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 June 2019: For World Environment Day – Wednesday 5 June, all parishes and schools are invited to plant a tree as a symbol of solidarity with the people of the Amazon and a response to the call of Pope Francis to ‘care for our common home’. Be part of a world-wide movement to protect the […]
WelCom June 2019: Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand has welcomed the Environment Aotearoa 2019 report as a further wake-up call to protect the New Zealand and global environment for present and future generations. Environment Aotearoa 2019, released in April, is a joint report by the Ministry for the Environment and Stats NZ. The report provides an overview […]
WelCom June 2019: The Compassion Soup Kitchen’s Annual Street Appeal will be running on Friday 14 June 2019, with collection sites across the Wellington region. This is the Soup Kitchen’s biggest fundraiser and the support of the Wellington community for the past 118 years allows its doors to continue to be open to serve our community. […]
WelCom June 2019: Deirdre Hanlon Thirty parishioners from St Brigid’s Feilding made a pilgrimage to Our Lady’s Home of Compassion in Island Bay in March to encounter and reflect on the life of Venerable Suzanne Aubert. The experience was enjoyed by all and left the pilgrims abuzz. A glorious Wellington day greeted the visitors after their […]
WelCom June 2019: Steve Morton There has been a growing call by the Church to shift our focus from church buildings to helping the disadvantaged in our community as more in keeping with our calling as Christians. To this end, last year Feilding’s St Brigid’s Parish fund-raising committee proposed we run a golf tournament with proceeds […]
WelCom June 2019: Students and staff at Sacred Heart College, Napier, celebrated Pink Shirt Day in spectacular fashion on Friday 17 May, to ‘Kōrero Mai, Kōrero Atu, Mauri Tū, Mauri Ora – Speak Up, Stand Together, Stop Bullying’. Pink Shirt Day is about working together to stop bullying by celebrating diversity, promoting positive social relationships and […]
WelCom May 2019: In the April 2019 edition of WelCom, Dr Christopher Longhurst wrote an article entitled ‘Theologies of Lament, Listening and Healing – Responses to Institutional Crisis of Clerical Child Sexual Abuse’. The following response is by a WelCom reader. Firstly, I would like to thank Dr Longhurst for his engaging discussion on how we, […]
WelCom May 2019: Church members, groups and individuals joined Pope Francis in Rome’s St Peter’s Square as he reiterated his closeness to the people of Sri Lanka following the terrorist attacks on Easter Sunday. Speaking after the special Easter ‘Urbi et Orbi’ message and blessing, the Holy Father expressed his ‘heartfelt closeness to the Christian community, […]
WelCom May 2019: Over 250 people were killed and around 500 others were injured in six coordinated attacks on churches and hotels in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, 21 April. Among the targets in Colombo, Negombo and Batticaloa were two Catholic churches – St Anthony’s Shrine in the capital and St Sebastian’s Church in Negombo, north […]
WelCom May 2019: In his latest apostolic exhortation, released 2 April 2019, following last year’s Synod of Bishops on Young People, the Faith and Vocational Discernment, Pope Francis has urged young people to embrace their role as the present and the future of the Catholic Church by building relationships with their community and with God. The […]