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).
September 2016 Reflection At a recent reflection day for clergy and pastoral leaders in Wellington about marriage in the context of Pope Francis’ letter Amoris Laetita, Louise and Mike Kelleher talked about Amoris Laetitia and its powerful and beautiful messages for couples at each stage of the marriage journey. ‘The life of every family is […]
September 2016 News The Health Select Committee inquiry into ending one’s life in New Zealand has received a staggering number of 21,435 written submissions, the majority of them unique rather than form submissions. According to Dr Jane Silloway Smith, Director of Every Life Research Unit who has analysed a randomised sample of the submissions, the […]
September 2016 Features This is the second part of a three-section article in which Bishop Peter Cullinane explores the meaning of gradualness in working for peace. It is well known, of course, that religions have played a part in many violent conflicts. This is what happens when religion is turned into ideology, with its impulse […]
September 2016 Features Reflecting on World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, 1 September 2016, WelCom invited Vicky Forgie, an ecological economist at Ecological Economics Research New Zealand, at Massey University, and a parishioner at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Palmerston North, to write about sustainable agriculture. Pope Francis dedicated his weekly […]
September 2016 Reflections WelCom has invited a series of Gospel reflections – with a rural perspective – from Tom Gibson a retired dairy farmer who lives in Stratford and is a parishioner of the Immaculate Conception Parish. (Luke 14:25-33) The Demands of Revolution: Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem and – as we see […]
September 2016 Te Tau Tapu o te Atawahi – He hoatu inu ki te hunga hia-inu ‘…but no one who drinks the water that I shall give will ever be thirsty again: the water that I shall give will become a spring of water within, welling up for eternal life.’ John 4: 14 ‘As the […]
September 2016 Diocesan News New Zealand’s housing situation is devastating for vulnerable families and individuals. After last year’s fundraising event for organisations helping the homeless, the 14-Hour Sleep Out event for October’s World Homeless Day is on again this year. Participants will come together at 6pm, 7 October, in a central city location to hear […]
‘The horrifying attack on Fr Jacques Hamel and parishioners in a parish church near Rouen has a very personal connection. In 2009 when we went to France to commemorate Bishop Viard’s 200th anniversary, I celebrated Mass at the birthplace of St Marcellin Champagnat with Archbishop Dominique Lebrun, in whose diocese the attack took place. It […]
August 2016 World Youth Day Annette Scullion Hundreds of thousands of young pilgrims from 187 countries from around the globe journeyed to Kraków, Poland, for the 28th World Youth Day (WYD) to celebrate being young and Catholic and to experience the universal church. WYD 2016 was not just a day but a week-long youth festival […]
2016 National Vocations Week: 7–14 August 2016 Te Wiki o Ngā Mahi Whakapono mō te Motu: 7 – 14 Hereturikōkā The National Vocations Awareness week, 7–14 August 2016, is a week-long observance set aside by the Bishops of New Zealand and dedicated to helping those discerning God’s call to priesthood, religious, or a lay vocation. […]