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).
Eight years ago in February 2017, WelCom set out on a Hīkoi Whakapono: Journey of Faith, to visit all the parishes, schools and Catholic faith communities within our two dioceses of Palmerston North and Wellington.
Christian bioethicists are encouraging New Zealanders to educate themselves about gene technology and genetic editing as Parliament considers legislative changes that better align with recent scientific and technological advancements.
Aotearoa New Zealand is backsliding on many areas of social progress, making life harder for people and their whānau across the motu, according to The Salvation Army’s State of the Nation 2025 report. Titled Kai, Kāinga, Whānau, The Basics – Food, a Home, Family, the report was released on 11 February.
New Zealand Māori rights activist and politician Hon Dame Tariana Turia DNZM died on 3 January 2025, aged 81.
The Archdiocese of Wellington’s Commission for Ecology, Justice, and Peace was among the hundreds of thousands of groups and individuals who made a submission on the ACT Party’s Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi Bill. The closing date for submissions was 14 January 2025.
WelCom recently spoke with Deacon Rebecca Packer Tumu Whakarae | co-Chief Executive for the Sisters of Compassion Group – almost a year into her role – about her journey that brought her to the special place above the hills of Island Bay, built on the legacy of Meri Hōhepa Suzanne Aubert, and about her vision for the future of the Compassion Centre.
Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga is proposing to list the Chapel of Our Lady of Compassion and Resting Place of Suzanne Aubert, in Rhine St, Island Bay, Wellington, as a Category 1 historic place on the New Zealand Heritage List | Rārangi Kōrero.
Hundreds of people, who gathered on 12 January this summer at Totora Point in Northland to celebrate the anniversary of the first Mass celebrated on New Zealand soil, have been urged to be ‘bearers of hope and peace to one another’ during the Catholic Church’s Jubilee Year.
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is taking part in the global Together We campaign, launched in January as part of the Vatican’s Turn Debt into Hope initiative for this Jubilee Year.
St Patrick’s Catholic Church was one of four Masterton churches damaged in suspicious fires in the early hours of Saturday morning, 22 February.