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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE
Details of NZ speaking tour on Palestine by Brother Peter Bray FSC, Vice-Chancellor of Bethlehem University (2 February 2023)
Taranaki's Brother Peter Bray FSC, Vice-Chancellor of Bethlehem University, is making a speaking tour of Aotearoa-New Zealand's Catholic dioceses talking about how Kiwis can help bring peace to the Holy Land. Br Peter has been invited by the NZ Catholic Bishops Conference for a speaking tour of the six dioceses between 24 January and 9 February ...
Rebecca Taylor-Hunt the new director for Catholic Enquiry Centre (1 February 2023)
Rebecca Taylor-Hunt has been appointed Director of the Catholic Enquiry Centre, the agency of the NZ Catholic Bishops Conference dedicated to evangelising in Aotearoa New Zealand ...
NZCBC on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CatholicNZ/
** Today is the fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time. Pa Peter Tipene and the community of St Mary, Immaculate Conception in Avondale, Auckland lead us in praying Mass today at 2pm in the first Shine TV broadcast of 2023. Free-to-air Channel 25, SKY TV 201.
** Dozens of bishops are in Fiji this weekend for the quadrennial gathering of the Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences of Oceania to reflect on and pray about their shared mission in the region.
** Bishop Michael Gielen has started an Auckland flood relief appeal (video)
** Kia ora and welcome to Rebecca Taylor-Hunt, the new Director of the Catholic Enquiry Centre.
** Br Peter Bray -- the Kiwi vice-chancellor of Bethlehem University in the Holy Land -- continues his NZ speaking tour tonight in Christchurch at 7.30pm, Villa Maria College, Te Manawa Atawhai Catherine McAuley Centre, 21 Peer Street, Upper Riccarton. (video)
** Bishop Steve talks about the Auckland floods and the need for people to support the Catholic Caring flood appeal.
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
Church call to action as Pacific nations face 'life or death' struggle to survive climate change
BRISBANE Archbishop Mark Coleridge will join dozens of Church leaders from across Oceania for a five-day meeting in Fiji, with a clear agenda to help small Pacific Island nations struggling to survive climate change. Archbishop Coleridge said he was going "first of all as a gesture of solidarity, secondly to listen, and thirdly to ask how we can in Australia can pitch in to help". "Action is required because it is life or death for them," Archbishop Coleridge said as Australian bishops prepared for the meeting in Suva. The Federation of Catholic Bishops Conferences of Oceania from February 5-10 will bring together the bishops' conferences of Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea/Solomon Islands and the Pacific Islands to reflect on and pray about their shared mission in the region.
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Plain racism: why did Marist Brothers pay out less to Fijian victims than Kiwis?
For 40 years, Jerry Cataki was silent. But when he spoke up last year about the horrific abuse he suffered at the hands of two New Zealand religious brothers at his primary school in Suva, Fiji, he was offered just a fraction of the compensation a Kiwi survivor would receive.
Praying for a good price: 120-year-old Catholic church for sale
The impending sale of a 120-year-old Catholic Church in rural South Canterbury "typifies what has happened throughout rural areas", according to life-long parishoner Jim Anderson. "My father was 9 the day it was opened [in 1903]," the 85-year-old farmer said of the St Andrews Church in the St Andrews township, about 18km south of Timaru.
A new dawn and new era for college
As a new day dawned over Trinity Catholic College, it was hoped the first rays of light also marked the start of a new chapter for the troubled Dunedin high school. About 20 pupils, survivors of sexual abuse, and members of the community gathered at the school at 5am on Saturday for a blessing to mark the start of the first school year under its new name. The new name was chosen following an inquiry last year which concluded that the late Bishop John Kavanagh, after whom the college was named, did not act on a complaint of abuse when he was Bishop of Dunedin from 1957 to 1985.
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FIFTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - A
Today's Mass, celebrated by Pa Peter Tipene in the community of St Mary, Immaculate Conception in Avondale, Auckland can be viewed at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykFo5sBtDRs
Sunday Mass is also broadcast on Shine TV (Freeview channel 25) at 2 pm and live streamed at:
https://www.shinetv.co.nz/videos/live (only viewable in New Zealand).
New Zealand Commentaries on the Readings for the Second Sunday of the Year:
Inspired Word: A video reading and commentary on the gospel of the day, by Sister Stephanie Kitching.
Matthew 5:13-16 Salt and light
Sunday homilies of Fr Anthony Trenwith:
Marist Messenger. Daily Reflections: The Light Brigade
Marist Laity NZ. Living the Word: Sundays of the Year: Discussion Guide
5th Sunday Yr. A : Go, savour and light your world
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CRUX - Edited by John L. Allen Jr. and Inés San Martin
Pope Francis in Africa:
** Pope in Africa hails Christian unity as force for peace, antidote to tribalism
** Pope tells displaced persons they're 'seeds of a new South Sudan'
** Pope to pastors, religious: Stand with the people, no matter the risk
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EMPLOYMENT
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Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised on the Website of the Education Gazette:
Vacancies at Caritas Aotearoa:
Job vacancies in the Catholic dioceses of ...
Hamilton: https://www.cdh.org.nz/jobs
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THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
The six dioceses:
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New Zealand Catholic
Periodicals & Newsletters
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'NZ Catholic' is a national newspaper published by the Catholic Bishop of Auckland. https://nzcatholic.org.nz/
Catholic Diocese of Hamilton. 'Kete Korero'.
Catholic Dioceses of Palmerston North and Wellington. 'Wel-com' http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/welcom/
Catholic Diocese of Christchurch. 'Inform'
https://chchcatholic.nz/?sid=25 (Latest news - Latest Inform)
Catholic Diocese of Dunedin. Newsletter
The Nathaniel Centre. The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre. 'The Nathaniel Report' http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/
St Columban's Mission Society. 'The Far East'
Society of Mary. 'Marist Messenger'
Society of Saint Vincent de Paul NZ.
https://www.svdp.org.nz/resources/ Newsletters. News in Brief:
'Tui Motu Interislands'. An independent Catholic magazine.
https://tuimotu.org/ Scroll down to Articles, Explore More
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NZ Catholic Bishops' Conference
Catholic Discovery NZ (Catholic Enquiry Centre)
'NZ Catholic' newspaper
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand
Catholic Theological College
Holy Cross Seminary
Marist Seminary, Auckland NZ
Society of St Vincent de Paul NZ
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