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 February 2017: International News Catholic bishops are being asked how to better address young victims of extreme violence and drug addiction as part of a global youth survey supported by Pope Francis. The survey of bishops and pastors includes questions that are specific to each continent and is part of the preparation for the 2018 […]
WelCom February 2017: Diocesan News Karen Saunders Otari (Karori) Catholic Women’s League, hosted 25 members at a meeting last September at St Thomas More Church, Wilton, on behalf of the Wellington Archdiocesan Council. The meeting included a Liturgy prepared by Ethne Wyndham-Smith, President, and Vonnie Nunns, Vice-President. Anne Lumb spoke about her recent visit to the […]
WelCom February 2017: Reflections October this year will see the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. The Catholic Church today is not the same as the Church with which Martin Luther and the other Reformers came into such deep conflict in the sixteenth century. Luther wanted to reform his own church and not to split it. […]
WelCom February 2017: Diocesan News Catherine Gibbs, TCI Close to 30 graduates joined academic staff from The Catholic Institute’s Wellington and Palmerston North sites at Sacred Heart Cathedral, Thorndon, on 29 November last year for the 2016 graduation. A theme for the ceremony was ‘Blessed with eyes to see and ears to hear’ taken from Luke’s gospel of […]
Cardinal John Dew has announced the fifth Synod for the Archdiocese of Wellington is to take place in 2017. Cardinal John’s Bishop’s Decree Convoking the 2017 Archdiocesan Synod has been issued 8 December 2016. To view the convocation Convoking Synod Lt Archdiocesan Synod 2017 Announced Pope Francis has brought new emphases and new ways of thinking […]
4 Dec 2016: Suzanne Aubert, the founder of the Sisters of Compassion New Zealand’s home grown order of Sisters, has been declared ‘venerable’, a major milestone on the path to sainthood in the Catholic Church. The announcement has just been made from Rome by Pope Francis. If Suzanne Aubert’s Cause for Sainthood is successful, she […]
The Wellington Abrahamic Council of Jews, Christians and Muslims hosted a discussion about ‘Mercy in our Sacred Scriptures’, at St Joseph’s Church, Mt Victoria, in May. On the panel were JoEllen Duckor (Jewish), Sr Elizabeth Julian rsm (Christian) and Sultan Eusoff (Muslim). Sr Elizabeth Julian’s presentation is reproduced in three-parts: a key understanding of mercy […]
WelCom December 2016: Cardinal John Dew At the end of the very wide and long street leading up to St Peter‘s Basilica in Vatican City are 13 letters, each of which are 15 feet high, spelling out the word MISERICORDIA, which is of course MERCY in English. Not only do they spell out the word, there […]
WelCom December 2016: News The 7.8 magnitude earthquake two minutes after midnight, on Monday 14 November, shook central New Zealand intensely and was felt widely across much of the country. With the quake’s epicentre about 15kms north-east of Culverden and 60kms south-east of Kaikōura none felt it more strongly than people in North Canterbury and […]
WelCom December 2016: News ‘I am praying for all the people of New Zealand at this time of the earthquakes,’ Pope Francis said to Cardinal John Dew when he greeted him in Rome at the closing of the Holy Door. On Sunday 20 November Cardinal John wrote on his Facebook page: ‘This morning St Peter’s Square […]