Sunday, February 4, 2018

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Catholic Communities Welcome Refugees
Press Release: Caritas Aotearoa
Caritas, as one of four organisations approved for the new Community Organisation Refugee Sponsorship (CORS) programme, will lead the coordination of a number of Catholic organisations who will support a refugee family to settle in New Zealand.

Veteran journalist Pat Booth dies, aged 88
Veteran journalist Pat Booth has passed away at a rest home in Kumeu after a short illness. Sally Collings, his youngest daughter, confirmed he passed away about 1.20pm today. "Pat Booth was a very respected journalist, but not only that he was loving father of four children," she said. "We will miss him and his stories ... and we love him." Ms Collings said her father was proud of his work covering the infamous Arthur Allan Thomas case, and the Mr Asia crime syndicates.

Filipino Sinulog festival celebrated in Dunedin (video)

St John of God 'pulled up the draw bridge' for Marylands School abuse victims, advocates claim (photos)
Australasian head of the order at St John of God Brother Peter Burke, pictured in 2002, the year compensation processes for men abused at Marylands School began. Critics say payouts have become smaller and non-negotiable since Burke resigned in 2007. He died in 2010.

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Sacred Heart College welcomes new principal Maria Neville-Foster with powhiri (photo of Maria with Mary)
In a "moving" powhiri yesterday, two school communities came together to welcome the new principal of Sacred Heart College. Havelock North High School, led by principal Greg Fenton "handed over" their former deputy principal, Maria Neville-Foster, to the Catholic girls' secondary school.

Sarah Catherall: The highs and lows of a high-school reunion
I arrive late for my school reunion too, which seems apt, but it means I miss the photographs for my decade group – the girls who went to Sacred Heart College in Napier in the 1980s...

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At Olympics, Vatican showcases bond between faith and sports
One doesn't have to go any further than St. Paul's letter encouraging Corinthians to "run in such a way as to take the prize" to find the deep connection between sports and faith. On Friday, Vatican officials announced a further step in the Church's relationship with the Olympic games, and the possibility that it might evolve into something permanent...

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Catholic Dioceses of Palmerston North and Wellington. 'Wel-com'  http://www.welcom.org.nz

Catholic Diocese of Christchurch. 'Inform' http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=25

Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. 'The Tablet' https://catholic-diocese.squarespace.com/back-issues

The Nathaniel Centre. The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report' http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/

NZ Catholic Education Office. School News Update  http://www.nzceo.org.nz/news/ 

Society of Mary. 'Marist Messenger' http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz


'Tui Motu Interislands'. An independent Catholic magazine. http://www.tuimotu.org/

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NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS

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Sunday, January 28, 2018

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Your Voice Counts: Calling for Submissions on the End of Life Choice Bill (25 January 2018)

Parliament's Justice Select Committee are calling for New Zealanders to submit their views on David Seymour's 'End of Life Choice' Bill, which seeks to legalise euthanasia and assisted suicide in New Zealand. On the weekend of the 27 and 28 January, the New Zealand Catholic Bishops will be sending a letter to all parishes in New Zealand for Masses, encouraging everyone to make their voices heard on this crucial issue by making a submission ...

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In issue no. 532, January 28 - February 10 2018: New entity for Catholic tertiary education ... Many tears shed at loss of Fr Graeme Blackburn ... MP says End of Life Choice Bill is insidious ... Proposed chapel will make Khyber Pass Rd statement ... Poignant first NZ Mass commemoration ... Celebration of sacraments in Jerusalem (Hiruharama) ... Students strive to succeed outside mainstream (Marist Alternative Education Centre).

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First new Catholic church in Christchurch since quake is a 'jewel in the crown' for sisters (photos)
Christchurch's first new Catholic church since the earthquakes – the rebuilt Nazareth House chapel – has been opened. The chapel replaces one lost to the earthquakes at the Sydenham site and has been built as part of a $70 million development by the Sisters of Nazareth.

South Otago priest moves to become new Dunedin chaplain (photo)
When former shepherd Father Michael Hishon was in his 20s, he changed his flock from sheep to people. At the age of 29, the Lincoln University graduate, who also worked in sheep genetics for the former Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, entered the Catholic priesthood.

Erskine College chapel will 'finally' be strengthened after court decision (photos)
An Environment Court decision has backed plans to demolish heritage buildings at Island Bay's Erskine College to make way for 96 townhouses. A condition of the Environment Court consent is that the dilapidated chapel on the site must be strengthened before any other work, including demolition, can take place.

Life story: Jack Ryan's solid foundations for success (photos)
The contractor, goldminer, farmer, forester and land developer had strong work ethic and worked until a year before his death on November 25, last year, aged 91. He was the last of the Ryan brothers, who ran a prominent contracting business in Christchurch.

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Aquinas College, Tauranga, first XI on tour (photo)

Hato Petera College, Auckland: Commissioner appointed to govern Hato Petera College

John Paul College, Rotorua: Rotorua teaching shortage brings educators back from retirement

John Paul College: Rotorua schools expecting roll increases in 2018 as population rises

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Message to persecuted Christians: 'Our enemies can try, but they won't succeed'
Since Ukraine's Greek Catholic Church is the most persecuted Catholic Church in modern history, its spiritual leader has a special credibility when speaking to Christians around the world today who suffer similar violence and intolerance: "Our enemies can try, but they won't kill the Church, because it is the body of Christ, and He can bring it back from the ashes. I know, I saw it happen" ...

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Catholic Diocese of Christchurch. 'Inform' http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=25

Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. 'The Tablet' https://catholic-diocese.squarespace.com/back-issues

The Nathaniel Centre. The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report' http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/

NZ Catholic Education Office. School News Update  http://www.nzceo.org.nz/news/ 

Society of Mary. 'Marist Messenger' http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz


'Tui Motu Interislands'. An independent Catholic magazine. http://www.tuimotu.org/

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Sunday, January 21, 2018

NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE


New Director for the Catholic Church's National Office of Professional Standards is well placed for the challenges ahead (18 Jan 2018)
The National Professional Standards Committee (NPSC) has appointed former Christchurch lawyer and mother of two, Virginia Noonan, to the role of Director, National Office of Professional Standards (NOPS) ...

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New Zealander to attend meeting of young people at Vatican
In March, New Zealand will take part in an international meeting in Rome of young minds on youth and their faith in preparation for the October Synod of Bishops on Young people, faith and vocation discernment. Joining the meeting, which will take place over four days in the Vatican, will be Wellingtonian Isabella McCafferty who has been appointed by the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference (NZCBC) as the New Zealand Catholic Church's representative at the meeting ...

'Quirky' Christchurch priest Father Graeme Blackburn dies in motorcycle crash (photos)
Christchurch Catholics are mourning the death of a "quirky" priest and flying instructor who died in a motorcycle crash. Father Graeme Blackburn, 33, was riding on Purau Port Levy Rd when he collided with a car on Monday. 

Catholic Church disappointed state abuse inquiry won't be extended  (text, photo, audio)
The Catholic Church in New Zealand and abuse survivors are upset the government may not be expanding an inquiry into abuse of children in state care to include faith-based institutions.

Politician stitched up in runner-up artwork (photo)
Deputy Prime Minister and New Zealand First leader Winston Peters may be a controversial politician to some but to embroidery artist Amy Baker, of Kingston, he is a prizewinner. At the 11th annual Craigs Aspiring Art Prize ceremony at the Holy Family Catholic School in Wanaka on Friday night,  Baker was runner-up in the supreme award, the Craigs Investment Partners Prize, for her embroidered portrait of Mr Peters, entitled Had Enough? Baker said she started embroidering political portraits only a year ago and Mr Peters' was her third, after Donald Trump and Gareth Morgan.

Waikato nun remembers teenage Palestinian prisoner Ahed Tamimi (photo)
Ahed Tamimi is famous for slapping and kicking a couple of armed Israeli soldiers outside her home in Palestine. For Sister Barbara Cameron, a Waikato-based nun, Sister Barbara Cameron, the news was simply heartbreaking.

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Episode 123 — Instruction, Inquiry, Immigration and Identification (January 16, 2018)

As 2018 gets under way, Pope Francis has been very clear in his advice to Vatican ambassadors — uphold the family and protect all life. He's also been clear about people's obligations to refugees and asylum-seekers, while acknowledging that some people can fear "the other". In New Zealand, there's a call for an inquiry into child abuse to include religious organisations, and in Australia, a new sculpture is causing a little confusion, but also raising awareness. Join Anna, Don, James and Gavin for the first episode of the year.

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** Peru on Saturday brings new chapter to story of 'Disaster Zone Pope'
Trujillo, Peru - An indescribable spirit of joy and hope, mixed with desolation and abandonment, is what Pope Francis encountered Saturday in the Buenos Aires neighborhood in Trujillo, in northern Peru, in a town still mourning the loss caused by the deadly floods of early 2017.

** Meet the priest who serves an unlikely community in Peru's Amazon
Puerto Maldonado, Peru - Father Pablo Zabala is a 70-year old Spanish priest, who serves in a remote part of the world: the Peruvian Amazon. Most of the people who fill his church pews are gold miners and sex workers in Boca Colorado - an area that some are likening to the California Gold Rush. Before Zabala began serving in the Amazon, his fellow clergy compared it to Sodom and Gomorrah...

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Catholic Dioceses of Palmerston North and Wellington. 'Wel-com'  http://www.welcom.org.nz

Catholic Diocese of Christchurch. 'Inform' http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=25

Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. 'The Tablet' https://catholic-diocese.squarespace.com/back-issues

The Nathaniel Centre. The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report' http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/

NZ Catholic Education Office. School News Update  http://www.nzceo.org.nz/news/ 

Society of Mary. 'Marist Messenger' http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz


'Tui Motu Interislands'. An independent Catholic magazine. http://www.tuimotu.org/

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NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS

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Sunday, January 14, 2018

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James Patrick Anderton CNZM (1938-2018)

Jim Anderton farewelled in Christchurch (photos)
Hundreds of people gathered at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Addington, Christchurch, for Jim Anderton's funeral. Anderton died at the weekend, two weeks shy of his 80th birthday ...

New Zealand statesman Jim Anderton farewelled by family and friends  (videos)

Waiheke Island's Onetangi cemetery last resting place for Jim Anderton  (photos, video)

Philip Matthews: Week in Review: Stories of social justice and a stable genius (photo)

John and Josie Pagani: Jim was tough, courageous and caring

Brian Rudman: Dogged battler was prepared to risk a loss (text, video)

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Joy Cowley: 'I have always regarded myself as being fortunate'
Radio New Zealand
Joy Cowley describes herself as an ordinary person for whom the hard lessons of life have turned out to be the best ones.
The 81-year-old author has been made a member of the Order of New Zealand in the 2018 New Year Honours list, chiefly for her contribution to literature, and children's writing in particular.

Tauranga kaumatua on NY honours list
MNZM: SHERRY, Mr Philip James, JP

Carly Thomas: God's changing place in NZ society
Carly Thomas delves into the moral quandary of God in New Zealand. Is God still relevant in modern day New Zealand or has he out stayed his welcome?

Police investigating arson at St Mary's church in Invercargill (photo)
Father Christopher O'Neill, the priest at St Mary's Church on Tyne St made a lucky escape after a suspicious fire was started in the residence where he lived on the church grounds.

Six-year-old Australian fan pens thank-you letter to Sir David Attenborough (photo)
Little Archie Comerford has been taught to always say "please" and "thank you," so it was no surprise to his mother when the 6-year-old decided to write to Sir David Attenborough to thank him for teaching Archie about frogs and "mooses".

New name and new life for abandoned Catholic school in Te Horo (photos, video)
For decades, people have taken from Makahuri. It's only now a former Raumati couple have moved on to the land, that people have finally started giving back.

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Smiles all around as Pope Francis takes the poor to the circus
Inside a large white tent on the outskirts of Rome, clergy and volunteers shared a laugh with the poor, the homeless, refugees, low-income families and a group of prisoners, all gathered for an evening at the circus sponsored by the Vatican.

Both in Chile and Peru, politics of all sorts may vex pope's trip
Next week Pope Francis will pay his sixth visit to Latin America, traveling to six cities in Chile and Peru in the same number of days. He'll fly over 22,000 miles (just 2,000 short of going around the world) and deliver 21 homilies, speeches, greetings and prayers, addressing several of the issues closest to his heart: the plight of indigenous peoples and migrants, popular religiosity, and protection of the environment, while simultaneously trying to heal the open wounds of two countries marred by the Church's sexual abuse scandals.

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Catholic Dioceses of Palmerston North and Wellington. 'Wel-com'  http://www.welcom.org.nz

Catholic Diocese of Christchurch. 'Inform' http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=25

Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. 'The Tablet' https://catholic-diocese.squarespace.com/back-issues

The Nathaniel Centre. The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report' http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/

NZ Catholic Education Office. School News Update  http://www.nzceo.org.nz/news/ 

Society of Mary. 'Marist Messenger' http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz


'Tui Motu Interislands'. An independent Catholic magazine. http://www.tuimotu.org/

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Sunday, December 24, 2017

Dear Readers,

This is the last Kiwicath News & Notes for 2017. I will restart the newsletter in January when there is something to report.

Every best wish and all God's blessings for a Happy Christmas.

Mike Leon

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In issue no. 531, December 24 2017 - January 27 2018: Parishes to get euthanasia bill letter from bishops ... Six hundred walk the capital for life ... Dr Rocio Figueiroa: Digging deeper into 'Amoris Laetitia' ... Victoria Ning: Walking for Jesus on the Camino ... NZ year in review (two-page photo spread) ... Bill Kilgallon: NZ abuse inquiry likely to include churches ... Top scholars 2017 ... 'Young caring men' raise $12k for bishop's charity ... 2018 clergy appointments ... Mt Tabor communities' blessed story.

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Church leaders' Christmas message: It's a matter of faith
Church leaders say our annual celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ is a reminder that life has a meaning beyond our knowledge and understanding. This is their combined Christmas message ...

Large congregation expected for midnight mass at the Basilica (photos, text, video)
Midnight mass always drew a large congregation but Father Tony Harrison remembers the days when 500 packed into the Basilica in Invercargill for the service in the 1970s-80s.

Sainthood set to boost tourism at remote river settlement Jerusalem near Whanganui (photo)
Wanganui Chronicle
Suzanne Aubert is likely to become New Zealand's first saint. Better known to many by her cleric name Sister Mary Joseph or Mother Aubert, she was a Catholic sister who started a home for orphans and the under-privileged in Jerusalem, on the Whanganui River in 1885.

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Alleged Sacred Heart Girls' College arsonist's name revealed (photo)
The name of one of two women charged with arson in connection to a fire that gutted a block of classrooms at Sacred Heart Girls' College in Hamilton can be revealed.

St James' Catholic School (Palmerston North): Singing students spread safety messages with police  (video)
After a cop karaoke video was a smash hit earlier this year, Manawatu police decided it was time to put their voices to the test once again to spread Christmas safety messages. 

St Thomas More Catholic School in Mount Maunganui: Last week of Christmas Appeal, final push for Tauranga foodbank (photo)
The pressure and stakes are especially high at the Tauranga Community Foodbank. During a recent visit, the Bay of Plenty Times met 9-year-old Austin Manning and teacher aide Catherine Robson from St Thomas More Catholic School in Mount Maunganui. The pair were dropping off the school's contribution to the foodbank.

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Matthew 1:18-24 The ancestors of Jesus Christ
A reading and commentary by Sister Stephanie Kitching.

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Episode 122 — Christchurch, Christ's prayer, Christianity and Christmas fun (December 18, 2017)

In the final episode of 2017, there is cause for celebration, but also cause for concern. In New Zealand, Catholics welcomed the appointment of a new Bishop of Christchurch. But there was also fear that attempts to legislate euthanasia might be successful in the country, though there are many hurdles before that can happen. In Europe, Pope Francis is wondering aloud if the Lord's Prayer might be confusing people, while the new Polish leader wonders how Christianity might again shape Europe. But when it comes to pure fun, our Anglican friends seem to have it sorted, with a toboggan ride in an English church. Just another fun Christmas episode of The 15th Station. Wishing all our listeners and your loved ones a happy and holy Christmas.

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** Pope Francis in 2017: Chronicles of a 'Peace Pope,' and odds and ends

People expect popes to be savvy political operators, able to wave a magic wand and make all the world's problems disappear. That's a completely unrealistic vision, of course, but that doesn't stop popes from trying, and Pope Francis perhaps more than most...

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Catholic Dioceses of Palmerston North and Wellington. 'Wel-com'  http://www.welcom.org.nz

Catholic Diocese of Christchurch. 'Inform' http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=25

Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. 'The Tablet' https://catholic-diocese.squarespace.com/back-issues

The Nathaniel Centre. The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report' http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/

NZ Catholic Education Office. School News Update  http://www.nzceo.org.nz/news/ UPDATED NOVEMBER 2017

Society of Mary. 'Marist Messenger' http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz

St Columban's Mission Society. 'The Far East' http://www.columban.org.au/?MID=200510192652

'Tui Motu Interislands'. An independent Catholic magazine. http://www.tuimotu.org/

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Sunday, December 17, 2017

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In issue no. 530, December 17 - 23 2017: Major Hui Maori Katorika held in Otara ... Marist to be new bishop of Christchurch ... Hundreds of young voices sing together in Jubilate Joy ... Helping children understand Christmas's true meaning ... Hundreds at Catholic youth festival ... Minister [Jenny Salesa] says St Teresa one of her personal heroes ... 'The Giving', a short story by Joy Cowley ...Top scholars 2017 ... Missionary built nine NZ churches.

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RNZ. Sunday Morning. The sanctity of the confessional is under threat (audio)
One of the recommendations of Australia's Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse would require clergy told of child abuse in the confessional to be required by law to report it. The inquiry spanned five years and many different kinds of institutions including the Australian Catholic Church, and found tens of thousands of child victims The Australian government must now decide how to respond to the recommendations. But one of them - to require clergy to report child abuse told in the sanctity of the confessional means breaking that seal of silence. Marist Father Neil Vaney explains what the sanctity of the confessional means to the Catholic Church.

Hectic time for social agencies (photo)
Those attempting to ease the pressures of Christmas for people in need this year include the Salvation Army, Anglican Family Care, Presbyterian Support Otago and Catholic Social Services. Alongside the Methodist Mission and St Vincent de Paul they form the Christian Helping Agencies Group and are working tirelessly to ensure that this Christmas people have enough through the Christmas Hamper Project.

Singers welcome all for carol service (photo)
Members of churches from the greater Green Island area are warming up for this year's Christmas carols. Members from the Anglican, Catholic and Presbyterian churches from the area will fill St Margaret's Church with song on December 17.

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Aquinas College-built home to go under hammer (photo)
Aquinas College's most significant fundraiser is nearing completion as the finishing touches are put on a brand new home they plan to sell off to raise money for school facilities.

Garin College dux off to Otago to further studies in law and te reo (photo)
A passion for the law and te reo is taking Garin College's dux Joseph Robinson to Otago University on a scholarship next year.

Sacred Heart College (Napier) principal says new role the pinnacle of her career (photo)
For Maria Neville-Foster, stepping into the role of principal is the pinnacle of her career. As the incoming principal of Sacred Heart College, she is looking forward to "making a difference" in the life of the school and delivering a quality Catholic education to the girls of Hawke's Bay.

St Patrick's School to celebrate 100 years in Nightcaps (photo)
Colleen Duncan remembers St Patrick's School, Nightcaps, having rolls of between 90 and 120 in the 1960s. She was a pupil during that period at the western Southland school, which will mark 100 years on its current site on Friday. The school was earlier located at Wreys Bush.

Robot battle win to take Manawatu kids to United States (photo)
St Peter's College's robotics team won one of two top awards at New Zealand's biggest national schools competition in Rotorua this month.

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John 1:19-28 John the baptist's message
A reading and commentary with Rev. Dr Raymond Pelly and Very Rev. Frank Nelson at St Paul's Cathedral, Wellington.

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Has Australian commission weakened the reformers on sex abuse?, by John L. Allen Jr.

On Friday, the Australian Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse issued its final report after four years of hearings, investigations, and research, and unsurprisingly, the Church was a major object of its attention. Based on its findings, the commission could have restricted itself to the following propositions - all of which are present in the report in some form ...

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'NZ Catholic' is a national newspaper published by the Catholic Bishop of Auckland. http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz 

Catholic Diocese of Hamilton. 'Kete Korero'. https://issuu.com/search?q=%22kete+korero%22

Catholic Dioceses of Palmerston North and Wellington. 'Wel-com'  http://www.welcom.org.nz

Catholic Diocese of Christchurch. 'Inform' http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=25

Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. 'The Tablet' https://catholic-diocese.squarespace.com/back-issues

The Nathaniel Centre. The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report' http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/

NZ Catholic Education Office. School News Update  http://www.nzceo.org.nz/news/ UPDATED NOVEMBER 2017

Society of Mary. 'Marist Messenger' http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz

St Columban's Mission Society. 'The Far East' http://www.columban.org.au/?MID=200510192652

'Tui Motu Interislands'. An independent Catholic magazine. http://www.tuimotu.org/

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NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS

Fr Frank Bird sm. Living the Word: Sundays of the Year: Reflection Guide - http://livingtheword.org.nz

Marist Messenger. Daily Reflections (right-hand column) http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz

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The Catholic Church in Aotearoa New Zealand

'NZ Catholic' newspaper

Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand

Holy Cross Seminary

Marist Seminary, Auckland NZ

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EMPLOYMENT 

Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised on the Website of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz

Vacancies in the Catholic Overseas Volunteer programme, contact: volunteers@caritas.org.nz 

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Sunday, December 10, 2017

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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE


A new Bishop of Christchurch is appointed by Pope Francis
Pope Francis has appointed Father Paul Martin SM as the next Bishop of the Christchurch Diocese. Bishop-Elect Paul Martin will be the tenth Bishop of Christchurch and succeeds Bishop Barry Jones who died in February 2016 ...

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Aotearoa Catholic 
Youth Festival
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Aotearoa Catholic Youth Festival a roaring success (5 Dec 2017)
The Aotearoa Catholic Youth Festival came to a successful close last night after two packed days of festivity, dialogue and contemplation. The weekend of workshops, bishops' Q&A sessions, dance, art and performances drew a capacity crowd which basked in the sunny skies Auckland put on over the weekend...

Aotearoa Catholic Youth Festival – closing notes on Saturday (3 Dec 2017)
With over 650 attendees, the Aotearoa Catholic Youth Festival weekend of worship, discussion and performance got off to a hot start, under a beautiful blue Auckland sky. Some of the day's highlights included workshops on the work of the Catholic faith community, the state of our earth, relationships, and Q&A with a bishop! ...

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Father Paul Martin appointed new Catholic Bishop of Christchurch (photo)
A new Catholic Bishop of Christchurch has been appointed nearly two years after his predecessor's death. One of Father Paul Martin's key decisions will be to approve the restoration of the earthquake-damaged Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament. 

Life Story: Sister Lucy Duffy's faithful service and spirit (photo)
They say you can't choose your family, but Sister Lucy Duffy did. A woman of great compassion and kindness, Lucy dedicated her long life to serving God's work and helping those less fortunate than herself. The stalwart of the Roman Catholic Sisters of Mercy convent died at on November 23. She was 100 years old.

Keeping the faith: Documentary charting the strengthening of St Mary of Angels to premiere in Wellington  (text, photos, video report)
The seismic strengthening of the beautiful and historic St Mary of the Angels church in central Wellington has been captured in a new feature-length documentary which premieres this week in the capital.

Christmas carols to bring festive spirit to Tauranga waterfront (photo)
A Christmas nativity scene will come alive in Tauranga this weekend before the community is invited to remember the reason for the season. Carols on the Waterfront will be held at the Edgewater Fan (opposite Starbucks) on Sunday to mark Christmas among the community.

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News Of The Schools
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Campion makes pre-loved clothes fashionable (photo)
A group of Campion College students put on a fashion show with a difference on Monday. All the clothes were second hand from the Salvation Army Store.

Campion College 2017 achievers, prizewinners (photo)

Lower Hutt's Sacred Heart College to demolish quake-prone building (photos)
Students and staff at Lower Hutt's Sacred Heart College will say a fond farewell to the school's old administration block, Mission House.

St Kevin's College Service Award for pupils (photo)
Encouraging pupils to perform community service is the focus of an award programme at St Kevin's College. The St Kevin's College Service Award was inspired by the school's involvement in central government's Positive Behaviour For Learning programme.

David Tua delivers Christmas gifts to Otara children (video report)
RNZ Checkpoint's John Campbell at St John the Evangelist Catholic School today with David Tua:

Christmas comes early for children visiting the Blues
A group of 15 children from KidsCan partner school St Joseph's Catholic Primary School in Grey Lynn are preparing to join some of their Blues heroes at an afternoon training session on Wednesday.

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CRUX - Edited by John L. Allen Jr. and Inés San Martin


Crux in Kenya
This week, Crux's John Allen and Inés San Martín are in Kenya reporting on the situation facing Christians in one of Africa's bellwether nations, a trip made possible by the generosity of Aid to the Church in Need, a global papal foundation supporting the suffering Church around the world. 

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NEW ZEALAND CATHOLIC PERIODICALS & NEWSLETTERS (UPDATED JANUARY 2017)

'NZ Catholic' is a national newspaper published by the Catholic Bishop of Auckland. http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz 

Catholic Diocese of Hamilton. 'Kete Korero'. https://issuu.com/search?q=%22kete+korero%22

Catholic Dioceses of Palmerston North and Wellington. 'Wel-com'  http://www.welcom.org.nz

Catholic Diocese of Christchurch. 'Inform' http://www.chch.catholic.org.nz/?sid=25

Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. 'The Tablet' https://catholic-diocese.squarespace.com/back-issues

The Nathaniel Centre. The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report' http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/

NZ Catholic Education Office. School News Update  http://www.nzceo.org.nz/news/ UPDATED NOVEMBER 2017

Society of Mary. 'Marist Messenger' http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz

St Columban's Mission Society. 'The Far East' http://www.columban.org.au/?MID=200510192652

'Tui Motu Interislands'. An independent Catholic magazine. http://www.tuimotu.org/

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NEW ZEALAND COMMENTARIES ON THE SUNDAY READINGS

Fr Frank Bird sm. Living the Word: Sundays of the Year: Reflection Guide - http://livingtheword.org.nz

Marist Messenger. Daily Reflections (right-hand column) http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz

********************************************

FACEBOOK

The Catholic Church in Aotearoa New Zealand

'NZ Catholic' newspaper

Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand

Holy Cross Seminary

Marist Seminary, Auckland NZ

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NEWS OF THE CHURCH IN NZ AND THE WORLD







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EMPLOYMENT 

Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised on the Website of the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz

Vacancies in the Catholic Overseas Volunteer programme, contact: volunteers@caritas.org.nz 

Links to job vacancies in the Catholic dioceses of ...



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