'NZ CATHOLIC'
No 186, May 2-15, 2004
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Formal inquiry considers Mother Aubert for sainthood Wellington - An archdiocesan inquiry into the possible beatification and canonisation of Mother Suzanne Aubert - who founded New Zealand's only indigenous religious order, the Sisters of Compassion - began on April 18....
One parish welcomes 17 into Church Takapau - The parish of Holy Trinity in Central Hawke's Bay received 17 people into the Church at Easter...
PM rejects booklet against euthanasia Wanganui - Prime Minister Helen Clark responded with a political statement when a Wanganui group sent her their publication against euthanasia, and for dying with dignity...
Also in the print edition ... Instruction corrects liturgical abuses ... Vibrant parishes aim of Auckland plan ... Bay of Islands symposium wove multi-hued tapestry ... The American who runs Vatican City ... Vocations up except in the West... Couple sees prayer as key to successful parenting ... Nostalgic holy cards making a comeback
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CATHOLICTV.NET
Wellington Archdocesan Media Centre
http://www.catholictv.net
New videos:
** Bishop John Dew: Pastoral areas. (The third and final video in this series)
** Hikoi of protest against the Government’s new foreshore and seabed legislation (video highlights without commentary)
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Church group to pray then march with hikoi NZPA 03 May 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2895902a8153,00.html A Catholic Church group said today it will march through Wellington later this week with the hikoi protesting against proposed foreshore and seabed legislation. Wellington Catholic Peacemakers Group spokesman, Father Gerard Burns, said members would pray at St Mary of the Angels, before joining the hikoi as it passed through the city to Parliament on Wednesday....
PM urges Catholic Church to focus on growth areas for schools NZPA 03 May 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2894788a7694,00.html The Catholic Church should focus on growth areas when building new schools, says Helen Clark. Speaking at the opening of Sancta Maria College in Botany South yesterday, the Prime Minister said the Catholic education system benefited the community....
Growth and Decline Across Education Requires Budget Action Press Release: Quality Public Education Coalition - QPEC Scoop Monday, 3 May 2004 http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0405/S00007.htm Some media commentators have suggested the new Catholic secondary school in East Auckland represents more parents wanting their children to receive a Catholic education but in reality all schools in high income communities – state or integrated - turn away children who want to enrol while schools in low income communities – including Catholic schools – can often struggle to attract enrolments. Some Catholic schools have closed in recent years as a result ...
Barriers falling for embryo donations NZ Herald 08.05.2004 http://tinyurl.com/2saqb New Zealand couples who have surplus IVF embryos will be able to donate them to other infertile couples under proposed new guidelines. The new option, which has been released for public consultation, has the support of the Catholic Church and the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child....
New Catholic School For Wanaka (full text) NewstalkZB 04/05/2004 The Catholic Church has purchased 2.1 hectares of land in Wanaka to build a new school. Planning had been on hold for several months after a previous attempt to establish a school last year on an existing site did not receive the necessary resource consents. Bishop Len Boyle says the new property on the corner of Aubrey Road and Ironwood Crescent is large enough to include a church and an associated residence. The Catholic Education Office plans to have the school up and running as soon as possible.
Hundreds farewell elderly victim (full text) NZ City 4 May 2004 More than 200-hundred people have packed into Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Inglewood for the funeral of Bernard Boylan. The 79-year-old was found dead in the back of a 1991 Subaru station wagon in Waitara last Tuesday. He died from head and neck injuries suffered in an assault. Eulogies at the service painted Mr Boylan as a quiet gentleman, whose passions were his family, attending Mass, his Irish heritage and playing the piano accordion. A 47-year-old woman faces multiple charges in relation to Mr Boylan's death. She returns to the New Plymouth District Court next week.
Fiji buries Ratu Mara, warrior chief and president NZPA 04 May 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2896081a12,00.html Fiji Catholic Archbishop Petero Mataca walked barefoot at the head of a procession as soldiers dressed in scarlet tunics and sulu skirts carried the flag-draped coffin of Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara, the South Pacific nation's founding father ...
Expelled Sri Lankan teenager escapes to Hong Kong NZ Herald 05.05.2004 http://tinyurl.com/3dzjo A 16-year-old Sri Lankan expelled from New Zealand to her homeland has fled to Hong Kong rather than be forced to testify against a sexually abusive uncle...
Church in push for new priests to fight numbers crisis Catholics mark Vocation Sunday with recruitment drive, but hierarchy unyielding on celibacy or ban on ordaining women The Guardian (UK) May 3, 2004 http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1208347,00.html Catholics around the world celebrated Vocation Sunday yesterday by focusing on those who commit their working lives to the church. But many prayers were more fervent than usual after renewed predictions that the number of Catholic priests in Britain is set to halve in the next decade...
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
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INTERNATIONAL NEWS CEO head says male teacher win just a start Catholic office says Vic Budget will help poor East Timor's Bishop Belo rules out politics China drops ban on outspoken Hong Kong bishop Swiss Guards mark 500 years with Pope Greek Orthodox targets Catholics with English services
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS && NEWS AGENCIES
Church in Ireland: Divining the Future Maynooth's Father Vincent Twomey on the State of the Faith (interview) Maynooth, Ireland, May 6, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Despite the decline of Ireland's ancient Catholic culture over the past few decades, a native theologian has hope for the Church here. Father Vincent Twomey, a lecturer in moral theology at Maynooth College and the editor in chief of the Irish Theological Quarterly, recently wrote "The End of Irish Catholicism?" (Ignatius). He shared with ZENIT his findings: that the faith and loyalty of many laity and clerics have kept the Church strong and have the potential to still bear much fruit... Part one: http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=53173 Part two: http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=53261
33 New Swiss Guards Poised for Swearing In Commander Doesn't Foresee Women in the Ranks Anytime Soon http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=53113 Vatican City, May 5, 2004 (Zenit.org).- On Thursday 33 new recruits will be sworn in as members of the Swiss Guard, the corps that protects the Pope. The recruits will be sworn-in in four languages: 23 in German, seven in French, two in Italian, and one in Romansh, a dialect in Switzerland. The corps will have 110 members....
British Bishops comment on new English Mass draft http://www.cathnews.com/news/405/12.php The liturgy office of the Bishops of England and Wales has praised the International Committee for English (ICEL) for its preference for the use of inclusive language in the 'green book' new English Mass translation draft currently circulating among bishops in English-speaking countries...
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for May 7, 2004: The future of Catholic higher education in America; Vatican conferences on globalisation and intergenerational solidarity; Georgetown University's Muslim chaplain on crucifixes; John Paul II to visit Switzerland in June; 20th century martyr-saint of the pro-life movement; Nathan Mitchell on liturgy and ecumenism; conference on St. John Chrysostom; more on just war
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Chaplain, Sacred Heart College for Girls, Napier http://www.sacredheartnapier.school.nz and St John's College for Boys, Hastings http://www.stjohns.school.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic', April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from The Principal, Sacred Heart College, Convent Road, Napier. Tel: (06) 8353 761; E-mail: pr.sec@sacredheartnapier.school.nz Applications close 28 May 2004
General Manager, Catholic Caring Foundation, Auckland http://www.catholic.org.nz/auckland/caring.htm Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 2-15 p.23 and from Neil Barr, Catholic Caring foundation, Private Bag 47904, Auckland 1034
Presenters, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper 'NZC' wishes to employ good communicators in Northland, Auckland, Hawkes Bay, Wellington, Nelson-Marlborough, West Coast, Otago and Southland. Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 2-15 p.23 and from Dennis Augustine, NZ Catholic, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034 Tel. (09) 360 3049
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Sunday, May 9, 2004
Sunday, May 2, 2004
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
MEDIA RELEASES
Letter from the Catholic Bishops of New Zealand on the new Liturgical Instruction
Auckland’s first Catholic Secondary School for over 30 years to be opened by the Prime Minister on 2nd May
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Dublin Archbishop warns against politicisation of Eucharist Abbott calls Catholics to action over abortion New Mass translation draft leaked to ABC Catholic body commends Vic Govt low-income family support Queensland Diocese backs farmers suffering under deregulation Caritas intenational appeal for Sudanese Refugees
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FROM THE SERCULAR PRESS
Govt lands in fight with Church Sunday Star Times 02 May 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/0,2106,2894289a6442,00.html The government has walked into an ugly fight with the Catholic Church after a senior adviser publicly criticised priests for sexually abusing children and engaging in clandestine homosexual relationships. Gay cabinet minister Chris Carter has hastily distanced himself from the attack by his top official, senior private secretary Simon Lambourne...
Culturally comfy workshops help parents help their children (photo) Otago Daily Times 28-April 2004 http://tinyurl.com/2y89y The homework centre's success at Kavanagh College has led it to take part in an initiative aimed at helping its Pacific pupils by involving their parents. Part-funded by the Ministry of Education, the school is just one of the Dunedin schools that form the "Catholic Cluster" taking part in the Home-School Partnership...
Catholic education in big demand NZ Herald 30.04.2004 http://tinyurl.com/2ue52 Sancta Maria College in Botany South, the first new Catholic high school to be built in Auckland in 30 years, is to be officially opened this weekend...
Mass next step to sainthood for Aubert The Dominion Post 26 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2886027a11,00.html Former Wellington nun Suzanne Aubert's next step to becoming New Zealand's first saint will be a special mass at the city's Catholic cathedral on July 4....
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NATHANIEL CATHOLIC BIOETHICS CENTRE
The Nathaniel Report Issue Twelve - April 2004 http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/nr_issue_12.html
Full text: Editorial: Organ Donation - The Enduring Gift (full text New Zealand has one of the lowest organ donation rates in the world. To nurture the life of another through organ donation is nothing short of heroic, yet there are many ethical and moral considerations to be taken account of...
Brief smumaries: My Experience of Renal Failure and its Treatment Letter from a Kidney Donor Stem Cell Research in New Zealand Some Musings on Care for the Elderly in General Practice Stepping Out Into Aged Care - Acknowledging Possibility
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Gibson’s “Passion” appreciated by Hindus, seen as antidote to fundamentalism http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=703
A Muslim Who Acted in Mel Gibson's "Passion" How the Film Moved Abel Jafri http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=52662
U.S. journalist debunks myths about Vatican. Misperceptions are result of ‘lazy popular journalism’ Milwaukee Catholic Herald April 22, 2004 http://www.chnonline.org/current/newsstory1.html
Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue reaches second stage Independent Catholic News (UK) 27 April 2004 http://www.indcatholicnews.com/ardia.html
Cardinal Weighs Sanctions for Politicians http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4027433,00.html Rome (AP) - Roman Catholic politicians who advocate policies contrary to church teaching on abortion and other issues may risk sanctions that fall short of denial of Holy Communion, the head of a U.S. bishops task force examining the problem said Tuesday...
Why Communion Could Be Denied to Anti-Life Legislators Interview With an American Theologian in Rome http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=52632 Rome, April 26, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Moves by the Church to deny Holy Communion to staunchly pro-abortion Catholic politicians are growing. To learn more about the canonical and pastoral implications, ZENIT interviewed American theologian Father Thomas Williams, dean of the School of Theology of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical Athenaeum...
Living in a state of war: the story of a Christian family http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=677 Baghdad (AsiaNews) – Abductions of foreigners in Iraq are the work of “non-Iraqi criminal rings” says Muayed Hayat Shlimon, a 41 year-old Chaldean Catholic born and raised in Baghdad. Interviewed by telephone, he told AsiaNews about his everyday life in Baghdad....
Communist Party attempts to preserve remnants of atheism http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=675
“Church of Solomon Island, look to the future!”: says Father Michael Aike, first local Catholic priest ordained 36 years, an example for priests and laity http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0404/23_2174.html
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for April 30, 2004: Sr. Enrica Rosanna takes charge in the Holy See; Cardinal Theodore McCarrick on pro-choice politicians; thoughts on Pope John Paul's successor; Catholic thought and world politics; Italian hostages in Iraq; Papal Trips and comunication
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Chaplain, Sacred Heart College for Girls, Napier http://www.sacredheartnapier.school.nz and St John's College for Boys, Hastings http://www.stjohns.school.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic', April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from The Principal, Sacred Heart College, Convent Road, Napier. Tel: (06) 8353 761; E-mail: pr.sec@sacredheartnapier.school.nz Applications close 28 May 2004
General Manager, Catholic Caring Foundation, Auckland http://www.catholic.org.nz/auckland/caring.htm Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 2-15 p.23 and from Neil Barr, Catholic Caring foundation, Private Bag 47904, Auckland 1034
Presenters, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper 'NZC' wishes to employ good communicators in Northland, Auckland, Hawkes Bay, Wellington, Nelson-Marlborough, West Coast, Otago and Southland. Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 2-15 p.23 and from Dennis Augustine, NZ Catholic, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034 Tel. (09) 360 3049
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
MEDIA RELEASES
Letter from the Catholic Bishops of New Zealand on the new Liturgical Instruction
Auckland’s first Catholic Secondary School for over 30 years to be opened by the Prime Minister on 2nd May
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Dublin Archbishop warns against politicisation of Eucharist Abbott calls Catholics to action over abortion New Mass translation draft leaked to ABC Catholic body commends Vic Govt low-income family support Queensland Diocese backs farmers suffering under deregulation Caritas intenational appeal for Sudanese Refugees
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FROM THE SERCULAR PRESS
Govt lands in fight with Church Sunday Star Times 02 May 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/0,2106,2894289a6442,00.html The government has walked into an ugly fight with the Catholic Church after a senior adviser publicly criticised priests for sexually abusing children and engaging in clandestine homosexual relationships. Gay cabinet minister Chris Carter has hastily distanced himself from the attack by his top official, senior private secretary Simon Lambourne...
Culturally comfy workshops help parents help their children (photo) Otago Daily Times 28-April 2004 http://tinyurl.com/2y89y The homework centre's success at Kavanagh College has led it to take part in an initiative aimed at helping its Pacific pupils by involving their parents. Part-funded by the Ministry of Education, the school is just one of the Dunedin schools that form the "Catholic Cluster" taking part in the Home-School Partnership...
Catholic education in big demand NZ Herald 30.04.2004 http://tinyurl.com/2ue52 Sancta Maria College in Botany South, the first new Catholic high school to be built in Auckland in 30 years, is to be officially opened this weekend...
Mass next step to sainthood for Aubert The Dominion Post 26 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2886027a11,00.html Former Wellington nun Suzanne Aubert's next step to becoming New Zealand's first saint will be a special mass at the city's Catholic cathedral on July 4....
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NATHANIEL CATHOLIC BIOETHICS CENTRE
The Nathaniel Report Issue Twelve - April 2004 http://www.nathaniel.org.nz/nr_issue_12.html
Full text: Editorial: Organ Donation - The Enduring Gift (full text New Zealand has one of the lowest organ donation rates in the world. To nurture the life of another through organ donation is nothing short of heroic, yet there are many ethical and moral considerations to be taken account of...
Brief smumaries: My Experience of Renal Failure and its Treatment Letter from a Kidney Donor Stem Cell Research in New Zealand Some Musings on Care for the Elderly in General Practice Stepping Out Into Aged Care - Acknowledging Possibility
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Gibson’s “Passion” appreciated by Hindus, seen as antidote to fundamentalism http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=703
A Muslim Who Acted in Mel Gibson's "Passion" How the Film Moved Abel Jafri http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=52662
U.S. journalist debunks myths about Vatican. Misperceptions are result of ‘lazy popular journalism’ Milwaukee Catholic Herald April 22, 2004 http://www.chnonline.org/current/newsstory1.html
Anglican-Roman Catholic dialogue reaches second stage Independent Catholic News (UK) 27 April 2004 http://www.indcatholicnews.com/ardia.html
Cardinal Weighs Sanctions for Politicians http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4027433,00.html Rome (AP) - Roman Catholic politicians who advocate policies contrary to church teaching on abortion and other issues may risk sanctions that fall short of denial of Holy Communion, the head of a U.S. bishops task force examining the problem said Tuesday...
Why Communion Could Be Denied to Anti-Life Legislators Interview With an American Theologian in Rome http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=52632 Rome, April 26, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Moves by the Church to deny Holy Communion to staunchly pro-abortion Catholic politicians are growing. To learn more about the canonical and pastoral implications, ZENIT interviewed American theologian Father Thomas Williams, dean of the School of Theology of the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical Athenaeum...
Living in a state of war: the story of a Christian family http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=677 Baghdad (AsiaNews) – Abductions of foreigners in Iraq are the work of “non-Iraqi criminal rings” says Muayed Hayat Shlimon, a 41 year-old Chaldean Catholic born and raised in Baghdad. Interviewed by telephone, he told AsiaNews about his everyday life in Baghdad....
Communist Party attempts to preserve remnants of atheism http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=675
“Church of Solomon Island, look to the future!”: says Father Michael Aike, first local Catholic priest ordained 36 years, an example for priests and laity http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0404/23_2174.html
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for April 30, 2004: Sr. Enrica Rosanna takes charge in the Holy See; Cardinal Theodore McCarrick on pro-choice politicians; thoughts on Pope John Paul's successor; Catholic thought and world politics; Italian hostages in Iraq; Papal Trips and comunication
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Chaplain, Sacred Heart College for Girls, Napier http://www.sacredheartnapier.school.nz and St John's College for Boys, Hastings http://www.stjohns.school.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic', April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from The Principal, Sacred Heart College, Convent Road, Napier. Tel: (06) 8353 761; E-mail: pr.sec@sacredheartnapier.school.nz Applications close 28 May 2004
General Manager, Catholic Caring Foundation, Auckland http://www.catholic.org.nz/auckland/caring.htm Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 2-15 p.23 and from Neil Barr, Catholic Caring foundation, Private Bag 47904, Auckland 1034
Presenters, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper 'NZC' wishes to employ good communicators in Northland, Auckland, Hawkes Bay, Wellington, Nelson-Marlborough, West Coast, Otago and Southland. Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 2-15 p.23 and from Dennis Augustine, NZ Catholic, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034 Tel. (09) 360 3049
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Sunday, April 25, 2004
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CATHOLIC COMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
Media Release: Suggestions for Anzac Day Liturgy
International News: Chaldean Church mediating in release of Iraq hostages ... Pope recommends trust in God, not 'external success' ... Caritas responds to Bangladesh deaths ... Catholics back freedom of conscience for doctors in US states ... Catholic Health backs bureaucracy cut ... Philippine Bishops issue elections pastoral statement
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'NZ CATHOLIC '
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
From issue No 185, April 18-May 1, 2004 ...
Church won't yield on civil unions WELLINGTON - The Catholic Church will continue to teach that de facto and same-sex relationships are immoral "even if there are statutory penalties" for doing so, New Zealand's Catholic bishops have declared...
Calls for euthanasia ignore real needs of dying and caregivers WELLINGTON - Calls to legalise euthanasia fail to recognise the real needs of the terminally ill and their caregivers, according to Fr Michael McCabe, director of the Nathaniel Centre, the Catholic Church's bioethics centre...
Healings happen at retreats run by Vincentians AUCKLAND - Healings, both physical and spiritual, happen at the retreats and prayer sessions conducted by two Vincentian priests from India who visited New Zealand recently...
Also in the print edition ... Vatican II¹s liturgical reform will continue; The "underground ministry" of delivering from evil; Intolerance of religion challenged; Mercy is urged in Confession; New concepts of parenthood; "Pro-choice" Catholic seeks White House; Michael King: To be pakeha is not to be a stranger in my own country.
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'REDEMPTIONIS SACRAMENTUM'
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. Instruction 'Redemptionis Sacramentum' on certain matters to be observed or to be avoided regarding the Most Holy Eucharist (full text) http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=52462
Cardinal Arinze's Presentation on Instruction Regarding the Eucharist "Redemptionis Sacramentum" Published http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=52519 Vatican City, April 23, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Here is the presentation, made today by Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, of the instruction "Redemptionis Sacramentum," on matters to be observed or to be avoided regarding the Eucharist....
Document on liturgical abuse a stern call to discipline Vatican reaffirms no communion for those conscious of 'grave sin' National Catholic Reporter http://nationalcatholicreporter.org/update/bn042304.htm
Pope lays down law with recipe for perfect Mass The Independent (UK) http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=514671
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
'Anzac Day' Archdiocese of Brisbane. Liturgical Commission http://www.litcom.net.au/liturgy_lines/displayarticle.php?llid=309 As explained in last week’s column about Divine Mercy Sunday, no solemnity or commemoration can take precedence over a Sunday of the Easter season. Therefore the Anzac Day Mass cannot be celebrated this year as April 25 is the Third Sunday of Easter and the prayers and scriptural readings of the day take precedence over those set down for Anzac Day. A look at these texts, however, show that they are very appropriate for this special day of remembrance....
When I grow up I want to be... Sunday Star Times 25 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/0,2106,2885612a6619,00.html The Catholic church has set the first New Zealander on the path to sainthood as the Pope continues his quest for more religious 'role models'. But what can a dead French nun who worked with the poor teach modern society, asks Sarah Stuart. And who are the people we already look up to? ...
Bishops launch agency to spread the Good News http://www.indcatholicnews.com/casela.html The Catholic Agency to Support Evangelisation (CASE) is being launched today in Westminster by the Bishops of England and Wales to support the Catholic community to share the Good News of Jesus Christ where they live and work.... CASE Website: http://www.caseresources.org CASE Internet resource site for non-Catholics: http://www.life4seekers.co.uk
"Uplifting" Sydney weekend gathering celebrates family life http://www.cathnews.com/news/404/81.php Families from across Australia converged on Sydney at the weekend for the Second National Catholic Family Gathering, which was hailed as "the most wonderful, uplifting, inspirational celebration of family life"....
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Obituary: Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara NZ Herald 20.04.2004 http://tinyurl.com/2rzou As a Fijian Catholic Ratu Mara was part of a minority set outside the predominantly Methodist indigenous community. His Catholicism may go some way in explaining his early commitment to multiracialism and embracing Western democratic systems...
Church an anchor and source of daily bread Otago Daily Times 21-April 2004 http://tinyurl.com/3956e... It is a cold, wet and windy Easter Sunday evening in South Dunedin, and the Congregational Christian Church of Samoa youth group is telling the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. The chill in the air doesn't stop Matthew or the 20 other dancing performers, their voices raised in song from the stage, or dampen the warm reception at the performance's end from the audience, an assorted collection of friends, family and church members, Samoans all. Afterwards, there is hot soup for everyone and a chance for congratulations and catch-ups...
Teens say 'I don't' to marriage Sunday Star Times 18 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2878654a11,00.html Mrs Sweet Sixteen has got the thumbs down from the sisterhood with many girls against teenage marriage. The issue has been stirred up by the National Council of Women, which is querying whether "sweet 16" is too young to marry given 16-year-olds are considered too young to vote, drink alcohol or smoke. And the Catholic Church favours raising the legal age to marry to 18....
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CATHOLICTV.NET
Wellington Archdiocesan Media Centre http://www.catholictv.net
New videos:
** New Archdiocesan General Manager, John Butterfield, and new Turanga Maori Advisor, Ross Wilson have been welcomed to the Catholic centre. The Catholic Centre Piazza was the Marae area where the powhiri of welcome took place...
** Retirement can often be accompanied by the stress of chronic illnesses, but for the elderly the Vincentian Home in Berhampore is a centre for Christian-based care. Recently Cardinal Williams blessed the new extensions to the Home which is managed by the Wellington Catholic Homes Trust.
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'THE FAR EAST'
Monthly magazine of St Columban's Mission Society (ANZ) http://www.columban.org.au/tfe/tfe_current.htm
From the March 2004 issue ...
Editorial: God is the hostage of human ambitions Does religion cause wars? Some people today would give a resounding ‘yes!’ saying it is one of the main reasons for getting rid of religion from the world...
Interfaith dialogue, how can we go about it?, by Sr Kathleen Collins SSpS "In all of the religions we can find rituals, symbols and traditions which express, foster or embody people's religious experience. But like all human institutions, religions can become distorted, even corrupt...
A move to something new, by Fr Tanvir O’Hanlon Fr O’Hanlon speaks about his transition from a ‘Catholic’ culture in the Philippines to an ‘Islamic’ one in Pakistan.
Parishioners as leaders, by Aurora Luceño, Criscente Talitayan and Marco Henriquez Columbans train Pakistani Catholics to shape the future of their parish.
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NZ MARIST BROTHERS' NEWSLETTERS
*************************** 'Champagnat' A newsletter for Boards of Trustees and Staff of Marist Schools and Schools with Marist traditions in New Zealand. Volume 8 Number 1 April 2004 http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/CNApril20041.htm
Opening of new classrooms at Marcellin College, staff day of reflection on the College’s mission ... A reflection on Mary of Nazareth, by Brother Sean Sammon, Superior General of the Marist Brothers ... Recently deceased Brothers ... Closing of Greymouth Marist Brothers’ community ... Sharing Champagnat’s Vision course in Melbourne in August, follow-up course (Living Champagnat’s Vision) in Auckland ... Polyfest Maori and Pacific school Festival results
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Marist Family News Autumn 2004 http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/MFN1Autumn2004.htm
Congratulations to Brother Carl Tapp who has been appointed the new provincial for New Zealand.
Photos of recently deceased Marist brothers ... Marist High School in Greymouth, farewell activities for the Marist brothers after 112 years... Two new communities established in Auckland.
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LOURDES SHRINE'S WEBSITE
'Lourdes accepting prayer intentions via the Internet' Lourdes, France, April 21, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Thanks to the Internet it is now possible to send prayer intentions to Lourdes. The newly renovated Web page of the Marian shrine offers this opportunity at: http://www.lourdes-france.com (in French; click the UK flag at upper right for the home page in English). "The new Lourdes Internet site makes available the spiritual richness of the shrine to those who cannot come physically to Lourdes," said Pierre Adias, the shrine's communications director. This year, an average of 393 intentions a day have arrived through the shrine's electronic mail. In 1999, there were six intentions a day. Last year, 10,500 daily accesses to the site were recorded. Every year 6 million pilgrims visit the shrine. The Website includes several Webcams (live views of the Grotto and the Rosary Basilica) and articles from Lourdes Magazine.
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for April 23, 2004: Kerry and Communion; Liturgical abuse document released; The US, the Vatican and terrorism; Centenary of Rome synagogue; A talk by Biblical scholar Fr. Donald Senior; 'New movements' congress in Stuttgart; North American College honors
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Director of Catholic Youth and Young Adult Groups, St Vincent de Paul Society http://www.svdp.org.nz Details in 'Wel-com' April 2004 p.17, 'NZ Catholic' April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from District Council President, Society of St Vincent de Paul, PO Box 309, Whangarei. Applications close 26 April 2004
Parish Secretary, Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish, Howick, Auckland. Details in 'NZ Catholic' April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from Parish Priest, PO Box 38276, Howick. Applications close 28 April 2004.
Bishop's assistant, Palmerston North Diocese http://www.pn.catholic.org.nz duties include providing "retreats in daily life", catechesis and adult formation. Details in 'NZ Catholic', April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from Wendy Silver, tel: (06) 358 8079; e-mail: wsilver@pndiocese.org.nz Applications close 28 April 2004
Office Manager, Catholic Communications NZ Details in 'NZ Catholic', April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from Catholic Communications, Pompallier Diocesan Centre, 30 New St., Private Bag 47-904, Ponsonby, Auckland. Tel: (09) 378 8017; Fax: (09) 360 3061; E-mail: communications@catholic.org.nz Applications close 30 April 2004.
Chaplain, Sacred Heart College for Girls, Napier http://www.sacredheartnapier.school.nz and St John's College for Boys, Hastings http://www.stjohns.school.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic', April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from The Principal, Sacred Heart College, Convent Road, Napier. Tel: (06) 8353 761; E-mail: pr.sec@sacredheartnapier.school.nz Applications close 28 May 2004
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CATHOLIC COMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
Media Release: Suggestions for Anzac Day Liturgy
International News: Chaldean Church mediating in release of Iraq hostages ... Pope recommends trust in God, not 'external success' ... Caritas responds to Bangladesh deaths ... Catholics back freedom of conscience for doctors in US states ... Catholic Health backs bureaucracy cut ... Philippine Bishops issue elections pastoral statement
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'NZ CATHOLIC '
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
From issue No 185, April 18-May 1, 2004 ...
Church won't yield on civil unions WELLINGTON - The Catholic Church will continue to teach that de facto and same-sex relationships are immoral "even if there are statutory penalties" for doing so, New Zealand's Catholic bishops have declared...
Calls for euthanasia ignore real needs of dying and caregivers WELLINGTON - Calls to legalise euthanasia fail to recognise the real needs of the terminally ill and their caregivers, according to Fr Michael McCabe, director of the Nathaniel Centre, the Catholic Church's bioethics centre...
Healings happen at retreats run by Vincentians AUCKLAND - Healings, both physical and spiritual, happen at the retreats and prayer sessions conducted by two Vincentian priests from India who visited New Zealand recently...
Also in the print edition ... Vatican II¹s liturgical reform will continue; The "underground ministry" of delivering from evil; Intolerance of religion challenged; Mercy is urged in Confession; New concepts of parenthood; "Pro-choice" Catholic seeks White House; Michael King: To be pakeha is not to be a stranger in my own country.
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'REDEMPTIONIS SACRAMENTUM'
Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. Instruction 'Redemptionis Sacramentum' on certain matters to be observed or to be avoided regarding the Most Holy Eucharist (full text) http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=52462
Cardinal Arinze's Presentation on Instruction Regarding the Eucharist "Redemptionis Sacramentum" Published http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=52519 Vatican City, April 23, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Here is the presentation, made today by Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, of the instruction "Redemptionis Sacramentum," on matters to be observed or to be avoided regarding the Eucharist....
Document on liturgical abuse a stern call to discipline Vatican reaffirms no communion for those conscious of 'grave sin' National Catholic Reporter http://nationalcatholicreporter.org/update/bn042304.htm
Pope lays down law with recipe for perfect Mass The Independent (UK) http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=514671
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
'Anzac Day' Archdiocese of Brisbane. Liturgical Commission http://www.litcom.net.au/liturgy_lines/displayarticle.php?llid=309 As explained in last week’s column about Divine Mercy Sunday, no solemnity or commemoration can take precedence over a Sunday of the Easter season. Therefore the Anzac Day Mass cannot be celebrated this year as April 25 is the Third Sunday of Easter and the prayers and scriptural readings of the day take precedence over those set down for Anzac Day. A look at these texts, however, show that they are very appropriate for this special day of remembrance....
When I grow up I want to be... Sunday Star Times 25 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/0,2106,2885612a6619,00.html The Catholic church has set the first New Zealander on the path to sainthood as the Pope continues his quest for more religious 'role models'. But what can a dead French nun who worked with the poor teach modern society, asks Sarah Stuart. And who are the people we already look up to? ...
Bishops launch agency to spread the Good News http://www.indcatholicnews.com/casela.html The Catholic Agency to Support Evangelisation (CASE) is being launched today in Westminster by the Bishops of England and Wales to support the Catholic community to share the Good News of Jesus Christ where they live and work.... CASE Website: http://www.caseresources.org CASE Internet resource site for non-Catholics: http://www.life4seekers.co.uk
"Uplifting" Sydney weekend gathering celebrates family life http://www.cathnews.com/news/404/81.php Families from across Australia converged on Sydney at the weekend for the Second National Catholic Family Gathering, which was hailed as "the most wonderful, uplifting, inspirational celebration of family life"....
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Obituary: Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara NZ Herald 20.04.2004 http://tinyurl.com/2rzou As a Fijian Catholic Ratu Mara was part of a minority set outside the predominantly Methodist indigenous community. His Catholicism may go some way in explaining his early commitment to multiracialism and embracing Western democratic systems...
Church an anchor and source of daily bread Otago Daily Times 21-April 2004 http://tinyurl.com/3956e... It is a cold, wet and windy Easter Sunday evening in South Dunedin, and the Congregational Christian Church of Samoa youth group is telling the story of Jesus' death and resurrection. The chill in the air doesn't stop Matthew or the 20 other dancing performers, their voices raised in song from the stage, or dampen the warm reception at the performance's end from the audience, an assorted collection of friends, family and church members, Samoans all. Afterwards, there is hot soup for everyone and a chance for congratulations and catch-ups...
Teens say 'I don't' to marriage Sunday Star Times 18 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2878654a11,00.html Mrs Sweet Sixteen has got the thumbs down from the sisterhood with many girls against teenage marriage. The issue has been stirred up by the National Council of Women, which is querying whether "sweet 16" is too young to marry given 16-year-olds are considered too young to vote, drink alcohol or smoke. And the Catholic Church favours raising the legal age to marry to 18....
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CATHOLICTV.NET
Wellington Archdiocesan Media Centre http://www.catholictv.net
New videos:
** New Archdiocesan General Manager, John Butterfield, and new Turanga Maori Advisor, Ross Wilson have been welcomed to the Catholic centre. The Catholic Centre Piazza was the Marae area where the powhiri of welcome took place...
** Retirement can often be accompanied by the stress of chronic illnesses, but for the elderly the Vincentian Home in Berhampore is a centre for Christian-based care. Recently Cardinal Williams blessed the new extensions to the Home which is managed by the Wellington Catholic Homes Trust.
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'THE FAR EAST'
Monthly magazine of St Columban's Mission Society (ANZ) http://www.columban.org.au/tfe/tfe_current.htm
From the March 2004 issue ...
Editorial: God is the hostage of human ambitions Does religion cause wars? Some people today would give a resounding ‘yes!’ saying it is one of the main reasons for getting rid of religion from the world...
Interfaith dialogue, how can we go about it?, by Sr Kathleen Collins SSpS "In all of the religions we can find rituals, symbols and traditions which express, foster or embody people's religious experience. But like all human institutions, religions can become distorted, even corrupt...
A move to something new, by Fr Tanvir O’Hanlon Fr O’Hanlon speaks about his transition from a ‘Catholic’ culture in the Philippines to an ‘Islamic’ one in Pakistan.
Parishioners as leaders, by Aurora Luceño, Criscente Talitayan and Marco Henriquez Columbans train Pakistani Catholics to shape the future of their parish.
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NZ MARIST BROTHERS' NEWSLETTERS
*************************** 'Champagnat' A newsletter for Boards of Trustees and Staff of Marist Schools and Schools with Marist traditions in New Zealand. Volume 8 Number 1 April 2004 http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/CNApril20041.htm
Opening of new classrooms at Marcellin College, staff day of reflection on the College’s mission ... A reflection on Mary of Nazareth, by Brother Sean Sammon, Superior General of the Marist Brothers ... Recently deceased Brothers ... Closing of Greymouth Marist Brothers’ community ... Sharing Champagnat’s Vision course in Melbourne in August, follow-up course (Living Champagnat’s Vision) in Auckland ... Polyfest Maori and Pacific school Festival results
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Marist Family News Autumn 2004 http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/MFN1Autumn2004.htm
Congratulations to Brother Carl Tapp who has been appointed the new provincial for New Zealand.
Photos of recently deceased Marist brothers ... Marist High School in Greymouth, farewell activities for the Marist brothers after 112 years... Two new communities established in Auckland.
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LOURDES SHRINE'S WEBSITE
'Lourdes accepting prayer intentions via the Internet' Lourdes, France, April 21, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Thanks to the Internet it is now possible to send prayer intentions to Lourdes. The newly renovated Web page of the Marian shrine offers this opportunity at: http://www.lourdes-france.com (in French; click the UK flag at upper right for the home page in English). "The new Lourdes Internet site makes available the spiritual richness of the shrine to those who cannot come physically to Lourdes," said Pierre Adias, the shrine's communications director. This year, an average of 393 intentions a day have arrived through the shrine's electronic mail. In 1999, there were six intentions a day. Last year, 10,500 daily accesses to the site were recorded. Every year 6 million pilgrims visit the shrine. The Website includes several Webcams (live views of the Grotto and the Rosary Basilica) and articles from Lourdes Magazine.
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for April 23, 2004: Kerry and Communion; Liturgical abuse document released; The US, the Vatican and terrorism; Centenary of Rome synagogue; A talk by Biblical scholar Fr. Donald Senior; 'New movements' congress in Stuttgart; North American College honors
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Director of Catholic Youth and Young Adult Groups, St Vincent de Paul Society http://www.svdp.org.nz Details in 'Wel-com' April 2004 p.17, 'NZ Catholic' April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from District Council President, Society of St Vincent de Paul, PO Box 309, Whangarei. Applications close 26 April 2004
Parish Secretary, Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish, Howick, Auckland. Details in 'NZ Catholic' April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from Parish Priest, PO Box 38276, Howick. Applications close 28 April 2004.
Bishop's assistant, Palmerston North Diocese http://www.pn.catholic.org.nz duties include providing "retreats in daily life", catechesis and adult formation. Details in 'NZ Catholic', April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from Wendy Silver, tel: (06) 358 8079; e-mail: wsilver@pndiocese.org.nz Applications close 28 April 2004
Office Manager, Catholic Communications NZ Details in 'NZ Catholic', April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from Catholic Communications, Pompallier Diocesan Centre, 30 New St., Private Bag 47-904, Ponsonby, Auckland. Tel: (09) 378 8017; Fax: (09) 360 3061; E-mail: communications@catholic.org.nz Applications close 30 April 2004.
Chaplain, Sacred Heart College for Girls, Napier http://www.sacredheartnapier.school.nz and St John's College for Boys, Hastings http://www.stjohns.school.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic', April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from The Principal, Sacred Heart College, Convent Road, Napier. Tel: (06) 8353 761; E-mail: pr.sec@sacredheartnapier.school.nz Applications close 28 May 2004
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Sunday, April 18, 2004
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'WEL-COM' April 2004
http://www.welcom.org.nz
Cardinal Williams' Column: The seeming defeat of Good Friday was actually a victory
Bishop John Dew's Reflection: Rewarding visits to our fifteen Pastoral Areas
Cause of Beatification and Canonization of Suzanne Aubert initiated Cardinal Williams announces the initiation of the cause for the beatification and canonisation of Suzanne Aubert ...
Resolving ownership of New Zealand’s foreshore and seabed The ownership of New Zealand’s foreshore and seabed has emerged as one of the defining political debates of our day. With legislation about to be introduced into Parliament, it is likely to have repercussions for some time yet....
Overwhelming support for notifying parents before an abortion can proceed AC Neilson survey shows strong opposition to aborting minors without their parents knowing...
Humbled by generosity of Auckland's Ngati Whatua Pat Snedden, Pakeha businessman and publisher delivered an address at St Benedict’s parish in Auckland a month ago including a compelling analysis of the significance of New Zealand establishing a process to address the wrongs of the past ...
Michael King — a master storyteller The tragic death of historian and author, Michael King, has silenced a voice that spoke with genuine insight and remarkable integrity, and with deep affection for the land of his birth ....
Teenagers are dying from abortions performed without their parents knowledge During 2002, 388 abortions were performed in New Zealand on girls aged from 11 to 15. Under the Care of Children Bill, due back in Parliament next month, doctors will be permitted to carry out abortions on girls of this age without their parents even knowing....
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CIVIL UNION BILL
Unique status of marriage at risk - bishops Dominion Post 17 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2877650a11,00.html The Civil Union Bill could lead to bisexuals being able to justify "marrying" two people, Catholic bishops say...
Catholic bishops defy same-sex bill NZ Herald 17.04.2004 http://tinyurl.com/ytg2p The Catholic Church warns that the Government's Civil Unions Bill will not deter it from preaching de facto and same-sex relationships are immoral, even if it faces penalties for doing so...
MP hopes to be part of first civil union NZPA 17 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2877410a6160,00.html Government minister Chris Carter and his gay partner of 31 years hope to be among the first to have their relationship recognised as a civil union once legislation is passed. The Civil Union Bill has been drafted and is expected to be introduced when Parliament resumes after a three-week recess....
Catholic church launches campaign against gay marriages NZ Herald 16.04.2004 http://tinyurl.com/33kye The Catholic church will oppose gay marriages even if penalised under new legislation, the Bishop of Palmerston North, Peter Cullinane, said today....
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Spiritual Retreat for Thousands This Weekend (press release) Thursday, 15 April 2004, 12:24 pm http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/AK0404/S00120.htm Speakers and entertainers from the US, Canada, Australia, West Indies and India - and local speakers including Bishop Patrick Dunn - will participate in a spiritual retreat for up to 3,000 Catholics at the Eucharistic Convention. The 11th annual Convention will be held 16-18 April in Auckland Showgrounds and will focus on the theme of "Forgiveness"....
“Together with the hostage situation there is the crisis of the entire population". An interview with Msgr. Fernando Filoni, Apostolic Nunzio in Baghdad http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=631
Papal nuncio gives grim report from Iraq http://www.cathnews.com/news/404/74.php Papal nuncio in Iraq, Archbishop Fernando Filoni, has said the Americans are "no longer in command of the situation", and he does not know whether they will regain control...
“It is time for the Arab world to condemn acts of terrorism like the brutal killing of one Italian hostage ” says Father Nizar http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0404/15_2132.html
“Why the international community united and resolute must stand up to extremist violence here in Iraq ” Father Nizar Semaan tells Fides http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0404/07_2118.html
Tower of London to exhibit Catholic relic http://www.indcatholicnews.com/tower.html A poignant reminder of the torture and execution of Catholic prisoners of conscience during the reign of Elizabeth I is going on show at an exhibition in the Tower of London later this month....
Solomon Islands mission flourishes thanks to work of young Italian volunteers: Youth Centre dream is coming true http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0404/07_2113.html
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Orthodox Patriarch formally accepts Catholic apology Globe and Mail (Toronto) http://tinyurl.com/3b7so Istanbul — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, has accepted an apology from Pope John Paul II for Roman Catholic involvement in the sacking of Constantinople 800 years ago....
Furor Over Popular Religion Novels CBS News/AP April 15, 2004 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/15/print/main612106.shtml The lesson from this week's best-seller list is simple: God sells. But what worries some scholars is that the hottest religious books depart from traditional Christian teaching or distort the faith's origins. The latest pulse-pounder in the "Left Behind" series about the end of the world - "Glorious Appearing" - couldn't have appeared more gloriously, at No. 1 on the fiction list of Publishers Weekly. It edges out another religion-themed novel, "The Da Vinci Code," which has ranked among the top three for 54 straight weeks...
Christians are trying to analyse their responsibility for anti-Jewish prejudice, and to examine their own faith's Jewish roots The Economist (UK) http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2571892
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
International News: Bush fatherhood guru to speak at Sydney gathering Papal nuncio gives grim report from Iraq Caritas Australia pledges assistance for Fiji Australian ecumenical leader says world body too bureaucratic Survey says US evangelicals prefer Pope to Robertson and Falwell Conference told teachers critical in preventing abuse
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for April 16, 2004: Ecumenism in Western Kansas; fuss over footwashing; US bishops' Ad Limina visits to Rome; bishops' pastoral directory; collegiality and Councils; Card. Ratzinger distrusts bureaucracies; more on US sex abuse norms
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EVENTS
Auckland Catholic Eucharistic Convention, 16th to 18th April 2004 http://www.eucharistic-convention.com Logan Campbell Theatre, Auckland Showgrounds, Greenlane Road, Auckland. Two-page write-up in 'NZ Catholic' March 21-Apr 3 p.14-15 Full details on the Convention's Website.
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Diocesan General Manager, Hamilton Catholic Diocese http://www.hn.catholic.org.nz Details in 'Wel-com' April 2004, p.17 and from Greg Tims tel. 021 628 222; Naomi McGowan terl. 07 958 7466; fax: 07 839 1863; e-mail: naomim@mlc.co.nz Applications close 19 april 2004.
Director of Catholic Youth and Young Adult Groups, St Vincent de Paul society http://www.svdp.org.nz Details in 'Wel-com' April 2004 p.17, 'NZ Catholic' April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from District Council President, Society of St Vincent de Paul, PO Box 309, Whangarei. Applications close 26 April 2004
Parish Secretary, Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish, Howick, Auckland. Details in 'NZ Catholic' April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from Parish Priest, PO Box 38276, Howick. Applications close 28 April 2004.
Bishop's assistant, Palmerston North Diocese http://www.pn.catholic.org.nz duties include providing "retreats in daily life", catechesis and adult formation. Details in 'NZ Catholic', April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from Wendy Silver, tel: (06) 358 8079; e-mail: wsilver@pndiocese.org.nz Applications close 28 April 2004
Office Manager, Catholic Communications NZ Details in 'NZ Catholic', April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from Catholic Communications, Pompallier Diocesan Centre, 30 New St., Private Bag 47-904, Ponsonby, Auckland. Tel: (09) 378 8017; Fax: (09) 360 3061; E-mail: communications@catholic.org.nz Applications close 30 April 2004.
Chaplain, Sacred Heart College for Girls, Napier http://www.sacredheartnapier.school.nz and St John's College for Boys, Hastings http://www.stjohns.school.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic', April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from The Principal, Sacred Heart College, Convent Road, Napier. Tel: (06) 8353 761; E-mail: pr.sec@sacredheartnapier.school.nz Applications close 28 May 2004
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'WEL-COM' April 2004
http://www.welcom.org.nz
Cardinal Williams' Column: The seeming defeat of Good Friday was actually a victory
Bishop John Dew's Reflection: Rewarding visits to our fifteen Pastoral Areas
Cause of Beatification and Canonization of Suzanne Aubert initiated Cardinal Williams announces the initiation of the cause for the beatification and canonisation of Suzanne Aubert ...
Resolving ownership of New Zealand’s foreshore and seabed The ownership of New Zealand’s foreshore and seabed has emerged as one of the defining political debates of our day. With legislation about to be introduced into Parliament, it is likely to have repercussions for some time yet....
Overwhelming support for notifying parents before an abortion can proceed AC Neilson survey shows strong opposition to aborting minors without their parents knowing...
Humbled by generosity of Auckland's Ngati Whatua Pat Snedden, Pakeha businessman and publisher delivered an address at St Benedict’s parish in Auckland a month ago including a compelling analysis of the significance of New Zealand establishing a process to address the wrongs of the past ...
Michael King — a master storyteller The tragic death of historian and author, Michael King, has silenced a voice that spoke with genuine insight and remarkable integrity, and with deep affection for the land of his birth ....
Teenagers are dying from abortions performed without their parents knowledge During 2002, 388 abortions were performed in New Zealand on girls aged from 11 to 15. Under the Care of Children Bill, due back in Parliament next month, doctors will be permitted to carry out abortions on girls of this age without their parents even knowing....
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CIVIL UNION BILL
Unique status of marriage at risk - bishops Dominion Post 17 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2877650a11,00.html The Civil Union Bill could lead to bisexuals being able to justify "marrying" two people, Catholic bishops say...
Catholic bishops defy same-sex bill NZ Herald 17.04.2004 http://tinyurl.com/ytg2p The Catholic Church warns that the Government's Civil Unions Bill will not deter it from preaching de facto and same-sex relationships are immoral, even if it faces penalties for doing so...
MP hopes to be part of first civil union NZPA 17 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2877410a6160,00.html Government minister Chris Carter and his gay partner of 31 years hope to be among the first to have their relationship recognised as a civil union once legislation is passed. The Civil Union Bill has been drafted and is expected to be introduced when Parliament resumes after a three-week recess....
Catholic church launches campaign against gay marriages NZ Herald 16.04.2004 http://tinyurl.com/33kye The Catholic church will oppose gay marriages even if penalised under new legislation, the Bishop of Palmerston North, Peter Cullinane, said today....
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Spiritual Retreat for Thousands This Weekend (press release) Thursday, 15 April 2004, 12:24 pm http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/AK0404/S00120.htm Speakers and entertainers from the US, Canada, Australia, West Indies and India - and local speakers including Bishop Patrick Dunn - will participate in a spiritual retreat for up to 3,000 Catholics at the Eucharistic Convention. The 11th annual Convention will be held 16-18 April in Auckland Showgrounds and will focus on the theme of "Forgiveness"....
“Together with the hostage situation there is the crisis of the entire population". An interview with Msgr. Fernando Filoni, Apostolic Nunzio in Baghdad http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=631
Papal nuncio gives grim report from Iraq http://www.cathnews.com/news/404/74.php Papal nuncio in Iraq, Archbishop Fernando Filoni, has said the Americans are "no longer in command of the situation", and he does not know whether they will regain control...
“It is time for the Arab world to condemn acts of terrorism like the brutal killing of one Italian hostage ” says Father Nizar http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0404/15_2132.html
“Why the international community united and resolute must stand up to extremist violence here in Iraq ” Father Nizar Semaan tells Fides http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0404/07_2118.html
Tower of London to exhibit Catholic relic http://www.indcatholicnews.com/tower.html A poignant reminder of the torture and execution of Catholic prisoners of conscience during the reign of Elizabeth I is going on show at an exhibition in the Tower of London later this month....
Solomon Islands mission flourishes thanks to work of young Italian volunteers: Youth Centre dream is coming true http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0404/07_2113.html
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Orthodox Patriarch formally accepts Catholic apology Globe and Mail (Toronto) http://tinyurl.com/3b7so Istanbul — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, has accepted an apology from Pope John Paul II for Roman Catholic involvement in the sacking of Constantinople 800 years ago....
Furor Over Popular Religion Novels CBS News/AP April 15, 2004 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/15/print/main612106.shtml The lesson from this week's best-seller list is simple: God sells. But what worries some scholars is that the hottest religious books depart from traditional Christian teaching or distort the faith's origins. The latest pulse-pounder in the "Left Behind" series about the end of the world - "Glorious Appearing" - couldn't have appeared more gloriously, at No. 1 on the fiction list of Publishers Weekly. It edges out another religion-themed novel, "The Da Vinci Code," which has ranked among the top three for 54 straight weeks...
Christians are trying to analyse their responsibility for anti-Jewish prejudice, and to examine their own faith's Jewish roots The Economist (UK) http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2571892
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
International News: Bush fatherhood guru to speak at Sydney gathering Papal nuncio gives grim report from Iraq Caritas Australia pledges assistance for Fiji Australian ecumenical leader says world body too bureaucratic Survey says US evangelicals prefer Pope to Robertson and Falwell Conference told teachers critical in preventing abuse
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for April 16, 2004: Ecumenism in Western Kansas; fuss over footwashing; US bishops' Ad Limina visits to Rome; bishops' pastoral directory; collegiality and Councils; Card. Ratzinger distrusts bureaucracies; more on US sex abuse norms
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EVENTS
Auckland Catholic Eucharistic Convention, 16th to 18th April 2004 http://www.eucharistic-convention.com Logan Campbell Theatre, Auckland Showgrounds, Greenlane Road, Auckland. Two-page write-up in 'NZ Catholic' March 21-Apr 3 p.14-15 Full details on the Convention's Website.
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Diocesan General Manager, Hamilton Catholic Diocese http://www.hn.catholic.org.nz Details in 'Wel-com' April 2004, p.17 and from Greg Tims tel. 021 628 222; Naomi McGowan terl. 07 958 7466; fax: 07 839 1863; e-mail: naomim@mlc.co.nz Applications close 19 april 2004.
Director of Catholic Youth and Young Adult Groups, St Vincent de Paul society http://www.svdp.org.nz Details in 'Wel-com' April 2004 p.17, 'NZ Catholic' April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from District Council President, Society of St Vincent de Paul, PO Box 309, Whangarei. Applications close 26 April 2004
Parish Secretary, Our Lady Star of the Sea Parish, Howick, Auckland. Details in 'NZ Catholic' April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from Parish Priest, PO Box 38276, Howick. Applications close 28 April 2004.
Bishop's assistant, Palmerston North Diocese http://www.pn.catholic.org.nz duties include providing "retreats in daily life", catechesis and adult formation. Details in 'NZ Catholic', April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from Wendy Silver, tel: (06) 358 8079; e-mail: wsilver@pndiocese.org.nz Applications close 28 April 2004
Office Manager, Catholic Communications NZ Details in 'NZ Catholic', April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from Catholic Communications, Pompallier Diocesan Centre, 30 New St., Private Bag 47-904, Ponsonby, Auckland. Tel: (09) 378 8017; Fax: (09) 360 3061; E-mail: communications@catholic.org.nz Applications close 30 April 2004.
Chaplain, Sacred Heart College for Girls, Napier http://www.sacredheartnapier.school.nz and St John's College for Boys, Hastings http://www.stjohns.school.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic', April 18-May 1 2004 p.19, and from The Principal, Sacred Heart College, Convent Road, Napier. Tel: (06) 8353 761; E-mail: pr.sec@sacredheartnapier.school.nz Applications close 28 May 2004
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Sunday, April 11, 2004
A very happy Easter to all our readers. ML
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HOLY WEEK 2004
“Young people, do not be afraid to proclaim the Gospel of the Cross!” http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=580 Vatican City (AsiaNews) At 10.00 a.m. this morning in St. Peter’s Square representatives from youth across the globe, in addition to cardinals, bishops and priest, gathered together in front of Pope John Paul II while waving palm and olive tree branches in the air. The blessing of the palm and olive branches (from Puglia, Italy) kicked off Holy Week celebrations, the seven days that commemorate Christ’s passion, death and resurrection....
John Paul II's Homily on Palm Sunday (full text) http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=51783
Tighter Security as Pope Ushers in Palm Sunday http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4744029
“A Holy Week of suffering for Iraqi Christians” reports Father Nizar Semaan from Mosul. Palm Sunday processions and Easter Night Vigil Mass cancelled for security reasons http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0404/05_2106.html
Tight security for Pope at Easter http://tinyurl.com/ypnxw
Pope: The Body of Christ Nourishes for Service to Humanity The Lord’s Supper Mass at the Basilica of St. Peter http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=608
At Last Supper Christ called all priests of all times by name John Paul II’s Letter to Priests – Holy Thursday 2004 http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=592
Pope begins Easter services amid tight security http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2870592a12,00.html
Pope presides at Good Friday amid high security Reuters 10 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2871686a10,00.html Rome: Amid exceptional security measures, Pope John Paul presided over a candle-lit Good Friday service at Rome's ancient Colosseum where thousands of pilgrims braved cold and rain to hear the frail, 83-year-old pontiff...
Thousands of Christian pilgrims retrace Jesus' footsteps through Jerusalem http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=world_home&articleID=1582852
Churches take ritual of Passion on to the streets With controversy raging over Mel Gibson's gory blockbuster movie, Christians hope for a revival of interest http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1188831,00.html
Orthodox Christians celebrate annual miracle in Jerusalem Saturday April 10, 2004 http://cbsnewyork.com/international/HolyLand-HolyFire-ai/resources_news_html Jerusalem (AP) - A sea of candles and torches illuminated Christianity's holiest shrine, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, as thousands of pilgrims participated in Saturday's holy fire ceremony, a key ritual of Easter Week. Only the Orthodox churches traditionally participate in the ceremony....
Pope, Sounding Tired, Starts Easter Eve Services http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4796845
Seville's week of passion and penitence Reuters 07 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2869332a2180,00.html
Editorial: In the hope of an end to intolerance NZ Herald 10.04.2004 http://tinyurl.com/ywwoo
John Roughan: Imagine a world without religion NZ Herald 10.04.2004 http://tinyurl.com/3ap29
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
No 184, April 4-17, 2004 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Tauranga welcomes back returning Catholics Tauranga - "Catholics Returning Home" is a phrase that is becoming part of the vocabulary of St Mary Immaculate parishioners...
West Coast farewells Marist Brothers Greymouth - After 112 years in Greymouth, the Marist Brothers were farewelled on March 7 at Sunday Mass and later at a social evening organised by the parish and the Marist Brothers Old Boys...
West Papuan tells of oppression by Indonesian military Christchurch - A woman who escaped from her homeland as a 10-year-old was in Christchurch last month to speak to a meeting of the Asia-Pacific Women's International League...
Also in the print edition of 'NZ Catholic' ... Petition for referendum on prostitution law needs more support; Entering the murky world of foretelling the future; Contentious liturgy text is due soon; Academy calls for cure to sterility; Catholic judge kept abortion legal in US; False assertions in Da Vinci Code are debunked.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Bad report for Samoan pre-school The Press (Chch) 05 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2866833a7694,00.html The education of Samoan pre-schoolers is being jeopardised by inadequate space and resources at Tafesilafai Pre-school in Christchurch, an Education Review Office (ERO) report says. The pre-school, which is run by a management committee and is responsible to the diocese of the Catholic church, has for two years been embroiled in negotiations with its neighbours over plans to expand its premises....
Spine-tingling moment as King and wife farewelled NZPA 07 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2868052a4501,00.html A spine-tingling moment occurred toward the end of the funeral of historian Michael King and his book editor wife Maria Jungowska yesterday. As singer Helen Medlyn soared through the hymn Ave Maria! beneath the wooden eaves of St Patrick's Cathedral, a woman in the Moriori contingent – a group whose cultural renaissance was fuelled by Dr King's writings – launched into a spontaneous waiata. The threads of song, one in Maori, one in Latin, floated together into the still air ...
Bic Runga back from Paris TV One Apr 07, 2004 http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,266237-1-455,00.html After eight months in Paris Bic Runga is back in New Zealand for a tour with a difference. The New Zealand singer-songwriter has shunned the usual nightclubs and stadium venues, instead opting for playing acoustically in churches....
Runga gives taste of her church tour NZ Herald 07.04.2004 http://tinyurl.com/373nd Cast in an eerie blue light and framed by a cavernous ceiling, Bic Runga cut an angelic figure on the stage of Grafton's Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Kiwi singer was home to perform a selection of songs from her upcoming 16-date, one-month Acoustic Church Tour, her first homeland gig since she moved to Paris eight months ago....
Cosmo offers sex, shopping and 'spirituality' Straits Times (Singapore) http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,244441,00.html? London - The British edition of Cosmopolitan, the glossy bible of sex and shopping for single girls, has launched a new monthly column on 'spirituality'. 'I've come to the painful realisation that men and shoes are not enough to make me happy,' the magazine's new spirituality editor wrote in the March edition ...
Church officials say Israel is delaying granting of visas to 138 church workers http://cbsnewyork.com/international/Israel-CatholicClergy-ai/resources_news_html Jerusalem (AP) : Israel has delayed granting visas to dozens of Roman Catholic clergy, church officials said Wednesday, and Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah called it an issue of survival for the church in the Holy Land...
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'THE PASSION'
Film rating sets 'new benchmark' for violence NZPA 06 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2867823a11,00.html Chief censor Bill Hastings said today lowering the rating of Mel Gibson's film The Passion of The Christ would set a "new benchmark" for acceptable levels of violence in films. Fifteen-year-olds can now see the bloody Biblical blockbuster without supervision after film distributor Hoyts successfully appealed against its R16 rating in time for the Easter holidays....
Censor Uses Listener Column To Slur The Passion Press Release: Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc. Monday, 5 April 2004, 10:01 am http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0404/S00016.htm In an article in the Listener (27 Mar. – 2 Apr., 204 p. 12) entitled “What I’m Reading”, Bill Hastings, the Chief Censor of Film and Literature, made comments that raise serious questions about his suitability to hold this statutory appointment....
Tourists off on 'Passion' film pilgrimages http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=406292004 As Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of the Christ opened across Italy this week, where it is expected to break box office records, a small town in the country’s Basilicata region is whipping up plates of "fettuccine alla Mel", in preparation for the Easter weekend tourist onslaught. For two months last year, Gibson and his company set up shop in Matera, filming the graphic sequences of Christ’s last hours, the bloody scenes of his torture and his crucifixion....
"The Passion" takes Italy by storm Wed 7 April, 2004 http://tinyurl.com/23l3k
Doha: After seeing “The Passion” Muslims start searching for the Gospel In just 3 days more than a 1/10 of the population has seen the film. http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=600
Manila: ‘The Passion of the Christ’: “A milestone in the cinema history” http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=599
Seoul: “The Passion” welcomed by Protestants and Catholics http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=593
Malaysian Muslims offended by “The Passion” http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=584
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Pope says Eucharist and Priesthood tied together until the end of time http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=603 Vatican City (AsiaNews) – “Christians want to see us above all as men of prayer. Whoever comes into contact with us must be able to experience God’s mercy and faithful love in our words and behavior”, urged John Paul II in today’s Holy Thursday mass at St. Peter’s Basilica as a “veritable prelude to the Pascal Triduum”....
"The Knights as they were?", by Chris Welbourne. 'Aurora' (Diocese of Mailtalnd-Newcastle, NSW, Australia) Issue 45, April - May 2004 http://www.mn.catholic.org.au/newsroom/auroraissues/aurora45_p11story.htm It was in about 1960 that I became aware of the existence of the Knights of the Southern Cross or the Black Knights as they were sometimes called. Research led me to believe that the Black Knights were like Catholic Masons, an organisation formed to counter the anti-Catholic practices of the Masonic lodges....
Bishops' Conference statement on TV abortion documentary Independent Catholic News (UK) 6 April 2004 http://www.indcatholicnews.com/abortdoc.html Archbishop Peter Smith, chairman of the department of Christian Responsibility and Citizenship of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales has issued the following statement with regard to a forthcoming Channel Four documentary on abortion....
Catholic church backs channel 4 abortion documentary Ekklesia (UK) 5/4/04 http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_04045abortion.shtml The Catholic church in England and Wales has said that a controversial channel 4 documentary which will show footage of an abortion "could prove a powerful anti-abortion message, highlighting the full horror". My Foetus, to be screened this month, will show a "vacuum-pump" abortion. It will be the first abortion to be shown on television in Britain....
8th International Youth Forum comes to a close. Archbishop Rylko tells young participants: “ Not only at university but in life Christ relies on each one of us. “The success of this Forum - Archbishop Rylko concluded- depends on you: now, put out into the deep!” http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0404/05_2105.html
Ratzinger regrets church centralism at König funeral The Tablet (UK) http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/register.cgi/citw-past-00173 There have been times when the Vatican has intervened too often in the affairs of a local church, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has admitted. He made the surprise remarks to journalists following the Requiem Mass in Vienna of its former Archbishop, Cardinal Franz König. In a Tablet article in March 1999, König deplored what he described as the Vatican’s “inflated centralism” and accused the curial authorities of appropriating the tasks which properly belonged to bishops’ conferences....
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Peter Healey's Art Exhibition: "Celtic Knots and Hotspots" FR Peter Healy S.M, an artist for over 20 years, has launched an exhibition of his paintings at the Wellington City Council artist’s venue, “Thistle Hall“. Peter Roe S.M. explores the themes of Peter’s art with the artist...
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'LIGHTING NEW FIRES' (NZ Catholic Education Office)
February 2004 http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/lightingnewfires.shtml
(in the main newsletter ... ) Responses to the Review of the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act ... Media Spotlight on Integrated Schools ... Furniture and Equipment Modernisation Update ... Boards of Trustees and Indemnity Insurance ... Amendments to the Law on Smoke-free Environments ... Changes to Health and Safety Legislation ... Planning for Better Student Outcomes ... ERO Reviews and International Students ... Living Heritage Awards ... Education for Sustainability ... Did You Know? – Tertiary Statistics ... Boards of Trustees Elections ... Wellington Schools are Sun Smart ... Principals’ Induction Programme Extended ... The Real Game – Career Education ... Improved Assessment for Years 9-10 ... Research to Lift Educational Achievement ... Congratulations: achievements of Catholic schools throughout New Zealand
(in the Catholic schools' Supplement ... ) Starting the School ... Year New Year’s Honours ... Mercy on the West Coast ... Congratulations to Principals New to Catholic Schools ... Caritas Research on Children at Work ... Children’s Prayer for World Peace ... Rosary Campaign ... 2004 Slavery Abolition Year ... College Summer School ... Mentoring Student Leaders ... Lenten Lesson Plans and Solidarity Day ... Schools Build Their Joint Ethos – Two Excellent Ideas... Special Character Messages in Newsletters ... Some Interesting Websites ... An Interesting Idea ... Music on CD and Live From Fr Chris Skinner SM
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
International News: Pell says Gibson film will heighten Good Friday observance ... Vatican reports slight increase in priest numbers ... Martini says Church should be more democratic ... China arrests another Catholic bishop ... Preparation on schedule for family gathering ... Caritas director says Rwanda anniversary challenges all
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for April 9, 2004: The maestro of the pope's own Sistine Chapel Choir; The priest shortage; Altar servers or altar boys; Roman pilgrimage to 'Station Churches'; Human trafficking; Relations between the Holy See and Israel; The next big story coming out of Rome - liturgical abuses
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EVENTS
Jesus 4 Real Ministries http://www.jesus4real.org.nz "A voluntary lay ministry committed to building up the faith in Catholic teenagers" Camp for Years 11-13: Wednesday 14 April to Sunday 18 April, Paraparaumu (near Wellington). Full details on the Website and from Anne and Andy Lovell, tel (06) 364 3141
Auckland Catholic Eucharistic Convention, 16th to 18th April 2004 http://www.eucharistic-convention.com Logan Campbell Theatre, Auckland Showgrounds, Greenlane Road, Auckland. Two-page write-up in 'NZ Catholic' March 21-Apr 3 p.14-15 Full details on the Convention's Website.
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Diocesan General Manager, Hamilton Catholic Diocese ( http://www.hn.catholic.org.nz ) Details in 'Wel-com' April 2004, p.17 and from Greg Tims tel. 021 628 222; Naomi McGowan terl. 07 958 7466; fax: 07 839 1863; e-mail: naomim@mlc.co.nz Applications close 19 april 2004.
Director of Catholic Youth and Young Adult Groups, St Vincent de Paul society ( http://www.svdp.org.nz ) Details in 'Wel-com' April 2004 p.17, and from District Council Presiddent, Society of St Vincent de Paul, PO Box 309, Whangarei.
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HOLY WEEK 2004
“Young people, do not be afraid to proclaim the Gospel of the Cross!” http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=580 Vatican City (AsiaNews) At 10.00 a.m. this morning in St. Peter’s Square representatives from youth across the globe, in addition to cardinals, bishops and priest, gathered together in front of Pope John Paul II while waving palm and olive tree branches in the air. The blessing of the palm and olive branches (from Puglia, Italy) kicked off Holy Week celebrations, the seven days that commemorate Christ’s passion, death and resurrection....
John Paul II's Homily on Palm Sunday (full text) http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=51783
Tighter Security as Pope Ushers in Palm Sunday http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4744029
“A Holy Week of suffering for Iraqi Christians” reports Father Nizar Semaan from Mosul. Palm Sunday processions and Easter Night Vigil Mass cancelled for security reasons http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0404/05_2106.html
Tight security for Pope at Easter http://tinyurl.com/ypnxw
Pope: The Body of Christ Nourishes for Service to Humanity The Lord’s Supper Mass at the Basilica of St. Peter http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=608
At Last Supper Christ called all priests of all times by name John Paul II’s Letter to Priests – Holy Thursday 2004 http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=592
Pope begins Easter services amid tight security http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2870592a12,00.html
Pope presides at Good Friday amid high security Reuters 10 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2871686a10,00.html Rome: Amid exceptional security measures, Pope John Paul presided over a candle-lit Good Friday service at Rome's ancient Colosseum where thousands of pilgrims braved cold and rain to hear the frail, 83-year-old pontiff...
Thousands of Christian pilgrims retrace Jesus' footsteps through Jerusalem http://www.mytelus.com/news/article.do?pageID=world_home&articleID=1582852
Churches take ritual of Passion on to the streets With controversy raging over Mel Gibson's gory blockbuster movie, Christians hope for a revival of interest http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1188831,00.html
Orthodox Christians celebrate annual miracle in Jerusalem Saturday April 10, 2004 http://cbsnewyork.com/international/HolyLand-HolyFire-ai/resources_news_html Jerusalem (AP) - A sea of candles and torches illuminated Christianity's holiest shrine, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, as thousands of pilgrims participated in Saturday's holy fire ceremony, a key ritual of Easter Week. Only the Orthodox churches traditionally participate in the ceremony....
Pope, Sounding Tired, Starts Easter Eve Services http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=4796845
Seville's week of passion and penitence Reuters 07 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2869332a2180,00.html
Editorial: In the hope of an end to intolerance NZ Herald 10.04.2004 http://tinyurl.com/ywwoo
John Roughan: Imagine a world without religion NZ Herald 10.04.2004 http://tinyurl.com/3ap29
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
No 184, April 4-17, 2004 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Tauranga welcomes back returning Catholics Tauranga - "Catholics Returning Home" is a phrase that is becoming part of the vocabulary of St Mary Immaculate parishioners...
West Coast farewells Marist Brothers Greymouth - After 112 years in Greymouth, the Marist Brothers were farewelled on March 7 at Sunday Mass and later at a social evening organised by the parish and the Marist Brothers Old Boys...
West Papuan tells of oppression by Indonesian military Christchurch - A woman who escaped from her homeland as a 10-year-old was in Christchurch last month to speak to a meeting of the Asia-Pacific Women's International League...
Also in the print edition of 'NZ Catholic' ... Petition for referendum on prostitution law needs more support; Entering the murky world of foretelling the future; Contentious liturgy text is due soon; Academy calls for cure to sterility; Catholic judge kept abortion legal in US; False assertions in Da Vinci Code are debunked.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Bad report for Samoan pre-school The Press (Chch) 05 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2866833a7694,00.html The education of Samoan pre-schoolers is being jeopardised by inadequate space and resources at Tafesilafai Pre-school in Christchurch, an Education Review Office (ERO) report says. The pre-school, which is run by a management committee and is responsible to the diocese of the Catholic church, has for two years been embroiled in negotiations with its neighbours over plans to expand its premises....
Spine-tingling moment as King and wife farewelled NZPA 07 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2868052a4501,00.html A spine-tingling moment occurred toward the end of the funeral of historian Michael King and his book editor wife Maria Jungowska yesterday. As singer Helen Medlyn soared through the hymn Ave Maria! beneath the wooden eaves of St Patrick's Cathedral, a woman in the Moriori contingent – a group whose cultural renaissance was fuelled by Dr King's writings – launched into a spontaneous waiata. The threads of song, one in Maori, one in Latin, floated together into the still air ...
Bic Runga back from Paris TV One Apr 07, 2004 http://onenews.nzoom.com/onenews_detail/0,1227,266237-1-455,00.html After eight months in Paris Bic Runga is back in New Zealand for a tour with a difference. The New Zealand singer-songwriter has shunned the usual nightclubs and stadium venues, instead opting for playing acoustically in churches....
Runga gives taste of her church tour NZ Herald 07.04.2004 http://tinyurl.com/373nd Cast in an eerie blue light and framed by a cavernous ceiling, Bic Runga cut an angelic figure on the stage of Grafton's Church of the Holy Sepulchre. The Kiwi singer was home to perform a selection of songs from her upcoming 16-date, one-month Acoustic Church Tour, her first homeland gig since she moved to Paris eight months ago....
Cosmo offers sex, shopping and 'spirituality' Straits Times (Singapore) http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,244441,00.html? London - The British edition of Cosmopolitan, the glossy bible of sex and shopping for single girls, has launched a new monthly column on 'spirituality'. 'I've come to the painful realisation that men and shoes are not enough to make me happy,' the magazine's new spirituality editor wrote in the March edition ...
Church officials say Israel is delaying granting of visas to 138 church workers http://cbsnewyork.com/international/Israel-CatholicClergy-ai/resources_news_html Jerusalem (AP) : Israel has delayed granting visas to dozens of Roman Catholic clergy, church officials said Wednesday, and Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah called it an issue of survival for the church in the Holy Land...
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'THE PASSION'
Film rating sets 'new benchmark' for violence NZPA 06 April 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2867823a11,00.html Chief censor Bill Hastings said today lowering the rating of Mel Gibson's film The Passion of The Christ would set a "new benchmark" for acceptable levels of violence in films. Fifteen-year-olds can now see the bloody Biblical blockbuster without supervision after film distributor Hoyts successfully appealed against its R16 rating in time for the Easter holidays....
Censor Uses Listener Column To Slur The Passion Press Release: Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc. Monday, 5 April 2004, 10:01 am http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0404/S00016.htm In an article in the Listener (27 Mar. – 2 Apr., 204 p. 12) entitled “What I’m Reading”, Bill Hastings, the Chief Censor of Film and Literature, made comments that raise serious questions about his suitability to hold this statutory appointment....
Tourists off on 'Passion' film pilgrimages http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=406292004 As Mel Gibson’s film The Passion of the Christ opened across Italy this week, where it is expected to break box office records, a small town in the country’s Basilicata region is whipping up plates of "fettuccine alla Mel", in preparation for the Easter weekend tourist onslaught. For two months last year, Gibson and his company set up shop in Matera, filming the graphic sequences of Christ’s last hours, the bloody scenes of his torture and his crucifixion....
"The Passion" takes Italy by storm Wed 7 April, 2004 http://tinyurl.com/23l3k
Doha: After seeing “The Passion” Muslims start searching for the Gospel In just 3 days more than a 1/10 of the population has seen the film. http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=600
Manila: ‘The Passion of the Christ’: “A milestone in the cinema history” http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=599
Seoul: “The Passion” welcomed by Protestants and Catholics http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=593
Malaysian Muslims offended by “The Passion” http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=584
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Pope says Eucharist and Priesthood tied together until the end of time http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=603 Vatican City (AsiaNews) – “Christians want to see us above all as men of prayer. Whoever comes into contact with us must be able to experience God’s mercy and faithful love in our words and behavior”, urged John Paul II in today’s Holy Thursday mass at St. Peter’s Basilica as a “veritable prelude to the Pascal Triduum”....
"The Knights as they were?", by Chris Welbourne. 'Aurora' (Diocese of Mailtalnd-Newcastle, NSW, Australia) Issue 45, April - May 2004 http://www.mn.catholic.org.au/newsroom/auroraissues/aurora45_p11story.htm It was in about 1960 that I became aware of the existence of the Knights of the Southern Cross or the Black Knights as they were sometimes called. Research led me to believe that the Black Knights were like Catholic Masons, an organisation formed to counter the anti-Catholic practices of the Masonic lodges....
Bishops' Conference statement on TV abortion documentary Independent Catholic News (UK) 6 April 2004 http://www.indcatholicnews.com/abortdoc.html Archbishop Peter Smith, chairman of the department of Christian Responsibility and Citizenship of the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales has issued the following statement with regard to a forthcoming Channel Four documentary on abortion....
Catholic church backs channel 4 abortion documentary Ekklesia (UK) 5/4/04 http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/content/news_syndication/article_04045abortion.shtml The Catholic church in England and Wales has said that a controversial channel 4 documentary which will show footage of an abortion "could prove a powerful anti-abortion message, highlighting the full horror". My Foetus, to be screened this month, will show a "vacuum-pump" abortion. It will be the first abortion to be shown on television in Britain....
8th International Youth Forum comes to a close. Archbishop Rylko tells young participants: “ Not only at university but in life Christ relies on each one of us. “The success of this Forum - Archbishop Rylko concluded- depends on you: now, put out into the deep!” http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0404/05_2105.html
Ratzinger regrets church centralism at König funeral The Tablet (UK) http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/register.cgi/citw-past-00173 There have been times when the Vatican has intervened too often in the affairs of a local church, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Vatican’s Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has admitted. He made the surprise remarks to journalists following the Requiem Mass in Vienna of its former Archbishop, Cardinal Franz König. In a Tablet article in March 1999, König deplored what he described as the Vatican’s “inflated centralism” and accused the curial authorities of appropriating the tasks which properly belonged to bishops’ conferences....
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Bishop John Dew: At the Beginning of a new Millenium - Pastoral Areas, Part Two
Fr. John Greally: Celebrating Lenten Liturgy, Part two
Peter Healey's Art Exhibition: "Celtic Knots and Hotspots" FR Peter Healy S.M, an artist for over 20 years, has launched an exhibition of his paintings at the Wellington City Council artist’s venue, “Thistle Hall“. Peter Roe S.M. explores the themes of Peter’s art with the artist...
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'LIGHTING NEW FIRES' (NZ Catholic Education Office)
February 2004 http://nzceo.catholic.org.nz/lightingnewfires.shtml
(in the main newsletter ... ) Responses to the Review of the Private Schools Conditional Integration Act ... Media Spotlight on Integrated Schools ... Furniture and Equipment Modernisation Update ... Boards of Trustees and Indemnity Insurance ... Amendments to the Law on Smoke-free Environments ... Changes to Health and Safety Legislation ... Planning for Better Student Outcomes ... ERO Reviews and International Students ... Living Heritage Awards ... Education for Sustainability ... Did You Know? – Tertiary Statistics ... Boards of Trustees Elections ... Wellington Schools are Sun Smart ... Principals’ Induction Programme Extended ... The Real Game – Career Education ... Improved Assessment for Years 9-10 ... Research to Lift Educational Achievement ... Congratulations: achievements of Catholic schools throughout New Zealand
(in the Catholic schools' Supplement ... ) Starting the School ... Year New Year’s Honours ... Mercy on the West Coast ... Congratulations to Principals New to Catholic Schools ... Caritas Research on Children at Work ... Children’s Prayer for World Peace ... Rosary Campaign ... 2004 Slavery Abolition Year ... College Summer School ... Mentoring Student Leaders ... Lenten Lesson Plans and Solidarity Day ... Schools Build Their Joint Ethos – Two Excellent Ideas... Special Character Messages in Newsletters ... Some Interesting Websites ... An Interesting Idea ... Music on CD and Live From Fr Chris Skinner SM
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
International News: Pell says Gibson film will heighten Good Friday observance ... Vatican reports slight increase in priest numbers ... Martini says Church should be more democratic ... China arrests another Catholic bishop ... Preparation on schedule for family gathering ... Caritas director says Rwanda anniversary challenges all
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for April 9, 2004: The maestro of the pope's own Sistine Chapel Choir; The priest shortage; Altar servers or altar boys; Roman pilgrimage to 'Station Churches'; Human trafficking; Relations between the Holy See and Israel; The next big story coming out of Rome - liturgical abuses
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EVENTS
Jesus 4 Real Ministries http://www.jesus4real.org.nz "A voluntary lay ministry committed to building up the faith in Catholic teenagers" Camp for Years 11-13: Wednesday 14 April to Sunday 18 April, Paraparaumu (near Wellington). Full details on the Website and from Anne and Andy Lovell, tel (06) 364 3141
Auckland Catholic Eucharistic Convention, 16th to 18th April 2004 http://www.eucharistic-convention.com Logan Campbell Theatre, Auckland Showgrounds, Greenlane Road, Auckland. Two-page write-up in 'NZ Catholic' March 21-Apr 3 p.14-15 Full details on the Convention's Website.
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Diocesan General Manager, Hamilton Catholic Diocese ( http://www.hn.catholic.org.nz ) Details in 'Wel-com' April 2004, p.17 and from Greg Tims tel. 021 628 222; Naomi McGowan terl. 07 958 7466; fax: 07 839 1863; e-mail: naomim@mlc.co.nz Applications close 19 april 2004.
Director of Catholic Youth and Young Adult Groups, St Vincent de Paul society ( http://www.svdp.org.nz ) Details in 'Wel-com' April 2004 p.17, and from District Council Presiddent, Society of St Vincent de Paul, PO Box 309, Whangarei.
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Sunday, April 4, 2004
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LENT 2004
"Receive children, the future of humanity": Message of His Holiness John Paul II for Lent 2004 (full text) http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=311
The Pope recalls the tragedy of thousands of children: “The little brothers and sisters of ours who suffer from hunger, war and illness make an anguished appeal to the world. May their mute cry not go unanswered!” - appeal to build the civilisation of love in the “beloved region of the Great Lakes ”. http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0403/29_2037.html
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz/lent.asp The theme of Caritas' Lent appeal for 2004 is “The Spirit of Hope is at Work in the World” taken from Pope John Paul II’s World Day of Peace Message, 1998. The donations Caritas receives from this appeal help fund development projects around the world. Donations by credit card are most welcome and may be made by opening the Lent appeal link.
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
** Media Releases **
** New Zealand Bishops' statement on proposed Civil Union legislation (02 Apr 2004) The New Zealand Catholic Bishops' Conference has written to Members of Parliament regarding the proposed Civil Union Bill. The full statement elaborates on the points summarised here, and critiques the Labour Party's policy on Rainbow Issues....
Michael King – RIP 30 March 2004 (01 Apr 2004)... In the 1990s Michael King accepted an invitation to write a history of Catholics in New Zealand. The book, "God’s Farthest Outpost", was published in 1997. His open-mindedness and the non-judgemental approach produced a work of lasting significance....
Euthanasia is Not the Answer (01 Apr 2004) “Calls to legalise euthanasia fail to recognise the real needs of the terminally ill and their caregivers,” said Father Michael McCabe, Director of the Nathaniel Centre, the Catholic Church’s Bioethics Centre....
** International News **
Vatican tells US bishops to get over sex abuse Imam tells Cathedral congregation about shared convictions Pell says Church growth requires firm grip on Gospel demands Cardinal says materialism threatens families NZ Catholics pay tribute to leading historian Survey finds Irish Caritas most fun place to work
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Obituary: Michael King, eminent historian NZPA 31 March 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2861891a11,00.html Michael King was born in Wellington on December 15, 1945. He grew up on the Pauatahanui arm of Porirua Harbour and was educated at Catholic schools in Plimmerton, Auckland and the Hutt Valley....
Obituary: Michael King NZ Herald 01.04.2004 http://tinyurl.com/2sx7s The death in a car fire of author and historian Michael King and his second wife, Maria Jungowska, was a dark end for a man who in most respects seemed at the zenith of his career as a writer and historian....
Holy site for business forum (photo) 0http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2864491a13,00.html The Dominion Post 3 April 2004 By visiting the Vatican last month, Public Trust chief executive Pat Waite fulfilled a long-held ambition and at the same time learnt lessons he is certain will add value to the New Zealand business environment. A practising Catholic, Mr Waite was a guest of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the International Christian Union of Business Executives at a conference held in the Vatican City on March 5 and 6....
Byzantium's icon painters were the Mel Gibsons of their day — and more The Economist (UK) http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2535873 [Illustrated article on an exhibtion of the artistic and spiritual achievements of late Christian Byzantium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York]
In recent days, scenes from the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ—all of them images designed to make people think harder about the relationship between spiritual authority and earthly power—have had an unaccustomed impact on New Yorkers. Thus far, at least, we might be speaking of Mel Gibson's blockbuster film, “The Passion of The Christ”—or of another, rather more rarefied event that will nonetheless make a deep impression on American consumers of high culture: the opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of a wonderfully rich selection of the artistic and spiritual achievements of late Christian Byzantium, and its imitators in the Slavic world....
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
150,000 in U.S. to join Church on Holy Saturday, including 24,000 who will be baptized http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=51639 Washington, DC (Zenit.org).- More than 150,000 Americans will join the Catholic Church on Holy Saturday, through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, says the U.S. bishops' conference. About 24,000 of the group will be baptized, confirmed and receive Communion for the first time at the Easter Vigil, and 36,000, who already have been baptized, will embrace full membership in the Catholic Church....
The enduring fascination of sin Weekly confession has virtually disappeared, yet we still yearn for reconciliation says Fr Timothy Wright Catholic Herald (UK) http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/Main_Feature.htm
Pell lobbies for World Youth Day Sydney 2008 http://www.cathnews.com/news/403/170.php Sydney's Cardinal George Pell has confirmed that he has been talking with Vatican officials about the possibility of Sydney hosting World Youth Day in 2008....
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MARIST MESSENGER
April 2004
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/index.php
Full text from April's Messenger ...
** The Focus for April 2004 concerns freedom from resentment, the number one spiritual disease
** Thy Kingdom come by Fr Michael Cruickshank sm. A wise spiritual guide gives excellent advice
** A different Rosary by Fr John Rea sm
** Death of a marist. Fr Paul Bergin sm was a marist missionary who died aged 51 on 15 February,2004
** Character formation by Fr Austin Woodbury sm, a noted philosopher
Also in the April's Marist Messenger: CaFE - a wonderful catechesis ... Being convinced that God love me ... Choice to let go ... God's forgiving love ... Thy Kindgom come ... My problem with God ... Happy the gentle ... A service of remembrance
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"THE PASSION"
Catholic Bishops Blast Gibson's 'Passion' Reuters 01/04/2004 http://xtramsn.co.nz/entertainment/0,,3918-3224464,00.html French Roman Catholic bishops have officially denounced Mel Gibson's controversial film "The Passion of the Christ," which just opened in France, as potentially anti-Semitic and a distortion of Christian teaching. In an unusual statement on a commercial film, the bishops' conference said the traditionalist Catholic Gibson had made a film that might not be anti-Semitic but "could be used to support anti-Semitic opinions" ...
French Jews fail to get "Passion" film banned http://tinyurl.com/2ow9u Paris (Reuters) - A bid by three Jewish brothers to have Mel Gibson's controversial film "The Passion of The Christ" banned in France as anti-Semitic has failed after a Paris court found no reason to stop its premiere this week. "The film in question, which is a very realistic adaptation of the final hours of Christ's life, cannot be considered an incitement to hatred and violence against Jews or an affront to their dignity and security," the ruling on Monday read....
Archbishop Rosales: “Watch ‘The Passion!’” http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=553 Pastoral message corrects an Antisemitic approach to the film Manila (AsiaNews) – Mons. Guadencio Rosales, archbishop of Manila, has issued a four-page pastoral message, urging the Christians of his archdiocese to view Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion of the Christ”, calling it a “serious labour of love, painstakingly made, of genuine artistic and religious value.”...
Pirated copies of "The Passion" used to evangelize http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=558 Chinese Christians fear that Mel Gibson's film will not be shown due to government censorship. Meanwhille first private viewings of the film are accompanied by prayer gatherings and young agnostics want to know more about the faith...
‘The Passion of the Christ’ a hit in Beirut, Damascus http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=9408 Mel Gibson's controversial film "The Passion of the Christ," accused by some Jewish organizations of encouraging anti-Semitism, is drawing a sizeable if unexceptional audience [in Beirut] while apparently touching an emotional nerve in the Syrian capital, Damascus...
“The Passion of the Christ” resounding success as moviegoers search for traces of anti-Semitism AsiaNews 2 April, 2004 http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=571 Ramallah (AsiaNews) – Basciar is just seven years old, but has managed to obtain a pirated copy of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ”. Palestinians, Muslims and Christians are all drawn to the film – and not merely for religious reasons but also due to the media blitz the movie has received....
Catholics and non Catholics welcome “The Passion of the Christ” http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=557 Jakarta (AsiaNews/Ucan) – Catholic clergy and lay people in the Jakarta area who have viewed the by-now famous film directed by Mel Gibson, “The Passion of the Christ”, say that the film has been an asset to their Lenten reflections and has deepened their appreciation of Jesus’ sufferings....
Gibson's Passion works miracles at box office http://tinyurl.com/2fcw4 Frenzy And Fury As Jesus Film Hits South Africa Sunday Times (Johannesburg) March 28, 2004 http://allafrica.com/stories/200403291231.html
Propaganda or masterpiece? The Passion – the verdict The Tablet (UK) 27/3/04 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/register.cgi/tablet-00866 As Mel Gibson’s film goes on general release around the world, we asked experts for their views ...
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for April 2, 2004: Reader response to report on U.S. bishops' norms for sexual abuse; Vatican and the White House 'kiss and make up'; Talking with young American Catholics; Archbishop George Carey's take on Islam; Anglican theologian on the ecumenical movement.
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EVENTS
Jesus 4 Real Ministries http://www.jesus4real.org.nz "A voluntary lay ministry committed to building up the faith in Catholic teenagers" Camp for Years 11-13: Wednesday 14 April to Sunday 18 April, Paraparaumu (near Wellington). Full details on the Website and from Anne and Andy Lovell, tel (06) 364 3141
Auckland Catholic Eucharistic Convention, 16th to 18th April 2004 http://www.eucharistic-convention.com Logan Campbell Theatre, Auckland Showgrounds, Greenlane Road, Auckland. Two-page write-up in 'NZ Catholic' March 21-Apr 3 p.14-15; further details in 'NZC' April 4-17 p.14. Full details on the Convention's Website.
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Presenters, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper 'NZC' wishes to employ good communicators in Northland, Auclland, Hawkes Bay, Wellington, Nelson-Marlborough, West Coast, Otago and Southland. Details in 'NZ Catholic' April 4-17 p.23 and from Dennis Augustine, NZ Catholic, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034
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LENT 2004
"Receive children, the future of humanity": Message of His Holiness John Paul II for Lent 2004 (full text) http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=311
The Pope recalls the tragedy of thousands of children: “The little brothers and sisters of ours who suffer from hunger, war and illness make an anguished appeal to the world. May their mute cry not go unanswered!” - appeal to build the civilisation of love in the “beloved region of the Great Lakes ”. http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0403/29_2037.html
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz/lent.asp The theme of Caritas' Lent appeal for 2004 is “The Spirit of Hope is at Work in the World” taken from Pope John Paul II’s World Day of Peace Message, 1998. The donations Caritas receives from this appeal help fund development projects around the world. Donations by credit card are most welcome and may be made by opening the Lent appeal link.
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
** Media Releases **
** New Zealand Bishops' statement on proposed Civil Union legislation (02 Apr 2004) The New Zealand Catholic Bishops' Conference has written to Members of Parliament regarding the proposed Civil Union Bill. The full statement elaborates on the points summarised here, and critiques the Labour Party's policy on Rainbow Issues....
Michael King – RIP 30 March 2004 (01 Apr 2004)... In the 1990s Michael King accepted an invitation to write a history of Catholics in New Zealand. The book, "God’s Farthest Outpost", was published in 1997. His open-mindedness and the non-judgemental approach produced a work of lasting significance....
Euthanasia is Not the Answer (01 Apr 2004) “Calls to legalise euthanasia fail to recognise the real needs of the terminally ill and their caregivers,” said Father Michael McCabe, Director of the Nathaniel Centre, the Catholic Church’s Bioethics Centre....
** International News **
Vatican tells US bishops to get over sex abuse Imam tells Cathedral congregation about shared convictions Pell says Church growth requires firm grip on Gospel demands Cardinal says materialism threatens families NZ Catholics pay tribute to leading historian Survey finds Irish Caritas most fun place to work
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Obituary: Michael King, eminent historian NZPA 31 March 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2861891a11,00.html Michael King was born in Wellington on December 15, 1945. He grew up on the Pauatahanui arm of Porirua Harbour and was educated at Catholic schools in Plimmerton, Auckland and the Hutt Valley....
Obituary: Michael King NZ Herald 01.04.2004 http://tinyurl.com/2sx7s The death in a car fire of author and historian Michael King and his second wife, Maria Jungowska, was a dark end for a man who in most respects seemed at the zenith of his career as a writer and historian....
Holy site for business forum (photo) 0http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2864491a13,00.html The Dominion Post 3 April 2004 By visiting the Vatican last month, Public Trust chief executive Pat Waite fulfilled a long-held ambition and at the same time learnt lessons he is certain will add value to the New Zealand business environment. A practising Catholic, Mr Waite was a guest of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and the International Christian Union of Business Executives at a conference held in the Vatican City on March 5 and 6....
Byzantium's icon painters were the Mel Gibsons of their day — and more The Economist (UK) http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=2535873 [Illustrated article on an exhibtion of the artistic and spiritual achievements of late Christian Byzantium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York]
In recent days, scenes from the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ—all of them images designed to make people think harder about the relationship between spiritual authority and earthly power—have had an unaccustomed impact on New Yorkers. Thus far, at least, we might be speaking of Mel Gibson's blockbuster film, “The Passion of The Christ”—or of another, rather more rarefied event that will nonetheless make a deep impression on American consumers of high culture: the opening at the Metropolitan Museum of Art of a wonderfully rich selection of the artistic and spiritual achievements of late Christian Byzantium, and its imitators in the Slavic world....
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
150,000 in U.S. to join Church on Holy Saturday, including 24,000 who will be baptized http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=51639 Washington, DC (Zenit.org).- More than 150,000 Americans will join the Catholic Church on Holy Saturday, through the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults, says the U.S. bishops' conference. About 24,000 of the group will be baptized, confirmed and receive Communion for the first time at the Easter Vigil, and 36,000, who already have been baptized, will embrace full membership in the Catholic Church....
The enduring fascination of sin Weekly confession has virtually disappeared, yet we still yearn for reconciliation says Fr Timothy Wright Catholic Herald (UK) http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/Main_Feature.htm
Pell lobbies for World Youth Day Sydney 2008 http://www.cathnews.com/news/403/170.php Sydney's Cardinal George Pell has confirmed that he has been talking with Vatican officials about the possibility of Sydney hosting World Youth Day in 2008....
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MARIST MESSENGER
April 2004
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz/index.php
Full text from April's Messenger ...
** The Focus for April 2004 concerns freedom from resentment, the number one spiritual disease
** Thy Kingdom come by Fr Michael Cruickshank sm. A wise spiritual guide gives excellent advice
** A different Rosary by Fr John Rea sm
** Death of a marist. Fr Paul Bergin sm was a marist missionary who died aged 51 on 15 February,2004
** Character formation by Fr Austin Woodbury sm, a noted philosopher
Also in the April's Marist Messenger: CaFE - a wonderful catechesis ... Being convinced that God love me ... Choice to let go ... God's forgiving love ... Thy Kindgom come ... My problem with God ... Happy the gentle ... A service of remembrance
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"THE PASSION"
Catholic Bishops Blast Gibson's 'Passion' Reuters 01/04/2004 http://xtramsn.co.nz/entertainment/0,,3918-3224464,00.html French Roman Catholic bishops have officially denounced Mel Gibson's controversial film "The Passion of the Christ," which just opened in France, as potentially anti-Semitic and a distortion of Christian teaching. In an unusual statement on a commercial film, the bishops' conference said the traditionalist Catholic Gibson had made a film that might not be anti-Semitic but "could be used to support anti-Semitic opinions" ...
French Jews fail to get "Passion" film banned http://tinyurl.com/2ow9u Paris (Reuters) - A bid by three Jewish brothers to have Mel Gibson's controversial film "The Passion of The Christ" banned in France as anti-Semitic has failed after a Paris court found no reason to stop its premiere this week. "The film in question, which is a very realistic adaptation of the final hours of Christ's life, cannot be considered an incitement to hatred and violence against Jews or an affront to their dignity and security," the ruling on Monday read....
Archbishop Rosales: “Watch ‘The Passion!’” http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=553 Pastoral message corrects an Antisemitic approach to the film Manila (AsiaNews) – Mons. Guadencio Rosales, archbishop of Manila, has issued a four-page pastoral message, urging the Christians of his archdiocese to view Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion of the Christ”, calling it a “serious labour of love, painstakingly made, of genuine artistic and religious value.”...
Pirated copies of "The Passion" used to evangelize http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=558 Chinese Christians fear that Mel Gibson's film will not be shown due to government censorship. Meanwhille first private viewings of the film are accompanied by prayer gatherings and young agnostics want to know more about the faith...
‘The Passion of the Christ’ a hit in Beirut, Damascus http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=9408 Mel Gibson's controversial film "The Passion of the Christ," accused by some Jewish organizations of encouraging anti-Semitism, is drawing a sizeable if unexceptional audience [in Beirut] while apparently touching an emotional nerve in the Syrian capital, Damascus...
“The Passion of the Christ” resounding success as moviegoers search for traces of anti-Semitism AsiaNews 2 April, 2004 http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=571 Ramallah (AsiaNews) – Basciar is just seven years old, but has managed to obtain a pirated copy of Mel Gibson’s “The Passion of the Christ”. Palestinians, Muslims and Christians are all drawn to the film – and not merely for religious reasons but also due to the media blitz the movie has received....
Catholics and non Catholics welcome “The Passion of the Christ” http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=557 Jakarta (AsiaNews/Ucan) – Catholic clergy and lay people in the Jakarta area who have viewed the by-now famous film directed by Mel Gibson, “The Passion of the Christ”, say that the film has been an asset to their Lenten reflections and has deepened their appreciation of Jesus’ sufferings....
Gibson's Passion works miracles at box office http://tinyurl.com/2fcw4 Frenzy And Fury As Jesus Film Hits South Africa Sunday Times (Johannesburg) March 28, 2004 http://allafrica.com/stories/200403291231.html
Propaganda or masterpiece? The Passion – the verdict The Tablet (UK) 27/3/04 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/register.cgi/tablet-00866 As Mel Gibson’s film goes on general release around the world, we asked experts for their views ...
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for April 2, 2004: Reader response to report on U.S. bishops' norms for sexual abuse; Vatican and the White House 'kiss and make up'; Talking with young American Catholics; Archbishop George Carey's take on Islam; Anglican theologian on the ecumenical movement.
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EVENTS
Jesus 4 Real Ministries http://www.jesus4real.org.nz "A voluntary lay ministry committed to building up the faith in Catholic teenagers" Camp for Years 11-13: Wednesday 14 April to Sunday 18 April, Paraparaumu (near Wellington). Full details on the Website and from Anne and Andy Lovell, tel (06) 364 3141
Auckland Catholic Eucharistic Convention, 16th to 18th April 2004 http://www.eucharistic-convention.com Logan Campbell Theatre, Auckland Showgrounds, Greenlane Road, Auckland. Two-page write-up in 'NZ Catholic' March 21-Apr 3 p.14-15; further details in 'NZC' April 4-17 p.14. Full details on the Convention's Website.
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Presenters, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper 'NZC' wishes to employ good communicators in Northland, Auclland, Hawkes Bay, Wellington, Nelson-Marlborough, West Coast, Otago and Southland. Details in 'NZ Catholic' April 4-17 p.23 and from Dennis Augustine, NZ Catholic, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034
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Sunday, March 28, 2004
"Quit griping about your church: if it was perfect, you couldn't belong." (Marist Messenger February 2004)
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LENT 2004
"Receive children, the future of humanity": Message of His Holiness John Paul II for Lent 2004 (full text) http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=311
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz/lent.asp The theme of Caritas' Lent appeal for 2004 is “The Spirit of Hope is at Work in the World” taken from Pope John Paul II’s World Day of Peace Message, 1998. The donations Caritas receives from this appeal help fund development projects around the world. Donations by credit card are most welcome and may be made by opening the Lent appeal link.
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CATHOLICTV.NET
http://www.catholictv.net
New videos from the Wellington Archdiocesan Media Centre ...
** Stations of the Cross, with Father Bernie Hehir, featuring the life-size bronze sculpture Stations of Lourdes: Part One - Stations I - VII
** Highlights from the St. Patrick’s Day Annual Irish Parade through Wellington.
Also on this site ...
International Videos (right-hand column): "The Face: Jesus in Art "
(This link opens the US Catholic bishops' video page. "The Face: Jesus in Art" is towards the bottom of the page. Two links are provided, one each for Real Player and Windows Media. People with dial-up connections (non-broadband) should select the Real Player option to see the pictures.)
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Ian Cross: "The God Boy" (book review) NZ Herald 23.03.2004 http://tinyurl.com/3e4gp Set in small-town New Zealand during the 1950s, The God Boy is New Zealand's equivalent of Catcher in the Rye or To Kill a Mockingbird. So it is appropriate that Penguin has chosen to launch its New Zealand Classics series by reissuing this haunting coming-of-age tale first published in 1957. The story is told from the view of a young Catholic schoolboy called Jimmy Sullivan, now aged 13, who lives in an orphanage run by nuns...
Dyson looks ahead The Press (Chch) 27 March 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2856967a6160,00.html [Cabinet Minister] Ruth Suzanne Dyson was born in Lower Hutt, 1957, and raised a Catholic. She left school at 15, and later gained qualifications through night school and correspondence. Her dad, Bill, represented New Zealand in waterpolo and was a champion swimmer and surf lifesaver....
'The politics of affairs', by Rosemary McLeod Sunday Star Times 21 March 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2851337a6220,00.html Adulterer: It's a word that thunders with Biblical overtones of sin and a giant hand pointing accusingly from the sky, even as marriages fall by the wayside and sexual morality - unless it involves coercion or children - is a dim collective memory. Are we really shocked by marital infidelity? Do we even think it matters? Did it even make National's leader Don Brash look perversely sexy last week?
Refugees plead for Tampa detainees The Dominion Post 27 March 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2857055a10,00.html Refugees stranded on the Pacific island of Nauru continue to live in desperation and despair, according to a group who arrived in Auckland after being accepted by New Zealand. "We were dead, though we were breathing," said one by way of introduction, through a 12-year-old translator....
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
ACU refuses to raise HECS fees
Church body urges $26.60 per week Minimum Wage increase
Pope's new book describes confrontations with communists
Study shows US bishops' increased consultation with laity
Australian bishops honour Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan
CathNews celebrates fifth birthday
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Theologians, historian explore decline in confessions Catholic News Service http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/20040324a.htm WASHINGTON (CNS) -- "Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It's been two weeks since my last confession. ..." With that ritual formula once familiar to all Catholics, Boston College historian James O'Toole opened a daylong symposium on how the sacrament of penance has changed and how its chief form, individual auricular confession, has almost disappeared from American Catholic consciousness in the last 40 years....
East Timor's Mother Teresa Sojourners http://tinyurl.com/2unta East Timor is now free from the tyranny of Indonesian occupation, but it is engaged in a new war - against poverty. In this battle are the same heroes of faith who struggled for the island nation's independence. One such person is Sister Lourdes - East Timor's Mother Teresa....
In new book, pope describes confrontations with communist authorities Catholic News Service http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/20040324.htm Rome (CNS) -- In "Get Up, Let Us Go," his soon-to-be-published book about his 20 years as a bishop in Poland, Pope John Paul II tells of almost daily confrontations with communist authorities and describes his efforts to adopt a new and more open style of pastoral ministry....
“Get up. Let us go!”: new book by pope http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=540 Rome (AsiaNews) – An “autobiographical reflection” of his last 50 years: this is how the pope’s new book, “Get up. Let us go!” was described. John Paul II’s latest work will surely become an international best seller....
New book charts history of Eastern Churches in 20th Century http://www.indcatholicnews.com/eastch.html A new book: 'Faith and Martyrdom: The Eastern Churches in Twentieth Century Europe; (Proceedings of the meeting on contemporary Church history, Vatican City, October 22-24, 1998), was launched in the Vatican yesterday....
35 Catholic Missionaries Killed in 2003 (full text) Vatican City, March 22, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Last year saw the lives of 35 Catholic missionaries -- bishops, priests, religious and lay people --ended violently. So says the news agency Fides of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples which published the names of the dead, on the occasion of the Day of Prayer and Fasting in Memory of Martyred Missionaries, to be observed on Wednesday. In 2003 the greatest number of victims was recorded in Africa, particularly in Sudan and Uganda, where rebels continue to combat the established government, and in war-torn Congo. Notable in Burundi was the killing of Archbishop Michael Courtney, apostolic nuncio. The list of missionaries killed, updated only in Italian, is published by Fides at: http://www.evangelizatio.org/portale/martirologio/martiri/2003.html.
Madrid Question: Where Was Christ on March 11? Cardinal Responds During State Funeral http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=51185 Madrid, Spain, March 24, 2004 (Zenit.org). Addressing the families of the deceased, the Spanish royal family, numerous presidents, and heads of state during the state funeral for the victims of the March 11 attacks, Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela posed a pressing question: "Where was Jesus, the Son of the living God, brother and Savior of man, Lord of life and death, on that terrible Madrid morning ...
Cardinal Ruini on Christian Response to Muslim Terrorism President of Italian Episcopate Lays Out 3 Key Elements http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=51051 Rome, March 22, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The Christian response to Muslim terrorism involves the condemnation of all attacks against life, rejection of hatred, and the unity of the international community to address its causes, says Cardinal Camillo Ruini....
Hamas Chief's Assassination Condemned by Holy See Says the Killing "Cannot Be Justified in Any State of Law" http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=51042 Vatican City, March 22, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The Holy See condemned the assassination of Ahmed Yassin, the founder of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, who died during an Israeli airstrike...
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'THE PASSION'
Passion ignites world audiences http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3560773.stm The Passion of the Christ, which has aroused controversy around the world, opens in UK cinemas on Friday....
Gibson’s “Passion” arrives in the Middle East http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=544 Doha (AsiaNews) – The “Passion of the Christ” has made its debut in the mostly-Muslim Gulf Arab States. “We submitted 'The Passion of the Christ' to the censorship committee, which has no objection to its screening” said Abdul Rahman Mohsen, the director general of a private Qatari cinema company. The censorship committee previews and may edit scenes or images depicting prophets from holy books. Although “The Passion” narrates the experience of "Prophet Issa" (Jesus), the film has been released [uncut] ...
Could cinema be the saviour of Christianity? The Telegraph (UK) http://tinyurl.com/yutld Is Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ anti-Semitic, as London's Curzon cinema group claimed yesterday? Too violent? Too literal in its adaptation of the biblical text? Did Pope John Paul II really say, "It is as it was", or was that just a piece of studio spin? ...
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for March 26, 2004: Canonist criticizes U.S. bishops sex abuse norms; Martyrs of the Eastern Catholic churches in 20th century Europe; A conversation with the former Archbishop of Canterbury; John Paul's latest book
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EVENTS
Jesus 4 Real Ministries http://www.jesus4real.org.nz "A voluntary lay ministry committed to building up the faith in Catholic teenagers" Camp for Years 11-13: Wednesday 14 April to Sunday 18 April, Paraparaumu (near Wellington). Full details on the Website and from Anne and Andy Lovell, tel (06) 364 3141
Auckland Catholic Eucharistic Convention, 16th to 18th April 2004 http://www.eucharistic-convention.com Logan Campbell Theatre, Auckland Showgrounds, Greenlane Road, Auckland. Two-page write-up in 'NZ Catholic' March 21-Apr 3 p.14-15 Full details on the Convention's Website.
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Lecturer in Relgious Education, Catholic Institute of Theology, Auckland Details in 'NZ Catholic' March 7-20 2004 p.22 and from The Registrar, Catholic Institute of Theology, 16 Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland 1001. Tel: (09) 379 6424; fax (09) 379 6426; e-mail cit@auckland.ac.nz Applications close 31 March 2004
Presenters, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper 'NZC' wishes to employ good communicators in Northland, Auclland, Hawkes Bay, Wellington, Nelson-Marlborough, West Coast, Otago and Southland. Details in 'NZ Catholic' March 21-Apr 3 p.13 and from Dennis augustine, NZ Catholic, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034
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LENT 2004
"Receive children, the future of humanity": Message of His Holiness John Paul II for Lent 2004 (full text) http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=311
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz/lent.asp The theme of Caritas' Lent appeal for 2004 is “The Spirit of Hope is at Work in the World” taken from Pope John Paul II’s World Day of Peace Message, 1998. The donations Caritas receives from this appeal help fund development projects around the world. Donations by credit card are most welcome and may be made by opening the Lent appeal link.
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CATHOLICTV.NET
http://www.catholictv.net
New videos from the Wellington Archdiocesan Media Centre ...
** Stations of the Cross, with Father Bernie Hehir, featuring the life-size bronze sculpture Stations of Lourdes: Part One - Stations I - VII
** Highlights from the St. Patrick’s Day Annual Irish Parade through Wellington.
Also on this site ...
International Videos (right-hand column): "The Face: Jesus in Art "
(This link opens the US Catholic bishops' video page. "The Face: Jesus in Art" is towards the bottom of the page. Two links are provided, one each for Real Player and Windows Media. People with dial-up connections (non-broadband) should select the Real Player option to see the pictures.)
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Ian Cross: "The God Boy" (book review) NZ Herald 23.03.2004 http://tinyurl.com/3e4gp Set in small-town New Zealand during the 1950s, The God Boy is New Zealand's equivalent of Catcher in the Rye or To Kill a Mockingbird. So it is appropriate that Penguin has chosen to launch its New Zealand Classics series by reissuing this haunting coming-of-age tale first published in 1957. The story is told from the view of a young Catholic schoolboy called Jimmy Sullivan, now aged 13, who lives in an orphanage run by nuns...
Dyson looks ahead The Press (Chch) 27 March 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2856967a6160,00.html [Cabinet Minister] Ruth Suzanne Dyson was born in Lower Hutt, 1957, and raised a Catholic. She left school at 15, and later gained qualifications through night school and correspondence. Her dad, Bill, represented New Zealand in waterpolo and was a champion swimmer and surf lifesaver....
'The politics of affairs', by Rosemary McLeod Sunday Star Times 21 March 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2851337a6220,00.html Adulterer: It's a word that thunders with Biblical overtones of sin and a giant hand pointing accusingly from the sky, even as marriages fall by the wayside and sexual morality - unless it involves coercion or children - is a dim collective memory. Are we really shocked by marital infidelity? Do we even think it matters? Did it even make National's leader Don Brash look perversely sexy last week?
Refugees plead for Tampa detainees The Dominion Post 27 March 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2857055a10,00.html Refugees stranded on the Pacific island of Nauru continue to live in desperation and despair, according to a group who arrived in Auckland after being accepted by New Zealand. "We were dead, though we were breathing," said one by way of introduction, through a 12-year-old translator....
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
ACU refuses to raise HECS fees
Church body urges $26.60 per week Minimum Wage increase
Pope's new book describes confrontations with communists
Study shows US bishops' increased consultation with laity
Australian bishops honour Cardinal Francis Xavier Nguyen Van Thuan
CathNews celebrates fifth birthday
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Theologians, historian explore decline in confessions Catholic News Service http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/20040324a.htm WASHINGTON (CNS) -- "Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It's been two weeks since my last confession. ..." With that ritual formula once familiar to all Catholics, Boston College historian James O'Toole opened a daylong symposium on how the sacrament of penance has changed and how its chief form, individual auricular confession, has almost disappeared from American Catholic consciousness in the last 40 years....
East Timor's Mother Teresa Sojourners http://tinyurl.com/2unta East Timor is now free from the tyranny of Indonesian occupation, but it is engaged in a new war - against poverty. In this battle are the same heroes of faith who struggled for the island nation's independence. One such person is Sister Lourdes - East Timor's Mother Teresa....
In new book, pope describes confrontations with communist authorities Catholic News Service http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/20040324.htm Rome (CNS) -- In "Get Up, Let Us Go," his soon-to-be-published book about his 20 years as a bishop in Poland, Pope John Paul II tells of almost daily confrontations with communist authorities and describes his efforts to adopt a new and more open style of pastoral ministry....
“Get up. Let us go!”: new book by pope http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=540 Rome (AsiaNews) – An “autobiographical reflection” of his last 50 years: this is how the pope’s new book, “Get up. Let us go!” was described. John Paul II’s latest work will surely become an international best seller....
New book charts history of Eastern Churches in 20th Century http://www.indcatholicnews.com/eastch.html A new book: 'Faith and Martyrdom: The Eastern Churches in Twentieth Century Europe; (Proceedings of the meeting on contemporary Church history, Vatican City, October 22-24, 1998), was launched in the Vatican yesterday....
35 Catholic Missionaries Killed in 2003 (full text) Vatican City, March 22, 2004 (Zenit.org).- Last year saw the lives of 35 Catholic missionaries -- bishops, priests, religious and lay people --ended violently. So says the news agency Fides of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples which published the names of the dead, on the occasion of the Day of Prayer and Fasting in Memory of Martyred Missionaries, to be observed on Wednesday. In 2003 the greatest number of victims was recorded in Africa, particularly in Sudan and Uganda, where rebels continue to combat the established government, and in war-torn Congo. Notable in Burundi was the killing of Archbishop Michael Courtney, apostolic nuncio. The list of missionaries killed, updated only in Italian, is published by Fides at: http://www.evangelizatio.org/portale/martirologio/martiri/2003.html.
Madrid Question: Where Was Christ on March 11? Cardinal Responds During State Funeral http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=51185 Madrid, Spain, March 24, 2004 (Zenit.org). Addressing the families of the deceased, the Spanish royal family, numerous presidents, and heads of state during the state funeral for the victims of the March 11 attacks, Cardinal Antonio Rouco Varela posed a pressing question: "Where was Jesus, the Son of the living God, brother and Savior of man, Lord of life and death, on that terrible Madrid morning ...
Cardinal Ruini on Christian Response to Muslim Terrorism President of Italian Episcopate Lays Out 3 Key Elements http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=51051 Rome, March 22, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The Christian response to Muslim terrorism involves the condemnation of all attacks against life, rejection of hatred, and the unity of the international community to address its causes, says Cardinal Camillo Ruini....
Hamas Chief's Assassination Condemned by Holy See Says the Killing "Cannot Be Justified in Any State of Law" http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=51042 Vatican City, March 22, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The Holy See condemned the assassination of Ahmed Yassin, the founder of the Palestinian militant group Hamas, who died during an Israeli airstrike...
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'THE PASSION'
Passion ignites world audiences http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3560773.stm The Passion of the Christ, which has aroused controversy around the world, opens in UK cinemas on Friday....
Gibson’s “Passion” arrives in the Middle East http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=544 Doha (AsiaNews) – The “Passion of the Christ” has made its debut in the mostly-Muslim Gulf Arab States. “We submitted 'The Passion of the Christ' to the censorship committee, which has no objection to its screening” said Abdul Rahman Mohsen, the director general of a private Qatari cinema company. The censorship committee previews and may edit scenes or images depicting prophets from holy books. Although “The Passion” narrates the experience of "Prophet Issa" (Jesus), the film has been released [uncut] ...
Could cinema be the saviour of Christianity? The Telegraph (UK) http://tinyurl.com/yutld Is Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ anti-Semitic, as London's Curzon cinema group claimed yesterday? Too violent? Too literal in its adaptation of the biblical text? Did Pope John Paul II really say, "It is as it was", or was that just a piece of studio spin? ...
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"THE WORD FROM ROME"
http://www.nationalcatholicreporter.org/word/
A weekly column in the National Catholic Reporter by the paper's full-time Vatican correspondent John L. Allen
Summary of the column for March 26, 2004: Canonist criticizes U.S. bishops sex abuse norms; Martyrs of the Eastern Catholic churches in 20th century Europe; A conversation with the former Archbishop of Canterbury; John Paul's latest book
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EVENTS
Jesus 4 Real Ministries http://www.jesus4real.org.nz "A voluntary lay ministry committed to building up the faith in Catholic teenagers" Camp for Years 11-13: Wednesday 14 April to Sunday 18 April, Paraparaumu (near Wellington). Full details on the Website and from Anne and Andy Lovell, tel (06) 364 3141
Auckland Catholic Eucharistic Convention, 16th to 18th April 2004 http://www.eucharistic-convention.com Logan Campbell Theatre, Auckland Showgrounds, Greenlane Road, Auckland. Two-page write-up in 'NZ Catholic' March 21-Apr 3 p.14-15 Full details on the Convention's Website.
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EMPLOYMENT
[Teaching vacancies in New Zealand Catholic schools are advertised in the Education Gazette: http://www.edgazette.govt.nz/vacancies ]
[Vacancies in Catholic Youth Ministry are advertised on the Job Bank page of the National Council for Young Catholics: http://ncyc.org.nz ]
Lecturer in Relgious Education, Catholic Institute of Theology, Auckland Details in 'NZ Catholic' March 7-20 2004 p.22 and from The Registrar, Catholic Institute of Theology, 16 Waterloo Quadrant, Auckland 1001. Tel: (09) 379 6424; fax (09) 379 6426; e-mail cit@auckland.ac.nz Applications close 31 March 2004
Presenters, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper 'NZC' wishes to employ good communicators in Northland, Auclland, Hawkes Bay, Wellington, Nelson-Marlborough, West Coast, Otago and Southland. Details in 'NZ Catholic' March 21-Apr 3 p.13 and from Dennis augustine, NZ Catholic, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034
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