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WelCom November 2022

The latest issue of Welcom is available to read here.

Congratulations to Fr Alfred Tong who was ordained to the priesthood at St Joseph’s Church, Upper Hutt on Saturday, 24 September. Cardinal John Dew presided the Rite of Ordination and Mass.

WelCom October 2022 ‘You are not alone – accompanying and caring for people living with mental illness’  Catholic Bishop of Auckland Stephen Lowe and Vice President and Secretary of the NZ Catholic Bishops Conference says it is estimated 50 to 80 per cent of New Zealanders will experience some form of mental distress, addiction challenges or […]

WelCom October 2022 On 8 September 2022, Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, and the oldest living and longest-reigning British monarch, died at the age of 96 at Balmoral Castle in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Queen came to the throne in 1952 and witnessed enormous social change. She was succeeded by […]

WelCom October 2022 Whiringa-ā-nuku – Te Marama o te Rōhario Traditionally, the Catholic Church dedicates each month of the year to a certain devotion. The month of October is dedicated to the Holy Rosary. October includes the liturgical feast of Our Lady of the Rosary, celebrated on 7 October. St John Paul II called the Rosary […]

It is now more than one year since the fall of Kabul, and the return of terrorist rule in Afghanistan, my homeland. — Muzhgan Samarqandi

In August Cardinal John Dew went to Rome to attend a consistory of new cardinals, joining new and existing cardinals from all around the globe. Twenty new cardinals were created at the consistory, geographically promoting a globalised Church.

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mikhail Gorbachev, the last president of the Soviet Union before its dissolution in 1991, died in Moscow on 30 August 2022, after a protracted illness at the age of 91. The prominent former Soviet statesman and reformer who lifted the Iron Curtain, leading to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, chartered […]

This month we visit the Catholic Parish of Otari. It has two churches – St Teresa’s Pro-Cathedral and St Thomas More’s Church, and two Catholic primary schools – St Teresa’s and Cardinal McKeefry School. The parish area encompasses urban Wellington’s west-central suburbs of Karori (one of New Zealand’s most populous suburbs), Northland, Wilton and Otari, […]