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).
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 […]
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 […]
It is now more than one year since the fall of Kabul, and the return of terrorist rule in Afghanistan, my homeland. — Muzhgan Samarqandi
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, […]
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 […]
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.
Catholic leaders have paid tribute to Queen Elizabeth II following her death on September 8 and the end of a reign that lasted more than 70 years.
A court in Hong Kong has adjourned the trial of outspoken Catholic activist Cardinal Joseph Zen and five co-defendants until October 26. The retired 90-year-old bishop and cardinal and five co-defendants pleaded not guilty to failing to properly register their 612 Humanitarian Relief Fund, which offered financial, legal and psychological help to people arrested during […]
Commenting on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s warning that he was not bluffing about possibly using nuclear weapons, Pope Francis said that thinking of such an act was ‘madness’. At his general audience at St Peter’s Square, the Pope said Ukrainians were being subjected to savageness, monstrosities and torture, calling them a ‘noble’ people being martyred. […]
Pope Francis spent three days in Kazakhstan in September, attending the Seventh Congress of World and Traditional Religions. The Pope met with religious leaders, called for increased religious freedom and condemned religious justifications for war and violence. Although Kazakhstan is predominantly Muslim, over four million Kazakhstanis profess Christianity. Over 80 per cent of Kazakhstan’s Christians […]