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The Ascension of the Lord
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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
Discriminatory public domain option is "no solution" say Catholic Bishops (May 5, 2010)
New Zealand's Catholic Bishops say the government's preferred option for resolving ownership of the foreshore and seabed duplicates the discrimination of the 2004 Foreshore and Seabed Act...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Oceania Bishops Conference - Archbishop John Dew elected president
http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=21289
Archbishop John Dew, Archbishop of Wellington in New Zealand was elected yesterday as President of the Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences of Oceania.
Opportunity realised (photo)
The Marlborough Express
http://tinyurl.com/2ekx3mb
People helping each other towards a common goal without expecting a financial reward keeps a community strong. That was the belief of Mick Murphy, a Blenheim man who tried to personally live by such a maxim.
Third Vinnies store (photo)
Christchurch Mail
http://tinyurl.com/23sxzaj
An innovative Christchurch charity has been so successful it opened a third store last Saturday.
St Pat's place of true beauty (photos)
High Country Community Herald
http://tinyurl.com/2djqjbm
A peek inside one of the amazing places of Christian worship in Waimate - St Patrick's Catholic Church.
The power of Mass in slow motion (photo)
North Taranaki Midweek
http://tinyurl.com/25kle99
The Roman Catholic diocese of Palmerston North is holding a series of seminars in New Plymouth over the coming months called 'The Mass in Slow Motion'.
St Dominic's marks 50th year (photos)
Western Leader
http://tinyurl.com/2cruvbv
Sheila Sekula will mark her half century of involvement with St Dominic's parish when it celebrates its golden jubilee over Queen's Birthday weekend.
It's about improving lives, says Don (photo)
http://www.bayofplentytimes.co.nz/local/news/community-gem-its-about-improving-lives-says-don/3913840/
For more than 25 years, Don Brebner has put the needs of others before his own. He volunteers 30 to 50 hours each week at one of the many community organisations he is involved with, giving his time generously to those in need.
School selling roses
http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/features/gardening-lifestyle/3696596/School-selling-roses
The work of a respected Catholic school identity is to live on in gardens around New Plymouth. Brother Oliver lived and worked at Francis Douglas Memorial College for 27 years before retiring last year.
Lyrical winner (photo)
Christchurch Mail
http://tinyurl.com/2dr3a3m
The 2010 Caritas Aotearoa national Singout 4 Justice competition chose St Bede's College student Rahul George's 'Society's Tale' as the clear winner.
Touch-screens in schools
http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/3679622/Touch-screens-in-schools
Pupils at Christchurch Catholic school Our Lady of the Assumption have been stretching, touching and dragging for the sake of education. Trialing one of the latest innovations in educational hardware, the pupils at the small school in Hoon Hay were playing around with the Smart Table, an interactive, multitouch system from Canadian company Smart, which also makes interactive whiteboards.
Proud day at new school (photo)
http://www.times.co.nz/cms/front_page_feature/2010/05/printer_proud_day_at_new_school.php
More than 200 children and staff at Sancta Maria Catholic Primary School, Botany, celebrated the opening on Friday.
Centre's opening a historic occasion for church (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/3676843/Centres-opening-a-historic-occasion-for-church
After 10 years of planning, a new $1.3 million centre for St Mary's Parish and St Joseph's School in Nelson was opened on Saturday.
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
** Retirement Community **
A reflection on May, the Trinity, and community as friendship, by Sister Mary Scanlan who lives in a retirement village.
** Ascension **
Luke 24: 46-53 : a reading and discussion with Very Rev. Frank Nelson and Rev. Judith Wigglesworth at St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** Big word of the week - Utilitarianism! (Utilitarianism and the theology of the body)
** "Under the sea, There'll be no accusations (there's more out there waiting to be discovered)
** Hey Hey, it's the Month of May! (Mary and St Therese of Lisieux)
** Out with the old.in with the new.au revoir (another blogger moves on)
** When the bough breaks (Legion of Christ / Regnum Christie: towards a concrete decision/direction for the movement)
** Home Time? (motherhood and having it all)
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* NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS
Living the Word - Fr Frank Bird sm
http://livingtheword.org.nz
Reflect - Veronica Lawson RSM
http://www.welcom.org.nz/?sid=394
Daily Reflections (right-hand column)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic
O'Malley on the crisis, the visitation of women's orders, and Fatima
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/omalley-crisis-visitation-womens-orders-and-fatima
Few Catholic bishops anywhere in the world have spent more time coping with the fallout from the sexual abuse crisis - pastoral, political, legal, and spiritual - than Cardinal Sean O'Malley of Boston. O'Malley sat down with NCR on May 13 in Fatima, Portugal, where he's participating in the visit of Pope Benedict XVI. He discussed the pope's comments on the crisis en route to Portugal - insisting that the real problem is not attacks from the outside, but the reality of sin within the church - and other matters...
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FACEBOOK
Bishop Pat Dunn's diary
http://www.facebook.com/bishoppatrick
Catholic Discipleship College
http://www.facebook.com/cdcnz
'The Fifteenth Station'
http://www.facebook.com/station15
Hato Hohepa / St Joseph's Maori Girls' College
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Napier/Hato-Hohepa/101194467580?v=info
Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
http://ko-kr.facebook.com/pages/Youth-for-Family-and-Life-YFL-New-Zealand/292888828797
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
http://www.romereports.com (video)
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (news of Pope Benedict - video)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Vacancies section of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]
Faith Formation Co-ordinator, Catholic Education Centre, Archdiocese of Wellington
http://www.wcec.org.nz
Details in 'Wel-com' May 2010, p.9, 'NZ Catholic' 'NZ Catholic' May 9 - 22 2010 p.23, and from The Director, Catholic Education Centre, PO Box 1937, Wellington 6140. Tel: (04) 496 1718; email: wcec@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 28 May 2010
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Sunday, May 9, 2010
'NZ CATHOLIC' May 9 - 22 2010, No.340
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
In the current issue: New priests sails into new waters ... Aid changes concern Caritas ... Obstacle cleared for pro-life club at uni ... Faith drives founder of 400 seminaries ... Politicians religious 'mania' disputed ... Knight of the turf humble at heart ... Patience, faith and the hand of God bring a baby daughter for Wanganui couple .. Visiting Vatican cardinal talks about Vatican II, Satan and goodness ... NZ law thwarts lives it should protect ... Special copy of Polish icon finds its home ...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Three new faces in Massey (photo)
Western Leader
http://tinyurl.com/23jqgom
They are the first priests of their religious order to reach our shores. Fathers James Adayadiel, Mika Leilua and Matthew Vadakkevettuvazhiyil are Salesian Catholic priests and have been appointed to Massey's St Paul's parish.
Church lease for BNZ
Manawatu Standard
http://tinyurl.com/2abq52o
Bank of New Zealand's new business branch will be part of the Catholic Church's growing commercial property portfolio.
Radio NZ. 'Country Life' 7 May 2010
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/countrylife/20100507
21:15 Sister Sue
An interview with Sister Sue, a member of the community of the Sisters of Compassion in Hiruharama (Jerusalem), who sells preserves made from local produce at the Whanganui Traders market.
Radio NZ. 'Spectrum'
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/spectrum/20100509
Temple and Mosque
The Wellington suburb of Kilbirnie boasts a Hindu Temple and a Mosque within a stone's throw of each other. A Catholic youth group and a variety of interested adults visit the two places of worship.
Michele Hewitson Interview: Lorraine Smith (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10643447
When I phoned the high-profile lawyer Lorraine Smith, she said: ``Who would you like to interview?'' ``You, Lorraine,'' I said. I thought she might have guessed. She had something of a win last week when an Independent Police Conduct Authority report into the police investigation of the Kahui twins' death showed errors of judgment.
Recalling decades with St Pat's (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/sport/local/3672102/Recalling-decades-with-St-Pats
Rita Coscrove is the personification of St Pat's netball. The emerald green club celebrate its 75th anniversary this weekend, and Cosgrove has lived through most of it, ever since she was just a fresh faced 10-year-old playing third grade netball for the fledgling club in the late 1930s.
Inside ... Hogwart's (photo)
http://www.theaucklander.co.nz/local/news/inside-hogwarts/3913414/
Think boarding-school dormitory, chances are Harry Potter's Gryffindor House comes to mind. But an increasing number of Auckland parents are sending children to live at school. Why? And what's the food like? Kieran Nash takes a look.
Four suspended over college cannabis find
Northern Advocate - A003 - 07 May 2010
Four students at a prominent secondary school in Whangarei have been suspended after they were found with cannabis. Police were called at Pompallier Catholic College on Tuesday and according to Senior Constable Hank van Engelen, a small amount of cannabis was found.
Ken Clearwater : Time Church put sex abuse victims first
The Press
http://tinyurl.com/2c6boh8
An inquiry into sexual abuse in the Catholic Church may be the only way to help the victims, writes Ken Clearwater, the national manager of the Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse Trust.
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
** Making our home **
John 14:23-29 : a reading and discussion with Very Rev. Frank Nelson and Rev. Jenny Wilkens at St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** Locusts and wild honey. (introducing a new blogger)
** "Won't somebody please think of the children" (meeting Fr Marciel Maciel)
** To my priestly brothers in Christ (to dedicated and faithful priests)
** We shouldn't be afraid to acknowledge that Papacies have weaknesses
** Ch-ch-ch-changes (changes to Being Frank and partner sites)
** Auckland's newest Priest (Father Brian Lange)
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* NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS
Living the Word - Fr Frank Bird sm
http://livingtheword.org.nz
Reflect - Veronica Lawson RSM
http://www.welcom.org.nz/?sid=394
Daily Reflections (right-hand column)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic
Benedict in Portugal: A different crisis, secularism, and 'Marian Cool'
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/benedict-portugal-different-crisis-secularism-and-marian-cool
As fate would have it, Pope Benedict XVI's five foreign trips in 2010 are almost laid out in ascending order of difficulty. Last month's weekend stop in Malta, arguably the most Catholic society on earth, amounted to the warm-up act, while next week's four-day swing in Portugal, which so far has been spared the sexual abuse scandals which have engulfed the church elsewhere in Europe, should be a fairly smooth ride as well...
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FACEBOOK
Bishop Pat Dunn's diary
http://www.facebook.com/bishoppatrick
Catholic Discipleship College
http://www.facebook.com/cdcnz
'The Fifteenth Station'
http://www.facebook.com/station15
Hato Hohepa / St Joseph's Maori Girls' College
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Napier/Hato-Hohepa/101194467580?v=info
Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
http://ko-kr.facebook.com/pages/Youth-for-Family-and-Life-YFL-New-Zealand/292888828797
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
http://www.romereports.com (video)
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (news of Pope Benedict - video)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Vacancies section of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]
Faith Formation Co-ordinator, Catholic Education Centre, Archdiocese of Wellington
http://www.wcec.org.nz
Details in 'Wel-com' May 2010, p.9, 'NZ Catholic' 'NZ Catholic' May 9 - 22 2010 p.23, and from The Director, Catholic Education Centre, PO Box 1937, Wellington 6140. Tel: (04) 496 1718; email: wcec@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 28 May 2010
Managing Editor, 'NZ Catholic'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no.339 April 25 - May 8 2010 p.22, and from Kerry Coleman, tel: (09) 360-3005; e-mail: kerryc@cda.org.nz Applications close 16 May 2010.
Team member, CYT: Youth and Young Adult Ministries, Catholic Diocese of Christchurch.
http://www.cyt.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no.339 April 25 - May 8 2010 p.23, and from Chris Lysaght, Director, e-mail: clysaght@chch.catholic.org.nz ; tel: (03) 366 9869
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
In the current issue: New priests sails into new waters ... Aid changes concern Caritas ... Obstacle cleared for pro-life club at uni ... Faith drives founder of 400 seminaries ... Politicians religious 'mania' disputed ... Knight of the turf humble at heart ... Patience, faith and the hand of God bring a baby daughter for Wanganui couple .. Visiting Vatican cardinal talks about Vatican II, Satan and goodness ... NZ law thwarts lives it should protect ... Special copy of Polish icon finds its home ...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Three new faces in Massey (photo)
Western Leader
http://tinyurl.com/23jqgom
They are the first priests of their religious order to reach our shores. Fathers James Adayadiel, Mika Leilua and Matthew Vadakkevettuvazhiyil are Salesian Catholic priests and have been appointed to Massey's St Paul's parish.
Church lease for BNZ
Manawatu Standard
http://tinyurl.com/2abq52o
Bank of New Zealand's new business branch will be part of the Catholic Church's growing commercial property portfolio.
Radio NZ. 'Country Life' 7 May 2010
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/countrylife/20100507
21:15 Sister Sue
An interview with Sister Sue, a member of the community of the Sisters of Compassion in Hiruharama (Jerusalem), who sells preserves made from local produce at the Whanganui Traders market.
Radio NZ. 'Spectrum'
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/spectrum/20100509
Temple and Mosque
The Wellington suburb of Kilbirnie boasts a Hindu Temple and a Mosque within a stone's throw of each other. A Catholic youth group and a variety of interested adults visit the two places of worship.
Michele Hewitson Interview: Lorraine Smith (photo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10643447
When I phoned the high-profile lawyer Lorraine Smith, she said: ``Who would you like to interview?'' ``You, Lorraine,'' I said. I thought she might have guessed. She had something of a win last week when an Independent Police Conduct Authority report into the police investigation of the Kahui twins' death showed errors of judgment.
Recalling decades with St Pat's (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/sport/local/3672102/Recalling-decades-with-St-Pats
Rita Coscrove is the personification of St Pat's netball. The emerald green club celebrate its 75th anniversary this weekend, and Cosgrove has lived through most of it, ever since she was just a fresh faced 10-year-old playing third grade netball for the fledgling club in the late 1930s.
Inside ... Hogwart's (photo)
http://www.theaucklander.co.nz/local/news/inside-hogwarts/3913414/
Think boarding-school dormitory, chances are Harry Potter's Gryffindor House comes to mind. But an increasing number of Auckland parents are sending children to live at school. Why? And what's the food like? Kieran Nash takes a look.
Four suspended over college cannabis find
Northern Advocate - A003 - 07 May 2010
Four students at a prominent secondary school in Whangarei have been suspended after they were found with cannabis. Police were called at Pompallier Catholic College on Tuesday and according to Senior Constable Hank van Engelen, a small amount of cannabis was found.
Ken Clearwater : Time Church put sex abuse victims first
The Press
http://tinyurl.com/2c6boh8
An inquiry into sexual abuse in the Catholic Church may be the only way to help the victims, writes Ken Clearwater, the national manager of the Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse Trust.
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
** Making our home **
John 14:23-29 : a reading and discussion with Very Rev. Frank Nelson and Rev. Jenny Wilkens at St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** Locusts and wild honey. (introducing a new blogger)
** "Won't somebody please think of the children" (meeting Fr Marciel Maciel)
** To my priestly brothers in Christ (to dedicated and faithful priests)
** We shouldn't be afraid to acknowledge that Papacies have weaknesses
** Ch-ch-ch-changes (changes to Being Frank and partner sites)
** Auckland's newest Priest (Father Brian Lange)
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* NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS
Living the Word - Fr Frank Bird sm
http://livingtheword.org.nz
Reflect - Veronica Lawson RSM
http://www.welcom.org.nz/?sid=394
Daily Reflections (right-hand column)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic
Benedict in Portugal: A different crisis, secularism, and 'Marian Cool'
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/benedict-portugal-different-crisis-secularism-and-marian-cool
As fate would have it, Pope Benedict XVI's five foreign trips in 2010 are almost laid out in ascending order of difficulty. Last month's weekend stop in Malta, arguably the most Catholic society on earth, amounted to the warm-up act, while next week's four-day swing in Portugal, which so far has been spared the sexual abuse scandals which have engulfed the church elsewhere in Europe, should be a fairly smooth ride as well...
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Bishop Pat Dunn's diary
http://www.facebook.com/bishoppatrick
Catholic Discipleship College
http://www.facebook.com/cdcnz
'The Fifteenth Station'
http://www.facebook.com/station15
Hato Hohepa / St Joseph's Maori Girls' College
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Napier/Hato-Hohepa/101194467580?v=info
Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
http://ko-kr.facebook.com/pages/Youth-for-Family-and-Life-YFL-New-Zealand/292888828797
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
http://www.romereports.com (video)
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (news of Pope Benedict - video)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Vacancies section of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]
Faith Formation Co-ordinator, Catholic Education Centre, Archdiocese of Wellington
http://www.wcec.org.nz
Details in 'Wel-com' May 2010, p.9, 'NZ Catholic' 'NZ Catholic' May 9 - 22 2010 p.23, and from The Director, Catholic Education Centre, PO Box 1937, Wellington 6140. Tel: (04) 496 1718; email: wcec@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 28 May 2010
Managing Editor, 'NZ Catholic'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no.339 April 25 - May 8 2010 p.22, and from Kerry Coleman, tel: (09) 360-3005; e-mail: kerryc@cda.org.nz Applications close 16 May 2010.
Team member, CYT: Youth and Young Adult Ministries, Catholic Diocese of Christchurch.
http://www.cyt.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no.339 April 25 - May 8 2010 p.23, and from Chris Lysaght, Director, e-mail: clysaght@chch.catholic.org.nz ; tel: (03) 366 9869
Sunday, May 2, 2010
KIWICATH NEWS & NOTES
A weekly snapshot of Catholic life in New Zealand
2 May 2010
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Te Waiora wins Hui Aranga kapahaka competition (full text)
Waatea News http://www.waatea603am.co.nz
Maori Catholics had a busy Easter with more than 5000 people turning out to the 58th Hui Aranga at Te Aute College in the Hawkes Bay. The annual event involves religious debate, sports, kapa haka and choral singing. Master of ceremonies Soli Hemara from Ngapuhi says the cultural performance were of a particularly high standard, with Feilding's Te Waiora taking out the overall prize. Soli Hemara says it's take the judged six years to come to terms with Te Waiora's unique style of kapa haka, which includes extremely theatrical elements.
Radio New Zealand. 'Sunday Morning'. Tiago Thorlby - Slavery for Biofuels
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/20100502
Padre Tiago Thorlby is a Scots priest who has worked with landless people, homesteaders and sugarcane workers in Brazil for 25 years. He's part of the ecumenical church organisation, The Pastoral Land Commission, and is based in Pernambuco, north-east Brazil. He talks to Chris Laidlaw about the impact of biofuel production on human rights, food security and the environment.
'Privileged' to work at the Vatican (photo)
The Press
http://tinyurl.com/2g932s4
Monsignor Charles Drennan has returned from a seven-year stint at the Vatican working closely with the Pope. The former Christ's College pupil tells Beck Eleven about readjusting to Christchurch life.
Selfless mum to hundreds (photos)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/manukau-courier/3638877/Selfless-mum-to-hundreds
In a marriage that spanned 45 years, Marie and Frank Heffernan brought up five children and 15 grandchildren. But the number of people who called Mrs Heffernan mum was in the hundreds. "She was a mum to everyone, the true meaning of the word mother," says her son Adrian Heffernan. Mrs Heffernan died recently after a short battle with cancer, aged 74.
School Open Days: Family atmosphere key to school's caring culture
The Press
http://tinyurl.com/29nhme9
Catholic Cathedral College is making the right moves for many parents in the run-up to its open night, thanks to a new 2017 vision , which is encouraging innovation and an uptake of music across the school.
School Open Days: Cultural activities on show
The Press
http://tinyurl.com/2cdn3rg
There is little debate that arts and cultural activities will be on show at the St Bede's College Open Day, given the school's recent achievements in music, theatre and the arts.
Speakers take shield (photo)
Christchurch Mail
http://tinyurl.com/2ad9r3w
Speaking in class isn't always welcome, but it won the grand prize for St Thomas of Canterbury College's Bishop Lyons Shield team.
Mass held for Lady with the Lantern
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/53027/mass-held-lady-with-lantern
A courageous and valiant woman was remembered during a special Mass in Green Island's St Peter Chanel Chapel yesterday. Foundress of the Order of Presentation, Sr Nano Nagle died 225 years ago.
The present, not past, can be changed (photo)
The Press
http://tinyurl.com/26uz7dk
The following is a sermon given by Monsignor Charles Drennan of the Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament on Sunday April 18, giving a Christchurch perspective on the global church's turmoil.
The French Connection, by Hugh Laracy
NZ Listener February 27-March 5 2010
http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3642/features/14961/printable/the_french_connection.html
The curse of sleepless nights has provided an unexpected boon to lovers of New Zealand history. The Reverend Dr Charles Girard, an American member of the Catholic society of the Marists, who is based in Atlanta, Georgia, has achieved a monumental work of salvage in bringing to light some 8000 pages of letters and other documents written by French missionaries based in New Zealand and around the Pacific in the mid-1800s.
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
** Love one another **
John 13:31-35 : a reading and discussion with Vicky Wall and Theresa Ulmer.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** "And now, please rise for our opening hymn, uh. (Music at Mass)
** The Reign of Christ (Legion of Christ, and Regnum Christi)
** A convoluted route to Sunday Mass with a bottle of Tonic water. (Church and culture in Congo)
** What goes on upstairs? (the bored faithful at Mass)
** Lest we forget (Anzac Day and the just war)
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* NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS
Living the Word - Fr Frank Bird sm
http://livingtheword.org.nz
Reflect - Veronica Lawson RSM
http://www.welcom.org.nz/?sid=394
Daily Reflections (right-hand column)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic
American Catholic Demographics and the Future of Ministry
Http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/american-catholic-demographics-and-future-ministry
Earlier this week I was in Chicago to keynote the annual conference of the National Association of Church Personnel Administrators, which is composed of folks struggling to help the church integrate contemporary best practices in human resources and business management. It's largely unheralded work, but critical if the Catholic church is to avoid the administrative meltdowns that too often mar its public image and impair its moral authority. I was asked to talk about American Catholic demographics and what they suggest about the future of ministry. Though none of what I had to say constitutes news, sometimes it's useful to step back and focus on the forest rather than its individual trees.
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FACEBOOK
Bishop Pat Dunn's diary
http://www.facebook.com/bishoppatrick
Catholic Discipleship College
http://www.facebook.com/cdcnz
'The Fifteenth Station'
http://www.facebook.com/station15
Hato Hohepa / St Joseph's Maori Girls' College
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Napier/Hato-Hohepa/101194467580?v=info
Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
http://ko-kr.facebook.com/pages/Youth-for-Family-and-Life-YFL-New-Zealand/292888828797
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
http://www.romereports.com (video)
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (news of Pope Benedict - video)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Vacancies section of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]
Heretaunga Pastoral Co-ordinator, Hawkes Bay Pastoral Area
http://www.pn.catholic.org.nz
Details in 'Wel-com' May 2010, p.13 and from David Martin tel: (06) 844 4274; e-mail: davidandelaine@xtra.co.nz Applications close 7 May 2010
Managing Editor, 'NZ Catholic'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no.339 April 25 - May 8 2010 p.22, and from Kerry Coleman, tel: (09) 360-3005; e-mail: kerryc@cda.org.nz Applications close 16 May 2010.
Team member, CYT: Youth and Young Adult Ministries, Catholic Diocese of Christchurch.
http://www.cyt.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no.339 April 25 - May 8 2010 p.23, and from Chris Lysaght, Director, e-mail: clysaght@chch.catholic.org.nz ; tel: (03) 366 9869
Faith Formation Co-ordinator, Catholic Education Centre, Archdiocese of Wellington
http://www.wcec.org.nz
Details in 'Wel-com' May 2010, p.9 and from The Director, Catholic Education Centre, PO Box 1937, Wellington 6140. Tel: (04) 496 1718; email: wcec@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 28 May 2010
A weekly snapshot of Catholic life in New Zealand
2 May 2010
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Te Waiora wins Hui Aranga kapahaka competition (full text)
Waatea News http://www.waatea603am.co.nz
Maori Catholics had a busy Easter with more than 5000 people turning out to the 58th Hui Aranga at Te Aute College in the Hawkes Bay. The annual event involves religious debate, sports, kapa haka and choral singing. Master of ceremonies Soli Hemara from Ngapuhi says the cultural performance were of a particularly high standard, with Feilding's Te Waiora taking out the overall prize. Soli Hemara says it's take the judged six years to come to terms with Te Waiora's unique style of kapa haka, which includes extremely theatrical elements.
Radio New Zealand. 'Sunday Morning'. Tiago Thorlby - Slavery for Biofuels
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/20100502
Padre Tiago Thorlby is a Scots priest who has worked with landless people, homesteaders and sugarcane workers in Brazil for 25 years. He's part of the ecumenical church organisation, The Pastoral Land Commission, and is based in Pernambuco, north-east Brazil. He talks to Chris Laidlaw about the impact of biofuel production on human rights, food security and the environment.
'Privileged' to work at the Vatican (photo)
The Press
http://tinyurl.com/2g932s4
Monsignor Charles Drennan has returned from a seven-year stint at the Vatican working closely with the Pope. The former Christ's College pupil tells Beck Eleven about readjusting to Christchurch life.
Selfless mum to hundreds (photos)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/manukau-courier/3638877/Selfless-mum-to-hundreds
In a marriage that spanned 45 years, Marie and Frank Heffernan brought up five children and 15 grandchildren. But the number of people who called Mrs Heffernan mum was in the hundreds. "She was a mum to everyone, the true meaning of the word mother," says her son Adrian Heffernan. Mrs Heffernan died recently after a short battle with cancer, aged 74.
School Open Days: Family atmosphere key to school's caring culture
The Press
http://tinyurl.com/29nhme9
Catholic Cathedral College is making the right moves for many parents in the run-up to its open night, thanks to a new 2017 vision , which is encouraging innovation and an uptake of music across the school.
School Open Days: Cultural activities on show
The Press
http://tinyurl.com/2cdn3rg
There is little debate that arts and cultural activities will be on show at the St Bede's College Open Day, given the school's recent achievements in music, theatre and the arts.
Speakers take shield (photo)
Christchurch Mail
http://tinyurl.com/2ad9r3w
Speaking in class isn't always welcome, but it won the grand prize for St Thomas of Canterbury College's Bishop Lyons Shield team.
Mass held for Lady with the Lantern
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/53027/mass-held-lady-with-lantern
A courageous and valiant woman was remembered during a special Mass in Green Island's St Peter Chanel Chapel yesterday. Foundress of the Order of Presentation, Sr Nano Nagle died 225 years ago.
The present, not past, can be changed (photo)
The Press
http://tinyurl.com/26uz7dk
The following is a sermon given by Monsignor Charles Drennan of the Catholic Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament on Sunday April 18, giving a Christchurch perspective on the global church's turmoil.
The French Connection, by Hugh Laracy
NZ Listener February 27-March 5 2010
http://www.listener.co.nz/issue/3642/features/14961/printable/the_french_connection.html
The curse of sleepless nights has provided an unexpected boon to lovers of New Zealand history. The Reverend Dr Charles Girard, an American member of the Catholic society of the Marists, who is based in Atlanta, Georgia, has achieved a monumental work of salvage in bringing to light some 8000 pages of letters and other documents written by French missionaries based in New Zealand and around the Pacific in the mid-1800s.
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
** Love one another **
John 13:31-35 : a reading and discussion with Vicky Wall and Theresa Ulmer.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** "And now, please rise for our opening hymn, uh. (Music at Mass)
** The Reign of Christ (Legion of Christ, and Regnum Christi)
** A convoluted route to Sunday Mass with a bottle of Tonic water. (Church and culture in Congo)
** What goes on upstairs? (the bored faithful at Mass)
** Lest we forget (Anzac Day and the just war)
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* NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS
Living the Word - Fr Frank Bird sm
http://livingtheword.org.nz
Reflect - Veronica Lawson RSM
http://www.welcom.org.nz/?sid=394
Daily Reflections (right-hand column)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic
American Catholic Demographics and the Future of Ministry
Http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/american-catholic-demographics-and-future-ministry
Earlier this week I was in Chicago to keynote the annual conference of the National Association of Church Personnel Administrators, which is composed of folks struggling to help the church integrate contemporary best practices in human resources and business management. It's largely unheralded work, but critical if the Catholic church is to avoid the administrative meltdowns that too often mar its public image and impair its moral authority. I was asked to talk about American Catholic demographics and what they suggest about the future of ministry. Though none of what I had to say constitutes news, sometimes it's useful to step back and focus on the forest rather than its individual trees.
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Bishop Pat Dunn's diary
http://www.facebook.com/bishoppatrick
Catholic Discipleship College
http://www.facebook.com/cdcnz
'The Fifteenth Station'
http://www.facebook.com/station15
Hato Hohepa / St Joseph's Maori Girls' College
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Napier/Hato-Hohepa/101194467580?v=info
Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
http://ko-kr.facebook.com/pages/Youth-for-Family-and-Life-YFL-New-Zealand/292888828797
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
http://www.romereports.com (video)
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (news of Pope Benedict - video)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Vacancies section of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]
Heretaunga Pastoral Co-ordinator, Hawkes Bay Pastoral Area
http://www.pn.catholic.org.nz
Details in 'Wel-com' May 2010, p.13 and from David Martin tel: (06) 844 4274; e-mail: davidandelaine@xtra.co.nz Applications close 7 May 2010
Managing Editor, 'NZ Catholic'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no.339 April 25 - May 8 2010 p.22, and from Kerry Coleman, tel: (09) 360-3005; e-mail: kerryc@cda.org.nz Applications close 16 May 2010.
Team member, CYT: Youth and Young Adult Ministries, Catholic Diocese of Christchurch.
http://www.cyt.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no.339 April 25 - May 8 2010 p.23, and from Chris Lysaght, Director, e-mail: clysaght@chch.catholic.org.nz ; tel: (03) 366 9869
Faith Formation Co-ordinator, Catholic Education Centre, Archdiocese of Wellington
http://www.wcec.org.nz
Details in 'Wel-com' May 2010, p.9 and from The Director, Catholic Education Centre, PO Box 1937, Wellington 6140. Tel: (04) 496 1718; email: wcec@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 28 May 2010
Sunday, April 25, 2010
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
April 25 - May 8 2010 - No. 339
In this issue ... Archbishop treks 100km for Oxfam ... Marching for life in
Chch ... Bill seeks to clarify frozen embryos' status ... Film honours
college's war dead ... Pope Benedict's first five years largely impress NZ
observers ... Catholics need a better perspective on clerical sex abuse ...
Dialogue with secular society difficult but possible - part one of an
interview with Cardinal Francis Arinze
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Brothers in arms (photo)
The Herald on Sunday
http://tinyurl.com/26hln4n
A memorial plaque in Auckland's Sacred Heart College chapel has inspired a moving documentary about past pupils of the school who died in past wars.
Catholics pay respects to early pioneers of the faith (photo)
North Shore Times
http://tinyurl.com/28mpuds
A celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of St Luke's Catholic Church on Bayswater Avenue began with a pilgrimage to the graves of Thomas and Mary Poynton at O'Neill's Point Cemetery.
Nun hurt in fall (full text)
The Dominion Post
http://tinyurl.com/2emxfpz
A 93-year-old Catholic nun from Jerusalem on the Whanganui River has been flown to Whanganui Hospital by the Square Trust rescue helicopter after falling and cutting her head. The accident happened while the nun was walking in the Hiruharama convent grounds about 3pm yesterday.
Hall to get new lease of life at school location (photo)
Cambridge Edition
http://tinyurl.com/27x7yon
Photo caption: St Peter's Catholic parish hall has been integrated into St Peter's School.
Crusaders mourn trainer
http://www.starcanterbury.co.nz/local/news/crusaders-mourn-trainer/3912928/
The Crusaders were mourning the loss of their strength and conditioning trainer Luke Andrew Thornley as they prepared for Saturday's home match against the Cheetahs. Players and a line-up of Canterbury rugby identities attended Mr Thornley's funeral at the Catholic Cathedral in the morning.
Catholic Concern for poor in Govt tax changes
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00244.htm
The Auckland Catholic Diocese Justice and Peace Commission has expressed concern about how the Government's proposed tax changes will impact upon lower-income families and individuals at a time when a significant number of families struggle to make ends meet.
Papal recognition (photo)
The Hutt News
http://tinyurl.com/y2ohfgk
Alan Devlin, a descendant of 1843 Petone arrival John Cudby, was presented with the Papal Award Benemerenti by Archbishop John Dew on March 14.
Team driving forward (photo)
St Bernard's College has a reputation as a top rugby stronghold.
The Hutt News
http://tinyurl.com/y5h887h
Sealy will become New Zealand's only full-time youth minister
http://www.br.psu.edu/Information/News/33017.htm
Rich Sealy, Catholic campus minister at [Pennsylvania State University, Beaver, near Pittsburgh] is leaving the campus for New Zealand, where he will spend at least two years as the country's only full-time youth minister. Sealy's wife and two children will be with him.
Hundreds Take Part In New Zealand's First March For Life
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/apr/10041907.html
Over 300 people marched in Christchurch on April 10 to highlight the value of all human life, and to speak out against abortion.
Schools follow rules on teaching abstinence
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/3599354/Schools-follow-rules-on-teaching-abstinence
Timaru children will not be taught to abstain from sex unless primary schools are directed by parents or the Education Ministry, despite a Family First survey showing three out of four parents of young children are all for it.
Aid agency disaster funding to be overhauled
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2010/04/20/1247fe65a8d0
The Government plans to overhaul the way aid agencies are funded for disaster relief work overseas. The director of the Catholic aid agency Caritas, Michael Smith, says more details are needed urgently.
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
** Family Visiting **
Jenny, DRS at St Catherine's College, on the rollercoaster ride that is being a family.
** Never Lost **
John 10:27-30 : a reading and discussion with Vicky Wall and Theresa Ulmer.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** Imagine Life (the Imagine pro-life advertisements)
** "As long as I've got my health, and my millions of dollars ... I don't need anything else." (on persuading people to donate)
** A Peter-like Paradigm of Perpetual Conversion. (finding much to relate to in Peter)
** How little we know (a conversation on the history of the Mass)
** Christian Legal Centres Busy in the UK
** Physical Littleness and Mental Littleness (Archbishop Fulton Sheen's 'The Eternal Galilean')
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* NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS
Living the Word - Fr Frank Bird sm
http://livingtheword.wordpress.com
Reflect - Veronica Lawson RSM
http://www.welcom.org.nz/?sid=394
Daily Reflections (right-hand column)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic
Cardinal Castrillón must feel trapped
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/cardinal-castrillon-must-feel-trapped
For most of the last two decades, Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Clergy from 1996 to 2006, was widely considered a serious contender to become the first Latin American pope. Today, even if he weren't almost 81, Castrillón would have about as much chance of becoming pope as Sinead O'Connor. As the then-president of a Vatican commission that deals with traditionalist Catholics, he took the blame for the Holocaust-denying bishop fiasco in January 2009. Now Castrillón has achieved global infamy in light of a September 2001 letter he dispatched to a French bishop congratulating him for refusing to report an abuser priest to the police...
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FACEBOOK
Bishop Pat Dunn's diary
http://www.facebook.com/bishoppatrick
Catholic Discipleship College
http://www.facebook.com/cdcnz
'The Fifteenth Station'
http://www.facebook.com/station15
Hato Hohepa / St Joseph's Maori Girls' College
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Napier/Hato-Hohepa/101194467580?v=info
Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
http://ko-kr.facebook.com/pages/Youth-for-Family-and-Life-YFL-New-Zealan/292888828797
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
http://www.romereports.com (video)
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (news of Pope Benedict - video)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Vacancies section of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]
Managing Editor, 'NZ Catholic'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no.339 April 25 - May 8 2010 p.22, and from Kerry Coleman, tel: (09) 360-3005; e-mail: kerryc@cda.org.nz Applications close 16 May 2010.
Team member, CYT: Youth and Young Adult Ministries, Catholic Diocese of Christchurch.
http://www.cyt.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no.339 April 25 - May 8 2010 p.23, and from Chris Lysaght, Director, e-mail: clysaght@chch.catholic.org.nz ; tel: (03) 366 9869
'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
April 25 - May 8 2010 - No. 339
In this issue ... Archbishop treks 100km for Oxfam ... Marching for life in
Chch ... Bill seeks to clarify frozen embryos' status ... Film honours
college's war dead ... Pope Benedict's first five years largely impress NZ
observers ... Catholics need a better perspective on clerical sex abuse ...
Dialogue with secular society difficult but possible - part one of an
interview with Cardinal Francis Arinze
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Brothers in arms (photo)
The Herald on Sunday
http://tinyurl.com/26hln4n
A memorial plaque in Auckland's Sacred Heart College chapel has inspired a moving documentary about past pupils of the school who died in past wars.
Catholics pay respects to early pioneers of the faith (photo)
North Shore Times
http://tinyurl.com/28mpuds
A celebration to mark the 50th anniversary of St Luke's Catholic Church on Bayswater Avenue began with a pilgrimage to the graves of Thomas and Mary Poynton at O'Neill's Point Cemetery.
Nun hurt in fall (full text)
The Dominion Post
http://tinyurl.com/2emxfpz
A 93-year-old Catholic nun from Jerusalem on the Whanganui River has been flown to Whanganui Hospital by the Square Trust rescue helicopter after falling and cutting her head. The accident happened while the nun was walking in the Hiruharama convent grounds about 3pm yesterday.
Hall to get new lease of life at school location (photo)
Cambridge Edition
http://tinyurl.com/27x7yon
Photo caption: St Peter's Catholic parish hall has been integrated into St Peter's School.
Crusaders mourn trainer
http://www.starcanterbury.co.nz/local/news/crusaders-mourn-trainer/3912928/
The Crusaders were mourning the loss of their strength and conditioning trainer Luke Andrew Thornley as they prepared for Saturday's home match against the Cheetahs. Players and a line-up of Canterbury rugby identities attended Mr Thornley's funeral at the Catholic Cathedral in the morning.
Catholic Concern for poor in Govt tax changes
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00244.htm
The Auckland Catholic Diocese Justice and Peace Commission has expressed concern about how the Government's proposed tax changes will impact upon lower-income families and individuals at a time when a significant number of families struggle to make ends meet.
Papal recognition (photo)
The Hutt News
http://tinyurl.com/y2ohfgk
Alan Devlin, a descendant of 1843 Petone arrival John Cudby, was presented with the Papal Award Benemerenti by Archbishop John Dew on March 14.
Team driving forward (photo)
St Bernard's College has a reputation as a top rugby stronghold.
The Hutt News
http://tinyurl.com/y5h887h
Sealy will become New Zealand's only full-time youth minister
http://www.br.psu.edu/Information/News/33017.htm
Rich Sealy, Catholic campus minister at [Pennsylvania State University, Beaver, near Pittsburgh] is leaving the campus for New Zealand, where he will spend at least two years as the country's only full-time youth minister. Sealy's wife and two children will be with him.
Hundreds Take Part In New Zealand's First March For Life
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2010/apr/10041907.html
Over 300 people marched in Christchurch on April 10 to highlight the value of all human life, and to speak out against abortion.
Schools follow rules on teaching abstinence
http://www.stuff.co.nz/timaru-herald/news/3599354/Schools-follow-rules-on-teaching-abstinence
Timaru children will not be taught to abstain from sex unless primary schools are directed by parents or the Education Ministry, despite a Family First survey showing three out of four parents of young children are all for it.
Aid agency disaster funding to be overhauled
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2010/04/20/1247fe65a8d0
The Government plans to overhaul the way aid agencies are funded for disaster relief work overseas. The director of the Catholic aid agency Caritas, Michael Smith, says more details are needed urgently.
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
** Family Visiting **
Jenny, DRS at St Catherine's College, on the rollercoaster ride that is being a family.
** Never Lost **
John 10:27-30 : a reading and discussion with Vicky Wall and Theresa Ulmer.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** Imagine Life (the Imagine pro-life advertisements)
** "As long as I've got my health, and my millions of dollars ... I don't need anything else." (on persuading people to donate)
** A Peter-like Paradigm of Perpetual Conversion. (finding much to relate to in Peter)
** How little we know (a conversation on the history of the Mass)
** Christian Legal Centres Busy in the UK
** Physical Littleness and Mental Littleness (Archbishop Fulton Sheen's 'The Eternal Galilean')
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* NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS
Living the Word - Fr Frank Bird sm
http://livingtheword.wordpress.com
Reflect - Veronica Lawson RSM
http://www.welcom.org.nz/?sid=394
Daily Reflections (right-hand column)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic
Cardinal Castrillón must feel trapped
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/cardinal-castrillon-must-feel-trapped
For most of the last two decades, Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for Clergy from 1996 to 2006, was widely considered a serious contender to become the first Latin American pope. Today, even if he weren't almost 81, Castrillón would have about as much chance of becoming pope as Sinead O'Connor. As the then-president of a Vatican commission that deals with traditionalist Catholics, he took the blame for the Holocaust-denying bishop fiasco in January 2009. Now Castrillón has achieved global infamy in light of a September 2001 letter he dispatched to a French bishop congratulating him for refusing to report an abuser priest to the police...
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Bishop Pat Dunn's diary
http://www.facebook.com/bishoppatrick
Catholic Discipleship College
http://www.facebook.com/cdcnz
'The Fifteenth Station'
http://www.facebook.com/station15
Hato Hohepa / St Joseph's Maori Girls' College
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Napier/Hato-Hohepa/101194467580?v=info
Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
http://ko-kr.facebook.com/pages/Youth-for-Family-and-Life-YFL-New-Zealan/292888828797
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
http://www.romereports.com (video)
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (news of Pope Benedict - video)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Vacancies section of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]
Managing Editor, 'NZ Catholic'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no.339 April 25 - May 8 2010 p.22, and from Kerry Coleman, tel: (09) 360-3005; e-mail: kerryc@cda.org.nz Applications close 16 May 2010.
Team member, CYT: Youth and Young Adult Ministries, Catholic Diocese of Christchurch.
http://www.cyt.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no.339 April 25 - May 8 2010 p.23, and from Chris Lysaght, Director, e-mail: clysaght@chch.catholic.org.nz ; tel: (03) 366 9869
Sunday, April 18, 2010
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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
Masses being held for New Zealand Catholic Polish Communities (April 16, 2010)
Polish Catholic communities in New Zealand are among those grieving for Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria and their fellow travellers who died in a plane crash on Saturday on their way to commemorate and mourn the deaths of thousands of Polish people who were executed in the Katyn forest in 1940...
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'WEL-COM'
http://www.welcom.org.nz
** News **
Wellington Archbishop apologises
Catholic agencies condemn new welfare policies
Parishes invited to apply for helping project funds
** World News **
Timor-Leste turns 10 as it struggles against poverty
Papuan justice worker tells of undermining of rights
West Papuan priest risks life to speak of oppression
** Columns **
Guest Editorial: In praise of prophets, by Fr Jim Consedine
Archbishop's column: Easter 2010 - beauty and truth, by Archbishop John Dew
Editorial: suffering and hope in Lent
Commissioner for Children consults in Wilton
Five days plus 48 teenagers equals a whole lot of fun!
Hutt students win new regional writing competition
** Features **
Year of the Priest: one priest - too many roles
Spiritual respite in painting for a hospital chaplain
Conflict with compassion - a gospel-imagined response
** Wellington **
Convent Old Girls celebrate 75 years on the court
** Palmerston North **
Youth internship programme
Emmaus House for young adults
Hawke's Bay youth parliamentarian
** Reflect **
Second Sunday of Easter Year C : John 20:19-31, by Veronica Mary Lawson RSM
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Mayor claims he was 'crucified at Easter'
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/religion-and-beliefs/news/article.cfm?c_id=301&objectid=10639124
North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams is facing fresh criticism after comparing himself to Jesus on the cross.
Tribute to Irish forebears (photos)
http://www.odt.co.nz/the-regions/central-otago/102101/tribute-irish-forebears
About 40 descendants of early Fruitlands settlers Patrick and Mary McGettigan will gather in the area this weekend for a reunion.
Polish community mourns loss of nation's elite
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/102147/polish-community-mourns-loss-nation039s-elite
Poland's staunch Catholic faith would help it through the dark days of mourning for the deaths of President Lech Kaczynski and scores of the country's elite in last weekend's aircraft crash, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin, the Most Rev Colin Campbell, said at last night's commemorative Mass.
Drama played outdoors (photo)
Franklin County News
http://tinyurl.com/y3z7vd6
Pukekohe's first outdoor theatre, the Passion Drama, was a big success with over 1000 people going to see the performance at St Joseph's School recently.
Indignation at review of brothel bylaw
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/queenstown/101767/indignation-review-brothel-bylaw
Plans by the Queenstown Lakes District Council to review its brothel control bylaw sparked an indignant response from opponents yesterday.
Celebrating 50 years (photo)
Upper Hutt Leader
http://tinyurl.com/y4nvdhm
Jimmy and Maureen McCarthy were married at the Taupo Catholic Church in February 1960.
School could stay put
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/7047283/school-could-stay-put/
A Labour MP has written to the Auckland Transition Agency asking it to review the decision to shift Mt Roskill's Monte Cecilia School from its present site.
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Radio NZ. 'Nine to Noon'.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/20100415
10:10 Feature Guest - Jeff Anderson
Jeff Anderson is a US lawyer representing victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy who says he has uncovered documents implicating the Pope in the cover up of sexual abuse by a Wisconsin priest.
Predator priests shuffled around globe
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jF3SgJdO8u1pi0PkautQAtzuJKaAD9F35MMO1
[This long article contains graphic descriptions of sexual abuse. I have included it here because of the section about Alan Woodcock, a former priest of the Society of Mary at St Patrick's College, Silverstream. It also has a rare example of an old clerical in-joke, "the geographical cure" - ML]
Editorial: Catholic Church must confess its sins
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/opinion/editorials/3591294/Editorial-Catholic-Church-must-confess-its-sins
Editorial: Opportunity lost
http://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/editorial/101296/opportunity-lost
Humility and honesty earn respect
http://www.odt.co.nz/print/101926
Lance Bardwell is a communicant member of the Catholic Church in Dunedin who has not lost faith in Jesus but is losing trust in the Papacy. Lance Bardwell has written to the Pope. He shares the content of his letter with the Otago Daily Times.
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
** Being a priest **
Sr Stephanie talks to Fr Patrick Bridgeman, her parish priest.
** Good Advice **
John 21:1-19 : a reading and discussion with Sr Marcellin Wilson and Sr Stephanie Kitching.
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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC PODCASTS
http://station15.libsyn.com
** Station XV **
Episode 31 - Abuse, apologies and another round
It's not a pleasant topic to cover, but we'd be remiss in leaving it out this month. So we deal in detail with the growing abuse scandal in Europe and the attacks on the Pope, the Waihopai Three spybase destroyers and their "not guilty" verdict, the terrible case of a woman starving herself to death, and the pubs in Ireland opening on Good Friday...for a football match! Follow us at facebook.com/station15 or twitter.com/station15 .
** Catechiwi **
Poverty, Chastity and Obedience
They're the evangelical counsels - better known today as the religious vows. For centuries, religious priests, brothers and sisters have been adhering to the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. But, as Fr Bernie Thomas, OFM, explains, those principles provide a blueprint for living for all people. Gavin Abraham talks to Fr Bernie about how living the counsels has changed over the centuries, but in many ways stayed the same.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** Physical Littleness and Mental Littleness (on reading Archbishop Fulton Sheen's 'The Eternal Galilean'
** Are you having a laugh? (natural family planning vs contraception)
** The hour is getting late (a poem on the media criticism of Pope Benedict)
** Broken bits and bytes (on being deprived of broadband)
** Divine Mercy
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* NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS
Living the Word - Fr Frank Bird sm
http://livingtheword.wordpress.com
Reflect - Veronica Lawson RSM
http://www.welcom.org.nz/?sid=394
Daily Reflections (right-hand column)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic
Can a teaching pope get his house in order?
Pope Benedict, five years into his pontificate
http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/can-teaching-pope-get-his-house-order
Some years ago, after a speech he delivered in Paris drew a bit of negative reaction, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger told friends he wasn't worried. "I'm like the cellist Rostropovich," he joked. "I never read the critics." That's a policy Benedict XVI might want to preserve over the next few days, marking both his 83rd birthday today and the five-year anniversary of his papacy on Monday after a brief weekend stop in Malta. Especially in light of recent events, even the best reviews the pope's likely to draw as these milestones roll by seem certain to be mixed.
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FACEBOOK
Bishop Pat Dunn's diary
http://www.facebook.com/bishoppatrick
Catholic Discipleship College
http://www.facebook.com/cdcnz
'The Fifteenth Station'
http://www.facebook.com/station15
Hato Hohepa / St Joseph's Maori Girls' College
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Napier/Hato-Hohepa/101194467580?v=info
Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
http://ko-kr.facebook.com/pages/Youth-for-Family-and-Life-YFL-New-Zealand/292888828797
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
http://www.romereports.com (video)
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (news of Pope Benedict - video)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Vacancies section of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]
[Vacancies for Catholic youth workers are advertised on the Vacancies page of Connect.org.nz: http://www.connect.org.nz ]
Turanga Maori Advisor, Archdiocese of Wellington
http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/?sid=20
Details in 'Wel-com' April 2010 p.6, and from Lorraine McArthur, Director,
Archdiocesan Pastoral Services, tel: (04) 496 1706; e-mail: l.mcarthur@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 19 April 2010
Managing Editor, 'NZ Catholic'
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no. 338, April 11 - 24 2010 p.22 and from bishop@cda.org.nz ; tel: (09) 360-3002
NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
Masses being held for New Zealand Catholic Polish Communities (April 16, 2010)
Polish Catholic communities in New Zealand are among those grieving for Polish President Lech Kaczynski, his wife Maria and their fellow travellers who died in a plane crash on Saturday on their way to commemorate and mourn the deaths of thousands of Polish people who were executed in the Katyn forest in 1940...
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'WEL-COM'
http://www.welcom.org.nz
** News **
Wellington Archbishop apologises
Catholic agencies condemn new welfare policies
Parishes invited to apply for helping project funds
** World News **
Timor-Leste turns 10 as it struggles against poverty
Papuan justice worker tells of undermining of rights
West Papuan priest risks life to speak of oppression
** Columns **
Guest Editorial: In praise of prophets, by Fr Jim Consedine
Archbishop's column: Easter 2010 - beauty and truth, by Archbishop John Dew
Editorial: suffering and hope in Lent
Commissioner for Children consults in Wilton
Five days plus 48 teenagers equals a whole lot of fun!
Hutt students win new regional writing competition
** Features **
Year of the Priest: one priest - too many roles
Spiritual respite in painting for a hospital chaplain
Conflict with compassion - a gospel-imagined response
** Wellington **
Convent Old Girls celebrate 75 years on the court
** Palmerston North **
Youth internship programme
Emmaus House for young adults
Hawke's Bay youth parliamentarian
** Reflect **
Second Sunday of Easter Year C : John 20:19-31, by Veronica Mary Lawson RSM
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Mayor claims he was 'crucified at Easter'
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/religion-and-beliefs/news/article.cfm?c_id=301&objectid=10639124
North Shore Mayor Andrew Williams is facing fresh criticism after comparing himself to Jesus on the cross.
Tribute to Irish forebears (photos)
http://www.odt.co.nz/the-regions/central-otago/102101/tribute-irish-forebears
About 40 descendants of early Fruitlands settlers Patrick and Mary McGettigan will gather in the area this weekend for a reunion.
Polish community mourns loss of nation's elite
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/102147/polish-community-mourns-loss-nation039s-elite
Poland's staunch Catholic faith would help it through the dark days of mourning for the deaths of President Lech Kaczynski and scores of the country's elite in last weekend's aircraft crash, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin, the Most Rev Colin Campbell, said at last night's commemorative Mass.
Drama played outdoors (photo)
Franklin County News
http://tinyurl.com/y3z7vd6
Pukekohe's first outdoor theatre, the Passion Drama, was a big success with over 1000 people going to see the performance at St Joseph's School recently.
Indignation at review of brothel bylaw
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/queenstown/101767/indignation-review-brothel-bylaw
Plans by the Queenstown Lakes District Council to review its brothel control bylaw sparked an indignant response from opponents yesterday.
Celebrating 50 years (photo)
Upper Hutt Leader
http://tinyurl.com/y4nvdhm
Jimmy and Maureen McCarthy were married at the Taupo Catholic Church in February 1960.
School could stay put
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/7047283/school-could-stay-put/
A Labour MP has written to the Auckland Transition Agency asking it to review the decision to shift Mt Roskill's Monte Cecilia School from its present site.
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Radio NZ. 'Nine to Noon'.
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/20100415
10:10 Feature Guest - Jeff Anderson
Jeff Anderson is a US lawyer representing victims of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy who says he has uncovered documents implicating the Pope in the cover up of sexual abuse by a Wisconsin priest.
Predator priests shuffled around globe
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jF3SgJdO8u1pi0PkautQAtzuJKaAD9F35MMO1
[This long article contains graphic descriptions of sexual abuse. I have included it here because of the section about Alan Woodcock, a former priest of the Society of Mary at St Patrick's College, Silverstream. It also has a rare example of an old clerical in-joke, "the geographical cure" - ML]
Editorial: Catholic Church must confess its sins
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/opinion/editorials/3591294/Editorial-Catholic-Church-must-confess-its-sins
Editorial: Opportunity lost
http://www.odt.co.nz/opinion/editorial/101296/opportunity-lost
Humility and honesty earn respect
http://www.odt.co.nz/print/101926
Lance Bardwell is a communicant member of the Catholic Church in Dunedin who has not lost faith in Jesus but is losing trust in the Papacy. Lance Bardwell has written to the Pope. He shares the content of his letter with the Otago Daily Times.
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
** Being a priest **
Sr Stephanie talks to Fr Patrick Bridgeman, her parish priest.
** Good Advice **
John 21:1-19 : a reading and discussion with Sr Marcellin Wilson and Sr Stephanie Kitching.
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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC PODCASTS
http://station15.libsyn.com
** Station XV **
Episode 31 - Abuse, apologies and another round
It's not a pleasant topic to cover, but we'd be remiss in leaving it out this month. So we deal in detail with the growing abuse scandal in Europe and the attacks on the Pope, the Waihopai Three spybase destroyers and their "not guilty" verdict, the terrible case of a woman starving herself to death, and the pubs in Ireland opening on Good Friday...for a football match! Follow us at facebook.com/station15 or twitter.com/station15 .
** Catechiwi **
Poverty, Chastity and Obedience
They're the evangelical counsels - better known today as the religious vows. For centuries, religious priests, brothers and sisters have been adhering to the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience. But, as Fr Bernie Thomas, OFM, explains, those principles provide a blueprint for living for all people. Gavin Abraham talks to Fr Bernie about how living the counsels has changed over the centuries, but in many ways stayed the same.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** Physical Littleness and Mental Littleness (on reading Archbishop Fulton Sheen's 'The Eternal Galilean'
** Are you having a laugh? (natural family planning vs contraception)
** The hour is getting late (a poem on the media criticism of Pope Benedict)
** Broken bits and bytes (on being deprived of broadband)
** Divine Mercy
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* NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS
Living the Word - Fr Frank Bird sm
http://livingtheword.wordpress.com
Reflect - Veronica Lawson RSM
http://www.welcom.org.nz/?sid=394
Daily Reflections (right-hand column)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic
Can a teaching pope get his house in order?
Pope Benedict, five years into his pontificate
http://ncronline.org/news/vatican/can-teaching-pope-get-his-house-order
Some years ago, after a speech he delivered in Paris drew a bit of negative reaction, then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger told friends he wasn't worried. "I'm like the cellist Rostropovich," he joked. "I never read the critics." That's a policy Benedict XVI might want to preserve over the next few days, marking both his 83rd birthday today and the five-year anniversary of his papacy on Monday after a brief weekend stop in Malta. Especially in light of recent events, even the best reviews the pope's likely to draw as these milestones roll by seem certain to be mixed.
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Bishop Pat Dunn's diary
http://www.facebook.com/bishoppatrick
Catholic Discipleship College
http://www.facebook.com/cdcnz
'The Fifteenth Station'
http://www.facebook.com/station15
Hato Hohepa / St Joseph's Maori Girls' College
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Napier/Hato-Hohepa/101194467580?v=info
Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
http://ko-kr.facebook.com/pages/Youth-for-Family-and-Life-YFL-New-Zealand/292888828797
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
http://www.romereports.com (video)
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (news of Pope Benedict - video)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Vacancies section of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]
[Vacancies for Catholic youth workers are advertised on the Vacancies page of Connect.org.nz: http://www.connect.org.nz ]
Turanga Maori Advisor, Archdiocese of Wellington
http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/?sid=20
Details in 'Wel-com' April 2010 p.6, and from Lorraine McArthur, Director,
Archdiocesan Pastoral Services, tel: (04) 496 1706; e-mail: l.mcarthur@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 19 April 2010
Managing Editor, 'NZ Catholic'
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no. 338, April 11 - 24 2010 p.22 and from bishop@cda.org.nz ; tel: (09) 360-3002
Sunday, April 11, 2010
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
In issue no. 338, April 11 - 24 2010 ... Bishops counter media frenzy ... Camp 'sets free' 200 teens ... Kiwis support assisted suicide in certain cases ... Catholic heads lead principals' association ... Vatican II transformed our view of the Bible ... Regular Sunday classes help older Korean Catholics fit in and belong ... Ecumenical group backs papal initiative ('Anglicanorum coetibus')... Magnificent statue carved for monastery ('Mary of Ngakuru' ... Advertising features: E-mail and Website directory; Who's Who: Catholic business round-up
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
I. Abuse Crisis
II. Other news
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I. Abuse crisis
Further pressure on Catholic Church (text and video)
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/further-pressure-catholic-church-3456353
A letter has surfaced showing the Pope, in a previous role, was reluctant to dismiss a priest who abused children.
[Like this one, all the short reports on this case leave out the fact that the offender had already been suspended indefinitely from priestly duties when laicisation was being discussed, giving readers who don't know the difference between suspension and laicisation (and who couldn't care less) the impression that Cardinal Ratzinger failed to restrain him. Damien Thompson's blog in The Telegraph - http://tinyurl.com/ydxmw8b - gives the full background on the case. This TVNZ report includes a comment by Bishop Browne deploring abuse, inserted in such a way that the reader might think the bishop was commenting on the headline report, which he wasn't. Also, apparently, we (the New Zealand Church) are in crisis. You heard it on TV first! - ML]
Victim wants church to take responsibility for abuse
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10637322&pnum=0
Victim says abuse still happening within Catholic Church
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2010/04/08/1247fdaeaa16
Radio NZ. Morning Report. Wednesday, 07 April 2010
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/20100407
08:40 Victim has no confidence church's approach has improved (audio file)
Church abuse victims seek apologies, cash
http://www.3news.co.nz/Church-abuse-victims-seek-apologies-cash/tabid/423/articleID/150143/Default.aspx
Abuse inquiry no help for victims - support group
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/7036469/abuse-inquiry-no-help-for-victims-support-group/
Church scandal: Paedophile monks released
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10636828&pnum=0
Catholic order criticised
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3568329/Catholic-order-criticised
A troubled Catholic order mired in a historical sexual abuse scandal is being criticised for failing to support a brother who was instrumental in brokering compensation for victims.
Bishop sees no need for inquiry
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/3563530/Bishop-sees-no-need-for-inquiry
There is no need for a full-scale inquiry into cases of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in New Zealand, the Bishop of Christchurch, Barry Jones, says.
Peter Lyons: Petty gossip? Church hierarchy is out of touch
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10637162&pnum=0
Abuse scandals are a legacy of centuries of intolerance of critical self-analysis, writes Peter Lyons, a teacher at St Peter's College, a Catholic school for boys in Epsom.
Radio NZ. Morning Report. Thursday 8 April 2010
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/20100408
07:10 Catholic Church claims new approach to abuse complaints
The Catholic Church in New Zealand says it is currently investigating five historical complaints of child abuse and will actively pursue any further allegations that come to light. [Interview with John Jamieson]
Church sex abuse cases not in Otago
http://www.odt.co.nz/print/100916
None of the five historic sex abuse allegations against members of the Roman Catholic Church in New Zealand being investigated by former police commissioner John Jamieson are from the Otago area.
Celibacy not reason for abuse by clergy - archbishop
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2010/04/06/1247fd9013a6
Radio NZ. Morning Report (audio file)
07:16 Senior Catholic once again apologises for abuse scandal
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/20100406
The most senior member of New Zealand's Catholic Church [Archbishop John Dew] has again said sorry to the victims of sexual abuse.
Church distances itself from abuse
Text:
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/church-distances-itself-abuse-3449637
Video:
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/church-distances-itself-abuse-3449637/video
[The headline of this report has nothing to do with the actual story. In the video version (TVNZ News at 8 on TVNZ 7), Greg Boyed interrogates the papal nuncio, Archbishop Charles Balvo video, about the alarming lack of recent abuse cases in this country. There are a few unintentionally funny moments: Archbishop Dew "has apologised for the humility ... the scandals have caused"; and, says Greg grimly, "let's wake up and smell the roses here". - ML ]
Catholic church must exorcise its demons: NZ priest (photo)
Text article:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Catholic-church-must-exorcise-its-demons-NZ-priest/tabid/423/articleID/149581/Default.aspx
Video report:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Catholic-church-must-exorcise-its-demons-NZ-priest/tabid/309/articleID/149581/Default.aspx
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II. In other news
A mother's legacy (photos)
Dominion Post
http://tinyurl.com/yetua3x
A full-page feature on Mary MacKillop from a New Zealand viewpoint.
MacKillop envelope launched (photo)
http://www.cg.catholic.org.au/news/view_article.cfm?id=301&loadref=16
Australia Post has released a commemorative prepaid envelope today to honour Australia's first saint. It features an image of Mary MacKillop with members of her congregation at Aotearoa (New Zealand) from 1895. [Expandable image: http://www.stamps.com.au/shop/stationery/mary-mackillop ]
All cultures welcome at school fest (photos)
North Shore Times
http://tinyurl.com/yz2lnac
With its pupils hailing from 30 different countries, St Joseph's School is justified in singing It's a Small World After All.
Musical `gem' unfazed by health woes (photos)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10637479&pnum=0
With help from her family and friends, Mrs. Shirley Loretz manages most mornings to get to her post behind the organ to play hymns to lift the spirits of parishioners gathered for the daily community Mass at St Mary's Catholic Church in Avondale.
Councillors Seek Investigation of Monte Cecilia
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00075.htm
Two Auckland City Councillors have asked the Auditor General to investigate a Committee decision to designate and purchase the Monte Cecilia School land
Scaffolding goes up for Basilica repair work (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/yh5wdlu
Tonnes of scaffolding has been erected on the Basilica in Invercargill for painting and repair work to be carried out under the dome.
Pompallier Mission manager receives French honour
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3559951/Kiwi-gets-rare-French-award
Manager of New Zealand Historic Places Trust property Pompallier Mission, Kate Martin became just the fifth New Zealander to be created a Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by the French Government when she received the honour in Wellington last week .
Inga dances her way to a career in ballet (photo)
Whangarei Leader
http://tinyurl.com/yf63v8n
As soon as Inga Carolus took her first steps, her mother knew she was going to be a ballet dancer. The Year 9 Pompallier Catholic College student started ballet at the age of five.
Put your hand up for school election
Whangarei Leader
http://tinyurl.com/yjtyyqa
School trustees provide a vital link between schools and communities, says Trish Schoonderwoerd, chairwoman of Pompallier College's board of trustees.
Radio NZ. Nine to Noon
10:05 Feature guest - John Glynn (audio file)
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/20100406
Father John Glynn discusses his work with orphans and abandoned children in Papua New Guinea, and how he and other ordinary frontline members of the clergy are dealing with the fallout of the international Catholic Church abuse scandals.
What's up for Lunch at Marcellin College?
http://www.3news.co.nz/Whats-up-for-Lunch-at-Marcellin-College/tabid/1298/articleID/149676/Default.aspx?ArticleID=149676&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+co%2FHCaY+%283News-+Latest+News%29
Should cookies, chips, sweet slices and pies be sold in school Tuck Shops? The new Tuck Shop manager at Auckland's Marcellin College in Royal Oak, Celia Masinipeni thinks they definitely should be.
Easter services popular
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/3546910/Easter-services-popular
City churches had a bumper turnout over Easter.
Walk of the cross through town (photo caption)
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/queenstown/100310/walk-cross-through-town
About 75 members of six Queenstown churches took part in a multidenominational ecumenical walk of the cross in Queenstown on Good Friday.
Tapu Misa: Religion undergoing startling resurrection
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/religion-and-beliefs/news/article.cfm?c_id=301&objectid=10636340&pnum=0
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
** John's Easter **
John 20:19-31: a reading and discussion with Violet Kudzotsa and Simon McLellan.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** The Weekend Retreat
** 'You're just in time for "Sponge Bath the Old Folks" Day!' (the abuse scandal could end up being a good thing)
** So Christ died at 4.15pm once the parish was full.? (At Easter Mass in Congo)
** This is what happens when you write a book without doing any research (Bryan Bruce)
** Open 24/7/361.5 (Easter shopping)
** In what does a successful life consist? (Pope Benedict's message for the anniversary of World Youth Day)
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NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS
Living the Word - Fr Frank Bird sm
http://livingtheword.wordpress.com
Reflect - Veronica Lawson RSM
http://www.welcom.org.nz/?sid=394
Daily Reflections (right-hand column)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic
Four Points to Make About Gomez and LA
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/four-points-make-about-gomez-and-la
As difficult as it is to talk about any Catholic subject these days other than the pope and the sexual abuse crisis, I'm going to give it a whirl, because there was another important storyline this week: In effect, the Vatican paved the way on Tuesday for the first Hispanic cardinal in the United States, as well as something of a new tone in the country's largest archdiocese.
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FACEBOOK
Bishop Pat Dunn's diary
http://www.facebook.com/bishoppatrick
Catholic Discipleship College
http://www.facebook.com/cdcnz
'The Fifteenth Station'
http://www.facebook.com/station15
Hato Hohepa / St Joseph's Maori Girls' College
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Napier/Hato-Hohepa/101194467580?v=info
Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
http://ko-kr.facebook.com/pages/Youth-for-Family-and-Life-YFL-New-Zealand/292888828797
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
http://www.romereports.com (video)
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (news of Pope Benedict - video)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Vacancies section of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]
[Vacancies for Catholic youth workers are advertised on the Vacancies page of Connect.org.nz: http://www.connect.org.nz ]
Fundraising Co-ordinator, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand
http://www.caritas.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Mar 28 - April 10 2010 p.26, in 'Wel-com' April 2010 p.2, and from Claire Beaumont, claire@caritas.org.nz ; tel: (04) 496 1742 Applications close 12 April 2010.
Turanga Maori Advisor, Archdiocese of Wellington
http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/?sid=20
in 'Wel-com' April 2010 p.6, and from Lorraine McArthur, Director, Archdiocesan Pastoral Services, tel: (04) 496 1706; e-mail: l.mcarthur@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 19 April 2010
Managing Editor, 'NZ Catholic'
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no. 338, April 11 - 24 2010 p.22 and from bishop@cda.org.nz ; tel: (09) 360-3002
'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
In issue no. 338, April 11 - 24 2010 ... Bishops counter media frenzy ... Camp 'sets free' 200 teens ... Kiwis support assisted suicide in certain cases ... Catholic heads lead principals' association ... Vatican II transformed our view of the Bible ... Regular Sunday classes help older Korean Catholics fit in and belong ... Ecumenical group backs papal initiative ('Anglicanorum coetibus')... Magnificent statue carved for monastery ('Mary of Ngakuru' ... Advertising features: E-mail and Website directory; Who's Who: Catholic business round-up
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
I. Abuse Crisis
II. Other news
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I. Abuse crisis
Further pressure on Catholic Church (text and video)
http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/further-pressure-catholic-church-3456353
A letter has surfaced showing the Pope, in a previous role, was reluctant to dismiss a priest who abused children.
[Like this one, all the short reports on this case leave out the fact that the offender had already been suspended indefinitely from priestly duties when laicisation was being discussed, giving readers who don't know the difference between suspension and laicisation (and who couldn't care less) the impression that Cardinal Ratzinger failed to restrain him. Damien Thompson's blog in The Telegraph - http://tinyurl.com/ydxmw8b - gives the full background on the case. This TVNZ report includes a comment by Bishop Browne deploring abuse, inserted in such a way that the reader might think the bishop was commenting on the headline report, which he wasn't. Also, apparently, we (the New Zealand Church) are in crisis. You heard it on TV first! - ML]
Victim wants church to take responsibility for abuse
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10637322&pnum=0
Victim says abuse still happening within Catholic Church
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2010/04/08/1247fdaeaa16
Radio NZ. Morning Report. Wednesday, 07 April 2010
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/20100407
08:40 Victim has no confidence church's approach has improved (audio file)
Church abuse victims seek apologies, cash
http://www.3news.co.nz/Church-abuse-victims-seek-apologies-cash/tabid/423/articleID/150143/Default.aspx
Abuse inquiry no help for victims - support group
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/7036469/abuse-inquiry-no-help-for-victims-support-group/
Church scandal: Paedophile monks released
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10636828&pnum=0
Catholic order criticised
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3568329/Catholic-order-criticised
A troubled Catholic order mired in a historical sexual abuse scandal is being criticised for failing to support a brother who was instrumental in brokering compensation for victims.
Bishop sees no need for inquiry
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/3563530/Bishop-sees-no-need-for-inquiry
There is no need for a full-scale inquiry into cases of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy in New Zealand, the Bishop of Christchurch, Barry Jones, says.
Peter Lyons: Petty gossip? Church hierarchy is out of touch
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10637162&pnum=0
Abuse scandals are a legacy of centuries of intolerance of critical self-analysis, writes Peter Lyons, a teacher at St Peter's College, a Catholic school for boys in Epsom.
Radio NZ. Morning Report. Thursday 8 April 2010
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/20100408
07:10 Catholic Church claims new approach to abuse complaints
The Catholic Church in New Zealand says it is currently investigating five historical complaints of child abuse and will actively pursue any further allegations that come to light. [Interview with John Jamieson]
Church sex abuse cases not in Otago
http://www.odt.co.nz/print/100916
None of the five historic sex abuse allegations against members of the Roman Catholic Church in New Zealand being investigated by former police commissioner John Jamieson are from the Otago area.
Celibacy not reason for abuse by clergy - archbishop
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2010/04/06/1247fd9013a6
Radio NZ. Morning Report (audio file)
07:16 Senior Catholic once again apologises for abuse scandal
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/morningreport/20100406
The most senior member of New Zealand's Catholic Church [Archbishop John Dew] has again said sorry to the victims of sexual abuse.
Church distances itself from abuse
Text:
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/church-distances-itself-abuse-3449637
Video:
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/church-distances-itself-abuse-3449637/video
[The headline of this report has nothing to do with the actual story. In the video version (TVNZ News at 8 on TVNZ 7), Greg Boyed interrogates the papal nuncio, Archbishop Charles Balvo video, about the alarming lack of recent abuse cases in this country. There are a few unintentionally funny moments: Archbishop Dew "has apologised for the humility ... the scandals have caused"; and, says Greg grimly, "let's wake up and smell the roses here". - ML ]
Catholic church must exorcise its demons: NZ priest (photo)
Text article:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Catholic-church-must-exorcise-its-demons-NZ-priest/tabid/423/articleID/149581/Default.aspx
Video report:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Catholic-church-must-exorcise-its-demons-NZ-priest/tabid/309/articleID/149581/Default.aspx
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II. In other news
A mother's legacy (photos)
Dominion Post
http://tinyurl.com/yetua3x
A full-page feature on Mary MacKillop from a New Zealand viewpoint.
MacKillop envelope launched (photo)
http://www.cg.catholic.org.au/news/view_article.cfm?id=301&loadref=16
Australia Post has released a commemorative prepaid envelope today to honour Australia's first saint. It features an image of Mary MacKillop with members of her congregation at Aotearoa (New Zealand) from 1895. [Expandable image: http://www.stamps.com.au/shop/stationery/mary-mackillop ]
All cultures welcome at school fest (photos)
North Shore Times
http://tinyurl.com/yz2lnac
With its pupils hailing from 30 different countries, St Joseph's School is justified in singing It's a Small World After All.
Musical `gem' unfazed by health woes (photos)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10637479&pnum=0
With help from her family and friends, Mrs. Shirley Loretz manages most mornings to get to her post behind the organ to play hymns to lift the spirits of parishioners gathered for the daily community Mass at St Mary's Catholic Church in Avondale.
Councillors Seek Investigation of Monte Cecilia
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1004/S00075.htm
Two Auckland City Councillors have asked the Auditor General to investigate a Committee decision to designate and purchase the Monte Cecilia School land
Scaffolding goes up for Basilica repair work (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/yh5wdlu
Tonnes of scaffolding has been erected on the Basilica in Invercargill for painting and repair work to be carried out under the dome.
Pompallier Mission manager receives French honour
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/3559951/Kiwi-gets-rare-French-award
Manager of New Zealand Historic Places Trust property Pompallier Mission, Kate Martin became just the fifth New Zealander to be created a Knight in the Order of Arts and Letters (Chevalier de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres) by the French Government when she received the honour in Wellington last week .
Inga dances her way to a career in ballet (photo)
Whangarei Leader
http://tinyurl.com/yf63v8n
As soon as Inga Carolus took her first steps, her mother knew she was going to be a ballet dancer. The Year 9 Pompallier Catholic College student started ballet at the age of five.
Put your hand up for school election
Whangarei Leader
http://tinyurl.com/yjtyyqa
School trustees provide a vital link between schools and communities, says Trish Schoonderwoerd, chairwoman of Pompallier College's board of trustees.
Radio NZ. Nine to Noon
10:05 Feature guest - John Glynn (audio file)
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/20100406
Father John Glynn discusses his work with orphans and abandoned children in Papua New Guinea, and how he and other ordinary frontline members of the clergy are dealing with the fallout of the international Catholic Church abuse scandals.
What's up for Lunch at Marcellin College?
http://www.3news.co.nz/Whats-up-for-Lunch-at-Marcellin-College/tabid/1298/articleID/149676/Default.aspx?ArticleID=149676&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+co%2FHCaY+%283News-+Latest+News%29
Should cookies, chips, sweet slices and pies be sold in school Tuck Shops? The new Tuck Shop manager at Auckland's Marcellin College in Royal Oak, Celia Masinipeni thinks they definitely should be.
Easter services popular
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/3546910/Easter-services-popular
City churches had a bumper turnout over Easter.
Walk of the cross through town (photo caption)
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/queenstown/100310/walk-cross-through-town
About 75 members of six Queenstown churches took part in a multidenominational ecumenical walk of the cross in Queenstown on Good Friday.
Tapu Misa: Religion undergoing startling resurrection
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/religion-and-beliefs/news/article.cfm?c_id=301&objectid=10636340&pnum=0
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
** John's Easter **
John 20:19-31: a reading and discussion with Violet Kudzotsa and Simon McLellan.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** The Weekend Retreat
** 'You're just in time for "Sponge Bath the Old Folks" Day!' (the abuse scandal could end up being a good thing)
** So Christ died at 4.15pm once the parish was full.? (At Easter Mass in Congo)
** This is what happens when you write a book without doing any research (Bryan Bruce)
** Open 24/7/361.5 (Easter shopping)
** In what does a successful life consist? (Pope Benedict's message for the anniversary of World Youth Day)
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NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS
Living the Word - Fr Frank Bird sm
http://livingtheword.wordpress.com
Reflect - Veronica Lawson RSM
http://www.welcom.org.nz/?sid=394
Daily Reflections (right-hand column)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic
Four Points to Make About Gomez and LA
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/four-points-make-about-gomez-and-la
As difficult as it is to talk about any Catholic subject these days other than the pope and the sexual abuse crisis, I'm going to give it a whirl, because there was another important storyline this week: In effect, the Vatican paved the way on Tuesday for the first Hispanic cardinal in the United States, as well as something of a new tone in the country's largest archdiocese.
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Bishop Pat Dunn's diary
http://www.facebook.com/bishoppatrick
Catholic Discipleship College
http://www.facebook.com/cdcnz
'The Fifteenth Station'
http://www.facebook.com/station15
Hato Hohepa / St Joseph's Maori Girls' College
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Napier/Hato-Hohepa/101194467580?v=info
Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
http://ko-kr.facebook.com/pages/Youth-for-Family-and-Life-YFL-New-Zealand/292888828797
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
http://www.romereports.com (video)
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (news of Pope Benedict - video)
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Vacancies section of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]
[Vacancies for Catholic youth workers are advertised on the Vacancies page of Connect.org.nz: http://www.connect.org.nz ]
Fundraising Co-ordinator, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand
http://www.caritas.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Mar 28 - April 10 2010 p.26, in 'Wel-com' April 2010 p.2, and from Claire Beaumont, claire@caritas.org.nz ; tel: (04) 496 1742 Applications close 12 April 2010.
Turanga Maori Advisor, Archdiocese of Wellington
http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/?sid=20
in 'Wel-com' April 2010 p.6, and from Lorraine McArthur, Director, Archdiocesan Pastoral Services, tel: (04) 496 1706; e-mail: l.mcarthur@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 19 April 2010
Managing Editor, 'NZ Catholic'
Details in 'NZ Catholic' no. 338, April 11 - 24 2010 p.22 and from bishop@cda.org.nz ; tel: (09) 360-3002
Sunday, April 4, 2010
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
I. Easter 2010
II. Abuse crisis
II. Schools
IV. In Other News
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I. EASTER 2010
Congregations gather for walk (photo)
The Southland Times
http://tinyurl.com/ygualz7
An Easter procession was attended by representatives of many different churches yesterday.
Easter's heavy load shared
Waikato Times Weekend
http://tinyurl.com/yhbejho
While many Waikato residents were spending the morning at home, members of three Hamilton churches - St Columba's, St David's and St Clare's - walked down Tuhikaramea Rd to St Columba's on Rifle Range Rd re-enacting Jesus' last walk.
Christians re-enact walk of the cross (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/dunedin/100237/christians-re-enact-walk-cross
Church communities from around Dunedin joined to bring to life the narrative of Easter with services and walks of the cross yesterday.
Good Friday ceremony (photo)
The Hutt News
http://tinyurl.com/yknqxfz
On Good Friday a cross will be carried in a public procession between three churches in Lower Hutt.
Physical role in Easter play (photo)
North Shore Times
http://tinyurl.com/y9fxdhg
For ten grueling minutes Rodrigo Costa will hang from a cross because he won a competition.
True heart of Easter shines through murk, by Garth George
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/religion-and-beliefs/news/article.cfm?c_id=301&objectid=10635626
Hundreds of millions of Christians throughout the world will tonight begin their annual celebration of the events of the holiest and most sacred period in the Christian calendar, the first Easter - events upon which the Christian Church is founded and which stand at the very heart of our faith and belief.
Look into the heart of Easter and see (photos)
New Zealand Herald
http://tinyurl.com/ylbaepl
The observance of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ is central to the Christian religion. We asked leaders of the principal denominations to share their thoughts on Easter
Enjoy your holiday: Easter Greetings From Caritas
http://www.voxy.co.nz/lifestyle/enjoy-your-holiday-easter-greetings-caritas/5/43818
Thousands of retail workers and their families will be among New Zealanders enjoying precious family and community time together this weekend, despite ten attempts to change Easter Trading rules over the past two decades, says Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand Director Michael Smith.
(photo caption)
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/schools-news/100197/kavanagh-caritas-fundraiser
Kavanagh College pupils slept in cardboard boxes on school grounds on Wednesday night as part of their annual Survive a Slum camp to raise funds for Catholic support agency Caritas.
Rice bowls, bikes for Lent (photo)
Motueka Golden Bay News
http://tinyurl.com/yg48bla
Motueka school children traded their tasty sandwiches and muesli bars for a plain bowl of rice last week. The St Peter Chanel school children were taking part in Live Simply Day, organised by year 8 pupil Shania Nicholson.
TVNZ. Close Up. Jesus Christ - "The ultimate cold case" (video)
http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/jesus-christ-ultimate-cold-case-3446019
A discussion between Bryan Bruce and Bishop Pat Dunne about what Bruce calls the ultimate cold case: who killed Jesus? With Mike Hosking.
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II. Abuse Crisis
NZ Catholics doubt Pope knew of abuse, by Bishop Pat Dunn
http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=112608&fm=newsmain,nrhl
Criticism makes no distinction between the past and what is happening now,
by Bishop Peter J Cullinane
The Dominion Post
http://tinyurl.com/yf25xsk
Let the sinless organisation cast the first stone, by Rosemary McLeod
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/opinion/3539288/Let-the-sinless-organisation-cast-the-first-stone
Editorial: The church needs to be true to itself
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10635222&pnum=0
Radio New Zealand Newswire - 03 Apr 2010 (full text)
The Catholic Bishop of Auckland says continuing criticism of the Church, over child sex abuse, has not affected the number of people attending Easter masses. There have been calls for Pope Benedict to resign, amid allegations he was involved in covering up abuse by Catholic priests. Yesterday / on Saturday Jewish groups and some victims of abuse condemned the Pope's personal preacher for comparing criticism of the Pontiff to anti-Semitism. The Bishop of Auckland, Patrick Dunn, says people are still attending Church for Easter celebrations. He says most Catholics know that the Pope is a person of integrity and doubt he would be assisting sexual offenders.
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III. Schools
Council under fire
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/central-leader/3527593/Council-under-fire
The stoush between Monte Cecilia School's supporters and the Auckland City Council has escalated, with a formal complaint being made to the Ombudsman.
New principal gets guided college tour (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/100207/new-principal-gets-guided-college-tour
Tracy O'Brien (45) will take over the helm of Kavanagh College in term 3 upon the retirement of Paul Ferris - the school's principal for the past 18 years.
New challenge for veteran city principal (photo)
Waikato Times
http://tinyurl.com/yj8sm3m
One of Hamilton's most experienced secondary principals is about to step down. Ray Scott, principal of St John's College, leaves today after 11 years at the helm of the Catholic school to take over as the principal at Tauranga's Aquinas College, starting next term.
St Bride's ends chapter of a century (photo)
Wairarapa News
http://tinyurl.com/yly3x94
The closure of St Bride's convent in Masterton concludes a Brigidine chapter and represents the end of an era of a very important religious and educational influence in Wairarapa.
Shortfall concerns school
Page one:
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/queenstown/99733/shortfall-concerns-school
Page two:
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/queenstown/99733/shortfall-concerns-school?page=0%2C1
St Joseph's School, in Queenstown, has a deficit working capital of $23,000 and says it does not get enough money from the Ministry of Education to cover its running costs.
Hearing in July-August for school challenge
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/queenstown-lakes/99708/hearing-july-august-school-challenge
An Environment Court challenge against the estimated $3 million to $5 million primary school planned at 478 Speargrass Flat Rd, near Arrowtown, is expected to be heard in Queenstown in July or August. The Catholic Education Office of the Bishop of Dunedin plans to establish the school, which would teach up to 112 pupils, in stages.
Special guests at opening (photos)
Page one:
http://www.times.co.nz/cms/news/2010/03/special_guests_at_opening.php
Page two:
http://www.times.co.nz/cms/news/2010/03/special_guests_at_opening.php?page=2
Prayers were answered as rain clouds stayed away from the opening of a school's new administration building. Special guests were on hand, including the Bishop of Auckland, the Most Reverend Patrick Dunn, and Manukau of Mayor Len Brown, to help Our Lady Star of the Sea's pupils, teachers and parents celebrate the event.
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IV. In Other News
New life for Glenorchy landmarks (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/glenorchy/99737/new-life-glenorchy-landmarks
The restoration of two 19th-century landmarks in and near Glenorchy will be celebrated by the community on April 24. The 127-year-old Paradise House, about 20km beyond the township, will be reopened as a guesthouse following its $900,000 restoration, which began in December 2008.
Number of trainee Catholic priests rises (full text)
Radio New Zealand Newswire
The number of men training as Catholic priests in New Zealand, has more than doubled in the past year. Ten new seminarians began their training last month, six more than had signed up the previous year. The Archbishop John Dew, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Wellington, says many of the trainee priests were inspired by the pope's visit to Sydney in 2008, for World Youth day. Archbishop John Dew, says about two-thirds of every intake completes the full six years of training.
Rest home staff set to strike for 24 hours
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/7014395/rest-home-staff-set-to-strike-for-24-hours/
Staff at the Aubert Home of Compassion rest home in Whanganui are expecting their strike action on Tuesday will cause major disruption.
My Job: Mulligan a man of the cloth (photo)
Sunday News
http://tinyurl.com/ykf5e88
Easter is one of the busiest times for a priest. We talk to Father James Mulligan, 34, recently appointed parish priest at St John Vianney Catholic Church in Hillsborough, Auckland.
Putting a show on for strangers misses the point of grieving, by John Minto
http://tinyurl.com/yenlo2z
The Press
Funerals have come a long way since I was a boy. I was often called out of school to perform the role of altar boy at funeral services for local Catholic parishioners in South Dunedin, and they were all similar mundane affairs.
Radio NZ. Nine to Noon
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/20100331
10:40 Book Review - Quentin Johnson reviews The Shroud: the 2000 year old mystery solved. Written by Ian Wilson. Published by Bantam Press.
Half a century of service (photo)
http://www.theaucklander.co.nz/local/news/half-a-century-of-service/3911602/
Bayswater's Catholics are celebrating their church's 50 years of contribution to the suburb
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
** Rachel's Vineyard **
Sister Stephanie Kitching introduces Rachel's Vineyard Retreat for spiritual healing after abortion, with Wendy Hill and Suzanne O'Rourke.
** Saying Yes **
Sister Mary Scanlan on the Incarnation of the Lord and the value of the word "Yes".
** Easter Sunday **
The Crucifixion (Luke 24:1-12): a reading and discussion with Rev Dr Raymond Pelley and Very Rev Frank Nelson at St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** And He Descended into Hell (a reflection for Holy Saturday) ...
** "I shouldn't have stopped for that haircut. Sorry." (God and the barber)
** The Father of Our Family needs our prayers..
** "No, really, we're just fine.conflict, eruption, unemployment."
(attitudes to life in Congo)
** And now, for a special message from the Mouth of Sauron. (on Richard
Dawkins on Pope Benedict)
** Unhealthy healthcare (on reform of the the U.S. healthcare system)
** Back in the Headlines (Bishop Pat Dunn's interview on the abuse scandal)
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NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS
Living the Word - Fr Frank Bird sm
http://livingtheword.wordpress.com
Reflect - Veronica Lawson RSM
http://www.welcom.org.nz/?sid=394
Daily Reflections (right-hand column)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic
Is middle ground possible on the Pope?
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/middle-ground-possible-pope
More and more, I'm wondering if Karl Rove was right. Rove, of course, famously argued that the "independent voter" is a myth. Whatever they may tell pollsters, most Americans in their heart of hearts are clearly aligned with one side or the other, so the trick to winning elections is to turn outmore of your base than the other side does of theirs. "Rove's Law" is about politics, but I'm beginning to suspect it has some traction in Catholic affairs as well...
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FACEBOOK
Bishop Pat Dunn's diary
http://www.facebook.com/bishoppatrick
Catholic Discipleship College
http://www.facebook.com/cdcnz
'The Fifteenth Station'
http://www.facebook.com/station15
Hato Hohepa / St Joseph's Maori Girls' College
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Napier/Hato-Hohepa/101194467580?v=info
Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
http://ko-kr.facebook.com/pages/Youth-for-Family-and-Life-YFL-New-Zealand/292888828797
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
http://www.romereports.com (video)
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (news of Pope Benedict - video)
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EVENTS
Eucharistic Convention 2010
April 9-11 Westlake Boys High Auditorium, Takapuna, North Shore, Auckland
Convention Website:
http://www.eucharistic-convention.com/q_2010/q_2010_menu.htm
Convention Social Networking Site: http://eucharist.ning.com
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Vacancies section of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]
[Vacancies for Catholic youth workers are advertised on the Vacancies page of Connect.org.nz: http://www.connect.org.nz ]
Fundraising Co-ordinator, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand
http://www.caritas.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Mar 28 - April 10 2010 p.26, in 'Wel-com' April 2010 p.2, and from Claire Beaumont, claire@caritas.org.nz ; tel: (04) 496 1742 Applications close 12 April 2010.
Turanga Maori Advisor, Archdiocese of Wellington
http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/?sid=20
Details in 'Wel-com' April 2010 p.6, and from Lorraine McArthur, Director, Archdiocesan Pastoral Services, tel: (04) 496 1706; e-mail: l.mcarthur@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 19 April 2010
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
I. Easter 2010
II. Abuse crisis
II. Schools
IV. In Other News
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I. EASTER 2010
Congregations gather for walk (photo)
The Southland Times
http://tinyurl.com/ygualz7
An Easter procession was attended by representatives of many different churches yesterday.
Easter's heavy load shared
Waikato Times Weekend
http://tinyurl.com/yhbejho
While many Waikato residents were spending the morning at home, members of three Hamilton churches - St Columba's, St David's and St Clare's - walked down Tuhikaramea Rd to St Columba's on Rifle Range Rd re-enacting Jesus' last walk.
Christians re-enact walk of the cross (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/dunedin/100237/christians-re-enact-walk-cross
Church communities from around Dunedin joined to bring to life the narrative of Easter with services and walks of the cross yesterday.
Good Friday ceremony (photo)
The Hutt News
http://tinyurl.com/yknqxfz
On Good Friday a cross will be carried in a public procession between three churches in Lower Hutt.
Physical role in Easter play (photo)
North Shore Times
http://tinyurl.com/y9fxdhg
For ten grueling minutes Rodrigo Costa will hang from a cross because he won a competition.
True heart of Easter shines through murk, by Garth George
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/religion-and-beliefs/news/article.cfm?c_id=301&objectid=10635626
Hundreds of millions of Christians throughout the world will tonight begin their annual celebration of the events of the holiest and most sacred period in the Christian calendar, the first Easter - events upon which the Christian Church is founded and which stand at the very heart of our faith and belief.
Look into the heart of Easter and see (photos)
New Zealand Herald
http://tinyurl.com/ylbaepl
The observance of the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ is central to the Christian religion. We asked leaders of the principal denominations to share their thoughts on Easter
Enjoy your holiday: Easter Greetings From Caritas
http://www.voxy.co.nz/lifestyle/enjoy-your-holiday-easter-greetings-caritas/5/43818
Thousands of retail workers and their families will be among New Zealanders enjoying precious family and community time together this weekend, despite ten attempts to change Easter Trading rules over the past two decades, says Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand Director Michael Smith.
(photo caption)
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/schools-news/100197/kavanagh-caritas-fundraiser
Kavanagh College pupils slept in cardboard boxes on school grounds on Wednesday night as part of their annual Survive a Slum camp to raise funds for Catholic support agency Caritas.
Rice bowls, bikes for Lent (photo)
Motueka Golden Bay News
http://tinyurl.com/yg48bla
Motueka school children traded their tasty sandwiches and muesli bars for a plain bowl of rice last week. The St Peter Chanel school children were taking part in Live Simply Day, organised by year 8 pupil Shania Nicholson.
TVNZ. Close Up. Jesus Christ - "The ultimate cold case" (video)
http://tvnz.co.nz/close-up/jesus-christ-ultimate-cold-case-3446019
A discussion between Bryan Bruce and Bishop Pat Dunne about what Bruce calls the ultimate cold case: who killed Jesus? With Mike Hosking.
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II. Abuse Crisis
NZ Catholics doubt Pope knew of abuse, by Bishop Pat Dunn
http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/article.aspx?id=112608&fm=newsmain,nrhl
Criticism makes no distinction between the past and what is happening now,
by Bishop Peter J Cullinane
The Dominion Post
http://tinyurl.com/yf25xsk
Let the sinless organisation cast the first stone, by Rosemary McLeod
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/opinion/3539288/Let-the-sinless-organisation-cast-the-first-stone
Editorial: The church needs to be true to itself
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/opinion/news/article.cfm?c_id=466&objectid=10635222&pnum=0
Radio New Zealand Newswire - 03 Apr 2010 (full text)
The Catholic Bishop of Auckland says continuing criticism of the Church, over child sex abuse, has not affected the number of people attending Easter masses. There have been calls for Pope Benedict to resign, amid allegations he was involved in covering up abuse by Catholic priests. Yesterday / on Saturday Jewish groups and some victims of abuse condemned the Pope's personal preacher for comparing criticism of the Pontiff to anti-Semitism. The Bishop of Auckland, Patrick Dunn, says people are still attending Church for Easter celebrations. He says most Catholics know that the Pope is a person of integrity and doubt he would be assisting sexual offenders.
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III. Schools
Council under fire
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/central-leader/3527593/Council-under-fire
The stoush between Monte Cecilia School's supporters and the Auckland City Council has escalated, with a formal complaint being made to the Ombudsman.
New principal gets guided college tour (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/100207/new-principal-gets-guided-college-tour
Tracy O'Brien (45) will take over the helm of Kavanagh College in term 3 upon the retirement of Paul Ferris - the school's principal for the past 18 years.
New challenge for veteran city principal (photo)
Waikato Times
http://tinyurl.com/yj8sm3m
One of Hamilton's most experienced secondary principals is about to step down. Ray Scott, principal of St John's College, leaves today after 11 years at the helm of the Catholic school to take over as the principal at Tauranga's Aquinas College, starting next term.
St Bride's ends chapter of a century (photo)
Wairarapa News
http://tinyurl.com/yly3x94
The closure of St Bride's convent in Masterton concludes a Brigidine chapter and represents the end of an era of a very important religious and educational influence in Wairarapa.
Shortfall concerns school
Page one:
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/queenstown/99733/shortfall-concerns-school
Page two:
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/queenstown/99733/shortfall-concerns-school?page=0%2C1
St Joseph's School, in Queenstown, has a deficit working capital of $23,000 and says it does not get enough money from the Ministry of Education to cover its running costs.
Hearing in July-August for school challenge
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/queenstown-lakes/99708/hearing-july-august-school-challenge
An Environment Court challenge against the estimated $3 million to $5 million primary school planned at 478 Speargrass Flat Rd, near Arrowtown, is expected to be heard in Queenstown in July or August. The Catholic Education Office of the Bishop of Dunedin plans to establish the school, which would teach up to 112 pupils, in stages.
Special guests at opening (photos)
Page one:
http://www.times.co.nz/cms/news/2010/03/special_guests_at_opening.php
Page two:
http://www.times.co.nz/cms/news/2010/03/special_guests_at_opening.php?page=2
Prayers were answered as rain clouds stayed away from the opening of a school's new administration building. Special guests were on hand, including the Bishop of Auckland, the Most Reverend Patrick Dunn, and Manukau of Mayor Len Brown, to help Our Lady Star of the Sea's pupils, teachers and parents celebrate the event.
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IV. In Other News
New life for Glenorchy landmarks (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/glenorchy/99737/new-life-glenorchy-landmarks
The restoration of two 19th-century landmarks in and near Glenorchy will be celebrated by the community on April 24. The 127-year-old Paradise House, about 20km beyond the township, will be reopened as a guesthouse following its $900,000 restoration, which began in December 2008.
Number of trainee Catholic priests rises (full text)
Radio New Zealand Newswire
The number of men training as Catholic priests in New Zealand, has more than doubled in the past year. Ten new seminarians began their training last month, six more than had signed up the previous year. The Archbishop John Dew, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Wellington, says many of the trainee priests were inspired by the pope's visit to Sydney in 2008, for World Youth day. Archbishop John Dew, says about two-thirds of every intake completes the full six years of training.
Rest home staff set to strike for 24 hours
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/7014395/rest-home-staff-set-to-strike-for-24-hours/
Staff at the Aubert Home of Compassion rest home in Whanganui are expecting their strike action on Tuesday will cause major disruption.
My Job: Mulligan a man of the cloth (photo)
Sunday News
http://tinyurl.com/ykf5e88
Easter is one of the busiest times for a priest. We talk to Father James Mulligan, 34, recently appointed parish priest at St John Vianney Catholic Church in Hillsborough, Auckland.
Putting a show on for strangers misses the point of grieving, by John Minto
http://tinyurl.com/yenlo2z
The Press
Funerals have come a long way since I was a boy. I was often called out of school to perform the role of altar boy at funeral services for local Catholic parishioners in South Dunedin, and they were all similar mundane affairs.
Radio NZ. Nine to Noon
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/ninetonoon/20100331
10:40 Book Review - Quentin Johnson reviews The Shroud: the 2000 year old mystery solved. Written by Ian Wilson. Published by Bantam Press.
Half a century of service (photo)
http://www.theaucklander.co.nz/local/news/half-a-century-of-service/3911602/
Bayswater's Catholics are celebrating their church's 50 years of contribution to the suburb
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
** Rachel's Vineyard **
Sister Stephanie Kitching introduces Rachel's Vineyard Retreat for spiritual healing after abortion, with Wendy Hill and Suzanne O'Rourke.
** Saying Yes **
Sister Mary Scanlan on the Incarnation of the Lord and the value of the word "Yes".
** Easter Sunday **
The Crucifixion (Luke 24:1-12): a reading and discussion with Rev Dr Raymond Pelley and Very Rev Frank Nelson at St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** And He Descended into Hell (a reflection for Holy Saturday) ...
** "I shouldn't have stopped for that haircut. Sorry." (God and the barber)
** The Father of Our Family needs our prayers..
** "No, really, we're just fine.conflict, eruption, unemployment."
(attitudes to life in Congo)
** And now, for a special message from the Mouth of Sauron. (on Richard
Dawkins on Pope Benedict)
** Unhealthy healthcare (on reform of the the U.S. healthcare system)
** Back in the Headlines (Bishop Pat Dunn's interview on the abuse scandal)
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NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS
Living the Word - Fr Frank Bird sm
http://livingtheword.wordpress.com
Reflect - Veronica Lawson RSM
http://www.welcom.org.nz/?sid=394
Daily Reflections (right-hand column)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic
Is middle ground possible on the Pope?
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/middle-ground-possible-pope
More and more, I'm wondering if Karl Rove was right. Rove, of course, famously argued that the "independent voter" is a myth. Whatever they may tell pollsters, most Americans in their heart of hearts are clearly aligned with one side or the other, so the trick to winning elections is to turn outmore of your base than the other side does of theirs. "Rove's Law" is about politics, but I'm beginning to suspect it has some traction in Catholic affairs as well...
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Bishop Pat Dunn's diary
http://www.facebook.com/bishoppatrick
Catholic Discipleship College
http://www.facebook.com/cdcnz
'The Fifteenth Station'
http://www.facebook.com/station15
Hato Hohepa / St Joseph's Maori Girls' College
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Napier/Hato-Hohepa/101194467580?v=info
Youth for Family and Life (YFL) New Zealand
http://ko-kr.facebook.com/pages/Youth-for-Family-and-Life-YFL-New-Zealand/292888828797
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WORLD NEWS OF THE CHURCH
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
http://www.romereports.com (video)
http://www.youtube.com/vatican (news of Pope Benedict - video)
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EVENTS
Eucharistic Convention 2010
April 9-11 Westlake Boys High Auditorium, Takapuna, North Shore, Auckland
Convention Website:
http://www.eucharistic-convention.com/q_2010/q_2010_menu.htm
Convention Social Networking Site: http://eucharist.ning.com
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Vacancies section of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz ]
[Vacancies for Catholic youth workers are advertised on the Vacancies page of Connect.org.nz: http://www.connect.org.nz ]
Fundraising Co-ordinator, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand
http://www.caritas.org.nz
Details in 'NZ Catholic' Mar 28 - April 10 2010 p.26, in 'Wel-com' April 2010 p.2, and from Claire Beaumont, claire@caritas.org.nz ; tel: (04) 496 1742 Applications close 12 April 2010.
Turanga Maori Advisor, Archdiocese of Wellington
http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/?sid=20
Details in 'Wel-com' April 2010 p.6, and from Lorraine McArthur, Director, Archdiocesan Pastoral Services, tel: (04) 496 1706; e-mail: l.mcarthur@wn.catholic.org.nz Applications close 19 April 2010
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