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WEL-COM June 2003 Newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington and the Diocese of Palmerston North http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/wellington/
"A climate of change for parishes " Discussions continued and options were identified. Now we have to act. Four priests turned 75 last year, but elected to continue in their parishes. Two more will be 75 this year. Another priest retired from parish ministry. So 2003 is likely to be the last year in which we have a priest resident in each parish ...
"Land grab - A catalogue of abuse and dispossession of Wellington Maori during the 19th Century" At Wellington’s Pipitea Marae on 17 May, the Waitangi Tribunal released a long awaited report on land sales in the Port Nicholson Block. Called Te Whanganui a Tara Me Ona Takiwa, the report offers a detailed account of the way that Maori living in Wellington and the Hutt Valley lost their land to European settlers. It’s a story of greed, deceit and injustice perpetrated by those who saw themselves as civilized, cultured men....
** Adoptions: Special feature **
"Surprising opposition to adoption" The woman in charge of New Zealand’s adoption service, Mary Iwanek, is opposed to adoption
"Black tea and bread" For breakfast and dinner the children living in Georgian orphanages are given hot, black tea and a piece of bread ...
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Medjugorje News June 2003 http://www.homebusinesslink.com/issue30.html In this issue: Introduction ... The Medjugorje Story ... Our Lady's Messages ... From the Editor ... Excerpts from Medjugorje Press Bulletins ..... Excerpts from Children of Medjugorje ... Email from Fr Bohan, Zambia .... From a Zambian Prison .... Iraqi Visionary Explains... Review of Wellington Eucharistic Convention ... 20th Yearly Apparition of Mirjana Soldo ... The Rosary Crusade ... The Miracle Healing of Singer David Parkes ... A World-Wide Convention of Demons ... Kevin Mooney's Story ... Medjugorje Must be Recognised ... A Response to Criticism ... The Power of the Rosary .... Fr Schiffer of Hiroshima ... Divine Wonders of the Blessed Sacrament ... The Swap ... Of Exorcism, Angels and a Prayer
"Signpost to home", by Sheila Keefe The Tablet (UK) http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?tablet-00748 There are more inactive than active parishioners in any parish: 10 potential returning Catholics for every non-Catholic who is received into the Church. A large number of these would like to come back but do not believe they can; many of those who believe they can, do not know how. Build bridges to them, and your parish will swell. This is what happened in my parish of St Joseph’s, Upminster, in east London, back in 1995....
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"New Christian Party Registered" IRN 14/06/2003 http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,3779-2448974,00.html A new political party is now officially registered by the Electoral Commission. Destiny New Zealand is a Christian party, with its members initially drawn from the Destiny Church in Auckland....
Vow to block school Otago Daily Times 7-June 2003 http://tinyurl.com/eami Wanaka Primary School's board of trustees has vowed to pursue every avenue to stop a second primary school opening in the town. In a statement yesterday the board said the timing of the Catholic Diocese's announcement of a proposal to build a primary school in Wanaka was unfortunate and unproductive....
"School plan not threat to community's quest. Funding fears unfounded " ODT 9-June 2003 http://tinyurl.com/eamj A Catholic school will not be a threat to the Wanaka community's quest for seamless education, says Dunedin Catholic education office director Tony Hanning....
"Catholic Group Supports Prostitution Bill" IRN/Reuters 11/06/2003 http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,3779-2439969,00.html The Prostitution Reform Bill has guarded support in an unlikely quarter. As the bill comes before Parliament again today, the Catholic Women's League is standing by its belief that the sex industry should be decriminalised....
"Mel Gibson says his Christ film won't offend Jews and Roman Catholics" Associated Press Jun. 13, 2003 http://www.montereyherald.com/mld/montereyherald/news/6085231.htm Mel Gibson is cautioning Catholics and Jews not to jump to conclusions, promising his forthcoming film about Jesus Christ will "inspire, not offend" them....
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CARITAS AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
The New Zealand Catholic bishops' agency for justice peace and development has re-designed its Website, at http://www.caritas.org.nz
Its main sections include ... World JPD News ... Treaty of Waitangi ... Caritas around the World ... Social Justice Week ... Caritas in Schools (JPD resources for pupils and teachers) ... Caritas for Kids (activities for primary-age children) ... International Emergencies ... Caritas Update (illustrated newsletter) ... Links
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EVENTS
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
Sunday, June 15, 2003
Sunday, June 8, 2003
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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE -PASTORAL LETTER, CODE OF ETHICS
Following their May conference, the New Zealand Catholic bishops issued a Pastoral Letter on the Rosary : http://www.catholic.org.nz/news/rosary.htm In their letter - also available from Catholic Communications as a small brochure - the bishops suggest Scripture readings and prayers to accompany each of the four Mysteries (i.e. the traditional ones, and the new Mysteries of Light) in the light of Pope John Paul's recent Apostolic Letter recommending ways of obtaining the rosary's full spiritual benefits - Rosarium Virginis Mariae: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/
In a statement accompanying their new Code of Ethics for Church Volunteers http://www.catholic.org.nz/news/ethicschurchvol.htm - issued for the protection of the volunteers, of those whom they serve, and of the Church, - the bishops emphasise the importance and value of voluntary work to the Church's mission. They point out that in their work volunteers represent the Church and their words and actions are judged in the light of Church's faith and mission
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
"NZ Catholic" No 163, May 1 - 14, 2003 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
"NZ bishops publish letter on the Rosary " Wellington -The 10 Catholic bishops of New Zealand have published a letter outlining the reasons for and benefits of praying the Rosary...
"NZ Iraqis finally get their own priest " Auckland - New Zealand¹s Catholic Chaldeans and other Iraqi Catholics finally have their own priest. Fr Fawzi Koro arrived in Auckland in May after serving as a priest to Chaldean Catholics in Greece...
Old leather suitcase reveals forgotten letters from 1843 Auckland -It's the stuff of romantic novels -the find of a battered suitcase containing official letters by Church dignitaries dating back to 1843, about church lands and even a tabernacle key...
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"The Best Days, the Worst Days", by Michael McGirr Australian Catholics, Winter 2003 http://www.australiancatholics.com.au/articles/03winter1.html Melina Marchetta’s first novel, "Looking for Alibrandi", was one of the highest-selling novels by a first author of all time and had huge success as a film. Ten years later, she has released her next book. "Saving Francesca" is set in a world which she knows well. As in "Looking for Alibrandi", the book which made her name, she explores the lives of young people in their final years of Catholic schooling....
"Renewing the parish 1 : Fired by the Spirit" Cormac Murphy-O’Connor The Tablet (UK) Saturday, 31 May 2003 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?tablet-00745 The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster is convinced that small groups hold the key to parish renewal. This is the first article in a new Tablet series...
"From Vatican Two to today" : Address to Catalyst for Renewal's bishops' forum Archbishop George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney http://www.sydney.catholic.org.au/html/addresess/add_300503.htm "I am grateful to the Secretary and Committee of the Catalyst for Renewal for the invitation to speak to you. It is generally useful for Catholics to talk together about the work of Christ and the Church which is so dear to us all. Quite a few people suggested to me that I should not talk here because they wondered whether your agenda was the same as groups such as "We are Church" in Austria or "Call to Action" in the United States ... but I felt there was such good will and openness in the committee that came to invite me to this gathering that I was justified in speaking to you..." [Main topics of Archbishop Pell's address: 1962-1965 the Years of the Second Vatican Council ... The Achievements of Vatican II ... Where Are We Now? ... Conscience ... What Is To Be Done? ... Summing-up]
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"Heartening' interest in proposed school" Otago Daily Times Friday, 6-June 2003 (full text) The Catholic Diocese of Dunedin says it has had a heartening response from parents wanting to enrol their children in a new Wanaka Catholic school from next year. Dunedin Catholic Education Office director Tony Hanning said several expressions of interest had been received since a public meeting in Wanaka last week, attended by Bishop Len Boyle. "It is too early to speculate a number but certainly there's interest there and some from parents of pre-schoolers as well," Mr Hanning said when contacted on Wednesday. All the expressions of interest so far had come from families already living in Wanaka. Once Education Minister Trevor Mallard gives approval, the Catholic Education Office will begin negotiating a formal integration agreement with the Ministry of Education.
"Hokitika lotto winner gives away one-tenth of winnings " NZ Herald 02.06.2003 http://tinyurl.com/dq7s The anonymous Hokitika winner of the November 30 Lotto draw has given one-tenth of their winnings away. Christchurch Catholic Bishop John Cunneen said the winner of Lotto Draw 804 had donated the money to a trust to be known as the Saint Francis Charitable Trust....
"Future looking bright for Futuna" (photo) MyTown.co.nz: Wellington 05.06.2003 http://tinyurl.com/dq7t After two years obtaining a building permit the $20 million Futuna housing development on Karori’s Friend Street has properties on the market. With the historic Futuna Chapel as its centrepiece, Futuna [for fifty years, the Society of Mary's Wellington retreat centre - ML] is set in native bush and features well-appointed units ...
"Catholic Brother faces new charges" TVNZ Jun 06, 2003 http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,195824-1-7,00.html The number of charges against a former Catholic brother accused of sex abuse today rose to 31. Some 30 fresh charges were laid against Bernard Kevin McGrath in the Christchurch District Court....
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EVENTS
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE -PASTORAL LETTER, CODE OF ETHICS
Following their May conference, the New Zealand Catholic bishops issued a Pastoral Letter on the Rosary : http://www.catholic.org.nz/news/rosary.htm In their letter - also available from Catholic Communications as a small brochure - the bishops suggest Scripture readings and prayers to accompany each of the four Mysteries (i.e. the traditional ones, and the new Mysteries of Light) in the light of Pope John Paul's recent Apostolic Letter recommending ways of obtaining the rosary's full spiritual benefits - Rosarium Virginis Mariae: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_ii/apost_letters/
In a statement accompanying their new Code of Ethics for Church Volunteers http://www.catholic.org.nz/news/ethicschurchvol.htm - issued for the protection of the volunteers, of those whom they serve, and of the Church, - the bishops emphasise the importance and value of voluntary work to the Church's mission. They point out that in their work volunteers represent the Church and their words and actions are judged in the light of Church's faith and mission
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
"NZ Catholic" No 163, May 1 - 14, 2003 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
"NZ bishops publish letter on the Rosary " Wellington -The 10 Catholic bishops of New Zealand have published a letter outlining the reasons for and benefits of praying the Rosary...
"NZ Iraqis finally get their own priest " Auckland - New Zealand¹s Catholic Chaldeans and other Iraqi Catholics finally have their own priest. Fr Fawzi Koro arrived in Auckland in May after serving as a priest to Chaldean Catholics in Greece...
Old leather suitcase reveals forgotten letters from 1843 Auckland -It's the stuff of romantic novels -the find of a battered suitcase containing official letters by Church dignitaries dating back to 1843, about church lands and even a tabernacle key...
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"The Best Days, the Worst Days", by Michael McGirr Australian Catholics, Winter 2003 http://www.australiancatholics.com.au/articles/03winter1.html Melina Marchetta’s first novel, "Looking for Alibrandi", was one of the highest-selling novels by a first author of all time and had huge success as a film. Ten years later, she has released her next book. "Saving Francesca" is set in a world which she knows well. As in "Looking for Alibrandi", the book which made her name, she explores the lives of young people in their final years of Catholic schooling....
"Renewing the parish 1 : Fired by the Spirit" Cormac Murphy-O’Connor The Tablet (UK) Saturday, 31 May 2003 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?tablet-00745 The Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster is convinced that small groups hold the key to parish renewal. This is the first article in a new Tablet series...
"From Vatican Two to today" : Address to Catalyst for Renewal's bishops' forum Archbishop George Pell, Archbishop of Sydney http://www.sydney.catholic.org.au/html/addresess/add_300503.htm "I am grateful to the Secretary and Committee of the Catalyst for Renewal for the invitation to speak to you. It is generally useful for Catholics to talk together about the work of Christ and the Church which is so dear to us all. Quite a few people suggested to me that I should not talk here because they wondered whether your agenda was the same as groups such as "We are Church" in Austria or "Call to Action" in the United States ... but I felt there was such good will and openness in the committee that came to invite me to this gathering that I was justified in speaking to you..." [Main topics of Archbishop Pell's address: 1962-1965 the Years of the Second Vatican Council ... The Achievements of Vatican II ... Where Are We Now? ... Conscience ... What Is To Be Done? ... Summing-up]
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"Heartening' interest in proposed school" Otago Daily Times Friday, 6-June 2003 (full text) The Catholic Diocese of Dunedin says it has had a heartening response from parents wanting to enrol their children in a new Wanaka Catholic school from next year. Dunedin Catholic Education Office director Tony Hanning said several expressions of interest had been received since a public meeting in Wanaka last week, attended by Bishop Len Boyle. "It is too early to speculate a number but certainly there's interest there and some from parents of pre-schoolers as well," Mr Hanning said when contacted on Wednesday. All the expressions of interest so far had come from families already living in Wanaka. Once Education Minister Trevor Mallard gives approval, the Catholic Education Office will begin negotiating a formal integration agreement with the Ministry of Education.
"Hokitika lotto winner gives away one-tenth of winnings " NZ Herald 02.06.2003 http://tinyurl.com/dq7s The anonymous Hokitika winner of the November 30 Lotto draw has given one-tenth of their winnings away. Christchurch Catholic Bishop John Cunneen said the winner of Lotto Draw 804 had donated the money to a trust to be known as the Saint Francis Charitable Trust....
"Future looking bright for Futuna" (photo) MyTown.co.nz: Wellington 05.06.2003 http://tinyurl.com/dq7t After two years obtaining a building permit the $20 million Futuna housing development on Karori’s Friend Street has properties on the market. With the historic Futuna Chapel as its centrepiece, Futuna [for fifty years, the Society of Mary's Wellington retreat centre - ML] is set in native bush and features well-appointed units ...
"Catholic Brother faces new charges" TVNZ Jun 06, 2003 http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,195824-1-7,00.html The number of charges against a former Catholic brother accused of sex abuse today rose to 31. Some 30 fresh charges were laid against Bernard Kevin McGrath in the Christchurch District Court....
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EVENTS
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
Sunday, May 25, 2003
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
[The 'NZ Catholic' Website - http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz - was not functioning last night or this morning. I reported the problem to the paper's e-mail address, just in case. Hopefully all will be well by next weekend. Mike L.]
"The Far East" March 2003 http://www.columban.org.au/tfe/TFE_Current.htm Full text articles from the magazine of the New Zealand and Australian members of St Columban's Missionary Society...
Editorial: "A world focus on freshwater " The UN highlights a growing concern for all of us by declaring 2003 the International Year of Freshwater. The idea behind this initiative is to encourage people everywhere to become more aware of the need to be good stewards of our water resources. The lead given by the UN should help us to give our attention to the use and abuse of one of the most precious elements on earth....
"The gift of water" The Book of Job recommends learning from nature as a pathway to spiritual growth. Meditation on the gift of water as the source of life leads us to ponder our human actions in its use or abuse. It can lead us to develop the virtues of humility, justice and temperance and to shun their opposites, arrogance, greed and waste....
"A scarce resource" The water situation in the Middle East and North Africa today is precarious. Competition between adjacent countries for access to water resources is causing friction which could lead to outright hostilities in the future....
"Solidarity in action" The doll-making class of the Mother of Mercy Women's House in Lima, Peru, was beginning to look like "Santa's Workshop." The women from this shantytown were preparing an order to go to the parish of Parramatta, Australia, and they were making sure that everything was "just right" before the dolls were sent off. For most of these women, this was the first order they had for their dolls and it meant so much to them....
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"Trophy win a surprise for student " (photo) Manawatu Evening Standard 15 May 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/0,2106,2475509a6502,00.html Dallas Maru didn't think he had any chance of winning the scripture reading section of the O'Shea Catholic Secondary Schools competition. He wasn't even in the room for the announcement. But he didn't miss out on the official prizegiving, which was held at the end of the week-long competition, where he was presented with the Catherine McAuley Cup....
"The bells are ringing for 100 years of education " Rotorua Review 16 May 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/bayofplenty/0,2106,2477891a6663,00.html Former students now living throughout Australasia are to converge on the city next month for the centennial celebration of the Sisters of St Joseph and Catholic education in Rotorua....
"Hospice care the answer, meeting told " Manawatu Evening Standard 15 May 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/0,2106,2475503a6502,00.html Good hospice care takes a great deal of sting out of the euthanasia debate, according to speakers at a gathering in Palmerston North last night. About 40 people turned out for the session that was advertised as "not a debate", with a line-up of speakers generally opposed to the Death with Dignity Bill, due to be introduced to Parliament this month....
"Ex-brother appears in court on sex charge " 24 May 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2495872a11,00.html A former brother at St John of God's Marylands school has appeared in court charged with sodomy. The arrest of Bernard McGrath was the first in the police operation investigating brothers and staff at the Halswell residential school....
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EVENTS
July 6-10 2003 "Active 8 Celebrate" National Catholic Youth Event, Christchurch http://www.connect.org.nz/wazzup/index.html
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
[The 'NZ Catholic' Website - http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz - was not functioning last night or this morning. I reported the problem to the paper's e-mail address, just in case. Hopefully all will be well by next weekend. Mike L.]
"The Far East" March 2003 http://www.columban.org.au/tfe/TFE_Current.htm Full text articles from the magazine of the New Zealand and Australian members of St Columban's Missionary Society...
Editorial: "A world focus on freshwater " The UN highlights a growing concern for all of us by declaring 2003 the International Year of Freshwater. The idea behind this initiative is to encourage people everywhere to become more aware of the need to be good stewards of our water resources. The lead given by the UN should help us to give our attention to the use and abuse of one of the most precious elements on earth....
"The gift of water" The Book of Job recommends learning from nature as a pathway to spiritual growth. Meditation on the gift of water as the source of life leads us to ponder our human actions in its use or abuse. It can lead us to develop the virtues of humility, justice and temperance and to shun their opposites, arrogance, greed and waste....
"A scarce resource" The water situation in the Middle East and North Africa today is precarious. Competition between adjacent countries for access to water resources is causing friction which could lead to outright hostilities in the future....
"Solidarity in action" The doll-making class of the Mother of Mercy Women's House in Lima, Peru, was beginning to look like "Santa's Workshop." The women from this shantytown were preparing an order to go to the parish of Parramatta, Australia, and they were making sure that everything was "just right" before the dolls were sent off. For most of these women, this was the first order they had for their dolls and it meant so much to them....
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"Trophy win a surprise for student " (photo) Manawatu Evening Standard 15 May 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/0,2106,2475509a6502,00.html Dallas Maru didn't think he had any chance of winning the scripture reading section of the O'Shea Catholic Secondary Schools competition. He wasn't even in the room for the announcement. But he didn't miss out on the official prizegiving, which was held at the end of the week-long competition, where he was presented with the Catherine McAuley Cup....
"The bells are ringing for 100 years of education " Rotorua Review 16 May 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/bayofplenty/0,2106,2477891a6663,00.html Former students now living throughout Australasia are to converge on the city next month for the centennial celebration of the Sisters of St Joseph and Catholic education in Rotorua....
"Hospice care the answer, meeting told " Manawatu Evening Standard 15 May 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/0,2106,2475503a6502,00.html Good hospice care takes a great deal of sting out of the euthanasia debate, according to speakers at a gathering in Palmerston North last night. About 40 people turned out for the session that was advertised as "not a debate", with a line-up of speakers generally opposed to the Death with Dignity Bill, due to be introduced to Parliament this month....
"Ex-brother appears in court on sex charge " 24 May 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2495872a11,00.html A former brother at St John of God's Marylands school has appeared in court charged with sodomy. The arrest of Bernard McGrath was the first in the police operation investigating brothers and staff at the Halswell residential school....
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EVENTS
July 6-10 2003 "Active 8 Celebrate" National Catholic Youth Event, Christchurch http://www.connect.org.nz/wazzup/index.html
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
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Sunday, May 18, 2003
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CATHOLIC WEB TV
At http://www.catholic.tv.net .....
Pilgrims to World Youth Day in Vancouver last year recall the time they spent at centres for the homeless, street people and the mentaly ill in that city, and how their their view of social justice was affected.
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FROM THE SECULAR MEDIA
"Sacred Heart College is 100 years old" The Holmes Show - Friday May 16 (Video) http://tvone.nzoom.com/programmes/holmes/story.html?story_2003_archive.inc Sacred Heart College in Auckland is 100 years old this weekend. It has produced numerous All Blacks and great musicians; Holmes speaks to a few of them (and even let's a few of them speak) …
"Plan to use foetuses for drug research collapses " NZ Herald 17.05.2003 http://tinyurl.com/bz4k An international company's bid to use aborted New Zealand babies for controversial research foundered late yesterday when the Capital Coast Health Board suddenly withdrew its support....
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
Protecting children from Internet predators, by William J. Byron, S.J. http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/May2003/Feature1.asp Over the past several years I served on a committee to develop tools and strategies to protect children from pornography on the Internet. When the committee's work was done, I decided to try some of the strategies it had recommended at Holy Trinity Parish in Washington, D.C., where I am pastor ...
Papua New Guinea - evangelisation through song and dance: Saint Francis musical produced entirely by young people reaps huge success http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2003/0305/09_59.html
Mary As Seen by Orthodox, Protestants, and Catholics Round Table Reflects on "Mary and the Churches" http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=35611
Iraq - “Twelve years of UN sanctions reduced the Iraqi people to poverty but now we look with hope to the future” http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2003/0305/09_67.html
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AT THE LIBRARY
[Both of these titles are in the NZ public library system. If your local library hasn't got them, you can request them on interloan]
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Spirituality in Aotearoa New Zealand ... He kupu whakawairua : Catholic voices Edited by Helen Bergin and Susan Smith Auckland, N.Z. : Accent, 2002.
Fifteen well-known Catholic authors record their views on aspects on spirituality in New Zealand, among them: Henare Tate on Maori spirituality; Chris Duthie-Jung on whether young Catholics are wanted and welcome in the Church; Neil Darragh on the spirituality of the priesthood; Hugh Laracy on the Catholic Church's history in NZ; Ann Gilroy on Pakeha women's spirituality. Accompanying the Catholics' contributions are four responses from writers outside the Catholic church: Robyn McPhail, Maurice Andrew, Laurie Guy and Rosemary Neave.
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God and the world : believing and living in our time : a conversation between Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and Peter Seewald. Publisher San Francisco, Calif. : Ignatius, 2002.
[The publisher writes] During his years as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, well-known Vatican prelate Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger has given three in-depth interviews. The first two interviews have become best selling books: The Ratzinger Report and Salt of the Earth. Because of the tremendous reception those books received, the Cardinal agreed to do another interview with journalist Peter Seewald, who had done the very popular Salt of the Earth interview. This third in-depth interview addresses deep questions of faith and the living of that faith in the modern world.
The interview took place over three full days spent at the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino in a setting of the silence, prayer, and hospitality of the monks. The seasoned journalist, who had fallen away from the faith but eventually returned to the Church, once again provided a very stimulating, well-prepared series of wide-ranging questions on profound issues. The Cardinal responds with candor, frankness and deep insight, giving answers that are sometimes surprising and always thought provoking.
"When Cardinal Ratzinger sat opposite me in the Abbey and patiently recounted to me the Gospel and the belief of Christendom from the beginning of the world to its end, something of the mystery that holds the world together became more tangible. 'Creation itself', he said, 'bears within itself an ordered pattern from which we can understand the ideas of God — and even the right way to live.' " --- Peter Seewald
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EVENTS
July 6-10 2003 "Active 8 Celebrate" National Catholic Youth Event, Christchurch http://www.connect.org.nz/wazzup/index.html
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
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CATHOLIC WEB TV
At http://www.catholic.tv.net .....
Pilgrims to World Youth Day in Vancouver last year recall the time they spent at centres for the homeless, street people and the mentaly ill in that city, and how their their view of social justice was affected.
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FROM THE SECULAR MEDIA
"Sacred Heart College is 100 years old" The Holmes Show - Friday May 16 (Video) http://tvone.nzoom.com/programmes/holmes/story.html?story_2003_archive.inc Sacred Heart College in Auckland is 100 years old this weekend. It has produced numerous All Blacks and great musicians; Holmes speaks to a few of them (and even let's a few of them speak) …
"Plan to use foetuses for drug research collapses " NZ Herald 17.05.2003 http://tinyurl.com/bz4k An international company's bid to use aborted New Zealand babies for controversial research foundered late yesterday when the Capital Coast Health Board suddenly withdrew its support....
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
Protecting children from Internet predators, by William J. Byron, S.J. http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/May2003/Feature1.asp Over the past several years I served on a committee to develop tools and strategies to protect children from pornography on the Internet. When the committee's work was done, I decided to try some of the strategies it had recommended at Holy Trinity Parish in Washington, D.C., where I am pastor ...
Papua New Guinea - evangelisation through song and dance: Saint Francis musical produced entirely by young people reaps huge success http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2003/0305/09_59.html
Mary As Seen by Orthodox, Protestants, and Catholics Round Table Reflects on "Mary and the Churches" http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=35611
Iraq - “Twelve years of UN sanctions reduced the Iraqi people to poverty but now we look with hope to the future” http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2003/0305/09_67.html
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AT THE LIBRARY
[Both of these titles are in the NZ public library system. If your local library hasn't got them, you can request them on interloan]
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Spirituality in Aotearoa New Zealand ... He kupu whakawairua : Catholic voices Edited by Helen Bergin and Susan Smith Auckland, N.Z. : Accent, 2002.
Fifteen well-known Catholic authors record their views on aspects on spirituality in New Zealand, among them: Henare Tate on Maori spirituality; Chris Duthie-Jung on whether young Catholics are wanted and welcome in the Church; Neil Darragh on the spirituality of the priesthood; Hugh Laracy on the Catholic Church's history in NZ; Ann Gilroy on Pakeha women's spirituality. Accompanying the Catholics' contributions are four responses from writers outside the Catholic church: Robyn McPhail, Maurice Andrew, Laurie Guy and Rosemary Neave.
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God and the world : believing and living in our time : a conversation between Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger and Peter Seewald. Publisher San Francisco, Calif. : Ignatius, 2002.
[The publisher writes] During his years as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, well-known Vatican prelate Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger has given three in-depth interviews. The first two interviews have become best selling books: The Ratzinger Report and Salt of the Earth. Because of the tremendous reception those books received, the Cardinal agreed to do another interview with journalist Peter Seewald, who had done the very popular Salt of the Earth interview. This third in-depth interview addresses deep questions of faith and the living of that faith in the modern world.
The interview took place over three full days spent at the Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino in a setting of the silence, prayer, and hospitality of the monks. The seasoned journalist, who had fallen away from the faith but eventually returned to the Church, once again provided a very stimulating, well-prepared series of wide-ranging questions on profound issues. The Cardinal responds with candor, frankness and deep insight, giving answers that are sometimes surprising and always thought provoking.
"When Cardinal Ratzinger sat opposite me in the Abbey and patiently recounted to me the Gospel and the belief of Christendom from the beginning of the world to its end, something of the mystery that holds the world together became more tangible. 'Creation itself', he said, 'bears within itself an ordered pattern from which we can understand the ideas of God — and even the right way to live.' " --- Peter Seewald
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EVENTS
July 6-10 2003 "Active 8 Celebrate" National Catholic Youth Event, Christchurch http://www.connect.org.nz/wazzup/index.html
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
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Sunday, May 11, 2003
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GOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY -WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS
On the Website "Vocations.org.nz" - http://vocations.org.nz - Kiwi Catholic laypeople, priests and religious give personal testimonies about the the challenges and rewards of their respective vocations.
The main "Vocations" page on the NZ Catholic Bishops' Website -http://www.catholic.org.nz - has links to our bishops' pastoral letters on vocations to the priesthood and religious life, and to a directory of the more than forty religious orders active in New Zealand, with links to their Websites.
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
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'NZ Catholic' No 161, May 4 - 17, 2003 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
"Hundreds enter Church at Easter " Several hundred people In New Zealand were welcomed into the Church at Easter...
"Wanganui women take initiative over euthanasia " More than 350 people attended a successful public forum on euthanasia on April 23, organised by two local women who had become tired of the publicity being received by pro-euthanasia advocates...
"Chemical abortions approved by court " The threat against unborn babies has grown with a High Court judgement by Judge Eddie Durie on April 10...
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'Marist Messenger', May 2003 http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
Full text: ** May Focus - Is there a void? Is there something or someone missing? ** New Zealand's first priest - Fr Catherin Louis Servant sm ** That Sunday Sermon : How to profit from sermons, good, bad and mediocre ** A minute with Fr Paddy Cahill ** Marist Spirituality - Tasting God
From the world's online Catholic media (links): Protecting children from Internet predators ... We are a resurrection people ... Gardening with Mary ... Stuck between rainbow and the cross... Good stewards of the earth ... Finding a busy God
This Months Recommended Links: Bible Study: A Catholic Approach ... The National Catholic Rural Life Conference ... Photo-Poetry essay ... The Passion of Jesus ... Music That Inspires
Also in the print edition : The Immaculate Conception ... My problem with Free Will ... Sigrid Undset - a Catholic author ... The Cure of Ars - a model priest ... Eucharistic Adoration ... The Truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. ... What is Our Lady's crown in heaven? ... Message for World Mission Day
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'Wel-com' May 2003 http://www.welcom.org.nz/
Fr Timothy Radcliffe's challenging reflections on the Holocaust and 11 September ... Wel-com survey reveals high level of satisfaction among our readers ... Chrism Mass reflection on crises faced by today's clergy, by Cardinal Williams ... Do we as parents hold back on vocations? ... Should I stay or should I go? [recollections of a former seminarian] ... Suppressing freedom of speech [breast cancer and abortion] ... Making connections between disability and spirituality ... Elective Caesarean sections are becoming an extension of a woman's right to choose ... Making time for God ... Iraqi Christians pleased over Saddam’s fall but fear for future ... Baby teeth offer another effective source of stem cells ... Mahitahi - a revised agency of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops' Conference ... “Ecclesia de Eucharistia” — the Pope’s 14th and most personal encyclical... Otago academic challenges allegations made against the Catholic Church [Holocaust author Daniel Goldhagen's interview by Linda Clark]... When transnational companies patent GM seeds ... Courts open the way for chemical abortion in N.Z.
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Priests and People (UK) May 2003 http://www.priestsandpeople.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?priestsppl-00086
"Kitsch, culture and the laughing Madonna", by Tina Beattie [Tina Beattie, author of the recent book God’s Mother, Eve’s advocate,* teaches theology at Digby Stuart College, University of Surrey, Roehampton. Here she describes her move from a Protestant upbringing which was suspicious of Mary to a Catholicism whose symbolic femininity ‘led me for the first time to seriously consider the significance of being a woman in the eyes of God’.]
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"Legendary Haast horseman " Otago Daily Times Saturday, 3-May 2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf53 On Wednesday the funeral cortege of Haast cattle drover and horseman Kevin Nolan was led from Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church by musterer daughter Anne Nolan on horseback. Her father was one of the last links to pioneer days in the South Westland region...
"Queenstown becomes Godzone" (photo) ODT Friday, 9-May 2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf5c Queenstown is blessed this week with the presence of 10 Catholic bishops, who are in the resort for a national conference. The Catholic Bishops Conference, representing all six New Zealand dioceses, had spent five days discussing "a broad spectrum" of issues, Bishop Peter Cullinane, of Palmerston North, said yesterday....
"Catholic priests at first assembly " ODT Saturday, 3-May 2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf5e Half of Dunedin's active Roman Catholic priests are attending the first national assembly of New Zealand's catholic clergy. The 25 priests, including the Bishop of Dunedin, the Most Rev Len Boyle, are attending a five-day gathering in Blenheim this week....
"Gay men in bid for surrogate's baby " NZ Herald 08.05.2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf5g New Zealand's first application by two gay men to have a surrogate's baby will force authorities to decide on the rights of the child to have a mother.... [The report includes a statement on the issue by John Kleinsman, spokesman for the Nathaniel Catholic Bioethics Centre]
"Trips into the dark explore what it means to be human " ODT Saturday, 3-May 2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf58 Wellington author Elizabeth Knox drew on nightmares and deep-seated fears to nourish her latest novel about vampires in France. But the award-winning author is not scared what people will think of her new novel, Daylight , which uses Catholic saints, priests and traditions to tell her story about a New Zealand man who falls in love with a vampire in France....
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CATHOLIC WEB TV
Wellington Archdiocesan Media Centre: "Catholictv.net" http://www.catholictv.net
In this week's site preview (which starts automatically when you open the Catholictv.net home page), there's an extended a preview of a forthcoming report about the national assembly of priests at Blenheim a week ago. Also on the site this week ...
*** Bishop John Dew message for Good Shepherd Sunday, the World Day of Prayer for Vocations
*** John Kleinsman of Wellington's Nathaniel Catholic Bioethics Centre talks about the proposed euthanasia bill.
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EVENTS
July 6-10 2003 "Active 8 Celebrate" National Catholic Youth Event, Christchurch http://www.connect.org.nz/wazzup/index.html
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
*************************************
GOOD SHEPHERD SUNDAY -WORLD DAY OF PRAYER FOR VOCATIONS
On the Website "Vocations.org.nz" - http://vocations.org.nz - Kiwi Catholic laypeople, priests and religious give personal testimonies about the the challenges and rewards of their respective vocations.
The main "Vocations" page on the NZ Catholic Bishops' Website -http://www.catholic.org.nz - has links to our bishops' pastoral letters on vocations to the priesthood and religious life, and to a directory of the more than forty religious orders active in New Zealand, with links to their Websites.
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
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'NZ Catholic' No 161, May 4 - 17, 2003 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
"Hundreds enter Church at Easter " Several hundred people In New Zealand were welcomed into the Church at Easter...
"Wanganui women take initiative over euthanasia " More than 350 people attended a successful public forum on euthanasia on April 23, organised by two local women who had become tired of the publicity being received by pro-euthanasia advocates...
"Chemical abortions approved by court " The threat against unborn babies has grown with a High Court judgement by Judge Eddie Durie on April 10...
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'Marist Messenger', May 2003 http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
Full text: ** May Focus - Is there a void? Is there something or someone missing? ** New Zealand's first priest - Fr Catherin Louis Servant sm ** That Sunday Sermon : How to profit from sermons, good, bad and mediocre ** A minute with Fr Paddy Cahill ** Marist Spirituality - Tasting God
From the world's online Catholic media (links): Protecting children from Internet predators ... We are a resurrection people ... Gardening with Mary ... Stuck between rainbow and the cross... Good stewards of the earth ... Finding a busy God
This Months Recommended Links: Bible Study: A Catholic Approach ... The National Catholic Rural Life Conference ... Photo-Poetry essay ... The Passion of Jesus ... Music That Inspires
Also in the print edition : The Immaculate Conception ... My problem with Free Will ... Sigrid Undset - a Catholic author ... The Cure of Ars - a model priest ... Eucharistic Adoration ... The Truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable. ... What is Our Lady's crown in heaven? ... Message for World Mission Day
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'Wel-com' May 2003 http://www.welcom.org.nz/
Fr Timothy Radcliffe's challenging reflections on the Holocaust and 11 September ... Wel-com survey reveals high level of satisfaction among our readers ... Chrism Mass reflection on crises faced by today's clergy, by Cardinal Williams ... Do we as parents hold back on vocations? ... Should I stay or should I go? [recollections of a former seminarian] ... Suppressing freedom of speech [breast cancer and abortion] ... Making connections between disability and spirituality ... Elective Caesarean sections are becoming an extension of a woman's right to choose ... Making time for God ... Iraqi Christians pleased over Saddam’s fall but fear for future ... Baby teeth offer another effective source of stem cells ... Mahitahi - a revised agency of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops' Conference ... “Ecclesia de Eucharistia” — the Pope’s 14th and most personal encyclical... Otago academic challenges allegations made against the Catholic Church [Holocaust author Daniel Goldhagen's interview by Linda Clark]... When transnational companies patent GM seeds ... Courts open the way for chemical abortion in N.Z.
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Priests and People (UK) May 2003 http://www.priestsandpeople.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?priestsppl-00086
"Kitsch, culture and the laughing Madonna", by Tina Beattie [Tina Beattie, author of the recent book God’s Mother, Eve’s advocate,* teaches theology at Digby Stuart College, University of Surrey, Roehampton. Here she describes her move from a Protestant upbringing which was suspicious of Mary to a Catholicism whose symbolic femininity ‘led me for the first time to seriously consider the significance of being a woman in the eyes of God’.]
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"Legendary Haast horseman " Otago Daily Times Saturday, 3-May 2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf53 On Wednesday the funeral cortege of Haast cattle drover and horseman Kevin Nolan was led from Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church by musterer daughter Anne Nolan on horseback. Her father was one of the last links to pioneer days in the South Westland region...
"Queenstown becomes Godzone" (photo) ODT Friday, 9-May 2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf5c Queenstown is blessed this week with the presence of 10 Catholic bishops, who are in the resort for a national conference. The Catholic Bishops Conference, representing all six New Zealand dioceses, had spent five days discussing "a broad spectrum" of issues, Bishop Peter Cullinane, of Palmerston North, said yesterday....
"Catholic priests at first assembly " ODT Saturday, 3-May 2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf5e Half of Dunedin's active Roman Catholic priests are attending the first national assembly of New Zealand's catholic clergy. The 25 priests, including the Bishop of Dunedin, the Most Rev Len Boyle, are attending a five-day gathering in Blenheim this week....
"Gay men in bid for surrogate's baby " NZ Herald 08.05.2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf5g New Zealand's first application by two gay men to have a surrogate's baby will force authorities to decide on the rights of the child to have a mother.... [The report includes a statement on the issue by John Kleinsman, spokesman for the Nathaniel Catholic Bioethics Centre]
"Trips into the dark explore what it means to be human " ODT Saturday, 3-May 2003 http://tinyurl.com/bf58 Wellington author Elizabeth Knox drew on nightmares and deep-seated fears to nourish her latest novel about vampires in France. But the award-winning author is not scared what people will think of her new novel, Daylight , which uses Catholic saints, priests and traditions to tell her story about a New Zealand man who falls in love with a vampire in France....
**********************************
CATHOLIC WEB TV
Wellington Archdiocesan Media Centre: "Catholictv.net" http://www.catholictv.net
In this week's site preview (which starts automatically when you open the Catholictv.net home page), there's an extended a preview of a forthcoming report about the national assembly of priests at Blenheim a week ago. Also on the site this week ...
*** Bishop John Dew message for Good Shepherd Sunday, the World Day of Prayer for Vocations
*** John Kleinsman of Wellington's Nathaniel Catholic Bioethics Centre talks about the proposed euthanasia bill.
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EVENTS
July 6-10 2003 "Active 8 Celebrate" National Catholic Youth Event, Christchurch http://www.connect.org.nz/wazzup/index.html
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
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Sunday, May 4, 2003
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
'Wel-com'
http://www.welcom.org.nz
After occupying a page of the Wellington Archdiocesan Website for several years, 'Wel-com' - the monthly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington and the Diocese of Palmerston North - has now opened its own Website.
The home page displays an opinion poll - currently: "Should all shops be open on Good Friday and Easter Sunday?" - columns by Cardinal Williams and Palmerston North's Bishop Peter Cullinane, and the full text of ten articles from Wel-com's print edition (headings follow; as new articles appear, I'll mention them in News & Notes - ML) ....
Painful times for the Iraqi community living in Wellington ... [five articles on euthanasia and the draft Death with Dignity Bill] ... A cry from the heart, by the Leaders of Christian Communities in Iraq ... Marist brother who arrived with Bishop Pompallier honoured ... “Yeah –right!” We see it on billboards. What does it mean? ... A family-centred approach to sex education ... Child Poverty Action report a challenge to concerned New Zealanders
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CATHOLIC WEB TV
Wellington Archdocesan Media Cetnre. 'Catholictv.net ' http://catholictv.net
** Bishop John Dew: The fortieth World Day of Prayer for Vocations
** Br Pat Lynch, NZ Catholic Education Office: the Education Report, including news on the upcoming Catholic Schools Conference.
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IRAQ
Iraqi Christian Leaders want a Constitution that recognizes religious liberty http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=34761
Caritas convoy leaving for Baghdad http://www.cathnews.com/news/305/9.php
Iraqi bishop tells US troops: Help us but leave quickly http://www.cathnews.com/news/304/147.php
Priest warns about danger of an Islamic State in Iraq http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=34696
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"National anthems " INL 27 April 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2432043a1860,00.html On the eve of New Zealand Music Month, Kim Knight asks prominent Kiwis to name the songs that mean the most to them.... [includes a comment by Bishop Cunneen about his favourite, the National Anthem! ]
"The secret is out" (photo) Otago Daily Times 2-May 2003 http://www.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/search-display-story-online-new?date=02May2003&obje\ ct=HTF31B9638EC&type=html&WORDS=catholic&DB=Editorial From the street front, the Green Island school looks much like it always has, nestled next to St Peter Chanel Catholic church, which has received its own garden acclaim in a Keep Dunedin Beautiful award. Visitors to the school, however, may be invited into a "Secret Garden", where ceramic angels, cats and numerous gnomes keep a careful watch over young vegetable and decorative plants....
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BIOETHICS
Nathaniel (Catholic Bioethics) Centre: 'The Nathaniel Report' Issue Nine - April 2003 http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/nr_issue_9.html
Editorial: Listening to the Culture (full text on the Website) Arguments in bioethics based on the right to self-determination inevitably ignore the societal implications of people’s "private" choices. In New Zealand law-makers need to consider the way in which the issue of euthanasia intersects with the broader societal context.
Also in the print edition ...
Toi Te Taiao – The Bioethics Council The Bioethics Council is a Ministerial Advisory Committee that reports to the New Zealand government through the Minister for the Environment. Its establishment is a recommendation of the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification. This article introduces the terms, goals and members of the Council.
The Experience of Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands and in the State of Oregon (USA) – What can we learn? The very real dangers associated with the legalisation of assisted suicide or euthanasia are evidenced by the emphasis its proponents place on the need for safeguards. This article draws on official research to show that, overseas, apparently strict criteria fail to prevent abuse.
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, Disability and a Catholic Ethic of Caring From a Catholic perspective the over riding concern regarding Genetic Testing relates to the intrinsic dignity of the embryo. Yet deeper reflection shows there are also other concerns that point to the need for strong legislative parameters around the use of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis for the sake of a caring society in which difference and diversity are celebrated.
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EVENTS
July 6-10 2003 "Active 8 Celebrate" National Catholic Youth Event, Christchurch http://www.connect.org.nz/wazzup/index.html
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
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WEBSITES FOR YOUNG KIWI CATHOLICS
National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz
+ Connect = "Home of the young Church in New Zealand" http://www.connect.org.nz
Crumbs Youth Ministry Resources http://www.youthministry.org.nz Includes the online version of the Aotearoa New Zealand Youth Ministry Magazine, published by Churches Youth Ministry Association (CYMA)
Auckland Catholic Youth Ministry http://akyouth.org.nz
Christchurch Catholic Youth Team http://cyt.org.nz
St Mark's and Our Lady Star of the Sea, Pakuranga-Howick (SMOSS) Catholic Youth Ministry Web Site http://www.smoss.org.nz
Young Adults group in Northcote, Auckland http://www.triumph.net.nz
Jesus 4 Real http://www.jesus4real.org.nz/ (new URL) A voluntary group of adults bringing the reality of Jesus to Catholic teenagers, and to training of adult leaders for Catholic youth work, through camps and seminars.
Marist Brothers' youth and young adult ministries http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz
Lasallian Vocations and Youth Ministry in Australia and New Zealand http://vocym.org Lasallian Youth Gathering, Auckland, 2003 http://lyg03.com
Young Vinnies http://youngvinnies.org.nz Youth division of the St Vincent de Paul Society
********* Tertiary educational institutes' chaplaincies ********
Auckland University chaplains http://www.auckland.ac.nz/cir_students/index.cfm?action=display_page&page_title=\ worship
Auckland University of Technology: Chaplains http://www.aut.ac.nz/services_and_facilities/chaplains/index.shtml
Lincoln University Student Support Services: Chaplaincy and Counselling: http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/stusrvc/health/chaplain.htm
Massey University, Palmerston North: Chaplaincy services http://albany.massey.ac.nz/dept/ss/index.htm (link 'Chaplaincy' left column)
University of Otago: Campus Chaplaincy http://telperion.otago.ac.nz/Chaplain/
Victoria University, Wellington: Catholic chaplaincy http://www3.vuw.ac.nz/chaplains/kohanga.php
FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
'Wel-com'
http://www.welcom.org.nz
After occupying a page of the Wellington Archdiocesan Website for several years, 'Wel-com' - the monthly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington and the Diocese of Palmerston North - has now opened its own Website.
The home page displays an opinion poll - currently: "Should all shops be open on Good Friday and Easter Sunday?" - columns by Cardinal Williams and Palmerston North's Bishop Peter Cullinane, and the full text of ten articles from Wel-com's print edition (headings follow; as new articles appear, I'll mention them in News & Notes - ML) ....
Painful times for the Iraqi community living in Wellington ... [five articles on euthanasia and the draft Death with Dignity Bill] ... A cry from the heart, by the Leaders of Christian Communities in Iraq ... Marist brother who arrived with Bishop Pompallier honoured ... “Yeah –right!” We see it on billboards. What does it mean? ... A family-centred approach to sex education ... Child Poverty Action report a challenge to concerned New Zealanders
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CATHOLIC WEB TV
Wellington Archdocesan Media Cetnre. 'Catholictv.net ' http://catholictv.net
** Bishop John Dew: The fortieth World Day of Prayer for Vocations
** Br Pat Lynch, NZ Catholic Education Office: the Education Report, including news on the upcoming Catholic Schools Conference.
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IRAQ
Iraqi Christian Leaders want a Constitution that recognizes religious liberty http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=34761
Caritas convoy leaving for Baghdad http://www.cathnews.com/news/305/9.php
Iraqi bishop tells US troops: Help us but leave quickly http://www.cathnews.com/news/304/147.php
Priest warns about danger of an Islamic State in Iraq http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=34696
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"National anthems " INL 27 April 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2432043a1860,00.html On the eve of New Zealand Music Month, Kim Knight asks prominent Kiwis to name the songs that mean the most to them.... [includes a comment by Bishop Cunneen about his favourite, the National Anthem! ]
"The secret is out" (photo) Otago Daily Times 2-May 2003 http://www.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/search-display-story-online-new?date=02May2003&obje\ ct=HTF31B9638EC&type=html&WORDS=catholic&DB=Editorial From the street front, the Green Island school looks much like it always has, nestled next to St Peter Chanel Catholic church, which has received its own garden acclaim in a Keep Dunedin Beautiful award. Visitors to the school, however, may be invited into a "Secret Garden", where ceramic angels, cats and numerous gnomes keep a careful watch over young vegetable and decorative plants....
**************************************
BIOETHICS
Nathaniel (Catholic Bioethics) Centre: 'The Nathaniel Report' Issue Nine - April 2003 http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/nr_issue_9.html
Editorial: Listening to the Culture (full text on the Website) Arguments in bioethics based on the right to self-determination inevitably ignore the societal implications of people’s "private" choices. In New Zealand law-makers need to consider the way in which the issue of euthanasia intersects with the broader societal context.
Also in the print edition ...
Toi Te Taiao – The Bioethics Council The Bioethics Council is a Ministerial Advisory Committee that reports to the New Zealand government through the Minister for the Environment. Its establishment is a recommendation of the Royal Commission on Genetic Modification. This article introduces the terms, goals and members of the Council.
The Experience of Assisted Suicide in the Netherlands and in the State of Oregon (USA) – What can we learn? The very real dangers associated with the legalisation of assisted suicide or euthanasia are evidenced by the emphasis its proponents place on the need for safeguards. This article draws on official research to show that, overseas, apparently strict criteria fail to prevent abuse.
Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis, Disability and a Catholic Ethic of Caring From a Catholic perspective the over riding concern regarding Genetic Testing relates to the intrinsic dignity of the embryo. Yet deeper reflection shows there are also other concerns that point to the need for strong legislative parameters around the use of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis for the sake of a caring society in which difference and diversity are celebrated.
*************************************
EVENTS
July 6-10 2003 "Active 8 Celebrate" National Catholic Youth Event, Christchurch http://www.connect.org.nz/wazzup/index.html
August 14-16 2003 New Zealand Catholic Schools' Convention Wellington Festival and Convention Centre http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/2003convention.shtml
*************************************
WEBSITES FOR YOUNG KIWI CATHOLICS
National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz
+ Connect = "Home of the young Church in New Zealand" http://www.connect.org.nz
Crumbs Youth Ministry Resources http://www.youthministry.org.nz Includes the online version of the Aotearoa New Zealand Youth Ministry Magazine, published by Churches Youth Ministry Association (CYMA)
Auckland Catholic Youth Ministry http://akyouth.org.nz
Christchurch Catholic Youth Team http://cyt.org.nz
St Mark's and Our Lady Star of the Sea, Pakuranga-Howick (SMOSS) Catholic Youth Ministry Web Site http://www.smoss.org.nz
Young Adults group in Northcote, Auckland http://www.triumph.net.nz
Jesus 4 Real http://www.jesus4real.org.nz/ (new URL) A voluntary group of adults bringing the reality of Jesus to Catholic teenagers, and to training of adult leaders for Catholic youth work, through camps and seminars.
Marist Brothers' youth and young adult ministries http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz
Lasallian Vocations and Youth Ministry in Australia and New Zealand http://vocym.org Lasallian Youth Gathering, Auckland, 2003 http://lyg03.com
Young Vinnies http://youngvinnies.org.nz Youth division of the St Vincent de Paul Society
********* Tertiary educational institutes' chaplaincies ********
Auckland University chaplains http://www.auckland.ac.nz/cir_students/index.cfm?action=display_page&page_title=\ worship
Auckland University of Technology: Chaplains http://www.aut.ac.nz/services_and_facilities/chaplains/index.shtml
Lincoln University Student Support Services: Chaplaincy and Counselling: http://www.lincoln.ac.nz/stusrvc/health/chaplain.htm
Massey University, Palmerston North: Chaplaincy services http://albany.massey.ac.nz/dept/ss/index.htm (link 'Chaplaincy' left column)
University of Otago: Campus Chaplaincy http://telperion.otago.ac.nz/Chaplain/
Victoria University, Wellington: Catholic chaplaincy http://www3.vuw.ac.nz/chaplains/kohanga.php
Sunday, April 27, 2003
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
'NZ Catholic' No 160, April 20, 2003
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Caritas launches appeal for Iraqi victims
Embrace Muslims, Christians urged
"Christians need to reach out to Muslims as the very first priority if we are to stop the world blowing apart," says Fr Timothy Radcliffe, OP...
Catholic Schools Day attracts attention
Innovative ways of celebrating Catholic Schools Day on April 2 caught the attention of the secular media in different parts of New Zealand....
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Faith-based unit to open at Rimutaka Prison
INL 26 April 2003
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2428678a11,00.html
Prison authorities have seen the light – they will open a 60-bed "faith-based" unit at Rimutaka Prison, Upper Hutt, later this year. Christian organisation Prison Fellowship will run an interdenominational 18-month intensive religious programme involving mainstream Christian churches focussed on getting inmates to confront the harm they had caused others through their crimes....
Easter Sunday marked by good attendances,
By Rebecca Fox
Otago Daily Times (full text) 21 April 2003
http://www.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/search-display-story-online-new?date=21Apr2003&obje\
ct=HKH51F3647EF&type=html&WORDS=catholic&DB=Editorial
Good crowds turned out to Dunedin's major churches to celebrate the most significant day of the Christian calendar yesterday...
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
'NZ Catholic' No 160, April 20, 2003
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Caritas launches appeal for Iraqi victims
Embrace Muslims, Christians urged
"Christians need to reach out to Muslims as the very first priority if we are to stop the world blowing apart," says Fr Timothy Radcliffe, OP...
Catholic Schools Day attracts attention
Innovative ways of celebrating Catholic Schools Day on April 2 caught the attention of the secular media in different parts of New Zealand....
**********************************
FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Faith-based unit to open at Rimutaka Prison
INL 26 April 2003
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2428678a11,00.html
Prison authorities have seen the light – they will open a 60-bed "faith-based" unit at Rimutaka Prison, Upper Hutt, later this year. Christian organisation Prison Fellowship will run an interdenominational 18-month intensive religious programme involving mainstream Christian churches focussed on getting inmates to confront the harm they had caused others through their crimes....
Easter Sunday marked by good attendances,
By Rebecca Fox
Otago Daily Times (full text) 21 April 2003
http://www.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/search-display-story-online-new?date=21Apr2003&obje\
ct=HKH51F3647EF&type=html&WORDS=catholic&DB=Editorial
Good crowds turned out to Dunedin's major churches to celebrate the most significant day of the Christian calendar yesterday...
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