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Alternative Welfare Working Group report released (9 Dec 2010)
Alternative Welfare Working Group, Welfare Justice, released its final report “Welfare Justice for All” today at the Wellington Catholic Centre...
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'WEL-COM'
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** News **
* Heeding the plight of beneficiaries
* National Catholic tertiary institution
* All for life, love and compassion
** Columns **
* Cecily McNeill: Editorial: Life in all its forms this Christmas
* Archbishop John Dew: Archbishop's column: God's great enterprise of self-giving
* Kieran Fenn FMS: Beginning the Gospel of the Poor: From power to powerlessness
** Features **
* St Pat's town spawns sports and historic tales
* Dorothy Day - a modern prophet and visionary
* Vatican II - the final weeks of the last session
** Reflect **
* Veronica Lawson rsm: Second Sunday in Advent Year A: Matthew 3:1-12
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Veteran of D-Day ‘didn’t like taking orders’ (photo)
The Press
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-
A soldier, sailor and family man has been farewelled with military honours in Christchurch. Gordon Cameron Forrester, who died this month aged 88, had a decorated military career spanning 30 years.
Military service to be recognised (photo)
The Press
http://tinyurl.com/253rsph
On key and in tune with a musical life (obituary; photos)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/
Marie Stothart was eight when she started learning the piano. Her talent was recognised by her early music teachers, and Marie set the bar for others to aspire to as a young musician. She was a committed Catholic and played the organ and piano, mainly at Sacred Heart Church in Heretaunga St, Hastings for Sunday mass.
Caritas Welcomes Alternative Welfare Report's Focus On Collective Responsibility
http://www.voxy.co.nz/
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand values the Alternative Welfare Working Group's call for collective responsibility and investment in the well-being of all members of society.
Call for 50 per cent rise in benefits
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/
An alternative welfare review group will call today for raising welfare benefits by as much as 50 per cent to meet the basic needs of jobless families. The alternative group, chaired by Massey University social policy expert Mike O'Brien and including former Green MP Sue Bradford, says current benefits of $194 a week for a single adult or $366 for a sole parent with one child are ``simply too low to live on''.
The push to make welfare work: The other side: no need to panic
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/
The alternative welfare working group, set up by beneficiary advocates and the social justice arms of the Anglican and Catholic churches, agrees that beneficiaries should not be left to rot and that those who want to work need more help to get it.
Church thanks devoted pair (photo)
Rodney Times
http://tinyurl.com/26onz3v
More than 30 years service to St Joseph’s Catholic Church has seen Don and Linda Kiddie of Helensville honoured with Benemerenti Medals presented by Assistant Bishop of Auckland Robin Leamy.
Take time out at Tyburn (photo)
Rotorua Review
http://tinyurl.com/2fy4qp2
The Tyburn monastery in Ngakuru welcomes visitors who want some time out from the busyness of the world.
Church rift divides Samoans
http://www.stuff.co.nz/
A rift in Wellington's Catholic Church is said to have driven many Samoan Christians away from the church for the past six months.
Probe of broker's role in failed bonds (photo)
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/
Southern broking house Forsyth Barr's lead management role in failed Credit Sails bonds is being investigated by the Commerce Commission. Investors lost $91.5 million when the bond value collapsed.
Goodwill extends beyond Christmas (photo)
Cambridge Edition
http://tinyurl.com/27zydw2
A Christmas message from Monsignor David Bennett, St Peter’s Catholic Church
Hymnologist receives citation from library (photos)
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/
Emeritus Prof Colin Gibson's donation of thousands of hymn books and reference works over almost 30 years to the Dunedin Public Libraries was marked yesterday when he was awarded the 2010 Library Citation.
Martha's links to NZ's first European settlers
http://www.stuff.co.nz/
Little is known about Martha White. But the few verifiable facts linked to her existence are quite extraordinary. The most obvious is her birth into what many say was the first European family to settle in New Zealand.
Mum won’t be home for Christmas (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/292hfka
A grief-stricken father took his two-year-old daughter to see the mangled car her mother died in to help explain why she won’t be coming home for Christmas. Friends and family attended a memorial service at St Joseph’s Church in Upper Hutt on Thursday to honour 42-year-old Ann-Maree Hardiman, of Levin, and her unborn baby daughter.
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NEWS OF THE SCHOOLS
Francis Douglas M.C.; Sacred Heart, New Plymouth: Youth investment all for the future (photo)
Taranaki Daily News
http://tinyurl.com/22pawr9
Francis Douglas Memorial College: Two centuries cap big week (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/
Garin College: Claudio's time to move on (photo)
The Nelson Mail
http://tinyurl.com/2ak5snj
18-year-old Claudio Cannata would walk away with the biggest and most important trophy of them all last night – the Sir Patrick and Lady Hillary Goodman Cup for the Garin College top scholar.
Garin College, Nelson: Sunny sounds (photos)
The Leader Richmond-Waimea
http://tinyurl.com/23r5an5
John Paul College, Rotorua: Students rally to aid family (photo)
http://www.rotoruadailypost.
Pompallier College, Whangarei: Students discover marine treasures
Northern Advocate — A004 — 07 December 2010
[This article can be read via the public libraries' Newztext service]
Rosmini college, Takapuna: Danger signs put up (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/
Sacred Heart Girls' College, Hamilton: Dux dips, delays and dabbles (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/
St James Catholic School, Palmerston North: In motion as one (photo caption)
Manawatu Standard
http://tinyurl.com/24hw3a7
St Joseph's School, Fairlie: Pupils shine on stage
High Country Community Herald
http://tinyurl.com/2cseo4n
St Joseph’s School, Opunake: Opunake moovers and shakers win (photo)
South Taranaki Star
http://tinyurl.com/27jy5fq
St Joseph’s School, Timaru: Quake banner unfurled (photo)
Timaru Herald
http://tinyurl.com/2ber3jv
St Mary's College, Wellington: Lealai-Salanoa eyes NZ schools title (photo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/
St Michael’s Catholic School, Remuera: Prayers for families (photo)
East and Bays Courier
http://tinyurl.com/24v8pgl
St Patrick's School, Masterton
Wairarapa News
http://tinyurl.com/24lecwm
St Patrick's School, Masterton: Encore! for our environmental champions (photo caption)
Wairarapa News
http://tinyurl.com/2epfqur
St Patrick's School, Taumarunu: Nuns join the fun (photo caption)
Ruapehu Press
http://tinyurl.com/25rly5e
St Thomas More, Mt Maunganui: Pupil's singing award (photo)
http://www.bayofplentytimes.
Villa Maria College, Christchurch: Young historian (full text)
Christchurch Mail
http://tinyurl.com/2ayq23v
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'BEING FRANK' - New Zealand Catholic blogs
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** Who are we proclaiming? (Catholic School's Catholic identity)
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** The Immaculate Conception
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** Modesty of the underdressed ("How beautiful then is modesty ...")
** Listening to The Message (a most peculiar translation of the Bible)
** Advent
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INSPIRATIONAL TV
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'My Messenger' - Matthew 11:2-11, a reading and commentary with Rev. Dr Raymond Pelly and Very Rev. Frank Nelson of St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington.
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ALL THINGS CATHOLIC, by John L. Allen, Jr.
http://ncronline.org/blogs/
Thoughts from Rome: the Vatican newspaper, religious life
http://ncronline.org/blogs/
Early December in Rome is usually a period of relative calm, as things begin to slow down ahead of the Christmas holidays. That makes it a good moment to take stock, looking back to the major turning points of the past year and ahead to things to come. Two conversations I’ve had this week illustrate that stock-taking mood...
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EMPLOYMENT
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Family Therapist / Counsellor, Catholic Family and Community Services, Auckland.
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