WelCom February 2020 Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of the Season of Lent – a season of reflection, and prayer. The Lenten Season offers ‘a window to look through the wonder of your life’. Ash Wednesday takes place 46 days before Easter Sunday and falls on a different date each year, depending on the date […]
WelCom February 2020 Feilding-raised and internationally-renowned educational leader, Dr Areti Metuamate, has been appointed as the inaugural chief executive of Te Kupenga – Catholic Leadership Institute. Te Kupenga was formed on 1 January 2020 by merging Good Shepherd College with The Catholic Institute. Areti is of Ngāti Kauwhata, Ngāti Raukawa ki te Tonga, Ngāti Hauā […]
WelCom February 2020 “Baptised and Sent: The Church of Christ on Mission in the World” – Pope Francis Message for World Mission Day 2019. On Pentecost Sunday last year, Pope Francis announced his message for World Mission Sunday, 20 October 2019. He called on all Catholics and the Church to revive missionary awareness and commitment […]
WelCom February 2020 Whakaaturanga Mīhana 2020 “We are called to participate in the mission of the Church given to us at Baptism.” – Cardinal John Dew The Wellington Archdiocese is dedicating 2020 as A Year of Mission. Cardinal John will launch the year’s programme at two Mission Expo days in March. The first will be […]
WelCom February 2020 The 2020 General Election will be held on Saturday 19 September along with the cannabis and end- of-life-choice referendums. Over the next few months WelCom aims to highlight some key issues for this year’s election including housing, poverty, health and education, mental health, human trafficking, refugees, and referenda on euthanasia and marijuana.
WelCom February 2020 Pope Francis has appointed Fr Michael Gielen from the Catholic Diocese of Hamilton as the new Auxiliary Bishop for Auckland. The appointment was announced in Rome at midnight New Zealand time, 7 January, 2020. Ordained as a priest in 1997, Bishop-elect Gielen served parishes in Gisborne, Hamilton and the western Bay of […]
WelCom February 2020 Integrated schools are considering legal action against the Government after being left out of the $396 million funding package to upgrade state school properties, announced November last year. Following the announcement, Paul Ferris, Chief Executive of the Association of Proprietors of Integrated Schools (APIS), said integrated schools were very disappointed to be […]
WelCom February 2020 Pope Francis issued on 17 December 2019 a declaration that the Catholic Church rule of ‘Pontifical Secrecy’ no longer applies in cases of the sexual abuse of minors and matters of child pornography. In a new ‘Instruction On the Confidentiality of Legal Proceedings’, the Pope ordered that ‘the person who files the […]
WelCom February 2020 Robert Oliver It has become a tradition at St Mary of the Angels Church in Wellington to celebrate Waitangi Day with a Mass in which the Choir joins with the parishioners of Te Ngākau Tapu in music from both ancient traditions. I had always been very affected by the way Māori spirituality […]
WelCom February 2020 Chris Duthie-Jung Pope Francis is calling for us all to rethink the way we go about evangelising in our respective communities. Under his leadership, the Church is specifically addressing issues of ministry with families, marriage and young people. This year, two agencies of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference ‒ The Catholic […]