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25TH ANNIVERSARY OF POPE JOHN PAUL'S PONTIFICATE
On Friday, some 50,000 people filled St. Peter's Square for the Mass commemorating the 25th anniversary of the election of Karol Wojtyla to the See of Rome, the first non-Italian pope in 455 years. This page has a comprehensive a selection of links to press reports and photos of the celebrations: http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=world&cat=pope_john_paul_ii
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BEATIFICATION OF MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA
This (Sunday) evening our time, Pope John Paul will beatify Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Links to press and video reports and photos of the event will appear here: http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?c=&p=mother+teresa
The beatifaction ceremony will be broadcast live on the Internet by EWTN, and repeated several times thereafter. The first (live) broadcast is likely be interrupted because of the world-wide demand for the video. Viewers in New Zealand will very likely get a smoother "stream" with one of the repeat broadcasts.
At: http://www.ewtn.com/tv/click on "Watch EWTN Live" to select your viewer and connection speed ("28 to 100K" for most of us).
Broadcast times (NZ standard time): Live broadcast: Sunday 9pm ... Repeat broadcasts on Monday at 5am ... 11am ... 5pm .
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CONSISTORY OF THE COLLEGE OF CARDINALS 21 October 2003
On 21 October, the College of Cardinals will assemble in Rome where Pope John Paul will formally appoint 31 new members. This article includes a background paragraph about each of the new cardinals: http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/word100303.htm
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MISSION SUNDAY 2003
A special collection is made this Sunday on behalf of the three Pontifical Mission Societies: Propagation of the Faith, St Peter the Apostle and Holy Childhood. The Societies are the main financial support of Catholic missions worldwide. Their distinctive roles and recent activities are described on their Website: http://www.missio.net
St Columban's Mission Society sends missionaries from Australia and New Zealand to Asia, the Pacific and Latin America. The Society's Website at http://www.columban.org.au has comprehensive details of its missions and other projects, and - in articles from its magazine 'The Far East'-http://www.columban.org.au/tfe/TFE_fp.htm - first-person reports by missionaries in the field.
Maryknoll missioners from the United States work in Africa, Asia and Latin America. In a series of 13 video reports here: http://www.catholic.org/cathcom/maryknoll/field_afar/maryknoll.php they tell the stories of the people they serve.
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS SERVICES
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'NZ Catholic' No 172, October 4-18, 2003 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
Bishops seek to limit harm caused by IVF WELLINGTON - Assisted reproductive technology is acceptable only between a husband and wife in very specific circumstances, New Zealand's Catholic bishops say in a submission on the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Bill...
Parishes affirmed in Auckland Survey AUCKLAND - People in Auckland diocese want to worship in their own parish communities rather than travel to large regional churches for Sunday Mass....
Collegial tone at liturgical music conference AUCKLAND - Those who organised the Worshipping Under Southern Skies conference in Auckland last month might have ended the weekend exhausted, but could also feel satisfied. ...
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'Do-it-Yourself parish', by Christopher Lamb The Tablet 11/10/2003 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi?tablet-00791 Many parishes now lack resident priests. Will they be run by resident lay people? One parish in the diocese of Hexham and Newcastle shows the way ahead...
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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE
Media Releases http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
** Opportunity to email Silver Jubilee greetings to Pope John Paul II (16 Oct 2003) ** Pilgrimage to honour Pope's Silver Anniversary (15 Oct 2003) ** New Zealand Catholics honour Pope’s Silver Jubilee (15 Oct 2003) ** NZ's Anglican and Catholic bishops on detention of Ahmed Zaoui (14 Oct 2003)
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
My will be done, says Speaker NZ Herald 17.10.2003 http://tinyurl.com/rdqs MPs yesterday rejected proposals to replace Parliament's humble daily appeal to God, and anyone trying to end the ritual hasn't a prayer while Jonathan Hunt is Speaker. But Progressive MP Matt Robson is determined to pursue the matter and will now ask the Human Rights Commission to investigate....
NZ Pays Tribute To Pope NewstalkZB News 16/10/2003 (full text) The head of the Catholic Church in New Zealand has paid tribute to Pope John Paul II, who today celebrates 25 years as Pope. Around 200 people met in Wellington's Cathedral of the Sacred Heart for a Mass celebrating the Pope's anniversary. The Mass was led by Cardinal Thomas Williams and was also attended by the Pope's representative in New Zealand, Archbishop Coveney. Cardinal Williams told the congregation that, despite his physical frailty, the Pope still showed significant intellectual and spiritual prowess. He said that the Pope's early years as a forced labourer, his poetry writing and his stint as a University lecturer all shaped the leader he has become. He also paid tribute to the Pope's initiation of gatherings for young Catholics from around the world.
Derelict Wellington church building gutted by fire NZ Herald 16.10.2003 (full text) A derelict church building in Wellington was gutted by fire today. The former Holy Family Catholic church building at the corner of Webb and Willis streets in the city was a known haunt of the homeless and was to be demolished. A Brooklyn Fire Service spokesman said the building was gutted and most of its roof destroyed in the fire, which was still being attended this morning. Police and the Fire Service are investigating.
Tipped school site to be for seven years Southland Times 18 October 2003 http://tinyurl.com/rdqu A Catholic primary school planned for Wanaka would remain on the proposed Brownston Street site only for up to seven years, the Queenstown Lakes District Council hearings panel heard yesterday.
Parliament's daily prayer may breach human rights Fairfax NZ Ltd 17 October 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2694211a6160,00.html The Human Rights Commission has been asked to rule on whether the daily prayer that opens Parliament is appropriate. Progressive MP Matt Robson says he will seek the commission's view after his attempt to have the prayer revamped was overwhelmingly rejected by a cross-party committee....
Order head says give abuse victims benefit of doubt http://www.cathnews.com/news/310/70.php Br Peter Burke, the Australian and New Zealand head of the St John of God Brothers, has said it is not necessary for religious leaders to demand proof before reaching out to those who claim they have been sexually abused by authority figures in the Church. "I believe them. I'm not there to be judge and jury, that's not my job," he told The Australian newspaper's correspondent in New Zealand....
Cell move allows human contact NZ Herald 18.10.2003 http://tinyurl.com/rdqv Algerian prisoner Ahmed Zaoui beamed with joy yesterday as he shifted into his new cell. The alleged national-security risk was overjoyed at his accommodation in the Auckland Central Remand Prison after 11 months in solitary confinement at Paremoremo....
Zaoui supporters slam Dalziel claims NZ Herald 18.10.2003 http://tinyurl.com/rdqw Supporters of Ahmed Zaoui have hit back at Immigration Minister Lianne Dalziel's attempt to blame his lawyers for his long detention. Asked how long the Algerian politician would remain behind bars, she accused his counsel of extending his 11 months in jail by making a baseless challenge in the High Court....
Dame Felicitas Corrigan: Writer with a Benedictine gift for friendship (obituary) The Independent (UK) 17 October 2003 http://tinyurl.com/rdqx Dame Felicitas Corrigan OSB was one of the great Benedictine figures of the 20th century - a century she experienced personally almost from beginning to end. The anonymous author of a religious classic about life at Stanbrook Abbey, appropriately entitled 'In a Great Tradition', she exemplified many of the qualities of that monastic tradition which has so deeply moulded English civilisation....
Church 'appalled' at funding of lobbying Fairfax NZ Ltd 14 October 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2690729a6160,00.html Anglican Bishop of Wellington Thomas Brown said he was "absolutely appalled" to learn that the Prostitutes Collective received more than $50,000 a month in government funding as it lobbied MPs to push through a law to decriminalise prostitution....
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CATHOLIC WEB TV (Wellington Archdiocesan Media Centre)
http://catholictv.net
New videos:
Confirmation has been conferred on young people in their mid-teens until recently. Denise Johnson and Bishop John Dew discuss a parish programme to prepare much younger children for the Sacrament of Confirmation.
Sister Susan Shannon , an Australian nun, sees the requirement of celibacy for priesthood or religious vocation in a positive light.
'Pause and Pray': The great St Augustine tells us where the restlessness of the human heart can find peace (first of a new series).
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WHY PEOPLE DON'T GO TO CHURCH (SURVEY)
National Church Life Survey (Australia). "Why People Don't Go to Church" (book review) http://www.media.anglican.com.au/culture/2003/book/dont_go_church.html The question 'Why don't people go to church?' is one that probably all of us in ministry ask ourselves on a fairly regular basis. After all, don't we put considerable effort into running wonderful and inspiring worship services? So, let's face it, most of us have a vested interest in knowing why more people aren't packing into our pews on a Sunday. This book sheds considerable light on the issue ...
Related articles: Focusing on ‘Why people don’t go to church’ can be unhelpful http://www.anglicanmedia.com.au/july2002/feat3.html We can make church more relevant and fulfilling http://www.anglicanmedia.com.au/july2002/analysis.htm
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STATISTICS OF RELIGION
Vatican City (Fides Service) – Fides Service statistics offer an overall view of the Catholic Church in the world as registered on 31 December 2001. Our figures are taken from the Church’s Annual Book of Statistics (valid to 31 December 2001) and they regard Catholics, church personnel, structures and activity as well as variations in comparison with previous years. http://www.fides.org/eng/statistiche/index.html
(In 2001, Oceania (Australia, NZ and the Pacific Islands) had a population of just over 31 million of whom 8,320.000 were Catholics).
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Sunday, October 19, 2003
Sunday, October 12, 2003
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Top cardinal predicts future popes to 'retire before death' http://www.cathnews.com/news/310/52.php Beligian Cardinal Godfried Daneels, seen as a possible successor to John Paul II, has said that higher life expectancy means it is no longer right to expect popes to shoulder the burden of office until death. "We are living for longer and longer and one cannot continue to bear this responsibility when you are 90 or 100, even if you are looked after in the best way", he said...
Former Protestant Pastor Helps Shepherd Catholic Converts Marcus Grodi's Coming Home Network Focuses on Inquiring Clergy http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=42357 Zanesville, Ohio, OCT. 8, 2003 (Zenit.org).- Every year, about 100 clergy from dozens of denominations make a step toward the Catholic Church by contacting the Coming Home Network International. The network, which has 800-some clergy members who have converted or are still discerning their conversion, connects those inquirers with others from the same background who have converted to Catholicism, and provides them with prayerful, moral and sometimes financial support....
Sharing Gospel through Rugby World Cup Catholic Leader (Brisbane) 05.10.2003 http://www.catholicleader.com.au/prinfriendly.php?num=1557 It was during the Sydney Olympics in 2000 that sports ministry came into its own in Australia. Christian Churches and organisations, spurred on by a number of Christians with sporting backgrounds, came together to promote the Gospel through sports ministry during the two-week event. They hosted sports clinics and staged community events, outreach programs were held in the streets and at stadiums, Christian homes were opened to help accommodate athletes' families and more than a quarter of a million pieces of Christian literature were distributed. The venture was so successful Church leaders decided to use the same strategies for the Rugby World Cup which starts on October 10........
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Vatican: Pope is Above Nobel Peace Prize Reuters October 10, 2003 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=3595268 Vatican City (Reuters) - Pope John Paul is not upset that he failed to win the Nobel Peace Prize and is above such awards, the pope's top aide told Reuters on Friday. "The pope is a messenger of peace," Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano said in an interview. "If an organization wants to recognize it, that's fine. But the pope is above these things," said Sodano, who ranks second only to the pope in the Vatican hierarchy....
Bali memorial a 'balance' of beliefs Reuters 07 October 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2682957a12,00.html Bali: Indonesia's commemoration of last October's Bali bomb blasts that killed 202 people is a delicate balance between local Hindu beliefs in reincarnation and Western needs to remember, Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda says. Australian Prime Minister John Howard is to join hundreds of relatives of victims, almost half of whom were Australian, in commemorative ceremonies on the resort island on Sunday but Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri will not attend....
Garth George: Thank God at least one church still sticks to its guns NZ Herald 09.10.2003 http://tinyurl.com/qkuk... For the past few years I have been a member of the Catholic Church. It is an institution able to accommodate every political persuasion, from the far right of, for instance, Opus Dei, to the far left of the followers of liberation theology; and every spiritual persuasion, from hidebound traditionalists to joyful charismatics. Plus everybody in between - including rebels like me....
Man admits abuse claims false TVNZ Oct 10, 2003 (full text) A Christchurch man has admitted two dishonesty charges after obtaining thousands of dollars in compensation from a Catholic order. In the District Court on Friday Justin Todd Richardson admitted he received the $95,000 after falsely claiming he was sexually abused at a school run by the St John of God Order. His counsel Gerald Lascelles said Richardson had already handed back $10,000 in cash and had another $20,000 in cheques to pay back. The Judge convicted Richardson and remanded him in custody for sentence in December. He said Richardson's actions had created an atmosphere of skepticism towards others who had suffered abuse at the school.
Thousands march on Tongan Parliament NZ Herald 07.10.2003 http://tinyurl.com/qkuo Thousands of people brought Tonga to a standstill yesterday with a march on the Legislative Assembly to protest against constitutional changes that would give more powers to the King. Catholic Bishop Sioane Foliaki led the march and presented the petition....
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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
Statements and media releases http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
** New Zealand bishops' statement on protecting the rights of children (08 Oct 2003)
** "Auckland s Catholic bishops slam government s lack of common humanity regarding Ahmed Zaoui" (media release 6 Oct 2003)
[Caritas Aoteararoa NZ has helped organise an appeal for Mr Zaoui (see: http://www.caritas.org.nz/world/algerian.asp )through Hotline, a Hong Kong based urgent response network. Full details of the appeal, and addresses for writing letters to Lianne Dalziel and to Mr Zaoui in Paremoremo prison are available at: http://www.acpp.org/uappeals/2003/030812s5.htm ]
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MARIST MESSENGER
From the October 2003 issue of the magazine, published by the Society of Mary http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/index.php
Full text online:
** Daily Reflections ** Surf's up - this months recommended Websites to visit. ** Extra reading - a selection of articles from online Catholic journals, magazines and papers. ** Daily News from the Catholic world. ** Focus, by Carl Telford : Pope John Paul the Great, 1978-2003 ** Maori missionary Fr Frank Wall sm was a true apostle, full of zeal. ** A homily on John 21:15-19 by Carl Telford sm : Peter's three-fold denial and three-fold call ** Marist Spirituality: Reflecting on handing on the Marist spirit ** Fr Victor Poupinel sm, Part of our Marist story
Also in the October Marist Messenger.... Just a teenager from the past ... For an hour we bumped along ... Retreiving the memory ... Fr Victor Poupinal sm ... St Brigid's Cross... The Mysteries of Paradox ... A Charcoal fire ... Vandals ... Allowing God with us ... Danilo Dolci ... Marist Messenger Update
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EMPLOYMENT
(Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies )
Director of Education for Pastoral Ministry, Catholic Diocese of Dunedin Details in 'NZ Catholic' October 5-18 2003 p. 23 and from: Bishops's Secretary, Private Bag 1941, Dunedin. Applications close 17 October 2003
Adult Education Tutor/Distance Learning Coordinator, Wellington Catholic Education Centre. Details in 'NZ Catholic' October 5-18 2003 p. 23, and from Peter Bray, e-mail: p.bray@wcec.org.nz Applications close 17 October 2003
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Top cardinal predicts future popes to 'retire before death' http://www.cathnews.com/news/310/52.php Beligian Cardinal Godfried Daneels, seen as a possible successor to John Paul II, has said that higher life expectancy means it is no longer right to expect popes to shoulder the burden of office until death. "We are living for longer and longer and one cannot continue to bear this responsibility when you are 90 or 100, even if you are looked after in the best way", he said...
Former Protestant Pastor Helps Shepherd Catholic Converts Marcus Grodi's Coming Home Network Focuses on Inquiring Clergy http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=42357 Zanesville, Ohio, OCT. 8, 2003 (Zenit.org).- Every year, about 100 clergy from dozens of denominations make a step toward the Catholic Church by contacting the Coming Home Network International. The network, which has 800-some clergy members who have converted or are still discerning their conversion, connects those inquirers with others from the same background who have converted to Catholicism, and provides them with prayerful, moral and sometimes financial support....
Sharing Gospel through Rugby World Cup Catholic Leader (Brisbane) 05.10.2003 http://www.catholicleader.com.au/prinfriendly.php?num=1557 It was during the Sydney Olympics in 2000 that sports ministry came into its own in Australia. Christian Churches and organisations, spurred on by a number of Christians with sporting backgrounds, came together to promote the Gospel through sports ministry during the two-week event. They hosted sports clinics and staged community events, outreach programs were held in the streets and at stadiums, Christian homes were opened to help accommodate athletes' families and more than a quarter of a million pieces of Christian literature were distributed. The venture was so successful Church leaders decided to use the same strategies for the Rugby World Cup which starts on October 10........
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Vatican: Pope is Above Nobel Peace Prize Reuters October 10, 2003 http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=3595268 Vatican City (Reuters) - Pope John Paul is not upset that he failed to win the Nobel Peace Prize and is above such awards, the pope's top aide told Reuters on Friday. "The pope is a messenger of peace," Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano said in an interview. "If an organization wants to recognize it, that's fine. But the pope is above these things," said Sodano, who ranks second only to the pope in the Vatican hierarchy....
Bali memorial a 'balance' of beliefs Reuters 07 October 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2682957a12,00.html Bali: Indonesia's commemoration of last October's Bali bomb blasts that killed 202 people is a delicate balance between local Hindu beliefs in reincarnation and Western needs to remember, Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda says. Australian Prime Minister John Howard is to join hundreds of relatives of victims, almost half of whom were Australian, in commemorative ceremonies on the resort island on Sunday but Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri will not attend....
Garth George: Thank God at least one church still sticks to its guns NZ Herald 09.10.2003 http://tinyurl.com/qkuk... For the past few years I have been a member of the Catholic Church. It is an institution able to accommodate every political persuasion, from the far right of, for instance, Opus Dei, to the far left of the followers of liberation theology; and every spiritual persuasion, from hidebound traditionalists to joyful charismatics. Plus everybody in between - including rebels like me....
Man admits abuse claims false TVNZ Oct 10, 2003 (full text) A Christchurch man has admitted two dishonesty charges after obtaining thousands of dollars in compensation from a Catholic order. In the District Court on Friday Justin Todd Richardson admitted he received the $95,000 after falsely claiming he was sexually abused at a school run by the St John of God Order. His counsel Gerald Lascelles said Richardson had already handed back $10,000 in cash and had another $20,000 in cheques to pay back. The Judge convicted Richardson and remanded him in custody for sentence in December. He said Richardson's actions had created an atmosphere of skepticism towards others who had suffered abuse at the school.
Thousands march on Tongan Parliament NZ Herald 07.10.2003 http://tinyurl.com/qkuo Thousands of people brought Tonga to a standstill yesterday with a march on the Legislative Assembly to protest against constitutional changes that would give more powers to the King. Catholic Bishop Sioane Foliaki led the march and presented the petition....
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NZ CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CONFERENCE CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
Statements and media releases http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php
** New Zealand bishops' statement on protecting the rights of children (08 Oct 2003)
** "Auckland s Catholic bishops slam government s lack of common humanity regarding Ahmed Zaoui" (media release 6 Oct 2003)
[Caritas Aoteararoa NZ has helped organise an appeal for Mr Zaoui (see: http://www.caritas.org.nz/world/algerian.asp )through Hotline, a Hong Kong based urgent response network. Full details of the appeal, and addresses for writing letters to Lianne Dalziel and to Mr Zaoui in Paremoremo prison are available at: http://www.acpp.org/uappeals/2003/030812s5.htm ]
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MARIST MESSENGER
From the October 2003 issue of the magazine, published by the Society of Mary http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/index.php
Full text online:
** Daily Reflections ** Surf's up - this months recommended Websites to visit. ** Extra reading - a selection of articles from online Catholic journals, magazines and papers. ** Daily News from the Catholic world. ** Focus, by Carl Telford : Pope John Paul the Great, 1978-2003 ** Maori missionary Fr Frank Wall sm was a true apostle, full of zeal. ** A homily on John 21:15-19 by Carl Telford sm : Peter's three-fold denial and three-fold call ** Marist Spirituality: Reflecting on handing on the Marist spirit ** Fr Victor Poupinel sm, Part of our Marist story
Also in the October Marist Messenger.... Just a teenager from the past ... For an hour we bumped along ... Retreiving the memory ... Fr Victor Poupinal sm ... St Brigid's Cross... The Mysteries of Paradox ... A Charcoal fire ... Vandals ... Allowing God with us ... Danilo Dolci ... Marist Messenger Update
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EMPLOYMENT
(Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies )
Director of Education for Pastoral Ministry, Catholic Diocese of Dunedin Details in 'NZ Catholic' October 5-18 2003 p. 23 and from: Bishops's Secretary, Private Bag 1941, Dunedin. Applications close 17 October 2003
Adult Education Tutor/Distance Learning Coordinator, Wellington Catholic Education Centre. Details in 'NZ Catholic' October 5-18 2003 p. 23, and from Peter Bray, e-mail: p.bray@wcec.org.nz Applications close 17 October 2003
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Sunday, October 5, 2003
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THE NEW CARDINALS
All the voting members of the College of Cardinals (i.e. those under 80) are listed here: http;//www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/scardc2.html
The morning after being named a cardinal, Archbishop George Pell of Sydney gave a press conference. The Archdiocese of Sydney published this transcript of the conference: http://tinyurl.com/poah
Catholic News Service published this analysis of the geographical distribution of the College of Cardinals after the new appointments: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/20030929.htm
News reports, mainly in the secular press, have further information about the new cardinals: http://tinyurl.com/poai
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Cardinal's secretary backs Ratzinger "bad way" assessment CathNews (full text) Following Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's widely reported comment that Pope John Paul II is "in a bad way", the Cardinal's private secretary Georg Gaenswein said yesterday that [the Pope] could not walk or stand. "He is a hero for the faithful," Mr Gaenswein said. "The fact he doesn't give up despite his illness makes him even more credible ... When he is no longer allowed to travel, then dear God will come for him." Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn of Vienna, one of Europe's most respected cardinals, added his voice to the negative reports on the Pope's health by suggesting that Pope John Paul II is nearing "the last days and months of his life". "The entire world is experiencing a Pope who is sick, who is disabled and who is dying, - I don't know how near death he is - who is approaching the last days and months of his life," Schoenborn told the Austrian state broadcaster ORF. Schoenborn is considered a possible candidate for the papacy. His spokesman, Erich Leitenberger, later said that the comments were "to be interpreted philosophically".
'How to get ready for Mass ' http://www.catholiccincinnati.org/tct/oct0303/100303larue.html The Catholic Telegraph (Archdiocese of Cincinnati) Sometimes you get some advice that changes your life. For me, that advice took the form of a simple suggestion to read the Sunday readings before going to Mass. A good friend of mine has done so for years, and she said to me, "It will change the way you experience Mass." And she was right. It really has....
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'The Far East' (St Columban's Mission Society September 2003 http://www.columban.org.au/tfe/tfe_current.htm
Full text online articles ...
Editorial: "Footprints on the heart" A quote from an unknown source: Some people come into our lives and quickly go, Some stay for a while, Leave footprints on our hearts, And we are never, never the same again...
From the Director: How are we to be partners? Recently I have been talking about how the Church in Australia and New Zealand can be in partnership with the Catholic Church in other parts of the world. The Pope has been saying for some time that the Church exists for the sake of the Kingdom of God. God wishes to change our world, to bring about God’s rule. Imagine what that would be like!...
In search of a better life, by Mervyn Hannifin Our struggling marginal parish in Alto Hospicio, Sagrado Corazon (Sacred Heart) is located on the edge the Atacama Desert in the far north of Chile. We live on a mountain of rock and sand, 600m above sea-level in the driest region in the world....
Built by the people, by Leo Donnelly Rain in Lima is an event. If it is real rain it is a devastating event. Fortunately it rarely rains to that extent. This means we can build our chapels of estera. Estera is a sheet two by three metres of hand woven bamboo....
Life on the border, by Kevin Mullins A few years ago, while on my way back to Chile after working in Britain, Columbans Arturo Aguilar and Bill Morton invited me to visit their parishes of El Paso/Juarez on the US/Mexican border. I accepted their invitation and was given a tour of Anapra, one of our areas just over the border in Mexico where Fr Bill Morton lives and works with the people. I thought to myself, ‘This is the worst place I have ever seen.’....
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Pope warns of new 'difficulties' in talks with Anglican leader http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-10-04-catholic-anglican_x.htm Vatican City (AP) — In a meeting clouded by deepening divisions over homosexuality, Pope John Paul II warned the Archbishop of Canterbury on Saturday that "new and serious difficulties have arisen" in efforts to unify the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches....
Williams seeks to enhance warm ties with the Vatican The Financial Times October 4 2003 http://tinyurl.com/pq1n A meeting today at the Vatican between Pope John Paul and the Archbishop of Canterbury will resonate with symbolism but is at risk of being overshadowed by more mundane realities....
Ghostbusting clergy on the case NZ Herald 30.09.2003 http://tinyurl.com/poal A packaging firm has called in spiritual help to bless its premises because of staff fears that the factory might be haunted. The Auckland company Rapak Asia Pacific has asked five ministers from different denominations to solve its problem....
It's culture not prayers The Dominion Post 01 October 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2676540a11,00.html Conflicting reasons have emerged for starting Maori prayer sessions for parliamentary workers....
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NEW WEB SITE: CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
Catholic Communications is the news media service of the NZ Catholic bishops conferecne, and provides many other services to the Church. In its new website, Cathcomm introduyces iutself, puvlusehs media reelases and news of the Catholic bishiops, plus a round up of local and overseas Catholic news links.
a good deal of the news and newsletters have already appeared in News and notes, so in writing up new cotnetns on the site i plan to mention in detial just the overseass news items on the sites with a biref reference to the other items. ML
International News links ...
Martyrs of Peace: Christian de Chergé, drafted halfway through his seminary studies, was a peacekeeper in Algeria in 1959. A Muslim friend who saved his life was killed for his courageous act. Almost forty years later, de Chergé made a similar sacrifice, dying at the hands of men who did not understand his love for the Muslim people...
Salvation by media: The media has beaten down morale among priests to an all-time low. Depression or hypersensitivity are natural responses, but it can also help us to a clearer discovery of our true purpose and mission, to a kind of spiritual liberation from public opinion...
6 month sentence for Bosnian's email threats to Pope...
Church incense sparks Irish health alert: Dr Jim McDaid, medical doctor and junior minister in the Irish Government, has warned that the health of altar boys and girls is being put at risk from the use of burning incense, particularly at funeral services....
Prosecutors probe sex abuse priest's jail death: Prosecutors were yesterday investigating how an anti-gay convicted murderer managed to strangle fellow inmate pedophile priest John Geoghan inside one of Massachusetts' most secure prisons...
Also on this site: Caritas Aotearoa Newsletter ... Education Review Office report on Catholic schools ... Nathaniel Bioethics Centre Newsletter ... 'NZ Catholic' newspaper ... Sacred Heart College fetes its heroes of sport ... 'Wel-com' newspaper.
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CATHOLICTV.NET (Wellington Archdiocesan Media Office)
http://www.catholictv.net
Louise's summary of the site (which starts automatically when you open the home page) includes a short clip from one of Fr Timothy Radcliffe's talks to the National Assembly of Priests, this time on the crisis in preaching.
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MEDJUGORJE NEWS
Issue 31 September 2003 http://www.homebusinesslink.com/issue31.html Introduction ... The Medjugorje Story ... Our Lady's Messages ... From the Editor ... Excerpts from Press Bulletins ... News from Medjugorje (Children of Medjugorje) ... ..The Eucharist ... .Another Miraculous Healing ... ..Extraordinary Circumstances ... From the Mouth of Babes... .Another Proof of the Real Presence ... .Questions and Answers with Ivan ... One Solitary Life ... .Eucharistic Convention will Continue ... The Pope and the Beggar ... My Miracle at Medjugorje ... Fears and Tears... Bishop Komarica on Medjugorje ... An Interview with Anna and Steve Shawl ... The One with Wings ... I Couldn't Kneel ... Heart of Mary ... Interesting Story of Pope John Paul 11's Visit ... Islam Sees Mary as a Model for all Believers ... Mary & the Dialogue with Judaism ... Pray for the Priests ... Troubled Rwanda Has a New Marian Shrine ... God Has not Abandoned Me ... The Secret of the Rosary
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FROM THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
Aubert, Mary Joseph 1835 - 1926 Catholic nun, nurse, herbalist, teacher, social worker, writer http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=2A18
Marie Henriette Suzanne Aubert (known first as Suzanne Aubert and later in religion as Mary Joseph Aubert) was born at Saint-Symphorien-de-Lay, Loire, France, on 19 June 1835. She was the daughter of Henriette Catherine Clarice Périer and her husband, Louis Aubert, a bailiff....
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EMPLOYMENT
(Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies )
Director of Education for Pastoral Ministry, Catholic Diocese of Dunedin Details in 'NZ Catholic' October 5-18 2003 p. 23 and from: Bishops's Secretary, Private Bag 1941, Dunedin. Applications close 17 October 2003
Adult Education Tutor/Distance Learning Coordinator, Wellington Catholic Education Centre. Details in 'NZ Catholic' October 5-18 2003 p. 23, and from Peter Bray, e-mail: p.bray@wcec.org.nz Applications close 17 October 2003
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THE NEW CARDINALS
All the voting members of the College of Cardinals (i.e. those under 80) are listed here: http;//www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/scardc2.html
The morning after being named a cardinal, Archbishop George Pell of Sydney gave a press conference. The Archdiocese of Sydney published this transcript of the conference: http://tinyurl.com/poah
Catholic News Service published this analysis of the geographical distribution of the College of Cardinals after the new appointments: http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/20030929.htm
News reports, mainly in the secular press, have further information about the new cardinals: http://tinyurl.com/poai
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Cardinal's secretary backs Ratzinger "bad way" assessment CathNews (full text) Following Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger's widely reported comment that Pope John Paul II is "in a bad way", the Cardinal's private secretary Georg Gaenswein said yesterday that [the Pope] could not walk or stand. "He is a hero for the faithful," Mr Gaenswein said. "The fact he doesn't give up despite his illness makes him even more credible ... When he is no longer allowed to travel, then dear God will come for him." Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn of Vienna, one of Europe's most respected cardinals, added his voice to the negative reports on the Pope's health by suggesting that Pope John Paul II is nearing "the last days and months of his life". "The entire world is experiencing a Pope who is sick, who is disabled and who is dying, - I don't know how near death he is - who is approaching the last days and months of his life," Schoenborn told the Austrian state broadcaster ORF. Schoenborn is considered a possible candidate for the papacy. His spokesman, Erich Leitenberger, later said that the comments were "to be interpreted philosophically".
'How to get ready for Mass ' http://www.catholiccincinnati.org/tct/oct0303/100303larue.html The Catholic Telegraph (Archdiocese of Cincinnati) Sometimes you get some advice that changes your life. For me, that advice took the form of a simple suggestion to read the Sunday readings before going to Mass. A good friend of mine has done so for years, and she said to me, "It will change the way you experience Mass." And she was right. It really has....
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'The Far East' (St Columban's Mission Society September 2003 http://www.columban.org.au/tfe/tfe_current.htm
Full text online articles ...
Editorial: "Footprints on the heart" A quote from an unknown source: Some people come into our lives and quickly go, Some stay for a while, Leave footprints on our hearts, And we are never, never the same again...
From the Director: How are we to be partners? Recently I have been talking about how the Church in Australia and New Zealand can be in partnership with the Catholic Church in other parts of the world. The Pope has been saying for some time that the Church exists for the sake of the Kingdom of God. God wishes to change our world, to bring about God’s rule. Imagine what that would be like!...
In search of a better life, by Mervyn Hannifin Our struggling marginal parish in Alto Hospicio, Sagrado Corazon (Sacred Heart) is located on the edge the Atacama Desert in the far north of Chile. We live on a mountain of rock and sand, 600m above sea-level in the driest region in the world....
Built by the people, by Leo Donnelly Rain in Lima is an event. If it is real rain it is a devastating event. Fortunately it rarely rains to that extent. This means we can build our chapels of estera. Estera is a sheet two by three metres of hand woven bamboo....
Life on the border, by Kevin Mullins A few years ago, while on my way back to Chile after working in Britain, Columbans Arturo Aguilar and Bill Morton invited me to visit their parishes of El Paso/Juarez on the US/Mexican border. I accepted their invitation and was given a tour of Anapra, one of our areas just over the border in Mexico where Fr Bill Morton lives and works with the people. I thought to myself, ‘This is the worst place I have ever seen.’....
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Pope warns of new 'difficulties' in talks with Anglican leader http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2003-10-04-catholic-anglican_x.htm Vatican City (AP) — In a meeting clouded by deepening divisions over homosexuality, Pope John Paul II warned the Archbishop of Canterbury on Saturday that "new and serious difficulties have arisen" in efforts to unify the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches....
Williams seeks to enhance warm ties with the Vatican The Financial Times October 4 2003 http://tinyurl.com/pq1n A meeting today at the Vatican between Pope John Paul and the Archbishop of Canterbury will resonate with symbolism but is at risk of being overshadowed by more mundane realities....
Ghostbusting clergy on the case NZ Herald 30.09.2003 http://tinyurl.com/poal A packaging firm has called in spiritual help to bless its premises because of staff fears that the factory might be haunted. The Auckland company Rapak Asia Pacific has asked five ministers from different denominations to solve its problem....
It's culture not prayers The Dominion Post 01 October 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2676540a11,00.html Conflicting reasons have emerged for starting Maori prayer sessions for parliamentary workers....
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NEW WEB SITE: CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
Catholic Communications is the news media service of the NZ Catholic bishops conferecne, and provides many other services to the Church. In its new website, Cathcomm introduyces iutself, puvlusehs media reelases and news of the Catholic bishiops, plus a round up of local and overseas Catholic news links.
a good deal of the news and newsletters have already appeared in News and notes, so in writing up new cotnetns on the site i plan to mention in detial just the overseass news items on the sites with a biref reference to the other items. ML
International News links ...
Martyrs of Peace: Christian de Chergé, drafted halfway through his seminary studies, was a peacekeeper in Algeria in 1959. A Muslim friend who saved his life was killed for his courageous act. Almost forty years later, de Chergé made a similar sacrifice, dying at the hands of men who did not understand his love for the Muslim people...
Salvation by media: The media has beaten down morale among priests to an all-time low. Depression or hypersensitivity are natural responses, but it can also help us to a clearer discovery of our true purpose and mission, to a kind of spiritual liberation from public opinion...
6 month sentence for Bosnian's email threats to Pope...
Church incense sparks Irish health alert: Dr Jim McDaid, medical doctor and junior minister in the Irish Government, has warned that the health of altar boys and girls is being put at risk from the use of burning incense, particularly at funeral services....
Prosecutors probe sex abuse priest's jail death: Prosecutors were yesterday investigating how an anti-gay convicted murderer managed to strangle fellow inmate pedophile priest John Geoghan inside one of Massachusetts' most secure prisons...
Also on this site: Caritas Aotearoa Newsletter ... Education Review Office report on Catholic schools ... Nathaniel Bioethics Centre Newsletter ... 'NZ Catholic' newspaper ... Sacred Heart College fetes its heroes of sport ... 'Wel-com' newspaper.
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CATHOLICTV.NET (Wellington Archdiocesan Media Office)
http://www.catholictv.net
Louise's summary of the site (which starts automatically when you open the home page) includes a short clip from one of Fr Timothy Radcliffe's talks to the National Assembly of Priests, this time on the crisis in preaching.
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MEDJUGORJE NEWS
Issue 31 September 2003 http://www.homebusinesslink.com/issue31.html Introduction ... The Medjugorje Story ... Our Lady's Messages ... From the Editor ... Excerpts from Press Bulletins ... News from Medjugorje (Children of Medjugorje) ... ..The Eucharist ... .Another Miraculous Healing ... ..Extraordinary Circumstances ... From the Mouth of Babes... .Another Proof of the Real Presence ... .Questions and Answers with Ivan ... One Solitary Life ... .Eucharistic Convention will Continue ... The Pope and the Beggar ... My Miracle at Medjugorje ... Fears and Tears... Bishop Komarica on Medjugorje ... An Interview with Anna and Steve Shawl ... The One with Wings ... I Couldn't Kneel ... Heart of Mary ... Interesting Story of Pope John Paul 11's Visit ... Islam Sees Mary as a Model for all Believers ... Mary & the Dialogue with Judaism ... Pray for the Priests ... Troubled Rwanda Has a New Marian Shrine ... God Has not Abandoned Me ... The Secret of the Rosary
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FROM THE DICTIONARY OF NATIONAL BIOGRAPHY
Aubert, Mary Joseph 1835 - 1926 Catholic nun, nurse, herbalist, teacher, social worker, writer http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/dnzb/default.asp?Find_Quick.asp?PersonEssay=2A18
Marie Henriette Suzanne Aubert (known first as Suzanne Aubert and later in religion as Mary Joseph Aubert) was born at Saint-Symphorien-de-Lay, Loire, France, on 19 June 1835. She was the daughter of Henriette Catherine Clarice Périer and her husband, Louis Aubert, a bailiff....
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EMPLOYMENT
(Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies )
Director of Education for Pastoral Ministry, Catholic Diocese of Dunedin Details in 'NZ Catholic' October 5-18 2003 p. 23 and from: Bishops's Secretary, Private Bag 1941, Dunedin. Applications close 17 October 2003
Adult Education Tutor/Distance Learning Coordinator, Wellington Catholic Education Centre. Details in 'NZ Catholic' October 5-18 2003 p. 23, and from Peter Bray, e-mail: p.bray@wcec.org.nz Applications close 17 October 2003
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Sunday, September 28, 2003
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
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'Wel-com', September 2003 (Wellington Archdiocese, Diocese Of Palmerston North)
http://www.welcom.org.nz
"Born to us – children in New Zealand" Society's most vulnerable members are children. Their innate dignity directs us to protect them. Lisa Beech
"Formation is the paramount concern of our teachers" The paramount concern of the Catholic teacher is not merely the transmission of facts, but the formation of persons — formation, not information.
"Spirituality at the heart of the Catholic School" A framework for analysing and deepening the spirituality of the Catholic school. Dr Ann Gilroy RSJ
"Spirituality and Pastoral Planning" Our congregations are dwindling, our seminaries emptying and our reputation in the world is being battered. We look around and wonder where everyone has gone. Michael Brady
"Challenging road to agreement on world trade practices" Some who argue that free trade will grease the wheels of prosperity for the world’s poor nations while others claim that all this does is make the rich nations richer at the expense of the poor.
"Fascinating history that tells how our local church was shaped " 'Steadfast in Hope' is a fascinating account of the Wellington Archdiocese from 1850 to 2000 beginning with a diocese embracing the whole of New Zealand south of Lake Taupo.
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'NZ Catholic' No 171, September 21-October 4, 2003 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Churches condemn legalising of Internet gambling WELLINGTON - The New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services has condemned law changes legalising interactive gambling, including on the Internet, saying they would "unleash huge social harm"...
Bishops want spiritual dimension in GM decisions WELLINGTON - The Catholic bishops have called for adverse effects on the "culture, spirituality and ethical values" of New Zealanders to be fully taken into account in decisions on genetic modification of new organisms...
Sacred Heart College fetes its heroes of sport by Kelson Butler AUCKLAND - Sporting legends were honoured at Eden Park on September 5 as part of the Sacred Heart College centennial celebrations...
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE ... Aided conception can be okay, says CWL, Sexuality, family life covered in seminar, Justice week focus will be on children, ERO File, College sport, Fr Cecil: Brother, priest, missionary, Christchurch priest dies suddenly, Vatican Letter: Full agenda for meeting on translation
FEATURES: Positive alternative to "trick or treat", Sacred Heart College fetes its heroes of sport, Rugby followers to get a taste of the Bible, Padre Pio: Lengthy periods of persecution, Deals with wheels produce savings for Church, NZer's 9/11 ministry recorded, Poet's booklet and CD welcomed as a resource, Priest's struggles shaped his ministry, Former Cook Islands chaplain celebrates golden jubilee, Canterbury landscape in triptych of Mary
INTERNATIONAL: Pope's health causes concern in Slovakia, Man tells of priest's murder, O'Malley settles 552 suits in Boston, Ethical investments pay high dividends, Conversion barrier Schools need strong identity, Women leaders wanted, In Brief: Cancer link to abortion suppressed by doctors, Women confessors suggested by bishops, Priests urge optional celibacy, The Pope: Religions should all denounce terrorism, Day to support priesthood, US funding is withheld
OPINION: Ronald Rolheiser, Peter Grace, Michael Gormly Editorial: The poverty that's in our midst Malcolm Evans, Iva Verse, Letters Letters
REGULAR FEATURES: Young Adults, Books, Monitor, Clips, Net Scene, Tape Deck, Scripture, The Doolans, Cryptic Crossword, Caption Contest, Who Said?, 40 Years Ago, Dio. Diary, Photo Prayer, What We Believe, Holy Lives, Kit's Corner, Wit's End.
ADVERTISING FEATURE Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Five years' jail for paedophile priest Fairfax NZ 26 September 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2670965a11,00.html A 76-year-old retired Catholic priest has been jailed for five years for what a victim described as "despicable sexual crimes against an innocent and vulnerable child".
Further related reports: New complaint against convicted paedophile priest http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2668570a11,00.html Paedophile priest 'a very sick man' http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2643035a11,00.html
Pope tipped for Nobel prize Gulf Daily News 27 September 2003 http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Articles.asp?Article=62664&Sn=WORL OSLO: Pope John Paul II, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and dissidents from Iran to China are among those tipped to win the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize in a year with no clear favourites....
Pope to name new cardinals in October http://www.deepikaglobal.com/ENG4_sub.asp?ccode=ENG4&newscode=24415 Deepikaglobal.com Saturday, September 27, 2003 Rome, Sep 26 (DPA) Pope John Paul II will bring forward the nomination of new cardinals by several months when he meets with the College of Cardinals in October, Vatican sources said today The pope is expected to announce the nominations in the next days, possibly on September 28, the sources said. The consistory or college will then convene on October 21 or 22 instead of February 2004, as originally planned....
Vatican Correspondent Handicaps Front-Runners for Next Pope Newhouse News Service http://www.newhouse.com/archive/long092303.html When the princes of the Roman Catholic Church gather in the Sistine Chapel to elect the next pope, the room will be swept for electronic bugs -- an innovation ordered by the current pontiff. If the election were today, 109 cardinals from around the world would be eligible to vote. Of these men, Pope John Paul II appointed 104. But don't assume the fix is in, warns John L. Allen Jr., the Vatican correspondent for CNN and the National Catholic Reporter....
Go straight to Heaven The Spectator (UK) http://tinyurl.com/o7uf Mother Teresa is Calcutta’s best brand. Later this month, when, in record time, the Pope bestows on her the Vatican super seal of approval and declares her blessed, she will be well on her way to becoming a saint. Hers will probably become the fastest sainthood since the Roman Catholic Church set rules controlling saint-making in the 13th century. Why the haste?....
Supplementary report: Vatican - Programme of events to mark 25th year of John Paul election to the papacy released: celebrations to culminate with beatification of Mother Teresa on Mission Sunday http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2003/0309/22_740.html
German Catholics Urge Full Rights To Muslims Islam Online Sept 2003 http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2003-09/26/article09.shtml BONN, September 26 (IslamOnline.net) – In a new bold step towards ending religious discrimination in Germany, the council of Catholic bishops called on all institutions to secure legitimate rights to the three-million-estimated Muslim community and positively interact with them....
Priest video strikes gold http://www.cathnews.com/news/309/157.php Sales of the recent Melbourne-produced vocations video Priests 24/7 have far exceeded the distributors' expectations according to director Peter Thomas. Priests 24/7 uses the "reality TV" fly-on-the-wall technique to follow the lives of two parish priests - Fr Kevin Dillon from St Mary's, Geelong, and Fr Max Vodola, from St Joseph's, Reservoir, in Melbourne....
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CATHOLICTV.NET
http://www.catholictv.net
'Catholics Returning Home' Lorraine McArthur looks at how the church is working to bring back the enormous number of lapsed Catholics by providing them with a new sense of belonging in the Church. With contributions by Jan Heath and Bishop Pat Dew.
'Growing In Faith Together' Pastors from parishes of the Uniting and Catholic Churches reflect on recent collaborative renewal in faith events which saw their congregations mix, compare and celebrate their faiths together.
'Education Report': Br Pat Lynch looks at the latest developments in Catholic education for his September report.
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MARIST BROTHERS' NEWSLETTERS
(Reviewed by our special correspondent)
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Marist Champagnat Family Newsletter. Spring Edition 2003
http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/MFN1Spring2003
For those who have attended Marist Brothers¹ Schools this is well worth reading in full.
Marist Charism Last year the Brothers started investigating a lay partnership. This makes for very interesting reading and a wonderful way to be more inclusive in the Marist ministry. A committee has been formed and initial reactions are very encouraging. Please pray that this initiative may bring many blessings through the understanding and growth of the charism of Marcellin in our country.
Faith and Light Communities What is being done here is very special. Faith and Light, founded by Jean Vanier is a Christian Community movement for people with intellectual disabilities, their families and friends. It is an international movement with communities in over sixty countries with thirteen of them here in New Zealand. There are usually 20 to 30 members in a community and they meet monthly to celebrate a 'fiesta¹ which includes prayer, song. mime, games etc with emphasis on including the handicapped members. Faith and Light is an off-shoot of L¹Arche also founded by Jean Vanier....
'From Here and There' reports on the work of Marist Brothers in New Zealand and throughout Oceania... **************************
MYAM Notes. The quarterly newsletter of Marist Young Adult Ministry, Spring 2003
http://www.myam.org.nz/MNSpring20031.htm
The young people at the Grove are full of vim and vigour. It makes a great read.
The Human Face of Mary - a very beautiful reflection.
Golf Ball Story of Life - about setting priorities.
Young Adult Happenings! - nationwide report.
Computer Prayer (This I especially enjoyed) God was at his computer. Suddenly, he had a great idea. Every person would receive a personal e-mail! The angels got onto the job and e-mailed everyone. Then God met with the angels to discuss how it was going. 'What has been the main response from my children?' he asked. The angels were strangely silent. Eventually, one of them spoke up. "Lord, when we contacted them, the most common computer function had been DELETE".'
Let's Talk About ......SEX. This has been one of the most talked about topics in the Kohanga (Catholic Tertiary Chaplaincy) lounge this year! Why? Well, it might have something to do with the fact that three out of the four chaplains, have become involved in a programme for teenagers called Postponing Sexual Involvement (PSI).
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
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'Wel-com', September 2003 (Wellington Archdiocese, Diocese Of Palmerston North)
http://www.welcom.org.nz
"Born to us – children in New Zealand" Society's most vulnerable members are children. Their innate dignity directs us to protect them. Lisa Beech
"Formation is the paramount concern of our teachers" The paramount concern of the Catholic teacher is not merely the transmission of facts, but the formation of persons — formation, not information.
"Spirituality at the heart of the Catholic School" A framework for analysing and deepening the spirituality of the Catholic school. Dr Ann Gilroy RSJ
"Spirituality and Pastoral Planning" Our congregations are dwindling, our seminaries emptying and our reputation in the world is being battered. We look around and wonder where everyone has gone. Michael Brady
"Challenging road to agreement on world trade practices" Some who argue that free trade will grease the wheels of prosperity for the world’s poor nations while others claim that all this does is make the rich nations richer at the expense of the poor.
"Fascinating history that tells how our local church was shaped " 'Steadfast in Hope' is a fascinating account of the Wellington Archdiocese from 1850 to 2000 beginning with a diocese embracing the whole of New Zealand south of Lake Taupo.
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'NZ Catholic' No 171, September 21-October 4, 2003 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Churches condemn legalising of Internet gambling WELLINGTON - The New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services has condemned law changes legalising interactive gambling, including on the Internet, saying they would "unleash huge social harm"...
Bishops want spiritual dimension in GM decisions WELLINGTON - The Catholic bishops have called for adverse effects on the "culture, spirituality and ethical values" of New Zealanders to be fully taken into account in decisions on genetic modification of new organisms...
Sacred Heart College fetes its heroes of sport by Kelson Butler AUCKLAND - Sporting legends were honoured at Eden Park on September 5 as part of the Sacred Heart College centennial celebrations...
ALSO IN THIS ISSUE ... Aided conception can be okay, says CWL, Sexuality, family life covered in seminar, Justice week focus will be on children, ERO File, College sport, Fr Cecil: Brother, priest, missionary, Christchurch priest dies suddenly, Vatican Letter: Full agenda for meeting on translation
FEATURES: Positive alternative to "trick or treat", Sacred Heart College fetes its heroes of sport, Rugby followers to get a taste of the Bible, Padre Pio: Lengthy periods of persecution, Deals with wheels produce savings for Church, NZer's 9/11 ministry recorded, Poet's booklet and CD welcomed as a resource, Priest's struggles shaped his ministry, Former Cook Islands chaplain celebrates golden jubilee, Canterbury landscape in triptych of Mary
INTERNATIONAL: Pope's health causes concern in Slovakia, Man tells of priest's murder, O'Malley settles 552 suits in Boston, Ethical investments pay high dividends, Conversion barrier Schools need strong identity, Women leaders wanted, In Brief: Cancer link to abortion suppressed by doctors, Women confessors suggested by bishops, Priests urge optional celibacy, The Pope: Religions should all denounce terrorism, Day to support priesthood, US funding is withheld
OPINION: Ronald Rolheiser, Peter Grace, Michael Gormly Editorial: The poverty that's in our midst Malcolm Evans, Iva Verse, Letters Letters
REGULAR FEATURES: Young Adults, Books, Monitor, Clips, Net Scene, Tape Deck, Scripture, The Doolans, Cryptic Crossword, Caption Contest, Who Said?, 40 Years Ago, Dio. Diary, Photo Prayer, What We Believe, Holy Lives, Kit's Corner, Wit's End.
ADVERTISING FEATURE Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Five years' jail for paedophile priest Fairfax NZ 26 September 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2670965a11,00.html A 76-year-old retired Catholic priest has been jailed for five years for what a victim described as "despicable sexual crimes against an innocent and vulnerable child".
Further related reports: New complaint against convicted paedophile priest http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2668570a11,00.html Paedophile priest 'a very sick man' http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2643035a11,00.html
Pope tipped for Nobel prize Gulf Daily News 27 September 2003 http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Articles.asp?Article=62664&Sn=WORL OSLO: Pope John Paul II, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and dissidents from Iran to China are among those tipped to win the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize in a year with no clear favourites....
Pope to name new cardinals in October http://www.deepikaglobal.com/ENG4_sub.asp?ccode=ENG4&newscode=24415 Deepikaglobal.com Saturday, September 27, 2003 Rome, Sep 26 (DPA) Pope John Paul II will bring forward the nomination of new cardinals by several months when he meets with the College of Cardinals in October, Vatican sources said today The pope is expected to announce the nominations in the next days, possibly on September 28, the sources said. The consistory or college will then convene on October 21 or 22 instead of February 2004, as originally planned....
Vatican Correspondent Handicaps Front-Runners for Next Pope Newhouse News Service http://www.newhouse.com/archive/long092303.html When the princes of the Roman Catholic Church gather in the Sistine Chapel to elect the next pope, the room will be swept for electronic bugs -- an innovation ordered by the current pontiff. If the election were today, 109 cardinals from around the world would be eligible to vote. Of these men, Pope John Paul II appointed 104. But don't assume the fix is in, warns John L. Allen Jr., the Vatican correspondent for CNN and the National Catholic Reporter....
Go straight to Heaven The Spectator (UK) http://tinyurl.com/o7uf Mother Teresa is Calcutta’s best brand. Later this month, when, in record time, the Pope bestows on her the Vatican super seal of approval and declares her blessed, she will be well on her way to becoming a saint. Hers will probably become the fastest sainthood since the Roman Catholic Church set rules controlling saint-making in the 13th century. Why the haste?....
Supplementary report: Vatican - Programme of events to mark 25th year of John Paul election to the papacy released: celebrations to culminate with beatification of Mother Teresa on Mission Sunday http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2003/0309/22_740.html
German Catholics Urge Full Rights To Muslims Islam Online Sept 2003 http://www.islamonline.net/English/News/2003-09/26/article09.shtml BONN, September 26 (IslamOnline.net) – In a new bold step towards ending religious discrimination in Germany, the council of Catholic bishops called on all institutions to secure legitimate rights to the three-million-estimated Muslim community and positively interact with them....
Priest video strikes gold http://www.cathnews.com/news/309/157.php Sales of the recent Melbourne-produced vocations video Priests 24/7 have far exceeded the distributors' expectations according to director Peter Thomas. Priests 24/7 uses the "reality TV" fly-on-the-wall technique to follow the lives of two parish priests - Fr Kevin Dillon from St Mary's, Geelong, and Fr Max Vodola, from St Joseph's, Reservoir, in Melbourne....
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CATHOLICTV.NET
http://www.catholictv.net
'Catholics Returning Home' Lorraine McArthur looks at how the church is working to bring back the enormous number of lapsed Catholics by providing them with a new sense of belonging in the Church. With contributions by Jan Heath and Bishop Pat Dew.
'Growing In Faith Together' Pastors from parishes of the Uniting and Catholic Churches reflect on recent collaborative renewal in faith events which saw their congregations mix, compare and celebrate their faiths together.
'Education Report': Br Pat Lynch looks at the latest developments in Catholic education for his September report.
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MARIST BROTHERS' NEWSLETTERS
(Reviewed by our special correspondent)
***************************
Marist Champagnat Family Newsletter. Spring Edition 2003
http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/MFN1Spring2003
For those who have attended Marist Brothers¹ Schools this is well worth reading in full.
Marist Charism Last year the Brothers started investigating a lay partnership. This makes for very interesting reading and a wonderful way to be more inclusive in the Marist ministry. A committee has been formed and initial reactions are very encouraging. Please pray that this initiative may bring many blessings through the understanding and growth of the charism of Marcellin in our country.
Faith and Light Communities What is being done here is very special. Faith and Light, founded by Jean Vanier is a Christian Community movement for people with intellectual disabilities, their families and friends. It is an international movement with communities in over sixty countries with thirteen of them here in New Zealand. There are usually 20 to 30 members in a community and they meet monthly to celebrate a 'fiesta¹ which includes prayer, song. mime, games etc with emphasis on including the handicapped members. Faith and Light is an off-shoot of L¹Arche also founded by Jean Vanier....
'From Here and There' reports on the work of Marist Brothers in New Zealand and throughout Oceania... **************************
MYAM Notes. The quarterly newsletter of Marist Young Adult Ministry, Spring 2003
http://www.myam.org.nz/MNSpring20031.htm
The young people at the Grove are full of vim and vigour. It makes a great read.
The Human Face of Mary - a very beautiful reflection.
Golf Ball Story of Life - about setting priorities.
Young Adult Happenings! - nationwide report.
Computer Prayer (This I especially enjoyed) God was at his computer. Suddenly, he had a great idea. Every person would receive a personal e-mail! The angels got onto the job and e-mailed everyone. Then God met with the angels to discuss how it was going. 'What has been the main response from my children?' he asked. The angels were strangely silent. Eventually, one of them spoke up. "Lord, when we contacted them, the most common computer function had been DELETE".'
Let's Talk About ......SEX. This has been one of the most talked about topics in the Kohanga (Catholic Tertiary Chaplaincy) lounge this year! Why? Well, it might have something to do with the fact that three out of the four chaplains, have become involved in a programme for teenagers called Postponing Sexual Involvement (PSI).
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Sunday, September 21, 2003
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"Conservative big influence in Labour Party " Otago Daily Times 13 September 2003 http://www.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/search-display-story-online-new?date=13Sep2003&obje\ ct=MCB08J0570AJ&type=html&WORDS=catholic&DB=Editorial Although Michael ("Mick") Connelly CMG enjoyed only a brief period in power as a Cabinet minister, his conservative Catholic influence in the Labour Party was considerable throughout the three decades from the mid-1950s....
"Take a tray of kibbeh" (article includes recipe) ODT Wednesday, 10-September 2003 http://www.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/search-display-story-online-new?date=10Sep2003&obje\ ct=M8B10F1600RN&type=html&WORDS=catholic&DB=Editorial Lebanese settlers, like most immigrants, came to New Zealand for a better life. Lebanon was part of the Muslim Ottoman Empire for about 400 years until 1918 but most of the New Zealand immigrants were Christian, either Maronite Christians, who attended St Joseph's, the Dunedin Roman Catholic Cathedral, or Greek Orthodox, who built their own church in Fingall St. Even after four or five generations, the descendants of the immigrants still maintain their culture and food, family ties and links with their homeland...
"Bless you, Sister Wendy " Dominion Post 15 September 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2659888a1869,00.html "... knowledge is a wonderful thing, and what can be more pleasant than being on the receiving end of someone else's informed passion for their subject. It's a bit like that, paying attention from the front of the class to Sister Wendy on Saturday nights' World Arts: Sister Wendy's American Collection on TV One. I remember the mild hoo-ha that accompanied her arrival on our screens. She was considered to be so utterly different, and indeed, if you compare her with the huge majority of people fronting television programmes, she is.....
"Churches back abuse unit" NZ Herald 19.09.2003 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3524325&thesection=news&thesu\ bsection=general New Zealand's religious organisations and the Catholic Church have accepted in principle the need to set up an independent national office to help deal with claims of abuse...
"Priest stripped of powers" (full text) NZ Herald 20.09.2003 A prominent Catholic priest accused of sexual misconduct has been stripped of all powers except for ministering the last rites to the dying. Father Jim Consedine retains his title as priest, but has been banned by Christchurch Bishop John Cunneen from all preaching and public ministries. Father Consedine, a justice campaigner of Christchurch, is on a world tour and was unable to be contacted.
"Disgraced NZ Priest Speaking In US" Newstalk ZB 20/09/2003 http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,3882-2683962,00.html An internet website shows Jim Consedine has been a guest speaker at at least one US Catholic ministry since he resigned as Lyttelton parish priest in June, and was banned from all preaching and public ministry...
"Retired priest leaves prison to meet victim " Otago Daily Times 19 september 2003 http://www.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/search-display-story-online-new?date=19Sep2003&obje\ ct=MIG4391615KS&type=html&WORDS=catholic&DB=Editorial A 76-year-old retired Roman Catholic priest remanded in custody last month for his sexual abuse of three young boys between 31 and 45 years ago was yesterday allowed out of prison for two hours to meet one of his victims. Magnus William Murray was released by Dunedin District Court Judge Stephen O'Driscoll on terms and conditions stipulated in a letter from Crown solicitor Robin Bates....
"Here's looking at you, God--whoever you are " Chicago Sun-Times September 12, 2003 http://www.suntimes.com/output/falsani/cst-nws-fals12.html Two weeks from tonight, CBS will premier a new television show called "Joan of Arcadia." Part of the premise of this spiritually thoughtful show is that Joan Girardi, 16, the typically teenage daughter of the local police chief, can see God. Not just in a spiritual, metaphorical way. Like a stranger on a bus. Or in the backyard. On the street. Lurking in the school hallway. And serving up tartar sauce behind the cafeteria steam trays....
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
"Rebecca’s Community outreach volunteers will provide support to ‘schoolies’" Catholic Weekly (Sydney) http://www.catholicweekly.com.au/03/sep/21/29.html “With the HSC exams only a month away, many Year 12 students’ thoughts have already moved beyond to the ‘schoolies’ celebrations on Queensland’s Gold Coast come November. However, the combination of thousands of young people with a ready availability of drugs and alcohol can potentially make schoolies the most dangerous experience of their lives, says social worker Dominic Mapstone. Dominic, the director of a charity operating under the auspices of Centacare Sydney, will lead more than 50 young people on an outreach to schoolies at the Gold Coast from mid-November to mid-December....
Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos on Mel Gibson's "The Passion" Calls It a Tool for Explaining the Person and Message of Christ http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=41157 Vatican City, Sept. 18, 2003 (Zenit.org).- A cardinal urged the public to see Mel Gibson's film "The Passion," which depicts the suffering and death of Jesus. After seeing an unfinished version of the film, which will be released next year, Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, gave his opinion on the film, in an interview published today in Turin's newspaper La Stampa....
"Danusia Does It" Australian Catholics, Spring 2003 http://www.australiancatholics.com.au/articles/03spring2.html It’s Christmas morning in 1992. A chaotic scene unfolds in a suburban home as the final preparations are made for the Christmas delivery Santa couldn’t make. There may not be a sleigh, but there’s a big red truck, and scores of underprivileged children—naughty and nice—will still get their Christmas presents. This is one of the proudest memories for 28-year-old Danusia Kaska, the first woman national Vice President of the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia....
Solomon Islands - Celebration at Holy Cross Cathedral, oasis of peace and silence at times of difficulty and strife http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2003/0309/15_699.html Honiara (Fides Service) - 14 September, 2003 – the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross - was a day of joy, celebration and feasting for the parishioners of Holy Cross Cathedral, Honiara – in fact for the entire church – as they thanked God for the cathedral that has stood for the past 25th years....
"Custodian Tells Would-Be Pilgrims: Be Not Afraid " http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=41080 Bethlehem, West Bank, Sept 17, 2003 (Zenit.org).- "Do not be afraid! Return to the Holy Land!" pleaded the Franciscan custodian of Bethlehem's Basilica of the Nativity, in a dramatic appeal to Christian pilgrims worldwide....
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JUSTICE, PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT
'Caritas Update', Spring 2003 http://www.caritas.org.nz/update.asp
In this Issue... Children’s Issues are the theme for Social Justice Week, 21-27 September 2003. 'Update' includes articles on child poverty, child protection and child participation and the issue of children working; their conditions, rates of pay, work accidents and the minimum age of employment. Other articles in this 'Update' look at the issue of child sponsorship, the situation in Liberia and Iraq, Lent Totals and the appeal launched to help the people of the Solomon Islands. The Schools Spotlight has the Peace Banner made by students at Roncalli College, Timaru and students at Joseph’s Takapuna learning about justice issues in Cambodia
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CHAMPAGNAT NEWSLETTER Volume 7 Number 3 September 2003 http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/Champagnat%20News.htm
"Champagnat" is a newsletter for Boards of Trustees and Staff of Marist Schools and Schools with Marist traditions in New Zealand.
In this issue ... News from the schools, including Verdon College, John Paul II High School, St Patrick’s Greymouth, Catholic Cathedral College... St Bernard's College's Peter Fava on the Marist vision of education St John's College cultural revue Biography of Venerable Brother François (Gabriel Rivat) 1808-1881 First Superior General of the Marist Brothers 'Les Miserables' co-production by Sacred Heart College and Baradene college, Auckland, Marist Year 12 Student Day
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BIOETHICS
The Nathaniel Report (Nathaniel Catholic bioethics Centre) Issue 10, august 2003 http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/nr_issue_10.html
Full text: International Colloquium - Globalization and the Culture of Life In a world transformed by globalization, there are both positive and adverse consequences. The Catholic social justice tradition has foundational principles that offer valuable direction in dealing with the immense issues that face a global world. This consensus statement, drawn up by participants at the inaugural Colloquium for Catholic Bioethicists in Canada, offers insights into bioethical issues near the end of life and gives some implications for Catholic health care delivery....
Also in the print edition:
Editorial: Faith and Reason - Reflections on a debate... The New Zealand Parliament recently voted against "The Death with Dignity Bill" that sought to make physician-assisted suicide legal in New Zealand. Fr. Michael McCabe reflects on aspects of the debate, looks at lessons to be learned, and concludes that much work remains to be done.
The Genetic Symphony The ethical implications of genetic modification is an issue that is at the forefront of many peoples minds. This article looks at the question 'What makes us human?' through an exploration of the nature of genes. It challenges a number of perceptions regarding the role of genes in determining human makeup, and offers a particular insight into the relationship between human dignity and our genes.
Submission on New Organisms and Other Matters Bill 2003 The NOOM Bill includes recommendations that streamline the approval of the genetic modification of new organisms in laboratories and that will also allow for the approval of the conditional release of new organisms. This article is a copy of the submission made by the New Zealand Catholic Bishops’ Conference and the Nathaniel Centre to the Education and Science Committee.
Ethical Criteria Outlined for Use of Genetically Modified Organisms A report on a recent press release by the Pontifical Academy for Life setting out some principles from the Holy See on the use of biotechnology.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
"Conservative big influence in Labour Party " Otago Daily Times 13 September 2003 http://www.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/search-display-story-online-new?date=13Sep2003&obje\ ct=MCB08J0570AJ&type=html&WORDS=catholic&DB=Editorial Although Michael ("Mick") Connelly CMG enjoyed only a brief period in power as a Cabinet minister, his conservative Catholic influence in the Labour Party was considerable throughout the three decades from the mid-1950s....
"Take a tray of kibbeh" (article includes recipe) ODT Wednesday, 10-September 2003 http://www.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/search-display-story-online-new?date=10Sep2003&obje\ ct=M8B10F1600RN&type=html&WORDS=catholic&DB=Editorial Lebanese settlers, like most immigrants, came to New Zealand for a better life. Lebanon was part of the Muslim Ottoman Empire for about 400 years until 1918 but most of the New Zealand immigrants were Christian, either Maronite Christians, who attended St Joseph's, the Dunedin Roman Catholic Cathedral, or Greek Orthodox, who built their own church in Fingall St. Even after four or five generations, the descendants of the immigrants still maintain their culture and food, family ties and links with their homeland...
"Bless you, Sister Wendy " Dominion Post 15 September 2003 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2659888a1869,00.html "... knowledge is a wonderful thing, and what can be more pleasant than being on the receiving end of someone else's informed passion for their subject. It's a bit like that, paying attention from the front of the class to Sister Wendy on Saturday nights' World Arts: Sister Wendy's American Collection on TV One. I remember the mild hoo-ha that accompanied her arrival on our screens. She was considered to be so utterly different, and indeed, if you compare her with the huge majority of people fronting television programmes, she is.....
"Churches back abuse unit" NZ Herald 19.09.2003 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3524325&thesection=news&thesu\ bsection=general New Zealand's religious organisations and the Catholic Church have accepted in principle the need to set up an independent national office to help deal with claims of abuse...
"Priest stripped of powers" (full text) NZ Herald 20.09.2003 A prominent Catholic priest accused of sexual misconduct has been stripped of all powers except for ministering the last rites to the dying. Father Jim Consedine retains his title as priest, but has been banned by Christchurch Bishop John Cunneen from all preaching and public ministries. Father Consedine, a justice campaigner of Christchurch, is on a world tour and was unable to be contacted.
"Disgraced NZ Priest Speaking In US" Newstalk ZB 20/09/2003 http://xtramsn.co.nz/news/0,,3882-2683962,00.html An internet website shows Jim Consedine has been a guest speaker at at least one US Catholic ministry since he resigned as Lyttelton parish priest in June, and was banned from all preaching and public ministry...
"Retired priest leaves prison to meet victim " Otago Daily Times 19 september 2003 http://www.odt.co.nz/cgi-bin/search-display-story-online-new?date=19Sep2003&obje\ ct=MIG4391615KS&type=html&WORDS=catholic&DB=Editorial A 76-year-old retired Roman Catholic priest remanded in custody last month for his sexual abuse of three young boys between 31 and 45 years ago was yesterday allowed out of prison for two hours to meet one of his victims. Magnus William Murray was released by Dunedin District Court Judge Stephen O'Driscoll on terms and conditions stipulated in a letter from Crown solicitor Robin Bates....
"Here's looking at you, God--whoever you are " Chicago Sun-Times September 12, 2003 http://www.suntimes.com/output/falsani/cst-nws-fals12.html Two weeks from tonight, CBS will premier a new television show called "Joan of Arcadia." Part of the premise of this spiritually thoughtful show is that Joan Girardi, 16, the typically teenage daughter of the local police chief, can see God. Not just in a spiritual, metaphorical way. Like a stranger on a bus. Or in the backyard. On the street. Lurking in the school hallway. And serving up tartar sauce behind the cafeteria steam trays....
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS
"Rebecca’s Community outreach volunteers will provide support to ‘schoolies’" Catholic Weekly (Sydney) http://www.catholicweekly.com.au/03/sep/21/29.html “With the HSC exams only a month away, many Year 12 students’ thoughts have already moved beyond to the ‘schoolies’ celebrations on Queensland’s Gold Coast come November. However, the combination of thousands of young people with a ready availability of drugs and alcohol can potentially make schoolies the most dangerous experience of their lives, says social worker Dominic Mapstone. Dominic, the director of a charity operating under the auspices of Centacare Sydney, will lead more than 50 young people on an outreach to schoolies at the Gold Coast from mid-November to mid-December....
Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos on Mel Gibson's "The Passion" Calls It a Tool for Explaining the Person and Message of Christ http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=41157 Vatican City, Sept. 18, 2003 (Zenit.org).- A cardinal urged the public to see Mel Gibson's film "The Passion," which depicts the suffering and death of Jesus. After seeing an unfinished version of the film, which will be released next year, Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, prefect of the Congregation for Clergy, gave his opinion on the film, in an interview published today in Turin's newspaper La Stampa....
"Danusia Does It" Australian Catholics, Spring 2003 http://www.australiancatholics.com.au/articles/03spring2.html It’s Christmas morning in 1992. A chaotic scene unfolds in a suburban home as the final preparations are made for the Christmas delivery Santa couldn’t make. There may not be a sleigh, but there’s a big red truck, and scores of underprivileged children—naughty and nice—will still get their Christmas presents. This is one of the proudest memories for 28-year-old Danusia Kaska, the first woman national Vice President of the St Vincent de Paul Society in Australia....
Solomon Islands - Celebration at Holy Cross Cathedral, oasis of peace and silence at times of difficulty and strife http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2003/0309/15_699.html Honiara (Fides Service) - 14 September, 2003 – the Feast of the Exaltation of the Cross - was a day of joy, celebration and feasting for the parishioners of Holy Cross Cathedral, Honiara – in fact for the entire church – as they thanked God for the cathedral that has stood for the past 25th years....
"Custodian Tells Would-Be Pilgrims: Be Not Afraid " http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=41080 Bethlehem, West Bank, Sept 17, 2003 (Zenit.org).- "Do not be afraid! Return to the Holy Land!" pleaded the Franciscan custodian of Bethlehem's Basilica of the Nativity, in a dramatic appeal to Christian pilgrims worldwide....
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JUSTICE, PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT
'Caritas Update', Spring 2003 http://www.caritas.org.nz/update.asp
In this Issue... Children’s Issues are the theme for Social Justice Week, 21-27 September 2003. 'Update' includes articles on child poverty, child protection and child participation and the issue of children working; their conditions, rates of pay, work accidents and the minimum age of employment. Other articles in this 'Update' look at the issue of child sponsorship, the situation in Liberia and Iraq, Lent Totals and the appeal launched to help the people of the Solomon Islands. The Schools Spotlight has the Peace Banner made by students at Roncalli College, Timaru and students at Joseph’s Takapuna learning about justice issues in Cambodia
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CHAMPAGNAT NEWSLETTER Volume 7 Number 3 September 2003 http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/Champagnat%20News.htm
"Champagnat" is a newsletter for Boards of Trustees and Staff of Marist Schools and Schools with Marist traditions in New Zealand.
In this issue ... News from the schools, including Verdon College, John Paul II High School, St Patrick’s Greymouth, Catholic Cathedral College... St Bernard's College's Peter Fava on the Marist vision of education St John's College cultural revue Biography of Venerable Brother François (Gabriel Rivat) 1808-1881 First Superior General of the Marist Brothers 'Les Miserables' co-production by Sacred Heart College and Baradene college, Auckland, Marist Year 12 Student Day
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BIOETHICS
The Nathaniel Report (Nathaniel Catholic bioethics Centre) Issue 10, august 2003 http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/nr_issue_10.html
Full text: International Colloquium - Globalization and the Culture of Life In a world transformed by globalization, there are both positive and adverse consequences. The Catholic social justice tradition has foundational principles that offer valuable direction in dealing with the immense issues that face a global world. This consensus statement, drawn up by participants at the inaugural Colloquium for Catholic Bioethicists in Canada, offers insights into bioethical issues near the end of life and gives some implications for Catholic health care delivery....
Also in the print edition:
Editorial: Faith and Reason - Reflections on a debate... The New Zealand Parliament recently voted against "The Death with Dignity Bill" that sought to make physician-assisted suicide legal in New Zealand. Fr. Michael McCabe reflects on aspects of the debate, looks at lessons to be learned, and concludes that much work remains to be done.
The Genetic Symphony The ethical implications of genetic modification is an issue that is at the forefront of many peoples minds. This article looks at the question 'What makes us human?' through an exploration of the nature of genes. It challenges a number of perceptions regarding the role of genes in determining human makeup, and offers a particular insight into the relationship between human dignity and our genes.
Submission on New Organisms and Other Matters Bill 2003 The NOOM Bill includes recommendations that streamline the approval of the genetic modification of new organisms in laboratories and that will also allow for the approval of the conditional release of new organisms. This article is a copy of the submission made by the New Zealand Catholic Bishops’ Conference and the Nathaniel Centre to the Education and Science Committee.
Ethical Criteria Outlined for Use of Genetically Modified Organisms A report on a recent press release by the Pontifical Academy for Life setting out some principles from the Holy See on the use of biotechnology.
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Sunday, September 14, 2003
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
No 170, September7-20, 2003 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
Big regional churches are likely in Auckland AUCKLAND - Large regional churches look set to become a reality following a review of the way essential pastoral services are dispensed in Auckland. ...
Life turned around by "Welcome home" AUSTRALIA - "When it comes to Catholics evangelising, we don't have to look much further than ourselves," says Jan Heath, the Australian woman who has brought the Catholics Returning Home programme to Australasia. ..
First Mahitahi project a "great success" AUCKLAND - The first person to be sent overseas with the new Mahitahi organisation has completed his short-term assignment in the Solomon Islands with flying colours....
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EDUCATION
Sancta Maria College, Howick-Pakuranga http://www.sanctamaria.school.nz/index.htm
"Sancta Maria College is named after the mission schooner Sancta Maria on which Bishop Jean Baptiste Pompallier sailed around New Zealand. The College’s name commemorates the historic arrival and work of Bishop Pompallier. There is a comparison between the vessel Sancta Maria being used to spread the Word and our College being a vessel for furthering the Religious Education of young people in our area. It also links the College with the ships and the sea which are so much a feature of our city." Sancta Maria College will open in February 2004, beginning with classes at Years 7, 8 and 9 levels and will continue to grow a new level each year until 2008 when it will offer full schooling from Years 7 to 13.
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SEPTEMBER 11
St. Peter's Parish: Death and Resurrection at Ground Zero http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/Sep2003/Feature2.asp
St Peter's Catholic Church in lower Manhattan once stood in the shadows of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. The pastor of St. Peter's and other eyewitnesses describe what it was like at Ground Zero on the day the Twin Towers fell—and during the weeks and months that followed....
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POPE JOHN PAUL IN SLOVAKIA
This weekend Pope John Paul is visiting Slovakia, former Czechoslovakia's "other half" and the neighbour of the Pope's homeland Poland, across the Tatra mountains.
Especially in the early years of the Cold War era (1945-1983) the church was subjected to a brutal campaign of repression, with the imprisonment of many clergy and religious and harassment and discrimination against active lay Catholics, while an underground Church was formed to minister to the faithful. during his visit, the Pope He will canonise two martyrs of the persecution - a bishop and a nun - who died as a consequence of their treatment. In his public addresses he is encouraging the Catholics of Slovakia to celebrate and give thanks for their faith in country which, together with the Czech Republic, has the lowest number of declared Christians in Europe.
The Pope in Slovakia: Photo slideshow, video and text reports: http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=world&cat=pope_john_paul_ii
Articles in the Catholic and secular press:
Slovakian Cardinal on the Impact of John Paul II http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=40698
Pope's visit recalls communist-era cruelty to the church in Slovakia http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=world_home&articleID=1405239
Slovakian Catholics and Their Religious Roots Interview With Archbishop Jan Sokol of Bratislava-Trnava http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=40638
Victims of Communist persecution tell their story: for years Vatican Radio only contact with Universal Church and Free World http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2003/0309/09_650.html
Cardinal Korec : The Holy Father’s visit will give us new thrust for evangelisation and a deeper rooting of the faith, so necessary today, for us and for the whole world. http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2003/0309/09_649.html
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EVENTS
September 2003
'NZ Catholic' newspaper's National Art and Faith Competition Closing date: September 19 2003; works to be in by September 30; exhibition opens October 3. For paintings of a spiritual nature demonstrating the vitality, joy and hope found in Christian beliefs. Three categories, including one for works relating to Mary the mother of Jesus, and one for icons. Prizes to the value of $4,750 Entry forms from "Art Competition", NZ Catholic, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034. Tel: (09) 360 3069; E-mail: catholic@iconz.co.nz
Related Website: NZ Art Monthly: 'Art and Faith' Competition http://www.nzartmonthly.co.nz/draper_002.html Background to the competition and a selection of entries from 2001
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
No 170, September7-20, 2003 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
Big regional churches are likely in Auckland AUCKLAND - Large regional churches look set to become a reality following a review of the way essential pastoral services are dispensed in Auckland. ...
Life turned around by "Welcome home" AUSTRALIA - "When it comes to Catholics evangelising, we don't have to look much further than ourselves," says Jan Heath, the Australian woman who has brought the Catholics Returning Home programme to Australasia. ..
First Mahitahi project a "great success" AUCKLAND - The first person to be sent overseas with the new Mahitahi organisation has completed his short-term assignment in the Solomon Islands with flying colours....
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EDUCATION
Sancta Maria College, Howick-Pakuranga http://www.sanctamaria.school.nz/index.htm
"Sancta Maria College is named after the mission schooner Sancta Maria on which Bishop Jean Baptiste Pompallier sailed around New Zealand. The College’s name commemorates the historic arrival and work of Bishop Pompallier. There is a comparison between the vessel Sancta Maria being used to spread the Word and our College being a vessel for furthering the Religious Education of young people in our area. It also links the College with the ships and the sea which are so much a feature of our city." Sancta Maria College will open in February 2004, beginning with classes at Years 7, 8 and 9 levels and will continue to grow a new level each year until 2008 when it will offer full schooling from Years 7 to 13.
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SEPTEMBER 11
St. Peter's Parish: Death and Resurrection at Ground Zero http://www.americancatholic.org/Messenger/Sep2003/Feature2.asp
St Peter's Catholic Church in lower Manhattan once stood in the shadows of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. The pastor of St. Peter's and other eyewitnesses describe what it was like at Ground Zero on the day the Twin Towers fell—and during the weeks and months that followed....
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POPE JOHN PAUL IN SLOVAKIA
This weekend Pope John Paul is visiting Slovakia, former Czechoslovakia's "other half" and the neighbour of the Pope's homeland Poland, across the Tatra mountains.
Especially in the early years of the Cold War era (1945-1983) the church was subjected to a brutal campaign of repression, with the imprisonment of many clergy and religious and harassment and discrimination against active lay Catholics, while an underground Church was formed to minister to the faithful. during his visit, the Pope He will canonise two martyrs of the persecution - a bishop and a nun - who died as a consequence of their treatment. In his public addresses he is encouraging the Catholics of Slovakia to celebrate and give thanks for their faith in country which, together with the Czech Republic, has the lowest number of declared Christians in Europe.
The Pope in Slovakia: Photo slideshow, video and text reports: http://news.yahoo.com/fc?tmpl=fc&cid=34&in=world&cat=pope_john_paul_ii
Articles in the Catholic and secular press:
Slovakian Cardinal on the Impact of John Paul II http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=40698
Pope's visit recalls communist-era cruelty to the church in Slovakia http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=world_home&articleID=1405239
Slovakian Catholics and Their Religious Roots Interview With Archbishop Jan Sokol of Bratislava-Trnava http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=40638
Victims of Communist persecution tell their story: for years Vatican Radio only contact with Universal Church and Free World http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2003/0309/09_650.html
Cardinal Korec : The Holy Father’s visit will give us new thrust for evangelisation and a deeper rooting of the faith, so necessary today, for us and for the whole world. http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2003/0309/09_649.html
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EVENTS
September 2003
'NZ Catholic' newspaper's National Art and Faith Competition Closing date: September 19 2003; works to be in by September 30; exhibition opens October 3. For paintings of a spiritual nature demonstrating the vitality, joy and hope found in Christian beliefs. Three categories, including one for works relating to Mary the mother of Jesus, and one for icons. Prizes to the value of $4,750 Entry forms from "Art Competition", NZ Catholic, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034. Tel: (09) 360 3069; E-mail: catholic@iconz.co.nz
Related Website: NZ Art Monthly: 'Art and Faith' Competition http://www.nzartmonthly.co.nz/draper_002.html Background to the competition and a selection of entries from 2001
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Sunday, September 7, 2003
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CATHOLICTV.NET (Wellington Archdiocesan Media Office)
http://www.catholictv.net
This week ...
Sr Jill McLoughlan, primary schools' adviser at the Wellington Catholic Schools' Office, describes her vocation story in the second part of a new series on religious life.
Bishop John Dew delves into the aftermath and attitudes arising from the failure of the proposed Euthanasia Bill.
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MARIST MESSENGER (Society of Mary, NZ)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/index.php
Online in September's Messenger .....
Focus by Fr Carl Telford sm : Being grateful for the day ... Mary Mother of the Poor by Fr Chris Skinner sm ... St Thomas Aquinas on the Eucharistic Change by Maria Kennedy ... The beautiful glass by Fr Ken Scully sm ... Marist Spirituality by Fr Damian Dempsey sm : Why the statue is at the back of the Church ... Readings: Daily Mass readings and devotional prayers. ... Surf's up - this months recommended Websites to visit.... Extra reading - a selection of articles from online Catholic journals, magazines and papers.
Also in the September Marist Messenger: Love alone counts...Understanding and loving the Mass ... The Bible and the Rosary ... My Problem with the Church ... Challenge .... All will be well: Reconciliation
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CHRISTIAN PRESS
Book reviews: 'Good for the Soul: Remembering how to confess', by Frederica Mathewes-Green 'Lord, Have Mercy: The Healing Power of Confession', by Scott Hahn 'How to Go to Confession When You Don't Know How', by Ann M.S. LeBlanc Christianity Today September 2003 http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2003/005/6.28.html Summary: Two new books by Catholic authors attempt make the case for regular sacramental confession. Scott Hahn, one of the best-known contemporary evangelical converts to Catholicism, builds Lord Have Mercy: The Healing Power of Confession on a foundation of Scripture and Tradition. It's a work of firm and orderly persuasion, calling Catholics back to a sacrament that has become astonishingly neglected. Ann M. S. LeBlanc's short book, How to Go to Confession When You Don't Know How, is lively and inviting, often funny, and on occasion quite beautiful. LeBlanc has in mind a select audience: Catholics who desire something more personal than what is expected during that posted half-hour...
J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, a Legendary Friendship http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/134/52.0.html Our world would be poorer without two other worlds: Narnia and Middle-earth. Yet if two young professors had not met at an otherwise ordinary Oxford faculty meeting in 1926, those wondrous lands would still be unknown to us....
Spirituality and the second-half of life, by Fr Ronald Rolheiser OMI 'Tidings Online' August 29, 2003 http://www.the-tidings.com/2003/0829/rolheiser.htm The foremost spiritual task of the second half of life is to forgive -others, ourselves, life, God. We all arrive at mid-life wounded and not having had exactly the life of which we dreamed....
'Church must promote the masculine side of Christianity ' Patrick Kenny asks why are men not attracted to the Church as much as women... The Irish Catholic 03-09-03 http://www.irishcatholic.ie/030903-f1.htm Summary: Commentators often don't want to acknowledge that it is primarily women who have been at the forefront of increased lay participation and visibility, and that the decline in religious observance has been steepest amongst men. Some studies would suggest that women make up between 60 and 70 per cent of the Church-going population in the affluent West and the figure for female involvement in prayer groups and parish ministry is probably higher. This female participation is wonderful, but the question remains: where are all the men?...
Priests of 9/11 Tell Their Stories: Compilation Produced by Bishops' Vocations Office http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=40197 Washington, D.C., Sept. 1, 2003 (Zenit.org).- The stories of priests on the scene during the Sept. 11 attacks are highlighted in a new publication produced by the U.S. bishops. "We Were There ... Catholic Priests and How They Responded" is a compilation of personal accounts of ministry amid the damage at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon....
'Finding Nemo' and the Triune God Dominican Life http://www.domlife.org/2003/findingnemo.html Finding an account of the love between a father and son remains one of the most difficult tasks possible in Western culture. Tens of thousands of stories detail the relationship between fathers and sons as a desperate, often deadly, struggle. Since Christian understanding takes the love between father and son as one of its basic expressions for the reality of God, a film such as 'Finding Nemo' becomes far more than run-of-the-mill children's fare. It stands against the mainstream traditions of Western narrative, and forces us to ask how this cultural lacuna impacts our capacity to understand the Triune God....
'A small voice in the Pacific, by Annie Carrett' Catholic Voice (Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn, Australia) http://www.catholicvoice.com.au/180/features.htm For nearly 29,000 Catholics spread across the 80 islands that make up the Diocese of Vanuatu, a small voice reaches out to unite them in their local faith and the Universal Church. Sr Renée Heraud SMSM, editor of the bi-monthly publication Eklesia, recently visited Australia as a guest of the Australasian Catholic Press Association. A Missionary Sister of Service based in Port Vila, Sr Renée's struggle to maintain an active voice for Vanuatu Catholics is an echo of many of the difficulties faced by Catholic media throughout the world....
'Young and Yearning for God', by Arthur Jones National Catholic Reporter, August 29, 2003 http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives2/2003c/082903/082903a.php Up close and enjoyable: Catholic youth gathered en masse for Mass. It’s an annual rite of Catholic teen passage in California -- the spring gathering of thousands of happy, noisy, multiethnic Catholic teens at the annual Los Angeles archdiocesan Religious Education Congress Youth Day. They sport school or parish T-shirts, sing out at liturgies, ask questions at workshops, laugh at jokes, and give off the aura that all is right with their world....
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EVENTS
September 2003
'NZ Catholic' newspaper's National Art and Faith Competition Closing date: September 19 2003; works to be in by September 30; exhibition opens October 3. For paintings of a spiritual nature demonstrating the vitality, joy and hope found in Christian beliefs. Three categories, including one for works relating to Mary the mother of Jesus, and one for icons. Prizes to the value of $4,750 Entry forms from "Art Competition", NZ Catholic, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034. Tel: (09) 360 3069; E-mail: catholic@iconz.co.nz
Related Website: NZ Art Monthly: 'Art and Faith' Competition http://www.nzartmonthly.co.nz/draper_002.html Background to the competition and a selection of entries from 2001
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CATHOLICTV.NET (Wellington Archdiocesan Media Office)
http://www.catholictv.net
This week ...
Sr Jill McLoughlan, primary schools' adviser at the Wellington Catholic Schools' Office, describes her vocation story in the second part of a new series on religious life.
Bishop John Dew delves into the aftermath and attitudes arising from the failure of the proposed Euthanasia Bill.
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MARIST MESSENGER (Society of Mary, NZ)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/index.php
Online in September's Messenger .....
Focus by Fr Carl Telford sm : Being grateful for the day ... Mary Mother of the Poor by Fr Chris Skinner sm ... St Thomas Aquinas on the Eucharistic Change by Maria Kennedy ... The beautiful glass by Fr Ken Scully sm ... Marist Spirituality by Fr Damian Dempsey sm : Why the statue is at the back of the Church ... Readings: Daily Mass readings and devotional prayers. ... Surf's up - this months recommended Websites to visit.... Extra reading - a selection of articles from online Catholic journals, magazines and papers.
Also in the September Marist Messenger: Love alone counts...Understanding and loving the Mass ... The Bible and the Rosary ... My Problem with the Church ... Challenge .... All will be well: Reconciliation
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CHRISTIAN PRESS
Book reviews: 'Good for the Soul: Remembering how to confess', by Frederica Mathewes-Green 'Lord, Have Mercy: The Healing Power of Confession', by Scott Hahn 'How to Go to Confession When You Don't Know How', by Ann M.S. LeBlanc Christianity Today September 2003 http://www.christianitytoday.com/bc/2003/005/6.28.html Summary: Two new books by Catholic authors attempt make the case for regular sacramental confession. Scott Hahn, one of the best-known contemporary evangelical converts to Catholicism, builds Lord Have Mercy: The Healing Power of Confession on a foundation of Scripture and Tradition. It's a work of firm and orderly persuasion, calling Catholics back to a sacrament that has become astonishingly neglected. Ann M. S. LeBlanc's short book, How to Go to Confession When You Don't Know How, is lively and inviting, often funny, and on occasion quite beautiful. LeBlanc has in mind a select audience: Catholics who desire something more personal than what is expected during that posted half-hour...
J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, a Legendary Friendship http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/134/52.0.html Our world would be poorer without two other worlds: Narnia and Middle-earth. Yet if two young professors had not met at an otherwise ordinary Oxford faculty meeting in 1926, those wondrous lands would still be unknown to us....
Spirituality and the second-half of life, by Fr Ronald Rolheiser OMI 'Tidings Online' August 29, 2003 http://www.the-tidings.com/2003/0829/rolheiser.htm The foremost spiritual task of the second half of life is to forgive -others, ourselves, life, God. We all arrive at mid-life wounded and not having had exactly the life of which we dreamed....
'Church must promote the masculine side of Christianity ' Patrick Kenny asks why are men not attracted to the Church as much as women... The Irish Catholic 03-09-03 http://www.irishcatholic.ie/030903-f1.htm Summary: Commentators often don't want to acknowledge that it is primarily women who have been at the forefront of increased lay participation and visibility, and that the decline in religious observance has been steepest amongst men. Some studies would suggest that women make up between 60 and 70 per cent of the Church-going population in the affluent West and the figure for female involvement in prayer groups and parish ministry is probably higher. This female participation is wonderful, but the question remains: where are all the men?...
Priests of 9/11 Tell Their Stories: Compilation Produced by Bishops' Vocations Office http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=40197 Washington, D.C., Sept. 1, 2003 (Zenit.org).- The stories of priests on the scene during the Sept. 11 attacks are highlighted in a new publication produced by the U.S. bishops. "We Were There ... Catholic Priests and How They Responded" is a compilation of personal accounts of ministry amid the damage at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon....
'Finding Nemo' and the Triune God Dominican Life http://www.domlife.org/2003/findingnemo.html Finding an account of the love between a father and son remains one of the most difficult tasks possible in Western culture. Tens of thousands of stories detail the relationship between fathers and sons as a desperate, often deadly, struggle. Since Christian understanding takes the love between father and son as one of its basic expressions for the reality of God, a film such as 'Finding Nemo' becomes far more than run-of-the-mill children's fare. It stands against the mainstream traditions of Western narrative, and forces us to ask how this cultural lacuna impacts our capacity to understand the Triune God....
'A small voice in the Pacific, by Annie Carrett' Catholic Voice (Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn, Australia) http://www.catholicvoice.com.au/180/features.htm For nearly 29,000 Catholics spread across the 80 islands that make up the Diocese of Vanuatu, a small voice reaches out to unite them in their local faith and the Universal Church. Sr Renée Heraud SMSM, editor of the bi-monthly publication Eklesia, recently visited Australia as a guest of the Australasian Catholic Press Association. A Missionary Sister of Service based in Port Vila, Sr Renée's struggle to maintain an active voice for Vanuatu Catholics is an echo of many of the difficulties faced by Catholic media throughout the world....
'Young and Yearning for God', by Arthur Jones National Catholic Reporter, August 29, 2003 http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives2/2003c/082903/082903a.php Up close and enjoyable: Catholic youth gathered en masse for Mass. It’s an annual rite of Catholic teen passage in California -- the spring gathering of thousands of happy, noisy, multiethnic Catholic teens at the annual Los Angeles archdiocesan Religious Education Congress Youth Day. They sport school or parish T-shirts, sing out at liturgies, ask questions at workshops, laugh at jokes, and give off the aura that all is right with their world....
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EVENTS
September 2003
'NZ Catholic' newspaper's National Art and Faith Competition Closing date: September 19 2003; works to be in by September 30; exhibition opens October 3. For paintings of a spiritual nature demonstrating the vitality, joy and hope found in Christian beliefs. Three categories, including one for works relating to Mary the mother of Jesus, and one for icons. Prizes to the value of $4,750 Entry forms from "Art Competition", NZ Catholic, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034. Tel: (09) 360 3069; E-mail: catholic@iconz.co.nz
Related Website: NZ Art Monthly: 'Art and Faith' Competition http://www.nzartmonthly.co.nz/draper_002.html Background to the competition and a selection of entries from 2001
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