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The Most Holy Trinity
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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
Students and staff safe after college fire (full text) (27 May 2010)
Early this morning there was a fire in a Hato Paora College dormitory. No staff or students were harmed. The fire began at about 4.50am. Students evacuated, going to the college's gymnasium until 7am. It appears the fire was caused by a water cylinder exploding. While the damage is extensive, it is contained to one dormitory.
Acting Principal Debi Marshall-Lobb is pleased with how the students responded to the fire and grateful to the staff for their assistance. "I will be eternally grateful that all students and staff are safe. Buildings can be replaced but people can't," she says.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Immigration Changes Welcomed
http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/immigration-changes-welcomed/5/50304
New Zealand Christian Network (visionnetwork) welcomes changes to the Immigration Act that will allow churches to sponsor pastors from overseas who come to take up pastorates in New Zealand.
The Man in the middle (photo)
Sunday Star Times
http://www.stuff.co.nz/sunday-star-times/features/3752691/The-man-in-the-middle
Treaty Negotiations Minister Chris Finlayson now faces the greatest test of his career, folowing National's bust-up with Tuhoe and with a battle looming over the foreshore and seabed.
Feisty French nun sets up Catholic school (photo)
Taranaki Daily News
http://tinyurl.com/29tu2sk
''New Plymouth is giving us more trouble than we ever expected but never mind with God's help, we'll win in the end ... our Sisters are with us in spirit ... thank God that our trials keep us united.'' Sister Euphrasie Barbier supposedly said that about establishing New Plymouth's Foundation of the Sacred Heart. Her best-known quote, though, was in describing the new institution as her ''cross of crosses''. Getting established in the town had been far from easy.
'Love can wait to give,' says chastity advocate (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/3750842/Love-can-wait-to-give-says-chastity-advocate
Abstinence is not a Victorian idea, it is an exercise in self-control and respect says Jason Evert, an American chastity advocate on a week-long tour around New Zealand.
Catholic Marriage Educators Explore The Look Of Love
http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/catholic-marriage-educators-explore-look-love/5/49615
Over two hundred Catholic marriage educators will gather at the Brentwood Hotel in Wellington May 28-30 to hear cutting edge research and dynamic presentations on relationship education.
Parents and pupils make final plea to save school
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/education/news/article.cfm?c_id=35&objectid=10647952
Parents and students of Monte Cecilia School in Hillsborough have made one final plea to Auckland City councillors to save their school.
'Conflict of interest'
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/central-leader/3735719/Conflict-of-interest
Monte Cecilia Primary School supporters want Auckland City Council's deputy mayor to pull out of purchasing talks with the Catholic Diocese of Auckland.
Pioneering church's history recalled (photo)
http://www.times.co.nz/cms/front_page_feature/2010/05/printer_pioneering_churchs_history_recalled.php
Many fascinating and little-known insights into a church's long and colourful history are highlighted in a new book. Mike and Helen Hammond trace the story from 1847 to 2010 of Howick's Catholic Parish of Our Lady Star of the Sea in 'Footsteps of Faith'.
Celebratory Mass (photo)
North Taranaki Midweek
http://tinyurl.com/335m5cm
More than 600 children from five schools around New Plymouth celebrated Catholic Schools' Day last week.
Schools to pray for sick, elderly (photo)
Cambridge Edition
http://tinyurl.com/3667738
Students from St Peter's Catholic School released balloons from the town hall last week to mark Catholic Schools' Day.
No injuries after fire gutted dormitory
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/7301494/no-injuries-after-fire-gutted-dormitory/
A dormitory at Hato Paora College in the Manawatu was gutted by fire this morning.
Church looks out for a thief (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/western-leader/3741552/Church-looks-out-for-a-thief
Who'd steal from a church? Father Bernard Dennehy from the Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Glen Eden is keen to find out.
Naturally gifted teacher inspired young minds (photo)
Southland Times
http://tinyurl.com/38dcuu8
Scholar, teacher and father - the death last month of Mark Febery, head of social studies at St Peter's College, Gore, for a remarkable 33 years, left a school and community sadder but rich with memories of a man who inspired so many young minds.
Pioneering church's history recalled (photos)
http://www.times.co.nz/cms/news/2010/05/printer_pioneering_churchs_history_recalled.php
Many fascinating and little-known insights into a church's long and colourful history are highlighted in a new book. Mike and Helen Hammond trace the story from 1847 to 2010 of Howick's Catholic Parish of Our Lady Star of the Sea in 'Footsteps of Faith'.
Crowds outside lakeside church for anniversary (photos)
http://tinyurl.com/3y7y28z
Tekapo's Church of the Good Shepherd overflowed with visitors celebrating its 75th anniversary on Saturday.
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
** Sister Act **
A visit to the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions (RNDM), Petone, where a new generation of sisters from Asia is being welcomed into the community.
** Finding Truth **
John 16: 12-15 : a reading and discussion with Sr Stephanie Kitching and Simon McLellan.
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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC PODCASTS
** Sounds Catholic **
http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=2185
Programme 8 Pentecost Sunday: Sunday 23rd May 2010
David O'Neill interviews young school children about their understanding of Pentecost.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** "In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act" (listening to Jason Evert)
** "Homer? Who is Homer? My name is Guy Incognito." ('Being Frank' and anonymous blogging)
** Wax on, wax off. (on balance)
** Being Frank for the first time (introducing a new blogger)
** Earth to Mike, Earth to Mike, come in Mike (demanding accountability)
** Pause. Rewind. (lives on tape: looking forward to looking back)
** Struggle (sin and the Church)
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MAGAZINES AND NEWSLETTERS
Marist Messenger - May 2010
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
NZ Catholic Education Office. 'Lighting New Fires'. May 2010
http://www.nzceo.catholic.org.nz/pages/resourcesubpages/lighting-new-fires.html
Catholic Diocese of Christchurch. 'Inform'. March 2010
http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=25
The Nathaniel Centre. The NZ Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report'. Issue Thirty. 30 April 2010
http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/?sid=218
Tui Motu InterIslands. May 2010
http://www.tuimotu.org
St Columban's Mission Society. 'The Far East'. May 2010
http://www.columban.org.au/publications/the-far-east/index/
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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
A great Catholic renaissance in Ukraine may be at risk
http://ncronline.org/blogs/all-things-catholic/great-catholic-renaissance-ukraine-may-be-risk
On any countdown of terrific Catholic stories over the last twenty years, the renaissance of the Greek Catholic Church in Ukraine would have to be near the top of the list. Numbering some five million faithful, about ten percent of the Ukrainian population, Greek Catholics follow Orthodox liturgical and spiritual traditions but have been in full union with Rome since the 16th century.
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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
SMNZ Marists - the Society of Mary in New Zealand
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Auckland-New-Zealand/SMNZ-Marists/80022416689?v=wall
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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 ]
GIFT Centre, Balmoral - http://www.giftcentre.org.nz
Residential Caregiver (Houseparent) - 6 month fixed term contract. Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 23 - June 5 2010 p.23, and from Brian Nicholas, GIFT Centre, 28A Telford Avenue, Balmoral. Tel: 620-9254; Fax: 620 9250; Email: giftcentre@xtra.co.nz
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Sunday, May 23, 2010
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Pentecost
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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
Consultation underway for proposed Catholic tertiary institution (May 21, 2010)
The New Zealand Catholic bishops have begun a formal consultation process with Catholic education staff about the development of a proposed new Catholic tertiary education institution, under the collective ownership of the diocesan bishops. The proposed institution would be created by merging parts of the Wellington Catholic Education Centre (WCEC) and parts of Auckland's Catholic Institute of Theology (CIT). Education staff in other dioceses will also be involved...
Pure Love speaker to visit Auckland, Hamilton and Christchurch (May 21,
2010)
During National Youth Week (22-30 May) young Catholics and their parents will hear about sexual purity from Theology of the Body speaker Jason Evert. Starting on Sunday, the Californian-based speaker will visit Auckland (23-24 May), Hamilton (25-26 May) and Christchurch (27 May) to address local Theology of the Body presenters and youth leaders, Catholic school students, parents and the wider community...
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'NZ CATHOLIC' no. 341 May 23 - June 5 2010
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
In the current issue ... Culture causes doubts about marriage today ... Big tick for special workers; altar bread-making skills ... Two new doctoral graduates honoured .. Abortion nurse's thinking revealed ... Koreans aim to stop new-Catholic drift .. The contraceptive pill turns 50 ... Executive pay rates out of line with workers' pay ... Attended with love, the Mass is not boring
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
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CATHOLIC SCHOOLS' DAY
St Patrick's Catholic School Taupo. Catholic Schools' Day - Quick Facts
Taupo Times
http://tinyurl.com/2fofex2
Catholic Schools' Day - May 19
Manawatu Times
http://tinyurl.com/28jva6s
Marking occasion (photo caption)
Northern Outlook
http://tinyurl.com/2fkf6mo
Pupils from St Joseph's School in Rangiora dressed up in cultural costume this week to celebrate World Catholic Schools Day.
Schools mass for day of sharing (photo)
The Nelson Mail
http://tinyurl.com/29l7aym
Mass lived up to its name yesterday as 1000 children packed into the Trafalgar Centre to Celebrate Catholic Schools Day.
Schools' day out a successful occasion (photo)
Piako Post
http://tinyurl.com/2edazfw
About 500 students from eleven Catholic schools around the Waikato region took part in the annual Catholic schools' winter sports tournament.
Catholic pupils following in steps of Gandhi (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/dunedin/106779/catholic-pupils-following-steps-gandhi
Both Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela promoted the phrase "be the change if you wish to see the change" - and these words of wisdom were also the theme for Catholic Schools' Day yesterday.
St Mary's celebrates 160 years (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/local/the-wellingtonian/3714513/St-Marys-celebrates-160-years
St Mary's College Wellington is this year celebrating 160 years of Catholic education. The college celebrated the occasion yesterday, in parallel with Catholic Schools Day.
Historic day for St Mary's (another photo)
The Dominion Post
http://tinyurl.com/2e6cd4l
School service (photo)
Taranaki Daily News
http://tinyurl.com/2cerlgc
Patience was truly a valued virtue among the 550 Catholic schoolchildren who gathered for a special hour-long Mass at St Joseph's Church in New Plymouth yesterday.
Universal change (photo caption)
Timaru Herald
http://tinyurl.com/2bp845h
Morning of prayer: Pupils from Catholic schools around South Canterbury celebrate Catholic Schools' Day with Mass at Sacred Heart Basilica.
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In other news ...
Treasured church hits 75 years (photo)
Timaru Herald
http://tinyurl.com/27oe3xm
The Church of the Good Shepherd celebrates its 75th anniversary this weekend.
Mum's secret remedies revealed (photo)
The Southland Times
http://tinyurl.com/2525ojf
Tried and True Remedies My Mother Recommended was launched in Queenstown this week. The handbook was compiled as a surprise fundraiser and gift for Queenstown Catholic Women's League member and kidney dialysis patient Catherine Swale, 65.
Honouring those fallen (photo caption)
East and Bays Courier
http://tinyurl.com/24xe5on
St Michael's Catholic School students presented a wreath on behalf of Auckland school children at the Anzac Day service at Auckland Museum.
School reels after death of student
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/7273389/school-reels-after-death-of-student/
Campion College, a Gisborne school community, is reeling from the tragic loss of a student, after an 11-year-old died in a freak accident on Wednesday night.
Councillor farewelled (photo)
The Hutt News
Part one: http://tinyurl.com/2bm4o9x
Part two: http://tinyurl.com/27wlfj8
Doreen Doolan, the Petone Borough councillor of 27 years after whom the mall off Jackson Street is named, was farewelled at Sacred Heart Church in Britannia Street on May 10. In 1994 she shifted back to Taumarunui where she was born in 1930.
Gambling vote 'missed' opportunity
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/106772/gambling-vote-039missed039-opportunity
By not implementing a sinking-lid gambling policy, the Dunedin City Council has missed an opportunity to curb problem gambling in the city, welfare organisations say.
Candidates in firing line over school deal
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10646146
Political pressure is coming on Auckland City Mayor John Banks and Citizens & Ratepayers councillors over their decision to move Monte Cecilia primary school for parkland.
Council meeting set to clear way for deal on Catholic school
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10645913
Auckland City's finance committee is expected to give the go-ahead today to close a deal to buy Monte Cecilia primary school for parkland.
What Is "Suitable" Work? Welfare Changes Beg The Question
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1005/S00198.htm
A definition of "suitable" work is required before further progress is made on extending work testing and benefit sanctions to domestic purpose and sickness beneficiaries, says Catholic social justice agency Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand in a submission on the Social Assistance (Future Focus) Bill.
Looking after those who work in our vineyards
http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/3713644/Looking-after-those-who-work-in-our-vineyards
Marlborough Stone Art's director Lasike Kula does more than build walls, gates and mailboxes of Wairau and Pukeko quarry stone to grace the fronts of local wineries and homes. The Tongan-born seven-year resident of Blenheim is also the pastoral care adviser to the Nivan employees working in local vineyards.
Auckland's Baradene College will hold an after-ball function, but it will be alcohol free.
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/7263149/after-ball-function-going-ahead/
Parents organise girls' after-ball alcohol
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10645706
Parents of students at a top Catholic girls' school are organising an after-ball party with alcohol - despite police warnings that such action is illegal.
Church planning alterations
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/queenstown/106269/church-planning-alterations
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Dunedin has applied to Lakes Environmental for resource consent to make alterations to the historic St Joseph's Church in Queenstown.
Order no longer willing to deal with trust
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/3726629/Order-no-longer-willing-to-deal-with-trust
A Catholic order mired in a historical sexual abuse scandal has been accused of snubbing a Christchurch group that has helped their victims for 12 years.
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
** Working Parishes **
What makes a parish work? Parishioners of St Joseph's, Mt Victoria, Wellington, respond.
** Pentecost **
John 20: 19-23 : a reading and discussion with Violet Kudzotsa and John Teariki.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** Vocation - Hearing God's call and bringing his love into the world
** "Up and atom!" (what if we lived in an alternate reality?)
** Redistribution of Wealth (taxation and morality)
** A bit of number-crunching (how is 'Being Frank' doing?)
** Bonus material (can a modern-day illusionist re-create the gospel miracles)
** "The Pill's legacy is social anarchy, says sex goddess"
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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
The autonomy of bishops, and suing the Vatican
http://ncronline.org/news/autonomy-bishops-and-suing-vatican
At first blush, most people probably assume that the sexual abuse crisis will result in tighter control from Rome over local bishops. The logic is impeccable: The failure of some bishops to do the right thing is a core element of the crisis, and only the pope can really hold bishops accountable. Yet at the moment, the ecclesiological fallout from the crisis, especially in the United States, seems to cut in the opposite direction -- promoting the autonomy of individual bishops and of the bishops' conference, if not so much theologically and canonically, then psychologically and culturally...
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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
GIFT Centre, Balmoral - http://www.giftcentre.org.nz
Residential Caregiver (Houseparent) - 6 month fixed term contract.
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 23 - June 5 2010 p.23, and fromBrian Nicholas, GIFT Centre, 28A Telford Avenue, Balmoral. Tel: 620-9254; Fax: 620 9250; Email: giftcentre@xtra.co.nz
Pentecost
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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
Consultation underway for proposed Catholic tertiary institution (May 21, 2010)
The New Zealand Catholic bishops have begun a formal consultation process with Catholic education staff about the development of a proposed new Catholic tertiary education institution, under the collective ownership of the diocesan bishops. The proposed institution would be created by merging parts of the Wellington Catholic Education Centre (WCEC) and parts of Auckland's Catholic Institute of Theology (CIT). Education staff in other dioceses will also be involved...
Pure Love speaker to visit Auckland, Hamilton and Christchurch (May 21,
2010)
During National Youth Week (22-30 May) young Catholics and their parents will hear about sexual purity from Theology of the Body speaker Jason Evert. Starting on Sunday, the Californian-based speaker will visit Auckland (23-24 May), Hamilton (25-26 May) and Christchurch (27 May) to address local Theology of the Body presenters and youth leaders, Catholic school students, parents and the wider community...
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'NZ CATHOLIC' no. 341 May 23 - June 5 2010
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
In the current issue ... Culture causes doubts about marriage today ... Big tick for special workers; altar bread-making skills ... Two new doctoral graduates honoured .. Abortion nurse's thinking revealed ... Koreans aim to stop new-Catholic drift .. The contraceptive pill turns 50 ... Executive pay rates out of line with workers' pay ... Attended with love, the Mass is not boring
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
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CATHOLIC SCHOOLS' DAY
St Patrick's Catholic School Taupo. Catholic Schools' Day - Quick Facts
Taupo Times
http://tinyurl.com/2fofex2
Catholic Schools' Day - May 19
Manawatu Times
http://tinyurl.com/28jva6s
Marking occasion (photo caption)
Northern Outlook
http://tinyurl.com/2fkf6mo
Pupils from St Joseph's School in Rangiora dressed up in cultural costume this week to celebrate World Catholic Schools Day.
Schools mass for day of sharing (photo)
The Nelson Mail
http://tinyurl.com/29l7aym
Mass lived up to its name yesterday as 1000 children packed into the Trafalgar Centre to Celebrate Catholic Schools Day.
Schools' day out a successful occasion (photo)
Piako Post
http://tinyurl.com/2edazfw
About 500 students from eleven Catholic schools around the Waikato region took part in the annual Catholic schools' winter sports tournament.
Catholic pupils following in steps of Gandhi (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/dunedin/106779/catholic-pupils-following-steps-gandhi
Both Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela promoted the phrase "be the change if you wish to see the change" - and these words of wisdom were also the theme for Catholic Schools' Day yesterday.
St Mary's celebrates 160 years (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/local/the-wellingtonian/3714513/St-Marys-celebrates-160-years
St Mary's College Wellington is this year celebrating 160 years of Catholic education. The college celebrated the occasion yesterday, in parallel with Catholic Schools Day.
Historic day for St Mary's (another photo)
The Dominion Post
http://tinyurl.com/2e6cd4l
School service (photo)
Taranaki Daily News
http://tinyurl.com/2cerlgc
Patience was truly a valued virtue among the 550 Catholic schoolchildren who gathered for a special hour-long Mass at St Joseph's Church in New Plymouth yesterday.
Universal change (photo caption)
Timaru Herald
http://tinyurl.com/2bp845h
Morning of prayer: Pupils from Catholic schools around South Canterbury celebrate Catholic Schools' Day with Mass at Sacred Heart Basilica.
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In other news ...
Treasured church hits 75 years (photo)
Timaru Herald
http://tinyurl.com/27oe3xm
The Church of the Good Shepherd celebrates its 75th anniversary this weekend.
Mum's secret remedies revealed (photo)
The Southland Times
http://tinyurl.com/2525ojf
Tried and True Remedies My Mother Recommended was launched in Queenstown this week. The handbook was compiled as a surprise fundraiser and gift for Queenstown Catholic Women's League member and kidney dialysis patient Catherine Swale, 65.
Honouring those fallen (photo caption)
East and Bays Courier
http://tinyurl.com/24xe5on
St Michael's Catholic School students presented a wreath on behalf of Auckland school children at the Anzac Day service at Auckland Museum.
School reels after death of student
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/7273389/school-reels-after-death-of-student/
Campion College, a Gisborne school community, is reeling from the tragic loss of a student, after an 11-year-old died in a freak accident on Wednesday night.
Councillor farewelled (photo)
The Hutt News
Part one: http://tinyurl.com/2bm4o9x
Part two: http://tinyurl.com/27wlfj8
Doreen Doolan, the Petone Borough councillor of 27 years after whom the mall off Jackson Street is named, was farewelled at Sacred Heart Church in Britannia Street on May 10. In 1994 she shifted back to Taumarunui where she was born in 1930.
Gambling vote 'missed' opportunity
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/106772/gambling-vote-039missed039-opportunity
By not implementing a sinking-lid gambling policy, the Dunedin City Council has missed an opportunity to curb problem gambling in the city, welfare organisations say.
Candidates in firing line over school deal
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10646146
Political pressure is coming on Auckland City Mayor John Banks and Citizens & Ratepayers councillors over their decision to move Monte Cecilia primary school for parkland.
Council meeting set to clear way for deal on Catholic school
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10645913
Auckland City's finance committee is expected to give the go-ahead today to close a deal to buy Monte Cecilia primary school for parkland.
What Is "Suitable" Work? Welfare Changes Beg The Question
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO1005/S00198.htm
A definition of "suitable" work is required before further progress is made on extending work testing and benefit sanctions to domestic purpose and sickness beneficiaries, says Catholic social justice agency Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand in a submission on the Social Assistance (Future Focus) Bill.
Looking after those who work in our vineyards
http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/news/3713644/Looking-after-those-who-work-in-our-vineyards
Marlborough Stone Art's director Lasike Kula does more than build walls, gates and mailboxes of Wairau and Pukeko quarry stone to grace the fronts of local wineries and homes. The Tongan-born seven-year resident of Blenheim is also the pastoral care adviser to the Nivan employees working in local vineyards.
Auckland's Baradene College will hold an after-ball function, but it will be alcohol free.
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/top-stories/7263149/after-ball-function-going-ahead/
Parents organise girls' after-ball alcohol
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10645706
Parents of students at a top Catholic girls' school are organising an after-ball party with alcohol - despite police warnings that such action is illegal.
Church planning alterations
http://www.odt.co.nz/your-town/queenstown/106269/church-planning-alterations
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Dunedin has applied to Lakes Environmental for resource consent to make alterations to the historic St Joseph's Church in Queenstown.
Order no longer willing to deal with trust
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/3726629/Order-no-longer-willing-to-deal-with-trust
A Catholic order mired in a historical sexual abuse scandal has been accused of snubbing a Christchurch group that has helped their victims for 12 years.
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
http://inspirationaltv.net
** Working Parishes **
What makes a parish work? Parishioners of St Joseph's, Mt Victoria, Wellington, respond.
** Pentecost **
John 20: 19-23 : a reading and discussion with Violet Kudzotsa and John Teariki.
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
http://www.beingfrank.co.nz
** Vocation - Hearing God's call and bringing his love into the world
** "Up and atom!" (what if we lived in an alternate reality?)
** Redistribution of Wealth (taxation and morality)
** A bit of number-crunching (how is 'Being Frank' doing?)
** Bonus material (can a modern-day illusionist re-create the gospel miracles)
** "The Pill's legacy is social anarchy, says sex goddess"
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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
The autonomy of bishops, and suing the Vatican
http://ncronline.org/news/autonomy-bishops-and-suing-vatican
At first blush, most people probably assume that the sexual abuse crisis will result in tighter control from Rome over local bishops. The logic is impeccable: The failure of some bishops to do the right thing is a core element of the crisis, and only the pope can really hold bishops accountable. Yet at the moment, the ecclesiological fallout from the crisis, especially in the United States, seems to cut in the opposite direction -- promoting the autonomy of individual bishops and of the bishops' conference, if not so much theologically and canonically, then psychologically and culturally...
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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
GIFT Centre, Balmoral - http://www.giftcentre.org.nz
Residential Caregiver (Houseparent) - 6 month fixed term contract.
Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 23 - June 5 2010 p.23, and fromBrian Nicholas, GIFT Centre, 28A Telford Avenue, Balmoral. Tel: 620-9254; Fax: 620 9250; Email: giftcentre@xtra.co.nz
Sunday, May 16, 2010
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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)
***************************************************
* 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
********************************************
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
The Ascension of the Lord
*******************************************
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...
*******************************************
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.
****************************************
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.
****************************************************
'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)
***************************************************
* 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
********************************************
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...
*****************************************
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
*****************************************
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)
*************************************************
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 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.
****************************************************
'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
********************************************
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
*****************************************
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)
*************************************************
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.
****************************************
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.
****************************************************
'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)
***************************************************
* 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
********************************************
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.
****************************************************
'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.
*****************************************
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 DarÃo 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 DarÃo 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
*********************************************
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.
*************************
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.
****************************************
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.
****************************************************
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.
****************************************************
'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
***************************************************
* 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
********************************************
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.
*****************************************
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
*****************************************
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)
*************************************************
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
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