WelCom is the monthly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Wellington. Print copies of the eight-page newsletter are free and available in parishes, and sent to parishes and schools in PDF form. The archive contains WelCom stories published from 2007 to 2026 (May).
The national camp established and run by Life Teen Aotearoa has been going since 2015 and held at Forest Lakes, Ōtaki. Now, the Life Teen team has partnered with the Hamilton and Auckland dioceses to take camp to Cambridge.
Archbishop Paul Martin confirmed 31 candidates at their Confirmation Mass at St Mary’s Church, Holy Family Parish, Nelson, on Saturday, 12 November.
The Catholic Parish of the Wairarapa held two First Eucharist celebrations this year.
Archbishop Paul Martin sm visited Reefton on Saturday 5 November to administer the Sacraments of Holy Communion and Confirmation.
At St Catherine’s College, we have been holding a competition called BATTS – ‘Bring a Toy to School’, to go to Vinnies.
Rabbi A. James Rudin, the long-time inter-religious affairs director for the American Jewish Committee, has been made a Papal Knight of St Gregory.
A retired French cardinal has offered to hand himself into the police after he admitted to abusing a 14-year-old girl nearly four decades ago.
New figures on clerical numbers in Ireland show that a quarter of all priests currently serving in the Irish Church are expected to retire over the next 15 years. The research, carried out by the Association of Catholic Priests, revealed that 547 priests of the 2,100 working priests in the Irish Church currently are aged between 61 and 75 and nearly 300 or 15 per cent of working priests are aged 75 or over. The survey also revealed that across all 26 Irish dioceses, 52 priests or fewer than 2.5 per cent of working priests are younger than 40 and there are just 47 seminarians in Maynooth.
American priest Fr Mike Schmitz says he hopes people ‘will not only grow in information but real transformation’ through listening to a new Catechism in a Year podcast, set to launch on January 1. The Catechism in a Year podcast from Ascension Press follows the Bible in a Year podcast, which has a global audience of more than 1.5 million people. The aim of the daily podcast is to make the Catechism accessible for the common person.
Pope Francis will mark the 400th anniversary of the death of St Francis de Sales, ‘the gentleman saint’ from Savoy, with a new letter planned for the end of the year. A native of Savoy, where he lived a large part of his life, Francis de Sales was appointed bishop of Geneva but was forced […]