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).
NauMai September 2021 The sixth report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which assesses scientific, technical, and socio-economic information about climate change, was published as The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change, on 9 August 2021. Grim but not hopeless. A foreboding future but the potential for a better one, if immediate, […]
NauMai September 2021 The IPCC’s latest report on climate science only confirms with greater certainty and immediacy the need for rapid action to cut greenhouse gas emissions and prioritise the poor and future generations in adapting to an uncertain climatic future, says Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand. ‘Oceania peoples on the frontlines of climate change have […]
NauMai September 2021 Peter Healy sm The UN Intergovernmental Panel on climate change has released its latest report. This Sixth Assessment Report is a weighty document at nearly 4000 pages and the science is described as robust. It has been tagged ‘code red’ because human activity is changing our climate in unprecedented ways. A key […]
NauMai September 2021 Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand will host an online talanoa*, ‘Dialogue for our Future Home’, on 28 September, for Oceania voices to share experiences of environmental impact and response, and imagine their common future. This Season of Creation event will support Caritas Oceania’s annual State of the Environment for Oceania assessment to be […]
NauMai September 2021 In 2015, Pope Francis has established 1 September as the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, encouraging the Catholic community around the world to pray for our common home. The day is inspired by the Holy Father’s landmark encyclical Laudato si’, which calls on ‘every person living on this […]
NauMai September 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 […]
NauMai September 2021 The World Day of Prayer also falls at the beginning of the Season of Creation – from 1 September until 4 October, the feast of St Francis of Assisi. This is an ecumenical season dedicated to prayer for the protection of creation and the promotion of sustainable lifestyles. Thousands around the world […]
NauMai September 2021 Twenty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time – Mark 7:31-37 31 Returning from the territory of Tyre, he went by way of Sidon towards the Lake of Galilee, right through the Decapolis territory. 32 And they brought him a deaf man who had an impediment in his speech; and they asked him to lay […]
NauMai September 2021 During the month of September 2021 Pope Francis’ universal intention is for: An environmentally sustainable lifestyle. We pray that we all will make courageous choices for a simple and environmentally sustainable lifestyle, rejoicing in our young people who are resolutely committed to this.
NauMai September 2021 On 24 April, 2021, Pope Francis approved a new synodal programme for the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops entitled: ‘For a synodal Church: communion, participation and mission’. The path toward the celebration of the Synod comprises three phases between October 2021 and October 2023: a diocesan phase; a […]