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).
August 2015 Feature Sr Catherine Jones smsm The Second Vatican Council came to a close 50 years ago. This anniversary is being marked around the world in September and October. Significant Council documents and how they relate to today are explored in this and in future issues of Wel-Com. Now is the time for the […]
August 2015 Feature Catholic Education in New Zealand Jenny Gordon Catholic education’s distinctive identity is rooted in Baptism. Each of us is called to be a light to the world. The role of Catholic faith education and in particular the Catholic school in our contemporary world can be considered to be twofold. Firstly, it is […]
August 2015 News CDF unclaimed monies Call 0800 4 233 233. In 2014, Cardinal John Dew wrote to all individual depositors who had invested with Catholic Development Fund (CDF), to thank them for their past support and to advise that CDF would no longer be accepting deposits from individuals. This change was due to increased […]
August 2015 RIP Lyndsay Freer Well-known priest of the Society of Mary, Father Craig Larkin, died 27 June in Wellington, aged 71. Testimony to his enormous contribution to the Society of Mary and to the wider Church here and overseas was demonstrated by many tributes, and the large numbers of colleagues and friends from New […]
July 2015 News In his much anticipated encyclical letter directed at ‘every person living on this planet’, Pope Francis states that serious attention to environmental destruction is the collective responsibility of us all. He calls for our urgent need to heed the warnings of climate-change experts and sound scientific consensus about environmental destruction and asks […]
July 2015 Feature Annette Scullion More than 800 teachers and other professionals involved in New Zealand Catholic education came together from all over the country for their triennial convention, called Horizons of Hope, held in Wellington, 10–12 June. Cardinal John Dew and all New Zealand’s bishops, along with teachers, principals, staff, Boards of Trustees, priests, […]
July 2015 Opinion Cardinal John Dew Pope Francis has invited the church to enter into a Year of Mercy, beginning 8 December this year, marking the conclusion of the Second Vatican Council under Pope Paul VI on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception in 1965. Pope Saint John XXIII had formally opened that council on […]
July 2015 Te Reo Maori Ko te reo te taikura o te whakaao marama.Language is the key to understanding. Nikki Phillips Māori Language Week takes place from 27 July – 2 August 2015. Te Reo Māori has been an official language of New Zealand since 1987. However, many of this country’s essential publications are still […]
July 2015 News Former St Patrick’s College student and New Zealand All Blacks player Jerry Collins and his wife Alana passed away on June 5, after a car accident in France. Peter Wadsworth, St Patrick’s college counsellor, rugby manager and mentor to Jerry Collins, gave a tribute at the school assembly on Wednesday 10 June, […]
July 2015 Education Annette Scullion Facing invasion in 1881, Parihaka leaders Tohu Kākahi and Te Whiti o Rongomai drew on the Gospel and their faith to ‘fight’ violence with peace. Their vision and courage preceded 20th century non-violent movements such as those led by Mahatma Ghandi and Martin Luther King. The story of Parihaka in […]