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 2021 On a September morning, 20 years ago, Tom Colucci was in his car driving home, weary after working the overnight shift at a firehouse in Lower Manhattan, USA. Then, at 8.46am, he got a call. The city was recalling all police officers and firefighters to the World Trade Centre. A plane had […]
WelCom October 2021 Martin de Jong, Advocacy Adviser, Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand Representatives from Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand visited the Cook Islands in July to ensure that effective health and safety processes were in place for Catholic Volunteers Overseas (CVOs) and to review areas of environmental and social interest. The visit allowed Caritas Director Julianne […]
WelCom October 2021 Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand released, on 4 October, its annual environmental Indicators on environmental change and concern across the Pacific, and its Statement on the Environment for Oceania (SEFO) with its Indicators on extreme weather, rising seas and coastal erosion, food and water, offshore mining and drilling, and climate finance. The SEFO […]
WelCom October 2021 The Vicariate for Catholic Social Services (CSS) is the Archdiocese of Wellington’s social-outreach agency. We work with many people and communities across the archdiocese to help encourage, inspire and transform their lives. We are guided by the principles of CatholicSocial Teaching. CSS was established as an agency of the Archdiocese in 1955 […]
WelCom October 2021 An image has been occurring to me of boats that have become unmoored. They end up on the rocks, or colliding with one another. There are features of our Western world’s culture that seem to fit the image. Important aspects of our lives seem to have become disconnected from what gives them […]
WelCom October 2021 Author: Kathleen P RushtonPublisher: SCM Press London, 2020Paperback: 256 pagesReviewed by: James B Lyons The Gospel of John has never been my go-to book regarding social justice. But it takes on new meaning as Kathleen Rushton exposes it in the light of present-day degradation of the earth and human poverty. Using the […]
WelCom October 2021 Twenty-eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mark 10:17-27 17 As Jesus was setting out on a journey, a man ran up, knelt before him, and asked him, ‘Good teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?’ 18 Jesus answered him, ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good but […]
WelCom October 2021 During the month of October 2021 Pope Francis’ intention is for: Evangelisation – Missionary disciples. We pray that every baptised person may be engaged in evangelisation, available to the mission, by being witnesses of a life that has the flavour of the Gospel.
NauMai September 2021 The New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services (NZCCSS) warns that an escalating shortage of registered nurses is placing the not-for-profit aged-residential-care sector under huge pressure. Nurses are leaving community/not-for-profit providers in unprecedented numbers for a range of reasons, says the NZCCSS. Reasons include acute housing shortages, the high cost of housing […]
NauMai September 2021 Fr James B Lyons It is approaching 60 years since the opening of the Second Vatican Council (1962–65) and we are still discovering what it was all about. The initiative of Pope Francis to invite ‘all the baptised’ to participate in a process that will ensure the 2023 Synod of Bishops reflects […]