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 September 2020 Parents who are saving up to get their child into a private school should be aware that state-integrated schools might give them ‘better bangs for their bucks’. This is the conclusion policy analyst Joel Hernandez comes to in a report he prepared for The New Zealand Initiative [a ‘think tank’ that works […]
WelCom September 2020 Paul Ferris, Chief Executive, NZ Catholic Education Office Proprietors of high-performing integrated schools have every reason to be happy with the conclusion The New Zealand Initiative report comes to. Excellence is at the heart of the mission of a Catholic State Integrated School and when outside agencies see the quality of the […]
WelCom September 2020 Two new classrooms designed and constructed for St Joseph’s School in Nelson have won the Education section of the 2020 Nelson/Marlborough Regional Architecture Awards. The new classroom block has been added to St Joseph’s School due to growth in the Nelson-Richmond area. Completed late last year, the block was designed and managed […]
WelCom September 2020 Rex Begley Terry Healion and his sister Cecilia were delighted with Bishop Peter Cullinane’s suggestion of a memorial Mass of Thanksgiving for the life and ministry of their brother – Fr John Healion, who passed away in New Plymouth in 1980. Wednesday 29 July marked the 40th anniversary of Fr John’s sudden […]
WelCom September 2020 Felicity Giltrap A thanksgiving Mass was held on Sunday 26 July at St Francis of Assisi, Ōhāriu Parish, for Pat Collier and Christina MacIver to celebrate their many years of service to music ministry and long-standing musicianship at Ss Peter and Paul Church, Johnsonville. Between them Pat and Christina have over 90 […]
WelCom September 2020 Jane Langham A surprise presentation was made to Dominique and Sophia Harwinkels at their home in Tawa just before Christmas last year. The gift of an Apostolic Blessing from Pope Francis had been requested by their family to mark the couple’s 60th wedding anniversary, on 7 November. Dominique and Sophia are one […]
WelCom September 2020 Wendy Bryce OFS On 8 July 2020, at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Palmerston North, three candidates for the Franciscan Fraternity of St Juliana made their profession into the Secular Franciscan Order – the Third order of St Francis. Philip Dyer, Titia Broekhuizen and Paul Cleary had each completed the 12 […]
WelCom September 2020 Chris Duthie-Jung After 18 months of careful planning it was disappointing the locally-hosted, national conference – Takirua 2020: Shaping the Mission – was declared a casualty of Covid-19 and cancelled. However, the kaupapa of lives on in a series of local consultation forums. The first was in July with 70 participants representing […]
WelCom September 2020 Andrew Austin Year-12 St John’s College student Louis Gaffaney, was selected to take part in the New Zealand Model UN 2020 conference at Victoria University, Wellington, 27–30 August. Students from around the country apply for selection. Louis, 17, a lead speaker on his school’s debating team, participated in the regional model UN […]
WelCom September 2020 Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand, announced in July, the winners of its 2020 SINGout4JUSTICE song-writing competition. The theme of this year’s competition was LIGHT, from Pope Francis’ reminder that ‘God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each […]