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Trust widens its catchment to other Wairarapa parishes |
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| 4 July 2008 |
| The Monsignor Moore Education Trust has updated its trust deed for Charities Commission registration and changed it to incorporate the other two Wairarapa parishes besides St Patrick’s, Masterton, where it is based. more» |
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Sue Devereux and Mary-Ann Greaney to advise pastoral areas |
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| Mary-Ann Greaney 4 July 2008 |
| They will be the first point-of-contact for all pastoral concerns from parish priests, lay pastoral leaders, parish pastoral councils, pastoral area councils, and pastoral area teams. more» |
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Church's bioethics centre concerned about new developments in birth techniques |
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| 4 July 2008 |
| The Nathaniel Centre has expressed concern that pre-birth testing could further marginalise the most vulnerable in our society—the unborn and the disabled. more» |
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| Tim O'Connor 6 June 2008 |
| The international Caritas relief effort is now targeting more than 60,000 people through local partners with food, temporary shelter, health care and other aid items in four of the most seriously affected areas of Myanmar despite ongoing difficulties with access for international aid teams. more» |
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| 30 April 2008 |
Caritas is urging the UN Security Council to impose an immediate arms embargo on Zimbabwe.
Church leaders in the country say that without international intervention Zimbabweans face genocide. more» |
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| 30 April 2008 |
| Fr Karunaratnam played a key role in promoting peace in the conflict between government troops and Tamil minority rebels. more» |
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From Paul to the Wellingtonians |
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| +John Dew |
| I wonder what Paul would write to us, the church of the Archdiocese of Wellington today, now that we have just marked 160 years since the archdiocese began? I see his letter reading something like this. more» |
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(1 Thessalonians) |
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| Kieran Fenn FMS |
| The New Testament writings began around the year 50 CE (common era) when a travelling missionary, anxious about a group of converts that he had called to follow Christ, could not get back to see how they were faring. Instead he wrote them a letter. The missionary was Paul; the letter was 1 Thessalonians. more» |
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| Cecily McNeill |
| Another partnership was celebrated last month with the signing of the largest treaty settlement in New Zealand’s history, worth some $400 million including 176,000 hectares in crown forests and about $223 million in rentals that have accumulated on the land since 1989 and an annual income stream of $13 million. more» |
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Jo Matthews of Chanel College at the World Masters Swimming Championships |
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| 6 June 2008 |
Chanel College principal, Jo Matthews, has been judged sixth in the world in her age group for two butterfly events at the World Masters Swimming Championships in Perth, Western Australia.
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McEvedy tradition overturned in favour of tattoos |
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| Richard Law 8 May 2008 |
| Fundraising at McEvedy Shield day was done by tattoo rather than t-shirt this year. more» |
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St Joseph's School, New Plymouth, renames its classrooms. |
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| Mike Dowd 8 May 2008 |
| On Wednesday March 19 St Joseph’s School, New Plymouth, celebrated its patron’s feast day by learning about the school’s history and celebrating the renaming of classrooms to commemorate key figures and events in its history. more» |
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| 4 July 2008 |
| What if the place you lived in was a place where you could find and build on your strengths, where you were supported to reach for your highest dream and where you learned from every conversation? more» |
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| 4 July 2008 |
| ‘When the workshop started talking about social issues and resolving social issues by going and talking to the people involved, I know that works because I’ve been doing it since 1992.’ more» |
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| 4 July 2008 |
| People living in a squatter settlement in Fiji were empowered to repair their homes themselves after cyclone damage using the techniques of social analysis they’d studied over about seven more» |
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June 20 marks the 160th anniversary of the opening of the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart |
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| Sr Catherine Jones 6 June 2008 |
| Even before the diocese was established, there were the beginnings of the Catholic community in Wellington bringing together Catholic immigrant families. Bishop Pompallier celebrated the first Mass in Wellington on Christmas Day, 1840. more» |
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A beloved teacher dies |
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| Eileen Brosnahan RSM 6 June 2008 |
| Sr John Bosco taught in Catholic primary schools in Hataitai, Naenae, Upper Hutt, Reefton, Westport and Kilbirnie and later at Hato Paora College, Feilding. more» |
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Sr Jean-Marie McErlane RIP |
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| Michele Lafferty 6 June 2008 |
| God’s gift arrived in the Wellington Archdiocese when Sister Jean-Marie McErlane decided she would give her considerable talents as teacher to establish and lead some of the Brigidine schools. more» |
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WYD pilgrims overnight at Feilding college |
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| Dione Joseph 6 June 2008 |
| A series of informational talks on Sydney, games, as well as sharing—both food and faith—made it a great preparatory event for the journey to World Youth Day in July. more» |
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Air Force helicopter lands on school netball court. |
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| 6 June 2008 |
| A chopper on the netball courts – it’s not an everyday event so the Year 7 and 8 students of St Peter’s College, Palmerston North, were in for a treat on Monday May 19. more» |
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| Anne McCarthy 6 June 2008 |
| Last month’s O’Shea Shield won a third equal placing for St Peter’s out of 17 schools with a win for the debating team. more» |
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John 21:15-19 |
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| Veronica Lawson RSM 30 June 2008 |
| My favourite place of worship is the little church in Buninyong (Victoria) dedicated to Ss Peter and Paul where our local community gathers two or three times a month. It is our feast this weekend. more» |
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