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).
March 2016 Reflection Cardinal John Dew I have recently been reading Pope Francis’ book, The Name of God is Mercy. Actually, it isn’t a book you read, it is more like a book you pray with, ponder on, meditate and reflect on the profound words of this amazing Pope we have been gifted with. I […]
March 2016 News Lesley Hooper, Director, Catholic Social Services, Wellington Over the last two months the team at Catholic Social Services has worked alongside the Anglican Diocese and Red Cross to prepare to welcome about 90 refugees – mainly from Syria – to their new homes in Wellington, Porirua and Lower Hutt. A call went […]
March 2016 News Crispin Anderlini and Emily Benefield, Caritas Aotearoa NZ Whole villages have been destroyed, thousands of people are sheltering in evacuation centres and a state of emergency has been declared in Fiji following Cyclone Winston – a Category 5 storm reported as the strongest to ever hit the Southern Hemisphere. Cyclone Winston reached […]
February 2016 Reflection Fr Tom Rouse, Columban Mission, Lower Hutt In the introductory paragraph to this final chapter of Laudato Si’, Pope Francis explains in undertaking the tasks and responsibilities of ecological education, that we face ‘a long path of renewal’ that will demand ‘the development of new convictions, attitudes and forms of life’ (202). […]
February 2016 Feature Anne Powell, Cenacle Sisters ‘Let us not look the other way’ – Pope Francis A formidable multi-billion-dollar human-trafficking industry has driven Catholic religious women to collaborate among themselves and with other social organisations to stop what Pope Francis has called ‘the most extensive form of slavery of the 21st century’. One of […]
Febuary 2016 Opinion Joe Grayland Pope Francis calls for us to be open and to be an engaging Church. To engage is to commit, not stand on the peripheries, to get below the surface to explore the depth in a relationship to be able to experience, better understand and live it more fully. Fr Joe […]
February 2016 Feature Safeguarding is the name of a programme being developed within the Archdiocese to raise awareness of abuse and ways we, in the Church, can work together to create a safer communities. Maria Noonan, Safe Church Programme Leader for the Catholic Church in New Zealand’s National Office for Professional Standards, and the Community […]
February 2016 Education Tara Quinney, Director of Religious Studies A new building block at St Bernard’s College, Lower Hutt, was blessed and officially opened on 12 November last year by Cardinal John Dew. The opening began with liturgy and waiata in the school gym followed by the blessing and afternoon tea. In recognition of the […]
February 2016 Education Staff and students at St Benedict’s School, Khandallah, watched with pride as Cardinal John Dew opened and blessed their two new ‘Tui Block’ classrooms last December. The new classrooms are a result from a successful roll growth application some years ago and combined hard work of the Archdiocese, St Benedict’s School Board […]
February 2016 Education The Catholic Foundation Committee, chaired by Francis Fanning, congratulates its scholarships recipients for the 2016 tertiary studies year and wishes them well in their chosen courses. The Committee also wishes the applicants who were not successful but were of equally high calibre well in their future studies. Awards were presented at college […]