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'NZ CATHOLIC'
No 192, July 25-August 7, 2004 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/
Dunedin's new bishop ordained DUNEDIN - Newly ordained at the sixth Bishop of Dunedin, the Most Rev. Colin Campbell arrived on July 10 at St Joseph's Cathedral, where he had once served as a priest, and waited in anticipation for his Saturday morning liturgical installation....
National conference for religious WELLINGTON - Fr Timothy Radcliffe, OP, will be the keynote presenter at New Zealand's first national conference of women and men religious, to be held in Wellington next January...
Aubert inquiry ends in archdiocese WELLINGTON - The archdiocesan inquiry into the beatification and canonisation of Suzanne Aubert ended with a liturgy at the Wellington cathedral on July 4....
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
New Catholic school planned NZ City 22 July 2004 http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.asp?id=41487 A demand for private education and a population boom has prompted the Catholic Church to plan a new high school in Silverdale, north of Auckland. ...
Choir's Melbourne trip proves uplifting Voices filled two cathedrals Otago Daily Times Tuesday, 20-July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/6kbkn Dunedin church choir Cantores In Ecclesia has returned triumphant from a six-day visit to Melbourne. The choir sang at a solemn Mass conducted by the Archbishop of Melbourne, the Most Rev Denis Hart, at the Roman Catholic St Patrick's Cathedral - and in the evening sang a traditional evensong at the Anglican St Paul's Cathedral...
Singing priest: Father Chris Skinner is a no ordinary priest. He can sing like an angel (video report) 'Holmes' TVNZ 20 July 2004 http://tvnz.co.nz/view/tvone_minisite_story_skin/437249%3fformat=html
Extradition hearing extends to Christmas NZPA 24 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2981118a11,00.html Sydney: An extradition tradition hearing in Sydney for three Catholic clergymen wanted in Christchurch to face historical sexual abuse charges will not finish until days before Christmas...
Former Catholic brother arrested over historic sex abuse ... NZPA 19 july 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2976623a11,00.html Upper Hutt police have arrested and charged a former Catholic Brother in relation to a complaint of historic sexual indecencies on a male student at Hato Paora College near Feilding in 1984...
Morals watchdog hit with legal costs NZ Herald 24.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/59ja5 The public morals watchdog group that has repeatedly sought to stop festival screenings of controversial films has had an award against it of legal costs of more than $4500. The costs relate to a 2002 case in which the Society for the Promotion of Community Standards unsuccessfully sought a review of the classification of the French film Baise-Moi ...
"Passion of Christ" for Christians only Reuters 22 July, 2004 http://tinyurl.com/4epzj Kuala Lumpur (Reuters) - It broke box office records in parts of the Middle East, the heart of Islam, and is now screening in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country. But to view Mel Gibson's "Passion of Christ" in Malaysia, viewers must be Christian. No Muslims are allowed to see it...
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FROK THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
What do young people really think today? Edmund Rice Network News Edition 14: July 2004 Holy Spirit Province http://www.westcourt.wa.edu.au/home/erfnews/ERNN14e.html Before attending this highly devout, private Catholic School, religion held no significance in my unenlightened and basic life. I took an arrogant stance towards any religion, as I was basically taught that it was a load of garbage...
Chaldaean bishop: “We are builders of the new Iraq” http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1159 Signs of hope and Western blindness; confidence in Allawi’s government and Christians’ duty. Full interview with Monsignor Rabban Al Qas, Chaldaean bishop of Amadiyah (northern Iraq), who is in Italy raising funds for the reconstruction of his country...
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/index.php
INTERNATIONAL NEWS Australia ethicist rethinks position on 'vegetative state' Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott says abortion film 'will do no harm' Pope sets date for return of icon to Russia Premier pays tribute to Christian Brothers' schools ministry Brisbane Commission forges support link with Zimbabwe Church in PNG says its no longer a mission territory
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CARITAS AOTEAROA NZ
http://www.caritas.org.nz
New Zealanders to assist in Sudan 19 July, 2004: Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand and Christian World Service (CWS) are sending three New Zealanders to Darfur, Western Sudan to assist in humanitarian relief efforts where over 1 million people have been affected by violence from Janjaweed militias....
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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 July 23, 2004: Conversation with Sant'Egidio founder Andrea Riccardi; Opinions of Sant'Egidio; Vatican gets serious on Africa; Catholic-Jewish dialogue; Vatican investigates Austrian seminary sex scandal; More reflections from Peru
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EVENTS
Worship and Healing Conference, 27-29 August 2004 St Patrick's College, Silverstream Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Service Group for Catholic Charismatic Renewal Details from Cherylynn Passmore, tel: (04) 526 6914; fax: (04) 526 2189; e-mail: cherylynn.passmore@xtra.co.nz
Schools Of Evangelisation http://www.wave.co.nz/~jlewis/SOE.html
Gisborne: New Life weekend September 17 - 19 2004 Venue: St Mary's Parish centre Campion Road, Gisborne. Starts 7 pm Friday - to 5 pm Sunday presented by members of the Hamilton Diocesan and Gisborne Schools of Evangelisation Teams. Contact: Huia - huiawhite@xtra.co.nz - or phone Doreen 06 868 4399 or Huia 06 868 4256
There is a link to our own family web site which goes through to the SOE's for NZ, Australia and Mexico (where they began - Sorry only in Spanish there at the moment!)
Visit to Hamilton by Canadian Musician and Evangelist Greg Magirescu. Concerts and testimony Thursday August 19, 7.30 pm at the Catholic Hall, Te Aroha Friday August 20, 7.30 pm at the Cathedral, Grey Street, Hamilton Saturday August 21, 7.30 pm, St Columba's, Frankton, Hamilton, 7.30 pm Sunday August 22, Tauranga - to be arranged Monday August 23, St Mary's Church, Rotorua, 7.30 pm
Visiting Schools for lunch time concert and testimony -Sacred Heart, Hamilton, Thursday 19, Aquinas College, Tauranga, Monday 23, John Paul 2 College, Rotorua, Tuesday 24 August
Seminar on Liturgy and Music Saturday August 21, 10 am - 3 pm Marian School - new buildings Contact: Father Michael Armstrong 07 854 9221
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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 ]
Chief Executive, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, 'Wel-com' July 2004 p.17, and from Mike Hurdle or Catharina Vossen at MiCah Partners, tel (04) 499 4749; fax: (04) 499 7375; e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz; PO Box 499, Wellington. Applications close 23 July 2004
Supervisor, Catholic Worker House of Hospitality, Palmerston North Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, and from M. Eastham, 11 Suffolk Crescent, Feilding; tel: (06) 323 8684; e-mail: m.eastham@xtra.co.nz Applications close 30 July 2004
Journalist. 'NZ Catholic' newspaper Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 25-August 7 p.23 and from Pat McCarthy, PO Box 147-000, Ponsonby, Auckland; e-mail: catholic@iconz.co.nz Applications close 30 July.
Presenters, 'NZ Catholic' newspaper 'NZ Catholic' wishes to employ skilled communicators to promote the paper at parish Masses. Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 25 August 7 p.22 and from Dennis Augustine, 'NZ Catholic', PO Box 147 000, Ponsonby, Auckland 1034
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Sunday, July 25, 2004
Sunday, July 18, 2004
From today 'Kiwicath' is no longer a public forum. Instead it's now a simple mailing list with one post a week: the newsletter "News & Notes".
A new forum - The NZ Southern Cross - has been set up to replace the Kiwicath forum, and 'News & Notes' will be posted to it every week. Consequently, you can choose to stay with Kiwicath and just receive 'News & Notes', or you can join The NZ Southern Cross and have a forum plus 'News & Notes'.
To join The NZ Southern Cross, send a message to: TheNZSouthernCross-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Soon after, you will receive a confirmation request. You click 'Reply' on your e-mail reader and send the request message back. Then the Moderator is notified you want to join.
After joining, you can post messages to the NZSC via the address: TheNZSouthernCross@yahoogroups.com
To leave the Kiwicath mailing list, send a message to kiwicath-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
Best wishes,
Mike Leon Compiler of 'News & Notes'
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
No 191, July 11-24, 2004
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Abortion law puts schools at risk WELLINGTON - A law allowing girls of any age the right to an abortion without the knowledge or consent of their parents "is radically out of step with today's social and educational climate", according to Br Pat Lynch, the chief executive officer of the New Zealand Catholic Education Office....
Four Sisters of Mercy congregations agree to combine DUNEDIN - The Sisters of Mercy from the four New Zealand congregations are preparing a petition to the Apostolic See to become one congregation...
Students invent device to detect cellphones CHRISTCHURCH - Young entrepreneurs at St Thomas of Canterbury College believe they are on a winning path with their invention, the Cell-Trac-r, aimed at solving the nuisance of cellphone use of classrooms....
Also in the print edition ... Pro-abortion politicians warned by US bishops; NZ¹s first saint? (beginning a series on Suzanne Aubert); Gains in globalisation outdone by losses; Cardinal Williams: The spiritual bankruptcy of liberalism; Priestly and Religious Vocations feature.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Evidence for sainthood being sent to Rome NZ Herald 17.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/3lhup Catholics have compiled evidence supporting a bid to declare Suzanne Aubert New Zealand's first saint and will send it to Rome for consideration by the Congregation for Saints...
Hate mail targets Waikato church members (photo) Waikato times 14 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2971815a10,00.html Members of Matamata's Catholic church are being targeted by hate mail. For six months members of the Holy Angels Catholic Church, including Father Eamon Kennedy, have found anti-Catholic material in their letterboxes and hidden in their mail ....
From Polish war hero to caring Balclutha family doctor (obituary) Otago Daily Times 10-July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/5dtmr Stanislaw Josef (Stan) Muller was a man who lived three separate lives in his 85 years: growing up in a peaceful Poland, enduring the ravages of war, and then finally settling in New Zealand...
Explicit abortion film set for NZ NZ Herald 17.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/6a2zs TVNZ is considering screening a confrontational English documentary that shows a woman having an abortion and doctors examining the remains of an aborted foetus...
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
Waiting and praying for the Filipino hostage http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1148 Manila (AsiaNews/Agencies) – People are still waiting and hoping that Angelo de la Cruz, the Filipino hostage captured by Islamic terrorists, may soon be free....
How great these are, by Ian Bradley The Tablet (UK) Saturday, 10 July 2004 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/register.cgi/tablet-00915 [How great Thou art] belongs very much to the Protestant evangelical stable and it is perhaps surprising to see it coming out top in a Catholic poll of favourite hymns ...
Attracting and Integrating Newcomers across Four Countries http://www.cathnews.com/news/407/doc/15ncls.html Nerida’s story is the combined story of real people. Her perspective is important as newcomers measure the relevance of church beyond its own walls. Does Nerida remind you of anyone you know? What can we learn from Nerida and other newcomers to church life? ....
UNAIDS head says churches critical to fight http://www.cathnews.com/news/407/65.php
In Nature, Pope Sees an "Epiphany of God" http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56707
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/index.php
International News:
Australian Catholic Education Commission welcomes Labor's needs-based funding plan
Tentative Catholic Health support for ALP health reform agenda
Queensland religious orders launch Federal Election campaign
Mercies working together to counter 'climate of fear'
Christian Brothers in WA confirm decision to leave schools
Sydney bishop responds to Hong Kong Catholic concern on religious freedom
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MARIST BROTHERS' NEW ZEALAND PROVINCE
Marist Champagnat Family Newsletter Winter Edition 2004 http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/MFN1Winter2004.htm
"Emmaus", by Joy Cowley ... Waiwhetu Grove community is a first for Marist Brothers ... Brothers on the move ... Recent deaths ... Brother Paul Scott’s book: A Rock Of Sense, the life and times of Brother Borgia... Pacific Islands Ministry ... Visitors
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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 July 16, 2004 : The Church in Peru: Cardinal Cipriani, conservative champion; Liberation theology pioneer Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez; the Japanese embassy siege; why evangelical Protestant movements are growing; Maria Luisa Chumpitaz and her centre for women and children ..... Sexual misconduct in Europe
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EVENTS
Worship and Healing Conference, 27-29 August 2004 St Patrick's College, Silverstream Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Service Group for Catholic Charismatic Renewal Details from Cherylynn Passmore, tel: (04) 526 6914; fax: (04) 526 2189; e-mail: cherylynn.passmore@xtra.co.nz
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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 ]
Chief Executive, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, 'Wel-com' July 2004 p.17, and from Mike Hurdle or Catharina Vossen at MiCah Partners, tel (04) 499 4749; fax: (04) 499 7375; e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz; PO Box 499, Wellington. Applications close 23 July 2004
Supervisor, Catholic Worker House of Hospitality, Palmerston North Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, and from M. Eastham, 11 Suffolk Crescent, Feilding; tel: (06) 323 8684; e-mail: m.eastham@xtra.co.nz Applications close 30 July 2004
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A new forum - The NZ Southern Cross - has been set up to replace the Kiwicath forum, and 'News & Notes' will be posted to it every week. Consequently, you can choose to stay with Kiwicath and just receive 'News & Notes', or you can join The NZ Southern Cross and have a forum plus 'News & Notes'.
To join The NZ Southern Cross, send a message to: TheNZSouthernCross-subscribe@yahoogroups.com Soon after, you will receive a confirmation request. You click 'Reply' on your e-mail reader and send the request message back. Then the Moderator is notified you want to join.
After joining, you can post messages to the NZSC via the address: TheNZSouthernCross@yahoogroups.com
To leave the Kiwicath mailing list, send a message to kiwicath-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com
Best wishes,
Mike Leon Compiler of 'News & Notes'
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
No 191, July 11-24, 2004
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
Abortion law puts schools at risk WELLINGTON - A law allowing girls of any age the right to an abortion without the knowledge or consent of their parents "is radically out of step with today's social and educational climate", according to Br Pat Lynch, the chief executive officer of the New Zealand Catholic Education Office....
Four Sisters of Mercy congregations agree to combine DUNEDIN - The Sisters of Mercy from the four New Zealand congregations are preparing a petition to the Apostolic See to become one congregation...
Students invent device to detect cellphones CHRISTCHURCH - Young entrepreneurs at St Thomas of Canterbury College believe they are on a winning path with their invention, the Cell-Trac-r, aimed at solving the nuisance of cellphone use of classrooms....
Also in the print edition ... Pro-abortion politicians warned by US bishops; NZ¹s first saint? (beginning a series on Suzanne Aubert); Gains in globalisation outdone by losses; Cardinal Williams: The spiritual bankruptcy of liberalism; Priestly and Religious Vocations feature.
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Evidence for sainthood being sent to Rome NZ Herald 17.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/3lhup Catholics have compiled evidence supporting a bid to declare Suzanne Aubert New Zealand's first saint and will send it to Rome for consideration by the Congregation for Saints...
Hate mail targets Waikato church members (photo) Waikato times 14 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2971815a10,00.html Members of Matamata's Catholic church are being targeted by hate mail. For six months members of the Holy Angels Catholic Church, including Father Eamon Kennedy, have found anti-Catholic material in their letterboxes and hidden in their mail ....
From Polish war hero to caring Balclutha family doctor (obituary) Otago Daily Times 10-July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/5dtmr Stanislaw Josef (Stan) Muller was a man who lived three separate lives in his 85 years: growing up in a peaceful Poland, enduring the ravages of war, and then finally settling in New Zealand...
Explicit abortion film set for NZ NZ Herald 17.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/6a2zs TVNZ is considering screening a confrontational English documentary that shows a woman having an abortion and doctors examining the remains of an aborted foetus...
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES
Waiting and praying for the Filipino hostage http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1148 Manila (AsiaNews/Agencies) – People are still waiting and hoping that Angelo de la Cruz, the Filipino hostage captured by Islamic terrorists, may soon be free....
How great these are, by Ian Bradley The Tablet (UK) Saturday, 10 July 2004 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/register.cgi/tablet-00915 [How great Thou art] belongs very much to the Protestant evangelical stable and it is perhaps surprising to see it coming out top in a Catholic poll of favourite hymns ...
Attracting and Integrating Newcomers across Four Countries http://www.cathnews.com/news/407/doc/15ncls.html Nerida’s story is the combined story of real people. Her perspective is important as newcomers measure the relevance of church beyond its own walls. Does Nerida remind you of anyone you know? What can we learn from Nerida and other newcomers to church life? ....
UNAIDS head says churches critical to fight http://www.cathnews.com/news/407/65.php
In Nature, Pope Sees an "Epiphany of God" http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56707
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz/index.php
International News:
Australian Catholic Education Commission welcomes Labor's needs-based funding plan
Tentative Catholic Health support for ALP health reform agenda
Queensland religious orders launch Federal Election campaign
Mercies working together to counter 'climate of fear'
Christian Brothers in WA confirm decision to leave schools
Sydney bishop responds to Hong Kong Catholic concern on religious freedom
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MARIST BROTHERS' NEW ZEALAND PROVINCE
Marist Champagnat Family Newsletter Winter Edition 2004 http://www.maristbrothers.org.nz/MFN1Winter2004.htm
"Emmaus", by Joy Cowley ... Waiwhetu Grove community is a first for Marist Brothers ... Brothers on the move ... Recent deaths ... Brother Paul Scott’s book: A Rock Of Sense, the life and times of Brother Borgia... Pacific Islands Ministry ... Visitors
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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 July 16, 2004 : The Church in Peru: Cardinal Cipriani, conservative champion; Liberation theology pioneer Fr. Gustavo Gutierrez; the Japanese embassy siege; why evangelical Protestant movements are growing; Maria Luisa Chumpitaz and her centre for women and children ..... Sexual misconduct in Europe
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EVENTS
Worship and Healing Conference, 27-29 August 2004 St Patrick's College, Silverstream Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Service Group for Catholic Charismatic Renewal Details from Cherylynn Passmore, tel: (04) 526 6914; fax: (04) 526 2189; e-mail: cherylynn.passmore@xtra.co.nz
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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 ]
Chief Executive, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, 'Wel-com' July 2004 p.17, and from Mike Hurdle or Catharina Vossen at MiCah Partners, tel (04) 499 4749; fax: (04) 499 7375; e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz; PO Box 499, Wellington. Applications close 23 July 2004
Supervisor, Catholic Worker House of Hospitality, Palmerston North Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, and from M. Eastham, 11 Suffolk Crescent, Feilding; tel: (06) 323 8684; e-mail: m.eastham@xtra.co.nz Applications close 30 July 2004
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Sunday, July 11, 2004
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ORDINATION OF BISHOP CAMPBELL
Church rejoices at ordination (photo) Otago Daily Times 10 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/otago/0,2106,2967477a6017,00.html With a simple laying on of hands, the Very Rev Bishop Colin Campbell was ordained as Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin last night. The Mass brought together 1500 members of the Otago-Southland Catholic church; 10 bishops of New Zealand, including Cardinal Thomas Williams; the papal diplomatic representative in New Zealand, Archbishop Patrick Coveney; 80 priests; and 450 invited guests, including Dunedin Mayor Sukhi Turner, at the Dunedin Town Hall last night...
New shepherd for Otago flock hailed (photo) Southland Times 10 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/0,2106,2967444a6011,00.html
Cardinal's moral message endorsed Otago Daily Times 9-July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/34po7 Fr Campbell first thought of becoming a priest after reading [The Far East] a missionary magazine to which his mother, Agnes, subscribed...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
The curse among the clergy Sunday Times 11 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/0,2106,2968369a6619,00.html It's a a tough time to be a Catholic priest. Falling numbers of clergy, an increasingly secular community and the stigma of being a church leader at a time when sexual abuse revelations seem an almost weekly bad news story, must make this the least attractive time to have "the calling"...
Priest in tune with pop world (photo) Western Leader 08 July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/2ftzv A Catholic priest with connections to west Auckland could be on his way to pop stardom. Critics say a recording by Father Chris Skinner is even better than the original...
High priest of heavenly pop (photo) NZ Herald 10.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/2qrlj His select group of fans think his voice is divine. And while Catholic priest Chris Skinner has been privately producing recordings of his own songs for 15 years, he could now be on the verge of becoming an international act...
Pioneer Filmmaker Mike Walker Dies Scotsman.com 10th July 2004 http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3163900 New Zealand filmmaker Mike Walker, who pioneered movies that highlighted the struggles of the country’s indigenous Maori people, has died at the age of 72...
Obituary: Mike Walker NZ Herald 10.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/38e33 New Zealand film-maker, artist and photographer Mike Walker has died in Palmerston North hospital, aged 72...
Sisters set for amalgamation Otago Daily Times 3-July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/2jhur New Zealand's four congregations of the Sisters of Mercy are preparing a formal petition to Rome to become one congregation...
Dominican friars re-elect Prior Provincial http://www.cathnews.com/news/407/54.php Dominican Friars gathered in Canberra for their Province Chapter this week re-elected ethicist Fr Tom Cassidy as Prior Provincial. Born in Melbourne in 1941, Fr Cassidy worked in New Zealand, as a parish priest and National Director of Catholic Communications...
Battle lines drawn on V8 circuit NZ Herald 06.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/ysrjk The Catholic Church says yes but Transit says no to the proposed V8 supercar race around an inner-city Auckland circuit...
Sophie's miracle could mean Mother Mary's sainthood (photo) Sydney Morning Herald July 5, 2004 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/04/1088879374560.html?oneclick=true
Priests Risking Their Lives in Search of Peace for Colombians ABC News/The Associated Press http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040622_42.html
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
The Habit: A History of the Clothing of Catholic Nuns, by Elizabeth Kuhns (book review) National Catholic Reporter July 2, 2004 http://www.natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2004c/070204/070204r.htm
The hidden wonder of new life The Tablet (UK) Saturday, 10 July 2004 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-00913 A pioneer of pregnancy scans has published extraordinary pictures of human beings in the womb. Professor Stuart Campbell told Mian Ridge how they have changed his view of early life and of abortion...
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'WEL-COM'
http://www.welcom.org.nz
Monthly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington and the Diocese of Palmerston North
From the July 2004 issue ...
The Cardinal's column: Cardinal Williams describes the spiritual bankrupcy of liberalism
Bishop John Dew's Reflection: Pope's prophetic warning in The Gospel of Life
Suzanne Aubert’s cause now on its way to Rome Mass at Wellington’s Sacred Heart Cathedral last Sunday evening marked the closure of the Archdiocesan Inquiry into the Cause of Suzanne Aubert...
World's worst humanitarian crisis in Darfur As Caritas launches an appeal for the people in Darfur, Anna Sussmilch describes the background to this crisis...
A defining issue for New Zealand An outstanding seminar was held in Wellington last month which explored the Foreshore and Seabed issue...
What led to the Court of appeal decision which sparked the controversy? Dr Maui John Mitchell, a social researcher, is media spokesman for the eight iwi of Nelson and Marlborough whose actions sparked the controversy over the foreshore and seabed issue...
A solution can be found through restoration of mana to Maori Pat Snedden is an Auckland businessman. A Pakeha, he has had more than the 30 years experience working with Maori communities in health and employment related activities and for 25 years has been economic adviser to Auckland’s Ngati Whatua...
Maori customary rights over the foreshore and seabed were never extinguished Grant Powell is the lawyer who represented the Marlborough iwi in their court cases and has been involved in Waitangi Tribunal claims. He has an expert knowledge on these issues and has made a detailed study of the Foreshore and Seabed Bill....
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
The national Website of the Catholic Church in New Zealand -http://www.catholic.org.nz - is now in its ninth year, having been launched in June 1996. The pages have just been re-designed, displaying descriptive links to the most common categories of information visitors to the site are likely to seek. The Website is a service of Catholic Communications NZ, the information office of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops' Conference. The current Webmaster is Father John Murphy sm of the Society of Mary's Marist Internet Ministry.
International News, on http://www.cathcom.org.nz ....
'Protestant Pope' to visit Australia World Council of Churches (WCC) General Secretary Rev Dr Sam Kobia arrives in Australia tomorrow to take part in the national forum of the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA) in Adelaide.
Education official reopening of 1950s class war wounds An official at the Catholic Education Commission NSW has said that by starting a costly battle that could take years, the NSW Teachers Federation is opening wounds from the past, dragging the education system back to the 1950s and reigniting a war that was settled decades ago.
Church in South Africa rolls out AIDS drug program
Vietnam tightening religious freedom
UNESCO puts Cologne Cathedral on danger list
Angolan bishop worried about witchdoctors
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CARITAS AOTEAROA NZ
'Caritas Update', Winter 2004 http://www.caritas.org.nz/update.asp This issue includes articles on third world debt, the strained relationship between Australia and East Timor over disputed oil and gas reserves, work Caritas is doing with Maasai communities in Tanzania, a look ahead to Social Justice week 2004 and the response from school students to the 2004 Lent theme.
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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 July 9, 2004: Who is in charge at the Vatican?; Financing development; The Portland archdiocese files for bankruptcy; Pope John Paul on holiday; More on a papal trip to Ireland; A talk with Archbishop O'Malley; More about life-sustaining medical treatment; What Ratzinger wanted from the American bishops; New Jesuit liturgical association
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EVENTS
Worship and Healing Conference, 27-29 August 2004 St Patrick's College, Silverstream Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Service Group for Catholic Charismatic Renewal Details from Cherylynn Passmore, tel: (04) 526 6914; fax: (04) 526 2189; e-mail: cherylynn.passmore@xtra.co.nz
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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 ]
Chief Executive, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, 'Wel-com' July 2004 p.17, and from Mike Hurdle or Catharina Vossen at MiCah Partners, tel (04) 499 4749; fax: (04) 499 7375; e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz; PO Box 499, Wellington. Applications close 23 July 2004
Supervisor, Catholic Worker House of Hospitality, Palmerston North Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, and from M. Eastham, 11 Suffolk Crescent, Feilding; tel: (06) 323 8684; e-mail: m.eastham@xtra.co.nz Applications close 30 July 2004
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ORDINATION OF BISHOP CAMPBELL
Church rejoices at ordination (photo) Otago Daily Times 10 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/otago/0,2106,2967477a6017,00.html With a simple laying on of hands, the Very Rev Bishop Colin Campbell was ordained as Roman Catholic Bishop of Dunedin last night. The Mass brought together 1500 members of the Otago-Southland Catholic church; 10 bishops of New Zealand, including Cardinal Thomas Williams; the papal diplomatic representative in New Zealand, Archbishop Patrick Coveney; 80 priests; and 450 invited guests, including Dunedin Mayor Sukhi Turner, at the Dunedin Town Hall last night...
New shepherd for Otago flock hailed (photo) Southland Times 10 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/southlandtimes/0,2106,2967444a6011,00.html
Cardinal's moral message endorsed Otago Daily Times 9-July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/34po7 Fr Campbell first thought of becoming a priest after reading [The Far East] a missionary magazine to which his mother, Agnes, subscribed...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
The curse among the clergy Sunday Times 11 July 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/0,2106,2968369a6619,00.html It's a a tough time to be a Catholic priest. Falling numbers of clergy, an increasingly secular community and the stigma of being a church leader at a time when sexual abuse revelations seem an almost weekly bad news story, must make this the least attractive time to have "the calling"...
Priest in tune with pop world (photo) Western Leader 08 July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/2ftzv A Catholic priest with connections to west Auckland could be on his way to pop stardom. Critics say a recording by Father Chris Skinner is even better than the original...
High priest of heavenly pop (photo) NZ Herald 10.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/2qrlj His select group of fans think his voice is divine. And while Catholic priest Chris Skinner has been privately producing recordings of his own songs for 15 years, he could now be on the verge of becoming an international act...
Pioneer Filmmaker Mike Walker Dies Scotsman.com 10th July 2004 http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3163900 New Zealand filmmaker Mike Walker, who pioneered movies that highlighted the struggles of the country’s indigenous Maori people, has died at the age of 72...
Obituary: Mike Walker NZ Herald 10.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/38e33 New Zealand film-maker, artist and photographer Mike Walker has died in Palmerston North hospital, aged 72...
Sisters set for amalgamation Otago Daily Times 3-July 2004 http://tinyurl.com/2jhur New Zealand's four congregations of the Sisters of Mercy are preparing a formal petition to Rome to become one congregation...
Dominican friars re-elect Prior Provincial http://www.cathnews.com/news/407/54.php Dominican Friars gathered in Canberra for their Province Chapter this week re-elected ethicist Fr Tom Cassidy as Prior Provincial. Born in Melbourne in 1941, Fr Cassidy worked in New Zealand, as a parish priest and National Director of Catholic Communications...
Battle lines drawn on V8 circuit NZ Herald 06.07.2004 http://tinyurl.com/ysrjk The Catholic Church says yes but Transit says no to the proposed V8 supercar race around an inner-city Auckland circuit...
Sophie's miracle could mean Mother Mary's sainthood (photo) Sydney Morning Herald July 5, 2004 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/04/1088879374560.html?oneclick=true
Priests Risking Their Lives in Search of Peace for Colombians ABC News/The Associated Press http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040622_42.html
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FROM THE CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
The Habit: A History of the Clothing of Catholic Nuns, by Elizabeth Kuhns (book review) National Catholic Reporter July 2, 2004 http://www.natcath.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2004c/070204/070204r.htm
The hidden wonder of new life The Tablet (UK) Saturday, 10 July 2004 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-00913 A pioneer of pregnancy scans has published extraordinary pictures of human beings in the womb. Professor Stuart Campbell told Mian Ridge how they have changed his view of early life and of abortion...
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'WEL-COM'
http://www.welcom.org.nz
Monthly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington and the Diocese of Palmerston North
From the July 2004 issue ...
The Cardinal's column: Cardinal Williams describes the spiritual bankrupcy of liberalism
Bishop John Dew's Reflection: Pope's prophetic warning in The Gospel of Life
Suzanne Aubert’s cause now on its way to Rome Mass at Wellington’s Sacred Heart Cathedral last Sunday evening marked the closure of the Archdiocesan Inquiry into the Cause of Suzanne Aubert...
World's worst humanitarian crisis in Darfur As Caritas launches an appeal for the people in Darfur, Anna Sussmilch describes the background to this crisis...
A defining issue for New Zealand An outstanding seminar was held in Wellington last month which explored the Foreshore and Seabed issue...
What led to the Court of appeal decision which sparked the controversy? Dr Maui John Mitchell, a social researcher, is media spokesman for the eight iwi of Nelson and Marlborough whose actions sparked the controversy over the foreshore and seabed issue...
A solution can be found through restoration of mana to Maori Pat Snedden is an Auckland businessman. A Pakeha, he has had more than the 30 years experience working with Maori communities in health and employment related activities and for 25 years has been economic adviser to Auckland’s Ngati Whatua...
Maori customary rights over the foreshore and seabed were never extinguished Grant Powell is the lawyer who represented the Marlborough iwi in their court cases and has been involved in Waitangi Tribunal claims. He has an expert knowledge on these issues and has made a detailed study of the Foreshore and Seabed Bill....
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
The national Website of the Catholic Church in New Zealand -http://www.catholic.org.nz - is now in its ninth year, having been launched in June 1996. The pages have just been re-designed, displaying descriptive links to the most common categories of information visitors to the site are likely to seek. The Website is a service of Catholic Communications NZ, the information office of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops' Conference. The current Webmaster is Father John Murphy sm of the Society of Mary's Marist Internet Ministry.
International News, on http://www.cathcom.org.nz ....
'Protestant Pope' to visit Australia World Council of Churches (WCC) General Secretary Rev Dr Sam Kobia arrives in Australia tomorrow to take part in the national forum of the National Council of Churches in Australia (NCCA) in Adelaide.
Education official reopening of 1950s class war wounds An official at the Catholic Education Commission NSW has said that by starting a costly battle that could take years, the NSW Teachers Federation is opening wounds from the past, dragging the education system back to the 1950s and reigniting a war that was settled decades ago.
Church in South Africa rolls out AIDS drug program
Vietnam tightening religious freedom
UNESCO puts Cologne Cathedral on danger list
Angolan bishop worried about witchdoctors
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CARITAS AOTEAROA NZ
'Caritas Update', Winter 2004 http://www.caritas.org.nz/update.asp This issue includes articles on third world debt, the strained relationship between Australia and East Timor over disputed oil and gas reserves, work Caritas is doing with Maasai communities in Tanzania, a look ahead to Social Justice week 2004 and the response from school students to the 2004 Lent theme.
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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 July 9, 2004: Who is in charge at the Vatican?; Financing development; The Portland archdiocese files for bankruptcy; Pope John Paul on holiday; More on a papal trip to Ireland; A talk with Archbishop O'Malley; More about life-sustaining medical treatment; What Ratzinger wanted from the American bishops; New Jesuit liturgical association
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EVENTS
Worship and Healing Conference, 27-29 August 2004 St Patrick's College, Silverstream Sponsored by the Archdiocesan Service Group for Catholic Charismatic Renewal Details from Cherylynn Passmore, tel: (04) 526 6914; fax: (04) 526 2189; e-mail: cherylynn.passmore@xtra.co.nz
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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 ]
Chief Executive, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, 'Wel-com' July 2004 p.17, and from Mike Hurdle or Catharina Vossen at MiCah Partners, tel (04) 499 4749; fax: (04) 499 7375; e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz; PO Box 499, Wellington. Applications close 23 July 2004
Supervisor, Catholic Worker House of Hospitality, Palmerston North Details in 'NZ Catholic' July 11-24 2004 p.27, and from M. Eastham, 11 Suffolk Crescent, Feilding; tel: (06) 323 8684; e-mail: m.eastham@xtra.co.nz Applications close 30 July 2004
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Sunday, July 4, 2004
CARDINAL WILLIAMS' ESSAY "THE SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY OF LIBERALISM"
Full text of the essay:
http://www.catholic.org.nz/statements/0406moralliberalism.php
Claims of moral decline provoke debate (photo)
Otago Daily Times Tuesday, 29-June 2004
http://tinyurl.com/2pggk
Archbishop's comments 'sad' - Clark
NZPA 28 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2955361a11,00.html
Prime Minister Helen Clark today labelled as "sad" comments by Cardinal
Tom Williams that likened modern liberal politicians to barbarians...
Comment: Specious rejection of moral truth deserves only disdain, by
Garth George
NZ Herald 01.07.2004
http://tinyurl.com/23kbb
Editorial: Our liberal society
NZ Herald 30.06.2004
http://tinyurl.com/2wq7c
Editorial: The modern barbarian
ODT Friday, 2-July 2004
http://tinyurl.com/3eclt
Editorial: A Cardinal's view
The Press (Chch) 29 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/0,2106,2955500a6528,00.html
Comment: There's nothing wrong with a bit of social tinkering, by Tapu Misa
NZ Herald 30.06.2004
http://tinyurl.com/yrgel
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Does the Civil Union Bill Legalise Marriage?
Press Release: Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc. 30 June
2004
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0406/S00298.htm
Catholic schools fear being sued over abortion advice
NZPA 29 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2955603a11,00.html
Church accused of hidden agenda on Care of Children Bill
NZ Herald 01.07.2004
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?thesection=news&thesubsection=&storyI\
D=3575782
Bigots will not stop Bill: Benson-Pope MP accuses critics of `rank
homophobia'
ODT Monday, 28-June 2004
http://tinyurl.com/2yq5d
Dunne is having a bob each way say critics
NZ Herald 28.06.2004
http://tinyurl.com/2gcju
Work with orphans rewarding, says nun
ODT 26-June 2004
http://tinyurl.com/2ramz
Realising she could not save all the orphaned boys in her charge was one
of the hardest things former Dunedin nun Sr Maria Goretti Howley has had
to accept. She has run a boys' orphanage and school in Kingston,
Jamaica, for 18 years and is in Dunedin for a Sisters of Mercy four-day
conference at the Glenroy this weekend...
Unrepentant Euthanasia Campaigner Told to Stay in Jail
http://www.townhall.com/news/politics/200407/FOR20040701a.shtml
Family court to be more open
NZPA 30 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2956679a11,00.html
Saint preserve us from evil (photo)
Auckland City Harbour News 02 July 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2960097a11,00.html
Theft and destruction has plagued St Benedict's Church in Newton lately,
and no one yet has confessed to the crimes ...
Anglican Church Hopes Virtual Worship Will Boost Membership
Voice of America 01 Jul 2004
http://tinyurl.com/ypckl
The Church of England is operating its first virtual parish, which is
designed to serve a community of online worshippers from all over the
world. The Anglican Internet church, or i-church (
http://www.i-church.org ), went online three months ago, and has already
attracted far more members than its organizers ever expected, even
though the official launch is still a month away...
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'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
From the June 27-July 10, 2004 issue:
NZ's process for handling abuse cases compares well
PALMERSTON NORTH - Nationally accepted protocol procedures established
by the Church in New Zealand to deal with complaints of sexual abuse set
it apart from other English-speaking countries, says Bishop Owen Dolan....
East Timor wants fair deal, not ongoing handouts
AUCKLAND - The people of East Timor want a fair deal and sovereignity,
not continuing handouts, says New Zealand Pax Christi member Kevin
McBride...
Interest still growing in Thomas Merton
CHRISTCHURCH - Interest in the life and work of Trappist monk Thomas
Merton is expanding around the world, says Dr Paul Pearson, director and
archivist of the major Thomas Merton centre at Bellarmine University in
Kentucky, who was recently in Christchurch for a seminar and talks....
Also in the print edition of the current issue:
Director sought for new office; Four recipients of new Delargey Awards;
New name for SPUC?; Anne Dickinson to be bishops¹ executive officer;
Abortion rise includes girls aged 11; Bishop¹s pledge of help brings
babies to birth
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
MEDIA RELEASES
Refugee Crisis in Darfur, Sudan (28 Jun 2004)
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, the Catholic agency for justice, peace and
development has released $NZD 15,000 to kick-start an appeal to assist
the people of Darfur, Western Sudan and refugees across the border in
Chad. The humanitarian crisis which has affected over 1 million people
has been described by the United Nations as the worst humanitarian
crisis in the world...
"The Spiritual Bankruptcy of Liberalism", an essay by Cardinal Tom
Williams (28 Jun 2004)
June 2004
Cardinal Williams' observes that the country is becoming a "moral
wasteland" a place where traditional values and beliefs are being
systematically subverted as society elects to live on a diet of "junk
food provided by bankrupt liberalism". He encourages people to challenge
the culture of exaggerated individualism, and to serve society by they
way they live their lives as individuals and families.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Hobart Archbishop says Harradine a 'tough act to follow'
Adelaide Centacare director 'devastated' by Govt demands
Pope sorrow over Constantinople
Division among US bishops on sanctions for politicians
Church condemns celibacy TV documentary
Cautious welcome for renewed relations with Israel Govt
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MARIST MESSENGER (Society of Mary in NZ)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
Full text from the July edition :
Focus by Fr Carl Telford sm:
Migrants are a world-wide phenomenon
My problem with the Sacrament of Reconciliation by Kilian de Lacy
"Going to confession" has changed- and for the better
The Rosary helps to meditate
The Rosary is a great prayer but we need help to pray it
Alone by Fr Paddy Cahill
People are made for people and we all long to feel in our heart the
warmth of family or friends.
Also in the July Marist Messenger
Mystic - you mean me? ... The significance of singleness .... Does
business have a spirituality? .... Idealisation - shattered illusions?
.... The suffering Church in the Sudan ... The love of God - part 8 ...
The theology of the body - making sense of desire.
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Pope John Paul II receives in audience His Holiness Bartholomew I,
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople: may the memory of the history
making encounter between Patriarch Athenagoras I and Pope Paul VI in
1964 “prompt a leap forward in dialogue and restoration mutual brotherly
relations”
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/30_2720.html
Patriarch of Constantinople Evaluates His Visit to Rome. Interview With
Bartholomew I
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56271
A matter of life and death, by Austen Ivereigh
The Tablet (U.K.) 3 July 2004
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-00910
The BBC’s Panorama programme has criticised the Church’s case against
using condoms to combat Aids. Who is right? And what do the experts
think? ...
Why New Age Is a Challenge for Christianity
Father Alessandro Olivieri Pennesi Responds
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56135
The Da Vinci Code, Corrected
Why the "lost gospels" were really lost, by Craig Keener
Christian History, Spring 2004
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/2004/002/8.15.html
Monsignor Zen: We Christians, Democrats, and Lovers of China
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1082
Hong Kong (AsiaNews) – About 10,000 Catholics and Protestants gathered
together in Victoria Park for a shared moment of prayer and meditation
ahead of the July 1 pro-Democracy march. Monsignor Joseph Zen Ze-kiun,
Bishop of Hong Kong, the Reverend Ralph Lee Ting-sun of the Methodist
Church, and the Reverend Eric So Shing-yit of the Christian Council of
Hong Kong led the meeting. Here is the full text of Monsignor Zen’s
speech ...
Pope Tells Iraqi President of Church's Support. Appeals for Respect of
Religious Freedom
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56125
Chaldean Patriarch of Baghdad: “We thank Everyone, But Above All We
Thank The Pope”
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1053
Solomon Islands' Prime Minister praises Christians for contribution past
and present to growth of the nation: celebrations mark 100 anniversary
of arrival of first Catholic missionaries
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/26_2711.html
Pope John Paul: “The family is the future of Europe. We can say that the
family is the mirror of society and therefore also of the new Europe
which is being built ”
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/26_2707.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 July 2, 2004:
Common Ground lecture: Why are U.S. Catholics even more divided?; Tough
document on Anglican crisis; Patriarch of Constantinople in Rome; About
the archbishops' pallium; Jews press for campaign against anti-Semitism
in Latin America; Papal visit to Lourdes and the doctrine of the
Immaculate Conception; Once more on human trafficking
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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 ]
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Full text of the essay:
http://www.catholic.org.nz/statements/0406moralliberalism.php
Claims of moral decline provoke debate (photo)
Otago Daily Times Tuesday, 29-June 2004
http://tinyurl.com/2pggk
Archbishop's comments 'sad' - Clark
NZPA 28 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2955361a11,00.html
Prime Minister Helen Clark today labelled as "sad" comments by Cardinal
Tom Williams that likened modern liberal politicians to barbarians...
Comment: Specious rejection of moral truth deserves only disdain, by
Garth George
NZ Herald 01.07.2004
http://tinyurl.com/23kbb
Editorial: Our liberal society
NZ Herald 30.06.2004
http://tinyurl.com/2wq7c
Editorial: The modern barbarian
ODT Friday, 2-July 2004
http://tinyurl.com/3eclt
Editorial: A Cardinal's view
The Press (Chch) 29 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/thepress/0,2106,2955500a6528,00.html
Comment: There's nothing wrong with a bit of social tinkering, by Tapu Misa
NZ Herald 30.06.2004
http://tinyurl.com/yrgel
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Does the Civil Union Bill Legalise Marriage?
Press Release: Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc. 30 June
2004
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0406/S00298.htm
Catholic schools fear being sued over abortion advice
NZPA 29 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2955603a11,00.html
Church accused of hidden agenda on Care of Children Bill
NZ Herald 01.07.2004
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?thesection=news&thesubsection=&storyI\
D=3575782
Bigots will not stop Bill: Benson-Pope MP accuses critics of `rank
homophobia'
ODT Monday, 28-June 2004
http://tinyurl.com/2yq5d
Dunne is having a bob each way say critics
NZ Herald 28.06.2004
http://tinyurl.com/2gcju
Work with orphans rewarding, says nun
ODT 26-June 2004
http://tinyurl.com/2ramz
Realising she could not save all the orphaned boys in her charge was one
of the hardest things former Dunedin nun Sr Maria Goretti Howley has had
to accept. She has run a boys' orphanage and school in Kingston,
Jamaica, for 18 years and is in Dunedin for a Sisters of Mercy four-day
conference at the Glenroy this weekend...
Unrepentant Euthanasia Campaigner Told to Stay in Jail
http://www.townhall.com/news/politics/200407/FOR20040701a.shtml
Family court to be more open
NZPA 30 June 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2956679a11,00.html
Saint preserve us from evil (photo)
Auckland City Harbour News 02 July 2004
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2960097a11,00.html
Theft and destruction has plagued St Benedict's Church in Newton lately,
and no one yet has confessed to the crimes ...
Anglican Church Hopes Virtual Worship Will Boost Membership
Voice of America 01 Jul 2004
http://tinyurl.com/ypckl
The Church of England is operating its first virtual parish, which is
designed to serve a community of online worshippers from all over the
world. The Anglican Internet church, or i-church (
http://www.i-church.org ), went online three months ago, and has already
attracted far more members than its organizers ever expected, even
though the official launch is still a month away...
***************************************
'NZ CATHOLIC'
http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz
From the June 27-July 10, 2004 issue:
NZ's process for handling abuse cases compares well
PALMERSTON NORTH - Nationally accepted protocol procedures established
by the Church in New Zealand to deal with complaints of sexual abuse set
it apart from other English-speaking countries, says Bishop Owen Dolan....
East Timor wants fair deal, not ongoing handouts
AUCKLAND - The people of East Timor want a fair deal and sovereignity,
not continuing handouts, says New Zealand Pax Christi member Kevin
McBride...
Interest still growing in Thomas Merton
CHRISTCHURCH - Interest in the life and work of Trappist monk Thomas
Merton is expanding around the world, says Dr Paul Pearson, director and
archivist of the major Thomas Merton centre at Bellarmine University in
Kentucky, who was recently in Christchurch for a seminar and talks....
Also in the print edition of the current issue:
Director sought for new office; Four recipients of new Delargey Awards;
New name for SPUC?; Anne Dickinson to be bishops¹ executive officer;
Abortion rise includes girls aged 11; Bishop¹s pledge of help brings
babies to birth
***************************************
CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
MEDIA RELEASES
Refugee Crisis in Darfur, Sudan (28 Jun 2004)
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, the Catholic agency for justice, peace and
development has released $NZD 15,000 to kick-start an appeal to assist
the people of Darfur, Western Sudan and refugees across the border in
Chad. The humanitarian crisis which has affected over 1 million people
has been described by the United Nations as the worst humanitarian
crisis in the world...
"The Spiritual Bankruptcy of Liberalism", an essay by Cardinal Tom
Williams (28 Jun 2004)
June 2004
Cardinal Williams' observes that the country is becoming a "moral
wasteland" a place where traditional values and beliefs are being
systematically subverted as society elects to live on a diet of "junk
food provided by bankrupt liberalism". He encourages people to challenge
the culture of exaggerated individualism, and to serve society by they
way they live their lives as individuals and families.
INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Hobart Archbishop says Harradine a 'tough act to follow'
Adelaide Centacare director 'devastated' by Govt demands
Pope sorrow over Constantinople
Division among US bishops on sanctions for politicians
Church condemns celibacy TV documentary
Cautious welcome for renewed relations with Israel Govt
**************************************
MARIST MESSENGER (Society of Mary in NZ)
http://www.maristmessenger.co.nz
Full text from the July edition :
Focus by Fr Carl Telford sm:
Migrants are a world-wide phenomenon
My problem with the Sacrament of Reconciliation by Kilian de Lacy
"Going to confession" has changed- and for the better
The Rosary helps to meditate
The Rosary is a great prayer but we need help to pray it
Alone by Fr Paddy Cahill
People are made for people and we all long to feel in our heart the
warmth of family or friends.
Also in the July Marist Messenger
Mystic - you mean me? ... The significance of singleness .... Does
business have a spirituality? .... Idealisation - shattered illusions?
.... The suffering Church in the Sudan ... The love of God - part 8 ...
The theology of the body - making sense of desire.
**************************************
FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Pope John Paul II receives in audience His Holiness Bartholomew I,
Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople: may the memory of the history
making encounter between Patriarch Athenagoras I and Pope Paul VI in
1964 “prompt a leap forward in dialogue and restoration mutual brotherly
relations”
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/30_2720.html
Patriarch of Constantinople Evaluates His Visit to Rome. Interview With
Bartholomew I
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56271
A matter of life and death, by Austen Ivereigh
The Tablet (U.K.) 3 July 2004
http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-00910
The BBC’s Panorama programme has criticised the Church’s case against
using condoms to combat Aids. Who is right? And what do the experts
think? ...
Why New Age Is a Challenge for Christianity
Father Alessandro Olivieri Pennesi Responds
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56135
The Da Vinci Code, Corrected
Why the "lost gospels" were really lost, by Craig Keener
Christian History, Spring 2004
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ch/2004/002/8.15.html
Monsignor Zen: We Christians, Democrats, and Lovers of China
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1082
Hong Kong (AsiaNews) – About 10,000 Catholics and Protestants gathered
together in Victoria Park for a shared moment of prayer and meditation
ahead of the July 1 pro-Democracy march. Monsignor Joseph Zen Ze-kiun,
Bishop of Hong Kong, the Reverend Ralph Lee Ting-sun of the Methodist
Church, and the Reverend Eric So Shing-yit of the Christian Council of
Hong Kong led the meeting. Here is the full text of Monsignor Zen’s
speech ...
Pope Tells Iraqi President of Church's Support. Appeals for Respect of
Religious Freedom
http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=56125
Chaldean Patriarch of Baghdad: “We thank Everyone, But Above All We
Thank The Pope”
http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1053
Solomon Islands' Prime Minister praises Christians for contribution past
and present to growth of the nation: celebrations mark 100 anniversary
of arrival of first Catholic missionaries
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/26_2711.html
Pope John Paul: “The family is the future of Europe. We can say that the
family is the mirror of society and therefore also of the new Europe
which is being built ”
http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/26_2707.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 July 2, 2004:
Common Ground lecture: Why are U.S. Catholics even more divided?; Tough
document on Anglican crisis; Patriarch of Constantinople in Rome; About
the archbishops' pallium; Jews press for campaign against anti-Semitism
in Latin America; Papal visit to Lourdes and the doctrine of the
Immaculate Conception; Once more on human trafficking
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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 ]
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Sunday, June 27, 2004
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CIVIL UNIONS BILL
Civil union not necessary says Dunne NZ Herald 21.06.2004 http://tinyurl.com/323d2 Peter Dunne will campaign against the Government's plans to legalise same-sex unions knowing his United Future Party is likely to be attacked as strict, conservative Christians...
Church blessing for civil unions The Dominion Post 22 June 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2948181a10,00.html The gay marriage debate is heating up as some churches confirm plans to let same-sex couples trip down the aisle for civil union ceremonies...
Society for the Promotion of Community Standards Response to NZ Young Labour re Civil Unions Scoop.co.nz (press release) http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0406/S00261.htm
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ALAN WOODCOCK CASE
Paedophile former priest gets 7-year jail sentence NZPA 25 June 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2952826a10,00.html Alan Woodcock, 56, formerly of Upper Hutt, was extradited from Britain and last month pleaded guilty in Wellington District Court to 21 charges relating to the abuse of 11 boys between 1978 and 1987 when he was teaching at St John's College, Hastings; St Patrick's College Silverstream; Highden, a school for young priests in Palmerston North; and Futuna, a Catholic retreat in Wellington...
Priest's victim gets apologies The Dominion Post 26 June 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/0,2106,2952931a6479,00.html Senior Catholic Church officials who allowed paedophile priest Alan John Woodcock to become a teacher despite a conviction for sexual offending have apologised to one of his victims – 22 years after he was first abused...
Paedophile priest victim rejects apology The Press (Christchurch) 26 June 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2953139a11,00.html An apology from jailed paedophile former Marist priest Alan Woodcock has been rejected by one of his early Christchurch victims...
Church doesn't condone sexual abuse NZ City 26 June 2004 http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.asp?id=40711 Church spokeswoman Lyndsay Freer concedes the Church should have acted more strongly over the Woodcock case and, if it had known in the past what it does today, it would definitely have acted differently...
Police may go after the clergymen who hid abuse NZ Herald 26.06.2004 http://tinyurl.com/3dyfn Police are considering charges against Catholic priests involved in hiding Alan Woodcock's nine years of sexual abuse against schoolboys and young men...
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CATHOLIC WEB TV
Wellington Archdiocesan Media Centre
http://www.catholictv.net
New videos:
** The Life Of Mother Mary Aubert “From France To Island Bay” A two part 32 minute video (part one 14.42 mins) about the nun who founded the Soup Kitchen in Wellington, and is now being considered for canonization as New Zealand’s first ‘saint’. New archive photo material included
** Can we trust Maori over the seabed and forshore issue? Excerpts from an address by Pat Snedden
** "Art compass Exhibition" (illustrated interview). Art by disabled students at the studio upstairs from the Compassion Soup Kitchen, Wellington.
** "Aotearoa New Zealand" by Fr. Chris Skinner SM. Music video filmed at a recent Justice, Peace and Development seminar on the foreshore and seabed issue.
** "Green Time": The Gifts of Baptism, by Fr John Greally
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Cardinal laments descent to 'moral wasteland' NZ Herald 26.06.2004 http://tinyurl.com/35oov The head of the Catholic Church has rounded on the liberal policies of recent Governments, saying the country is becoming a "moral wasteland". In a strongly worded essay entitled "The Spiritual Bankruptcy of Liberalism", Cardinal Tom Williams yesterday attacked a string of policy changes - from the Civil Union Bill to prostitution law reform - and likened modern politicians to barbarians...
Glowing references for 'reformed' Olympics-bound boxer New Zealand Herald 23.06.2004 http://tinyurl.com/3esll Soulan Pownceby took up boxing after early release from his four-year jail term following the death of his 5-month-old daughter. Salvation Army boxing academy coach Paul Fitzsimons vouched for him before a Parole Board hearing and agreed to house him on release, assisting his exit from Paparoa Prison. Pownceby had turned Christian a few months ago, accepting the Catholic faith, Fitzsimons said. "I don't know why people want to crucify him ...."
Far-away fears led to murder charges The Age (Melbourne) June 27, 2004 http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/26/1088145022810.html?oneclick=true A worried mother, a Catholic priest and an inquisitive New Zealand constable have helped uncover what police now believe was a double murder more than 2000 kilometres away in Australia. The trio's teamwork was vital in setting off a chain of events that led to the arrest on Tuesday of John Myles Sharpe, accused of murdering his wife, Anna Kemp, 41, and their daughter, Gracie, 2, at their Mornington home.
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
INTERNATIONAL NEWS Pope urges increasing attention on Adult Faith Formation Pope addresses why we pray? Fr Klep being deported from Samoa Victorian Catholic teachers get bigger pay rise China denies detention of Bishops Archbishop Doyle cites 'The Byrds' in moving tribute to Jim Bacon
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
The hunger of man and the world for the Eucharist http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1037 Vatican City (AsiaNews) - The "silent apostasy" of Western Europe and the West in general is born of man's weak conviction, in today's technological era, of needing God, of needing the true Jesus that each day offers himself to us in the Eucharist, "faith's testing ground". As Cardinal Jozef Tomko, president of the International Eucharistic Congress, explains to AsiaNews, "faith in the person of Jesus Christ and in his divinity must be reinforced. As soon as you yield on one, you yield on the other. A new evangelization is needed, to reinforce faith in the Eucharist and in the divinity of Christ...."
Religious freedom, the more repressive governments are in Asia Asia News 25 June, 2004 http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1042 Roma (AsiaNews) – Here is some advance information about the 2004 Report on Religious Freedom in the World, edited by Aid to the Church in Need. We focus on the situation in some Asian countries where there is no religious freedom or where it is seriously restricted ...
Religious freedom, "touchstone" for human rights Asia News 25 June, 2004 http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1041 Rome (AsiaNews) -- "The uncovering of religious freedom violations should lead to political action. From the Catholic world as well." This is how Attilio Tamburrini, director of Aid to the Church in Need* (ACN), introduces the 2004 Report on Religious Freedom in the World which was presented this morning in Rome...
Standing up to be counted. The Tablet interviews George Weigel The Tablet (UK) 26 June 2004 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-00909 Few Catholics are as loyal as George Weigel – or as combative. The Pope’s biographer talks to Austen Ivereigh about faith, war and the death penalty
Bonds Among Believers Will Shape the Millennium, Says Chiara Lubich http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=55674 London, June 21, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The third millennium will be forged thanks to fraternal relations among believers of diverse religions, Focolare Movement founder Chiara Lubich told an audience of Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and Sikhs...
Catholic Army chaplain from Minnesota critically wounded in Iraq http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/20040609b.htm St. Paul, Minn. (Catholic News Service) - Family and friends of Father H. Timothy Vakoc continued to pray in early June for the U.S. Army chaplain from Minnesota who was seriously injured when a bomb exploded near his Humvee in Iraq May 29...
(related article) Military chaplains brave danger for troops (photos) Stars and Stripes (US Armed Forces newspaper) June 20, 2004 http://ww2.pstripes.osd.mil/article.asp?section=104&article=22882
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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 June 25, 2004: Pope displeased by Europe's rejection of Christian roots; Roots in Spain are robust; Conference on the New Age movement; Bush's appeal to the Vatican; "campaigning" for the papacy; Possible papal travels
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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 ]
National Director, Office for Professional Standards A National Office for Professional Standards is to be established by the Catholic Church in New Zealand, charged with assisting dioceses, religious orders and complainants by offering an independent assessment of abuse complaints that have not had a satisfactory outcome, and by arranging, where necessary, an alternative procedure for dealing with such complaints. Further details in 'NZ Catholic' June 27 p.23, on http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php and from Mike Hurdle or Catharina Vossen at MICAH Partners, tel. 04 499 4749, mobile: 021-552929, fax: 0-4-4997375 or e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz Applications close 2 July 2004
Researcher, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz 20 hours per week for a 6-month fixed term project to assist with NZ social justice issues. Further details in 'Wel-com' June 2004 p.17, and from: claire@caritas.org.nz ; tel: (04) 496 1742. Applications close 1 July 2004
Accountant, Clergy Trust Fund Board, Archdiocese of Wellington http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/wellington/clergy/Further details in 'Wel-com' June 2004 p.17, and from: The Secretary, Clergy Trust Fund Board, PO Box 15-256. Wellington 6030; e-mail: holyx@xtra.co.nz
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CIVIL UNIONS BILL
Civil union not necessary says Dunne NZ Herald 21.06.2004 http://tinyurl.com/323d2 Peter Dunne will campaign against the Government's plans to legalise same-sex unions knowing his United Future Party is likely to be attacked as strict, conservative Christians...
Church blessing for civil unions The Dominion Post 22 June 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2948181a10,00.html The gay marriage debate is heating up as some churches confirm plans to let same-sex couples trip down the aisle for civil union ceremonies...
Society for the Promotion of Community Standards Response to NZ Young Labour re Civil Unions Scoop.co.nz (press release) http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0406/S00261.htm
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ALAN WOODCOCK CASE
Paedophile former priest gets 7-year jail sentence NZPA 25 June 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2952826a10,00.html Alan Woodcock, 56, formerly of Upper Hutt, was extradited from Britain and last month pleaded guilty in Wellington District Court to 21 charges relating to the abuse of 11 boys between 1978 and 1987 when he was teaching at St John's College, Hastings; St Patrick's College Silverstream; Highden, a school for young priests in Palmerston North; and Futuna, a Catholic retreat in Wellington...
Priest's victim gets apologies The Dominion Post 26 June 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/dominionpost/0,2106,2952931a6479,00.html Senior Catholic Church officials who allowed paedophile priest Alan John Woodcock to become a teacher despite a conviction for sexual offending have apologised to one of his victims – 22 years after he was first abused...
Paedophile priest victim rejects apology The Press (Christchurch) 26 June 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2953139a11,00.html An apology from jailed paedophile former Marist priest Alan Woodcock has been rejected by one of his early Christchurch victims...
Church doesn't condone sexual abuse NZ City 26 June 2004 http://home.nzcity.co.nz/news/default.asp?id=40711 Church spokeswoman Lyndsay Freer concedes the Church should have acted more strongly over the Woodcock case and, if it had known in the past what it does today, it would definitely have acted differently...
Police may go after the clergymen who hid abuse NZ Herald 26.06.2004 http://tinyurl.com/3dyfn Police are considering charges against Catholic priests involved in hiding Alan Woodcock's nine years of sexual abuse against schoolboys and young men...
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CATHOLIC WEB TV
Wellington Archdiocesan Media Centre
http://www.catholictv.net
New videos:
** The Life Of Mother Mary Aubert “From France To Island Bay” A two part 32 minute video (part one 14.42 mins) about the nun who founded the Soup Kitchen in Wellington, and is now being considered for canonization as New Zealand’s first ‘saint’. New archive photo material included
** Can we trust Maori over the seabed and forshore issue? Excerpts from an address by Pat Snedden
** "Art compass Exhibition" (illustrated interview). Art by disabled students at the studio upstairs from the Compassion Soup Kitchen, Wellington.
** "Aotearoa New Zealand" by Fr. Chris Skinner SM. Music video filmed at a recent Justice, Peace and Development seminar on the foreshore and seabed issue.
** "Green Time": The Gifts of Baptism, by Fr John Greally
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Cardinal laments descent to 'moral wasteland' NZ Herald 26.06.2004 http://tinyurl.com/35oov The head of the Catholic Church has rounded on the liberal policies of recent Governments, saying the country is becoming a "moral wasteland". In a strongly worded essay entitled "The Spiritual Bankruptcy of Liberalism", Cardinal Tom Williams yesterday attacked a string of policy changes - from the Civil Union Bill to prostitution law reform - and likened modern politicians to barbarians...
Glowing references for 'reformed' Olympics-bound boxer New Zealand Herald 23.06.2004 http://tinyurl.com/3esll Soulan Pownceby took up boxing after early release from his four-year jail term following the death of his 5-month-old daughter. Salvation Army boxing academy coach Paul Fitzsimons vouched for him before a Parole Board hearing and agreed to house him on release, assisting his exit from Paparoa Prison. Pownceby had turned Christian a few months ago, accepting the Catholic faith, Fitzsimons said. "I don't know why people want to crucify him ...."
Far-away fears led to murder charges The Age (Melbourne) June 27, 2004 http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/26/1088145022810.html?oneclick=true A worried mother, a Catholic priest and an inquisitive New Zealand constable have helped uncover what police now believe was a double murder more than 2000 kilometres away in Australia. The trio's teamwork was vital in setting off a chain of events that led to the arrest on Tuesday of John Myles Sharpe, accused of murdering his wife, Anna Kemp, 41, and their daughter, Gracie, 2, at their Mornington home.
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
INTERNATIONAL NEWS Pope urges increasing attention on Adult Faith Formation Pope addresses why we pray? Fr Klep being deported from Samoa Victorian Catholic teachers get bigger pay rise China denies detention of Bishops Archbishop Doyle cites 'The Byrds' in moving tribute to Jim Bacon
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
The hunger of man and the world for the Eucharist http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1037 Vatican City (AsiaNews) - The "silent apostasy" of Western Europe and the West in general is born of man's weak conviction, in today's technological era, of needing God, of needing the true Jesus that each day offers himself to us in the Eucharist, "faith's testing ground". As Cardinal Jozef Tomko, president of the International Eucharistic Congress, explains to AsiaNews, "faith in the person of Jesus Christ and in his divinity must be reinforced. As soon as you yield on one, you yield on the other. A new evangelization is needed, to reinforce faith in the Eucharist and in the divinity of Christ...."
Religious freedom, the more repressive governments are in Asia Asia News 25 June, 2004 http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1042 Roma (AsiaNews) – Here is some advance information about the 2004 Report on Religious Freedom in the World, edited by Aid to the Church in Need. We focus on the situation in some Asian countries where there is no religious freedom or where it is seriously restricted ...
Religious freedom, "touchstone" for human rights Asia News 25 June, 2004 http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=1041 Rome (AsiaNews) -- "The uncovering of religious freedom violations should lead to political action. From the Catholic world as well." This is how Attilio Tamburrini, director of Aid to the Church in Need* (ACN), introduces the 2004 Report on Religious Freedom in the World which was presented this morning in Rome...
Standing up to be counted. The Tablet interviews George Weigel The Tablet (UK) 26 June 2004 http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/archive_db.cgi/tablet-00909 Few Catholics are as loyal as George Weigel – or as combative. The Pope’s biographer talks to Austen Ivereigh about faith, war and the death penalty
Bonds Among Believers Will Shape the Millennium, Says Chiara Lubich http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=55674 London, June 21, 2004 (Zenit.org).- The third millennium will be forged thanks to fraternal relations among believers of diverse religions, Focolare Movement founder Chiara Lubich told an audience of Christians, Muslims, Buddhists and Sikhs...
Catholic Army chaplain from Minnesota critically wounded in Iraq http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/20040609b.htm St. Paul, Minn. (Catholic News Service) - Family and friends of Father H. Timothy Vakoc continued to pray in early June for the U.S. Army chaplain from Minnesota who was seriously injured when a bomb exploded near his Humvee in Iraq May 29...
(related article) Military chaplains brave danger for troops (photos) Stars and Stripes (US Armed Forces newspaper) June 20, 2004 http://ww2.pstripes.osd.mil/article.asp?section=104&article=22882
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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 June 25, 2004: Pope displeased by Europe's rejection of Christian roots; Roots in Spain are robust; Conference on the New Age movement; Bush's appeal to the Vatican; "campaigning" for the papacy; Possible papal travels
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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 ]
National Director, Office for Professional Standards A National Office for Professional Standards is to be established by the Catholic Church in New Zealand, charged with assisting dioceses, religious orders and complainants by offering an independent assessment of abuse complaints that have not had a satisfactory outcome, and by arranging, where necessary, an alternative procedure for dealing with such complaints. Further details in 'NZ Catholic' June 27 p.23, on http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php and from Mike Hurdle or Catharina Vossen at MICAH Partners, tel. 04 499 4749, mobile: 021-552929, fax: 0-4-4997375 or e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz Applications close 2 July 2004
Researcher, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz 20 hours per week for a 6-month fixed term project to assist with NZ social justice issues. Further details in 'Wel-com' June 2004 p.17, and from: claire@caritas.org.nz ; tel: (04) 496 1742. Applications close 1 July 2004
Accountant, Clergy Trust Fund Board, Archdiocese of Wellington http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/wellington/clergy/Further details in 'Wel-com' June 2004 p.17, and from: The Secretary, Clergy Trust Fund Board, PO Box 15-256. Wellington 6030; e-mail: holyx@xtra.co.nz
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Sunday, June 20, 2004
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'WEL-COM'
Wellington & Palmerston North diocesan newspaper http://www.welcom.org.nz
From the June 2004 issue ...
Cardinal William's letter: Nuntio vobis gaudium magnum ("I bring you news of great joy" (Luke 2:10))
Bishop John Dew's reflection: Knowing the people I’m called to serve
We have a new Bishop and Archbishop Last month Rome announced that John Dew was to be Coadjutor Archbishop of Wellington and Colin Campbell would be Dunedin's new bishop. Here we provide a background on these two men...
Filmmaker’s passionate commitment to justice As a war correspondent, Max Stahl has filmed crises in Latin America, the Balkans, Chechnya and the Soviet Union. But the country where his work has had the greatest impact has been East Timor...
Offending by Alan Woodcock casts a black shadow over the Church Revelations that came to light last month over a former Marist priest have cast a black shadow over our local Church. On 17 May Alan Woodcock pleaded guilty to 21 charges relating to the sexual abuse of 11 teenage boys and young men between 1978 and 1987...
Hikoi proves to be one of Wellington‘s biggest ever marches It was on 22 April that the great Hikoi of 2004 set out from Cape Reinga in protest at the foreshore and seabed legislation. Many saw this as confiscation of Maori property. As the hikoi headed south it was joined by groups from all around the North Island and by 5 May had assembled in Wellington for an historic march to Parliament...
Saint Gianna Molla sacrificed her life to save her unborn daughter Among the six people who were canonized on 16 May was Gianna Beretta Molla, who accepted the risk of dying rather than undergo a medical treatment that would have caused the death of her unborn child...
Catholic Prison Chaplains Not far from the centre of Invercargill is the city’s prison which houses 172 inmates. Razor wire is visible from all points of this grey concrete building opened in 1910. Despite this Br Osmund McNamara who works there as a prison chaplain says he has a deep down conviction that this is the place Jesus would be found if he was in Invercargill today...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Civil union - a question of choice NZPA 18 June 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2945593a1861,00.html The Civil Union and omnibus Recognition of Relationships bills will be tabled in Parliament on Monday. Associate Justice Minister David Benson-Pope is fronting the bills. He talks to Maggie Tait about the proposed legislation and what it means for society...
Civil Union Bill and Human Rights Demands Press Release: Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc. http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0406/S00197.htm Maxim Institute Director Bruce Logan presented the following lecture at the Society's AGM on Monday night 14 June entitled "Human Rights Demands, are they in the Public Good?" He made special reference to the Labour-led Government's anti-marriage and anti-family Civil Union and Omnibus Bills....
Right-to-Life campaigners slam latest abortion statistics NZPA 16 June 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2942284a11,00.html Anti-abortion campaigners have condemned the latest abortion figures, calling them "a major crisis". There were 18,510 abortions performed in 2003, a 6.5 per cent increase on the 17,380 in 2002, according to figures released yesterday by Statistics New Zealand...
Schools urged to teach religion The Dominion Post 19 June 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2945670a7694,00.html Young New Zealanders are not being taught to think critically about issues such as sexuality and genetic engineering, Peter Vardy, a visiting British lecturer says. He spoke to about 550 secondary students at a seminar hosted by Samuel Marsden Collegiate in Wellington this week. He said many teachers in this country are reluctant to tackle religion, but in Britain, religion and values education is a mandatory part of the school curriculum...
Catholics urged to fight off New Age religions NZ Herald 19.06.2004 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3573500&thesection=news&thesu\ bsection=world&thesecondsubsection=
Catholics from more than 25 countries have been in Rome this week to hammer out a strategy for combating the threat posed to Christianity by "New Age" religions and fads...
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
New Zealand Catholic schools, appreciated for high quality education, teaching corps and structures, grow steadily in number and number of pupils http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/15_2616.html Wellington (Fides Service) - Confidence in Catholics school education is growing among the people of New Zealand. According to a report by the NZ Catholic Education Office, the 2004 school year is starting out with new enthusiasm...
Solomon Islands consolidates social peace and restarts engines of economy and tourism - local Church works to promote social reconciliation and offer psychological assistance to heal traumas caused by violence http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/16_2624.html
“The Church wished to ask forgiveness not in a disordered manner but with effective knowledge of that happened because from the truth there is nothing to fear ” Card. Georges Cottier said at the presentation of the Acts of a 1998 International Symposium on the Inquisition http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/15_2617.html
Balanced History of the Inquisition Is Possible, Says Expert http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=55411
Pope Explains Why He Convoked "Year of the Eucharist" Church's Program Is to Start Afresh From Christ, He Says http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=55218
Papal Message to 95th Katholikentag in Germany: “Let us take the opportunities offered by united Europe to spread further the Gospel of Christ so that no one is denied God’s gift of salvation!” http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/17_2627.html
The Pagan-Buster. How a brilliant monk laid the groundwork for Christian Europe. Christianity Today June 2004 http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/newsletter/2004/jun10.html
“Carry Christ to every environment of daily life” is the mission of Cursillos of Christianity Mons. Ubaldo Speranza of the Italian branch of the movement told Fides the day after the consignment of the Decree of Canonical Recognition. http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/12_2599.html
The Wall cuts in two parts some Jerusalem parishes http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=989 Jerusalem – (AsiaNews) – Sobhy Makhoul, a deacon of the Maronite church in a suburb of Jerusalem, comments on the consequences that will follow the construction of the Wall.
A reflection on the occasion of the Church’s World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests: Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 18 June 2004 http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/17_2626.html
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
INTERNATIONAL NEWS Good Friday football match unlikely but... Lost Catholic community found in China after 50 years Communion: What does Ratzinger really say? Suicide not only big problem in Western world CEO head praises Catholic teachers
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CARITAS AOTEAROA NZ: REFUGEE CRISIS IN SUDAN
The Darfur region in Western Sudan is facing what is currently the world's worst humanitarian disaster.
The forced depopulation of nearly a million people by Janjaweed militias has seen a flood of people cross the border into neighbouring Chad. The refugees tell of the burning of villages, execution of civilians and robbing of food supplies by the militias who are supported by the Sudanese government.
The situation for the refugees now living camps close to the border is extremely difficult. The climate is especially harsh with frequent sand and dust storms and temperatures ranging from 4 C at night to 45 C during the day. Food and water is scarce and many refugees are showing signs of malnourishment. There is also a lack of adequate sanitation and health care facilities. The conflict has destroyed the fabric of family and community life with husbands and sons killed or captured by the militias; leaving women, children and the elderly to find sanctuary across the border.
Caritas Chad has been in the region since 1981 and is working with the Chad government, other NGOs and UNHCR to alleviate the plight of the refugees. Due to their long involvement in the area Caritas Chad is the main partner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and has been responsible for the food distribution, water, sanitation and the maintenance of infrastructure in three camps, each in excess of 10,000 people.
In Sudan, Caritas is continues to work with its partners, SudanAid, the Sudan Council of Churches and the Action by Churches Together network to provide shelter, food, water and sanitation to thousands of people.
Caritas is now accepting donations to help assist the people of Darfur. Your donation will go directly towards helping those in greatest need. You can donate directly on-line via the link on: http://www.caritas.org.nz/world/appeal_sudan.asp or phone us on 0800 22 10 22, or post your donation to: Sudan Refugee Crisis Caritas Aoteoroa New Zealand Freepost 689 PO Box 12-193 Wellington NEW ZEALAND
Thank you for supporting the work of Caritas.
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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 June 18, 2004: Conservative critiques of the Vatican, the U.N. and international law; Episcopal appointments in Spain; Mea Culpa for the Inquisition; Debating Stem Cells; Not the Dean of Vatican Journalists
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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 ]
National Director, Office for Professional Standards A National Office for Professional Standards is to be established by the Catholic Church in New Zealand, charged with assisting dioceses, religious orders and complainants by offering an independent assessment of abuse complaints that have not had a satisfactory outcome, and by arranging, where necessary, an alternative procedure for dealing with such complaints. Further details: http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php and from Mike Hurdle or Catharina Vossen at MICAH Partners, tel. 04 499 4749, mobile: 021-552929, fax: 0-4-4997375 or e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz Applications close 2 July 2004
Researcher, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz 20 hours per week for a 6-month fixed term project to assist with NZ social justuice issues. Further details in 'Wel-com' June 2004 p.17, and from: claire@caritas.org.nz ; tel: (04) 496 1742. Applications close 1 July 2004
PA / Communications Assistant, Catholic Communications NZ The national office of Catholic Communications is the Media Office of the NZ Catholic Bishops' Conference. We are seeking the services of a personal assistant to the National Director. This position, based at Pompallier Centre, Ponsonby, Auckland, involves assisting the National Director in a variety of duties. Good organisational, secretarial and computer skills are required, as well as the ability to write and communicate effectively. A good knowledge of, and commitment to contemporary Catholic teaching and practice is essential, as well as an ability to work collaboratively and in a small team environment. Minimum of 30 hours per week required. For job description and application form, contact Catholic Communications, Pompallier Diocesan Centre, Private Bag 47 904, Ponsonby, Auckland. Telephone (09) 378 8017, Fax: (09) 360 3061 Email: communications@catholic.org.nz
Accountant, Clergy Trust Fund Board, Archdiocese of Wellington http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/wellington/clergy/Further details in 'Wel-com' June 2004 p.17, and from: The Secretaty, Clergy Trust Fund Board, PO Box 15-256. Wellington 6030; e-mail: holyx@xtra.co.nz
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'WEL-COM'
Wellington & Palmerston North diocesan newspaper http://www.welcom.org.nz
From the June 2004 issue ...
Cardinal William's letter: Nuntio vobis gaudium magnum ("I bring you news of great joy" (Luke 2:10))
Bishop John Dew's reflection: Knowing the people I’m called to serve
We have a new Bishop and Archbishop Last month Rome announced that John Dew was to be Coadjutor Archbishop of Wellington and Colin Campbell would be Dunedin's new bishop. Here we provide a background on these two men...
Filmmaker’s passionate commitment to justice As a war correspondent, Max Stahl has filmed crises in Latin America, the Balkans, Chechnya and the Soviet Union. But the country where his work has had the greatest impact has been East Timor...
Offending by Alan Woodcock casts a black shadow over the Church Revelations that came to light last month over a former Marist priest have cast a black shadow over our local Church. On 17 May Alan Woodcock pleaded guilty to 21 charges relating to the sexual abuse of 11 teenage boys and young men between 1978 and 1987...
Hikoi proves to be one of Wellington‘s biggest ever marches It was on 22 April that the great Hikoi of 2004 set out from Cape Reinga in protest at the foreshore and seabed legislation. Many saw this as confiscation of Maori property. As the hikoi headed south it was joined by groups from all around the North Island and by 5 May had assembled in Wellington for an historic march to Parliament...
Saint Gianna Molla sacrificed her life to save her unborn daughter Among the six people who were canonized on 16 May was Gianna Beretta Molla, who accepted the risk of dying rather than undergo a medical treatment that would have caused the death of her unborn child...
Catholic Prison Chaplains Not far from the centre of Invercargill is the city’s prison which houses 172 inmates. Razor wire is visible from all points of this grey concrete building opened in 1910. Despite this Br Osmund McNamara who works there as a prison chaplain says he has a deep down conviction that this is the place Jesus would be found if he was in Invercargill today...
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
Civil union - a question of choice NZPA 18 June 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2945593a1861,00.html The Civil Union and omnibus Recognition of Relationships bills will be tabled in Parliament on Monday. Associate Justice Minister David Benson-Pope is fronting the bills. He talks to Maggie Tait about the proposed legislation and what it means for society...
Civil Union Bill and Human Rights Demands Press Release: Society For Promotion Of Community Standards Inc. http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/PO0406/S00197.htm Maxim Institute Director Bruce Logan presented the following lecture at the Society's AGM on Monday night 14 June entitled "Human Rights Demands, are they in the Public Good?" He made special reference to the Labour-led Government's anti-marriage and anti-family Civil Union and Omnibus Bills....
Right-to-Life campaigners slam latest abortion statistics NZPA 16 June 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2942284a11,00.html Anti-abortion campaigners have condemned the latest abortion figures, calling them "a major crisis". There were 18,510 abortions performed in 2003, a 6.5 per cent increase on the 17,380 in 2002, according to figures released yesterday by Statistics New Zealand...
Schools urged to teach religion The Dominion Post 19 June 2004 http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2945670a7694,00.html Young New Zealanders are not being taught to think critically about issues such as sexuality and genetic engineering, Peter Vardy, a visiting British lecturer says. He spoke to about 550 secondary students at a seminar hosted by Samuel Marsden Collegiate in Wellington this week. He said many teachers in this country are reluctant to tackle religion, but in Britain, religion and values education is a mandatory part of the school curriculum...
Catholics urged to fight off New Age religions NZ Herald 19.06.2004 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3573500&thesection=news&thesu\ bsection=world&thesecondsubsection=
Catholics from more than 25 countries have been in Rome this week to hammer out a strategy for combating the threat posed to Christianity by "New Age" religions and fads...
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
New Zealand Catholic schools, appreciated for high quality education, teaching corps and structures, grow steadily in number and number of pupils http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/15_2616.html Wellington (Fides Service) - Confidence in Catholics school education is growing among the people of New Zealand. According to a report by the NZ Catholic Education Office, the 2004 school year is starting out with new enthusiasm...
Solomon Islands consolidates social peace and restarts engines of economy and tourism - local Church works to promote social reconciliation and offer psychological assistance to heal traumas caused by violence http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/16_2624.html
“The Church wished to ask forgiveness not in a disordered manner but with effective knowledge of that happened because from the truth there is nothing to fear ” Card. Georges Cottier said at the presentation of the Acts of a 1998 International Symposium on the Inquisition http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/15_2617.html
Balanced History of the Inquisition Is Possible, Says Expert http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=55411
Pope Explains Why He Convoked "Year of the Eucharist" Church's Program Is to Start Afresh From Christ, He Says http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=55218
Papal Message to 95th Katholikentag in Germany: “Let us take the opportunities offered by united Europe to spread further the Gospel of Christ so that no one is denied God’s gift of salvation!” http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/17_2627.html
The Pagan-Buster. How a brilliant monk laid the groundwork for Christian Europe. Christianity Today June 2004 http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/newsletter/2004/jun10.html
“Carry Christ to every environment of daily life” is the mission of Cursillos of Christianity Mons. Ubaldo Speranza of the Italian branch of the movement told Fides the day after the consignment of the Decree of Canonical Recognition. http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/12_2599.html
The Wall cuts in two parts some Jerusalem parishes http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=989 Jerusalem – (AsiaNews) – Sobhy Makhoul, a deacon of the Maronite church in a suburb of Jerusalem, comments on the consequences that will follow the construction of the Wall.
A reflection on the occasion of the Church’s World Day of Prayer for the Sanctification of Priests: Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, 18 June 2004 http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/17_2626.html
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
INTERNATIONAL NEWS Good Friday football match unlikely but... Lost Catholic community found in China after 50 years Communion: What does Ratzinger really say? Suicide not only big problem in Western world CEO head praises Catholic teachers
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CARITAS AOTEAROA NZ: REFUGEE CRISIS IN SUDAN
The Darfur region in Western Sudan is facing what is currently the world's worst humanitarian disaster.
The forced depopulation of nearly a million people by Janjaweed militias has seen a flood of people cross the border into neighbouring Chad. The refugees tell of the burning of villages, execution of civilians and robbing of food supplies by the militias who are supported by the Sudanese government.
The situation for the refugees now living camps close to the border is extremely difficult. The climate is especially harsh with frequent sand and dust storms and temperatures ranging from 4 C at night to 45 C during the day. Food and water is scarce and many refugees are showing signs of malnourishment. There is also a lack of adequate sanitation and health care facilities. The conflict has destroyed the fabric of family and community life with husbands and sons killed or captured by the militias; leaving women, children and the elderly to find sanctuary across the border.
Caritas Chad has been in the region since 1981 and is working with the Chad government, other NGOs and UNHCR to alleviate the plight of the refugees. Due to their long involvement in the area Caritas Chad is the main partner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and has been responsible for the food distribution, water, sanitation and the maintenance of infrastructure in three camps, each in excess of 10,000 people.
In Sudan, Caritas is continues to work with its partners, SudanAid, the Sudan Council of Churches and the Action by Churches Together network to provide shelter, food, water and sanitation to thousands of people.
Caritas is now accepting donations to help assist the people of Darfur. Your donation will go directly towards helping those in greatest need. You can donate directly on-line via the link on: http://www.caritas.org.nz/world/appeal_sudan.asp or phone us on 0800 22 10 22, or post your donation to: Sudan Refugee Crisis Caritas Aoteoroa New Zealand Freepost 689 PO Box 12-193 Wellington NEW ZEALAND
Thank you for supporting the work of Caritas.
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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 June 18, 2004: Conservative critiques of the Vatican, the U.N. and international law; Episcopal appointments in Spain; Mea Culpa for the Inquisition; Debating Stem Cells; Not the Dean of Vatican Journalists
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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 ]
National Director, Office for Professional Standards A National Office for Professional Standards is to be established by the Catholic Church in New Zealand, charged with assisting dioceses, religious orders and complainants by offering an independent assessment of abuse complaints that have not had a satisfactory outcome, and by arranging, where necessary, an alternative procedure for dealing with such complaints. Further details: http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php and from Mike Hurdle or Catharina Vossen at MICAH Partners, tel. 04 499 4749, mobile: 021-552929, fax: 0-4-4997375 or e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz Applications close 2 July 2004
Researcher, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand http://www.caritas.org.nz 20 hours per week for a 6-month fixed term project to assist with NZ social justuice issues. Further details in 'Wel-com' June 2004 p.17, and from: claire@caritas.org.nz ; tel: (04) 496 1742. Applications close 1 July 2004
PA / Communications Assistant, Catholic Communications NZ The national office of Catholic Communications is the Media Office of the NZ Catholic Bishops' Conference. We are seeking the services of a personal assistant to the National Director. This position, based at Pompallier Centre, Ponsonby, Auckland, involves assisting the National Director in a variety of duties. Good organisational, secretarial and computer skills are required, as well as the ability to write and communicate effectively. A good knowledge of, and commitment to contemporary Catholic teaching and practice is essential, as well as an ability to work collaboratively and in a small team environment. Minimum of 30 hours per week required. For job description and application form, contact Catholic Communications, Pompallier Diocesan Centre, Private Bag 47 904, Ponsonby, Auckland. Telephone (09) 378 8017, Fax: (09) 360 3061 Email: communications@catholic.org.nz
Accountant, Clergy Trust Fund Board, Archdiocese of Wellington http://www.wn.catholic.org.nz/wellington/clergy/Further details in 'Wel-com' June 2004 p.17, and from: The Secretaty, Clergy Trust Fund Board, PO Box 15-256. Wellington 6030; e-mail: holyx@xtra.co.nz
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Sunday, June 13, 2004
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
The Zaoui test - will we pass? ODT Saturday, 5-June 2004 http://tinyurl.com/33hme Ahmed Zaoui's lawyer Deborah Manning knows she is working on a landmark human-rights case and hopes her country can pass the test. Mr Zaoui is awaiting a hearing in the Auckland High Court at the end of this month on his application for bail, to allow him to be released into a community of Catholic Dominican Friars in Auckland, or transferred to the Mangere Refugee Detention Centre....
Churches want faith-healer's claims tested (photo) The Courier Mail (Brisbane) http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,9784692%5E3102,00\.html Faith-healer or spiritual charlatan, American evangelist Benny Hinn still manages to pack in the crowds....
New priests prepare for challenges of a changed Catholic church http://cbs4boston.com/menews/ME--SeminariansHope-en/resources_news_html Boston (AP) The latest crop of ordained priests will serve in a Roman Catholic church still reeling from a widespread clergy sex-abuse scandal and burdened by financial obligations. But this group is determined to help the church move beyond the crisis....
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Pope declares a Special Year of the Eucharist (full text) http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=955
Three Streams, One Love: The Story of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, by Ann Bottenhorn http://www.wau.org/current/article.asp?id=2455 [The originator of the Sacred Heart Devotion] Margaret Mary Alacoque was born in France in 1647, when the monarchy, under Louis XIV, was on the verge of absolute power. She grew up during the age of Richelieu and Cromwell, of Newton and Galileo. It was an age of exploration and discovery. However, in this bold, exciting age, love for God - and knowledge of his love - had grown cold ....
Always rely on the kindness of strangers, by Michael McMahon The Tablet (UK) http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/register.cgi/tablet-00903 For 1,000 years, pilgrims have walked the camino de Santiago to the tomb of St James the Apostle in northwestern Spain. One who completed his 500 mile journey last week discovered on the way that Providence, in the guise of people he met, eased his passage ...
Persecutions, prison and tortures for Christians http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=940 There is no religious freedom at all in Saudi Arabia. Any kind of public activity, such as possessing a Bible, wearing a crucifix or pray, is strictly forbidden...
Swiss Marvel at John Paul II's "Magic" With Youth Press, Critics and Episcopal Conference Praise the Trip http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=54917 Vatican City, June 7, 2004 (Zenit.org).- John Paul II returned to Rome elated by his meeting with young people in Bern and pleased with his third trip to Switzerland ...
The Pope in Switzerland: “The Church is mission! http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/07_2553.html "The time has come to prepare young generations of apostles who are not afraid to proclaim the Gospel. For every baptised person it is essential to grow from a faith of habit to a mature faith expressed through clear, convinced and courageous decisions ..."
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
International News: Bishop says Play School no place for 'two Mums' ... Tasmanian priest on sex charges ... Vatican observer on job creation's human and national development role ... Vatican set to publish documents from World War II archives ... Sydney Catholic Education Office recognised with leadership award ... Indian priest highlights destructive role of call centres
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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 June 11, 2004: Swiss Catholics and Identity Politics; The Vatican and America; Personnel Changes in the Holy See; Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul; Bonhoeffer and Ratzinger
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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 ]
PA / Communications Assistant, Catholic Communications NZ The national office of Catholic Communications is the Media Office of the NZ Catholic Bishops' Conference. We are seeking the services of a personal assistant to the National Director. This position, based at Pompallier Centre, Ponsonby, Auckland, involves assisting the National Director in a variety of duties. Good organisational, secretarial and computer skills are required, as well as the ability to write and communicate effectively. A good knowledge of, and commitment to contemporary Catholic teaching and practice is essential, as well as an ability to work collaboratively and in a small team environment. Minimum of 30 hours per week required. For job description and application form, contact Catholic Communications, Pompallier Diocesan Centre, Private Bag 47 904, Ponsonby, Auckland. Telephone (09) 378 8017, Fax (09) 360 3061 Email communications@catholic.org.nz
Religious Education Adviser, Diocese of Palmerston North http://www.pn.catholic.org.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 30 - June 12 p.26 and fromMuriell Kivell RNDM, Episcopal vicar for Schools, Catholic EducAtion Office, Private Bag, 11 012, Palmerston North. Tel. (06) 358 8079; fax: (06) 357 3624; e-mail: mkivell@pndiocese.org.nz Applications close 18 June 2004
National Director, Office for Professional Standards A National Office for Professional Standards is to be establisehd by the Catholic church in New Zealand, charged with assisting dioceses, religious orders and complainants by offering an independent assessment of abuse complaints that have not had a satisfactory outcome and arranging, where necessary, an alternative procedure for dealing with such complaints. Further details at: http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php and from Mike Hurdle or Catharina Vossen at MICAH Partners, tel. 04 499 4749, mobile: 021-552929, fax: 0-4-4997375 or e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz Applications close 2 July 2004
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FROM THE SECULAR PRESS
The Zaoui test - will we pass? ODT Saturday, 5-June 2004 http://tinyurl.com/33hme Ahmed Zaoui's lawyer Deborah Manning knows she is working on a landmark human-rights case and hopes her country can pass the test. Mr Zaoui is awaiting a hearing in the Auckland High Court at the end of this month on his application for bail, to allow him to be released into a community of Catholic Dominican Friars in Auckland, or transferred to the Mangere Refugee Detention Centre....
Churches want faith-healer's claims tested (photo) The Courier Mail (Brisbane) http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,9784692%5E3102,00\.html Faith-healer or spiritual charlatan, American evangelist Benny Hinn still manages to pack in the crowds....
New priests prepare for challenges of a changed Catholic church http://cbs4boston.com/menews/ME--SeminariansHope-en/resources_news_html Boston (AP) The latest crop of ordained priests will serve in a Roman Catholic church still reeling from a widespread clergy sex-abuse scandal and burdened by financial obligations. But this group is determined to help the church move beyond the crisis....
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FROM THE OVERSEAS CATHOLIC PRESS & NEWS AGENCIES
Pope declares a Special Year of the Eucharist (full text) http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=955
Three Streams, One Love: The Story of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, by Ann Bottenhorn http://www.wau.org/current/article.asp?id=2455 [The originator of the Sacred Heart Devotion] Margaret Mary Alacoque was born in France in 1647, when the monarchy, under Louis XIV, was on the verge of absolute power. She grew up during the age of Richelieu and Cromwell, of Newton and Galileo. It was an age of exploration and discovery. However, in this bold, exciting age, love for God - and knowledge of his love - had grown cold ....
Always rely on the kindness of strangers, by Michael McMahon The Tablet (UK) http://www.thetablet.co.uk/cgi-bin/register.cgi/tablet-00903 For 1,000 years, pilgrims have walked the camino de Santiago to the tomb of St James the Apostle in northwestern Spain. One who completed his 500 mile journey last week discovered on the way that Providence, in the guise of people he met, eased his passage ...
Persecutions, prison and tortures for Christians http://www.asianews.it/view.php?l=en&art=940 There is no religious freedom at all in Saudi Arabia. Any kind of public activity, such as possessing a Bible, wearing a crucifix or pray, is strictly forbidden...
Swiss Marvel at John Paul II's "Magic" With Youth Press, Critics and Episcopal Conference Praise the Trip http://zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=54917 Vatican City, June 7, 2004 (Zenit.org).- John Paul II returned to Rome elated by his meeting with young people in Bern and pleased with his third trip to Switzerland ...
The Pope in Switzerland: “The Church is mission! http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0406/07_2553.html "The time has come to prepare young generations of apostles who are not afraid to proclaim the Gospel. For every baptised person it is essential to grow from a faith of habit to a mature faith expressed through clear, convinced and courageous decisions ..."
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CATHOLIC COMMUNICATIONS NZ
http://www.cathcom.org.nz
International News: Bishop says Play School no place for 'two Mums' ... Tasmanian priest on sex charges ... Vatican observer on job creation's human and national development role ... Vatican set to publish documents from World War II archives ... Sydney Catholic Education Office recognised with leadership award ... Indian priest highlights destructive role of call centres
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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 June 11, 2004: Swiss Catholics and Identity Politics; The Vatican and America; Personnel Changes in the Holy See; Ronald Reagan and Pope John Paul; Bonhoeffer and Ratzinger
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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 ]
PA / Communications Assistant, Catholic Communications NZ The national office of Catholic Communications is the Media Office of the NZ Catholic Bishops' Conference. We are seeking the services of a personal assistant to the National Director. This position, based at Pompallier Centre, Ponsonby, Auckland, involves assisting the National Director in a variety of duties. Good organisational, secretarial and computer skills are required, as well as the ability to write and communicate effectively. A good knowledge of, and commitment to contemporary Catholic teaching and practice is essential, as well as an ability to work collaboratively and in a small team environment. Minimum of 30 hours per week required. For job description and application form, contact Catholic Communications, Pompallier Diocesan Centre, Private Bag 47 904, Ponsonby, Auckland. Telephone (09) 378 8017, Fax (09) 360 3061 Email communications@catholic.org.nz
Religious Education Adviser, Diocese of Palmerston North http://www.pn.catholic.org.nz Details in 'NZ Catholic' May 30 - June 12 p.26 and fromMuriell Kivell RNDM, Episcopal vicar for Schools, Catholic EducAtion Office, Private Bag, 11 012, Palmerston North. Tel. (06) 358 8079; fax: (06) 357 3624; e-mail: mkivell@pndiocese.org.nz Applications close 18 June 2004
National Director, Office for Professional Standards A National Office for Professional Standards is to be establisehd by the Catholic church in New Zealand, charged with assisting dioceses, religious orders and complainants by offering an independent assessment of abuse complaints that have not had a satisfactory outcome and arranging, where necessary, an alternative procedure for dealing with such complaints. Further details at: http://www.cathcom.org.nz/media.php and from Mike Hurdle or Catharina Vossen at MICAH Partners, tel. 04 499 4749, mobile: 021-552929, fax: 0-4-4997375 or e-mail: contact@micahpartners.co.nz Applications close 2 July 2004
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