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 2014 Election 2014 Reflections on the key issues raised in the New Zealand Catholic Bishops’ general election statement are shared below. People living in poverty Lisa Beech Many New Zealanders are becoming familiar with our shameful child-poverty statistics, which show around a quarter – or 285,000 – of our children live in poverty. Poor […]
September 2014 Feature Chris Nichol Archbishop John Dew has reminded us, ‘our children are our nation’s precious taonga. We, as adults, have a collective responsibility always to strive to do our best for our children’. But we’re failing. A quarter of our one million children live below the poverty line. Many go to school hungry, […]
September 2014 Feature Annette Scullion Calls for prayers for peace in the Middle East have continued around the globe as the situation for minorities in Iraq worsens and the people in Gaza continue to suffer after 50 days of fighting. The Catholic aid organisation Caritas International is helping Iraqi minorities escape the fighting and is […]
September 2014 Feature Fr Kevin Head sm The seafarers who bring goods to our ports are mostly unseen. We see the ships sail by … how often do we think about those who work on them? Yet it’s estimated at least 90 per cent of everything we use and wear comes to us by sea. […]
September 2014 Pastoral Mike Noonan A recurrent question I have heard in parishes and pastoral areas in the Archdiocese since arriving here a little over a year ago is ‘Where are our Youth?’ It is often asked in a challenging tone, appearing to imply the barque of St Peter must be sinking in Wellington harbour […]
September 2014 Pastoral Mark Richards I have been invited to offer an insight each month for Wel-Com on something I see in the pastoral life of the local Church. That is, how we minister, live our faith, pray and worship. It is a wide brief and a hard one to tie down. It has been […]
September 2014 News Mieke Davies St Mary’s youth group in Blenheim has been sponsoring Joseph in Emali, Kenya, for about 12 years. After I visited there in 2012, our group wanted to do something significant for his family. We started raising $9000 needed to build them a well. My brother Karl viewed the well’s […]
September 2014 Feature Judy Dixon In our communities we have an urgent need for volunteers to support newly-released prisoners using ordinary, everyday skills. Through Prison Fellowship New Zealand (PFNZ) we make a personal appeal to you to help. PFNZ is a professionally-led, national Christian community agency made possible by volunteers. The organisation builds on programmes […]
August 2014 News Annette Scullion The ministry that chaplains carry in our communities, particularly those of the military, was honoured at services at Sacred Heart Cathedral, Wellington and at St Mary’s Church, Foxton, last month to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of World War One. Archbishop John Dew of Wellington Archdiocese and Bishop of […]
August 2014 National Vocations Awareness Week3–10 August 2014 National Vocations Awareness week is an annual event, set aside by the Bishops of New Zealand Catholic dioceses, dedicated to promoting all forms of vocation in the Church. The week earmarks time for parishes and schools to consider their role in promoting vocation through prayer and education. […]