747a6430.html
With 10 weeks to go before the Charities Act takes full force, charitable
groups that have not registered best get on with the business or risk being
taxed as a business...
The "hidden" graveyard: KoroKoro Catholic cemetery (photo)
The Hutt News
http://tinyurl.com/62zqee
Few people driving past the piece of land with the large memorial at the
foot of Korokoro Hill know that it is actually a cemetery and therefore
sacred land ...
Gift for the grieving, by Kerre Woodham
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/topic/story.cfm?c_id=500818&objectid=10505118
Although I was raised a Catholic, I don't have the gift of faith. I know
that term ``the gift of faith'' will set the teeth of non-believers on edge.
But having faith or belief really is a gift. I've seen dying men who are
believers and dying men who were empathetic atheists and, from my
experience, those who have some sort of faith have a much easier time of it
dying...
*******************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
Reflection: a peaceful garden (broadband and dial-up versions)
Sister Mary goes to a Japanese Peace Garden, and thinks about recent events
like the anniversary of the Wahine sinking, but why is she so happy?
Angel in the City
John 14:15-21: a reading and discussion with Dean Frank Nelson of St Paul's
Cathedral, Wellington and his colleague Irene.
*******************************************************
'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz/
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper. Some recent topics ...
The Early Church and the role of women ... Anzac Day, war and morality ..
Matt Maher's latest album ... Defining marriage, a North American view ...
The media and Pope Benedict .. The normalisation of sex shops
*****************************************************
MAGAZINES & NEWSLETTERS
Society of St vincent de Paul. April 2008 Newsletter
http://www.svdp.org.nz/index.php/current-news/
'Tui Motu Interislands' - an independent Catholic magazine. April 2008
http://www.tuimotu.org/
*****************************************************
EVENTS
World Youth Day
Sydney, 14-20 July 2008
http://www.wyd.org.nz/
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
The story behind the pope's meeting with sex abuse victims; Cardinal
O'Malley interview
Prior to Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States, some handlers
worried that the American media would impose the sexual abuse crisis as the
trip's dominant storyline. As it turns out, those fears were misplaced --
the media didn't impose the crisis upon the pope, he imposed it on us...
*************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Property Asset Manager, Auckland Diocese
http://www.administrationaucklandcatholic.org.nz/Property/tabid/871/Default.aspx
Details in 'NZ Catholic' April 6 - 19, 2008 p.23, on
http://jobs.search4.co.nz/job/view/2jn34z/search/ao/auckland/real-estate/
and from David Randall, Pompallier Diocesan Centre, tel: (09) 360 3031;
e-mail: davidr@cda.org.nz Applications close 21 April 2008
Part-time Experienced Counsellor, Catholic Social Services, Wellington
http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/?sid=153
Details in 'Wel-com' April 2008 p.17 and from The director, Catholic social
Services, PO Box 9408, Wellington 6141. Applications close 24 April 2008.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
*****************************************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Donation, thanks from priests (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlboroughexpress/4486460a6563.html
The 170 Catholic priests from the South Island gathered in Blenheim this
week for their national assembly have come bearing gifts for the community
in the form of a donation to the Crossroads (Marlborough) Trust...
Special farewell (photo)
Queenstown Mirror
http://tinyurl.com/4puwv6
The children and staff of St Joseph's School, Queenstown gave Father Martin
Flannery a special farewell last Thursday ...
Charity tax changes approved
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425823/1721460
The government has given the go-ahead to tax changes designed to make
charitable giving of money and volunteers' time easier...
Brother faces sex charges
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/4481743a24035.html
Brother Rodger Moloney, 73, will face trial on 30 charges of historic sexual
abuse against boys, dating back to the 1970s...
Polar faith
Antarctica reveals 'a God who takes care of us' (photo)
http://www.thelutheran.org/article/article.cfm?article_id=7077&id=1
Growing up in Makoti, N.D., Judy Markwardt Goldsberry looked out her window
to the beauty of the flat prairie and acres of wheat. Every October to
February since 1991, she has left her North Dakota landscape to operate
heavy equipment in Antarcticaâ€"at Williams Field, McMurdo Station and the
South Pole...
Walking wins breakfast (photos)
The Hutt News
http://tinyurl.com/6zftws
Dedication to 'Feet First' ideals earned the twenty one pupils of
Eastbourne's tiny San Antonio School a free breakfast last Friday ...
Last rites performed in mid-Mass medical drama
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4481306a10.html
A doctor answering an emergency call to a Hawera church service on Sunday
discovered it was his mother-in-law who had collapsed and the priest had
already performed the last rites...
Latin mass held for traditionalists
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaruherald/4478525a6010.html
A Latin mass was held in Timaru last night for a dozen of people who believe
the Catholic faith lost its way the 1960s with changes to doctrine,
including not holding the mass in Latin...
[The following story is not available on the newspaper's free Website]
Essential Bedean, by David McCarthy (obituary)
The Press 19 Apr 2008 Page: 57
When Alaster McDonald entered the portals of St Bede’s College for the first
time as an 11-year-old in 1941, the school’s motto, Fide et Opereâ€" faith and
good worksâ€" must have made a deep impression. McDonald discharged his
responsibility to both...
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Pope Benedict expresses deep shame for clergy sexual abuse (16 Apr 2008)
Pope Benedict arrived in Washington for his first papal visit to the United
States in the afternoon of 15th April (Washington time). On arrival he was
greeted at the steps of his special Alitalia aircraft by President and Mrs
George W Bush and their daughter Jenna â€" an honour the President has never
given to another head of state...
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
Our place: Your local Filipinos
Dondi travels to Wanganui to visit the brand new Catholic community of
Filipinos there. Why have they banded together, and why don't they just
mingle with the native-born New Zealand Catholics ...? [A dial-up version
can be viewed in Internet Explorer only]
Angel in the City: At the font
Chris Skinner and Regina are at the baptismal font in St Mary of the Angels.
The Reading is Jn 14:1-12 ("I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life ...")
********************************************************
'THE FIFTEENTH STATION' - A monthly New Zealand Catholic podcast
http://station15.libsyn.com/
In the programme for 15 April 2008 ...
'The Baptism seen around the world'
We talk about the very public baptism of Magdi Allam by the Pope, the
possible launch of a pro-life political party in New Zealand, the sad story
of Archbishop Ncube, Easter trading and the Pope's new ride from New York
City!
*******************************************************
'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz/
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper. Some recent topics ...
** Let’s all be sex positive! ("in a nutshell, sex positive attitudes are
those that actively encourage “healthy� attitudes towards sexual
experimentation...)
** “And once again tithing is 10% off the top. Please people, don’t force us
to audit.�
** In memory (prayers for the students who drowned)
** What colour are your glasses? (A little latin is good for the soul)
** It’s the Olympics - let’s all look the other way shall we?
** Popearazzi (Pope Benedict and the news media)
** Hail Mary full of GRACE (don’t think you have messed up so much it’s not
worth being Catholic any longer)
*****************************************************
EVENTS
World Youth Day
Sydney, 14-20 July 2008
http://www.wyd.org.nz/
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Daily news and updates of Pope Benedict's visit to America.
*************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Property Asset Manager, Auckland Diocese
http://www.administrationaucklandcatholic.org.nz/Property/tabid/871/Default.aspx
Details in 'NZ Catholic' April 6 - 19, 2008 p.23, on
http://jobs.search4.co.nz/job/view/2jn34z/search/ao/auckland/real-estate/
and from David Randall, Pompallier Diocesan Centre, tel: (09) 360 3031;
e-mail: davidr@cda.org.nz Applications close 21 April 2008
Part-time Experienced Counsellor, Catholic Social Services, Wellington
http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/?sid=153
Details in 'Wel-com' April 2008 p.17 and from The director, Catholic social
Services, PO Box 9408, Wellington 6141. Applications close 24 April 2008.
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Donation, thanks from priests (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlboroughexpress/4486460a6563.html
The 170 Catholic priests from the South Island gathered in Blenheim this
week for their national assembly have come bearing gifts for the community
in the form of a donation to the Crossroads (Marlborough) Trust...
Special farewell (photo)
Queenstown Mirror
http://tinyurl.com/4puwv6
The children and staff of St Joseph's School, Queenstown gave Father Martin
Flannery a special farewell last Thursday ...
Charity tax changes approved
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/425823/1721460
The government has given the go-ahead to tax changes designed to make
charitable giving of money and volunteers' time easier...
Brother faces sex charges
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/4481743a24035.html
Brother Rodger Moloney, 73, will face trial on 30 charges of historic sexual
abuse against boys, dating back to the 1970s...
Polar faith
Antarctica reveals 'a God who takes care of us' (photo)
http://www.thelutheran.org/article/article.cfm?article_id=7077&id=1
Growing up in Makoti, N.D., Judy Markwardt Goldsberry looked out her window
to the beauty of the flat prairie and acres of wheat. Every October to
February since 1991, she has left her North Dakota landscape to operate
heavy equipment in Antarcticaâ€"at Williams Field, McMurdo Station and the
South Pole...
Walking wins breakfast (photos)
The Hutt News
http://tinyurl.com/6zftws
Dedication to 'Feet First' ideals earned the twenty one pupils of
Eastbourne's tiny San Antonio School a free breakfast last Friday ...
Last rites performed in mid-Mass medical drama
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4481306a10.html
A doctor answering an emergency call to a Hawera church service on Sunday
discovered it was his mother-in-law who had collapsed and the priest had
already performed the last rites...
Latin mass held for traditionalists
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaruherald/4478525a6010.html
A Latin mass was held in Timaru last night for a dozen of people who believe
the Catholic faith lost its way the 1960s with changes to doctrine,
including not holding the mass in Latin...
[The following story is not available on the newspaper's free Website]
Essential Bedean, by David McCarthy (obituary)
The Press 19 Apr 2008 Page: 57
When Alaster McDonald entered the portals of St Bede’s College for the first
time as an 11-year-old in 1941, the school’s motto, Fide et Opereâ€" faith and
good worksâ€" must have made a deep impression. McDonald discharged his
responsibility to both...
******************************************************
CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
Pope Benedict expresses deep shame for clergy sexual abuse (16 Apr 2008)
Pope Benedict arrived in Washington for his first papal visit to the United
States in the afternoon of 15th April (Washington time). On arrival he was
greeted at the steps of his special Alitalia aircraft by President and Mrs
George W Bush and their daughter Jenna â€" an honour the President has never
given to another head of state...
*******************************************************
INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net/
Our place: Your local Filipinos
Dondi travels to Wanganui to visit the brand new Catholic community of
Filipinos there. Why have they banded together, and why don't they just
mingle with the native-born New Zealand Catholics ...? [A dial-up version
can be viewed in Internet Explorer only]
Angel in the City: At the font
Chris Skinner and Regina are at the baptismal font in St Mary of the Angels.
The Reading is Jn 14:1-12 ("I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life ...")
********************************************************
'THE FIFTEENTH STATION' - A monthly New Zealand Catholic podcast
http://station15.libsyn.com/
In the programme for 15 April 2008 ...
'The Baptism seen around the world'
We talk about the very public baptism of Magdi Allam by the Pope, the
possible launch of a pro-life political party in New Zealand, the sad story
of Archbishop Ncube, Easter trading and the Pope's new ride from New York
City!
*******************************************************
'BEING FRANK'
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz/
Blogs about Catholic life in New Zealand, sponsored by 'NZ Catholic'
newspaper. Some recent topics ...
** Let’s all be sex positive! ("in a nutshell, sex positive attitudes are
those that actively encourage “healthy� attitudes towards sexual
experimentation...)
** “And once again tithing is 10% off the top. Please people, don’t force us
to audit.�
** In memory (prayers for the students who drowned)
** What colour are your glasses? (A little latin is good for the soul)
** It’s the Olympics - let’s all look the other way shall we?
** Popearazzi (Pope Benedict and the news media)
** Hail Mary full of GRACE (don’t think you have messed up so much it’s not
worth being Catholic any longer)
*****************************************************
EVENTS
World Youth Day
Sydney, 14-20 July 2008
http://www.wyd.org.nz/
*****************************************************
ALL THINGS CATHOLIC
Analysis and commentary by John R. Allen
http://ncrcafe.org/node/507
Daily news and updates of Pope Benedict's visit to America.
*************************************************
WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH (Regularly updated)
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
http://www.romereports.com/ (video)
*******************************************************
EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the
Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancy.php ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of
the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz/ ]
Property Asset Manager, Auckland Diocese
http://www.administrationaucklandcatholic.org.nz/Property/tabid/871/Default.aspx
Details in 'NZ Catholic' April 6 - 19, 2008 p.23, on
http://jobs.search4.co.nz/job/view/2jn34z/search/ao/auckland/real-estate/
and from David Randall, Pompallier Diocesan Centre, tel: (09) 360 3031;
e-mail: davidr@cda.org.nz Applications close 21 April 2008
Part-time Experienced Counsellor, Catholic Social Services, Wellington
http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/?sid=153
Details in 'Wel-com' April 2008 p.17 and from The director, Catholic social
Services, PO Box 9408, Wellington 6141. Applications close 24 April 2008.
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