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 2014 Pastoral focus Michael Noonan ‘Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs, is people who have come alive.’ This encouraging statement came from Howard Thurman, an African-American philosopher and theologian influential in the formation of leaders of the American Civil […]
August 2014 Te Reo Areti Metuamate ‘It is as Maori that the Lord calls you, it is as Maori that you belong to the Church, the one body of Christ.’ These were the words of Pope St John Paul II on his visit to New Zealand in 1986. His words were powerful then and are […]
August 2014 Te Reo Nikki Phillips Ki te pīrangi te Hāhi Katorika ki te hāpai i te reo rangatira mō āke āke, kei te Hāhi Katorika ngā kura me ngā kāreti me te kāreti mō ngā pirihi hoki ki te hāpai i te reo Māori. Ki tōku nei whakaaro, kei te Hāhi Katorika tōna […]
August 2014 Te Reo Fr Gerard Burns New Zealand society is changing in ways we don’t always notice when we are amidst them. I recently heard a Kiwi who had lived in England for 10 years saying she needed a dictionary now if she read a New Zealand newspaper. Why? Because there were so […]
August 2014 Feature Bill Kilgallon In a homily during a Mass to six people, on 7 July 2014, Pope Francis said, ‘Before God and his people I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you. And I humbly ask for your forgiveness’. Two of those people came […]
August 2014 News Simone Olsen Monsignor Peter Jeffrey has been farewelled as Rector at Auckland’s Holy Cross Seminary. His term was due to finish at the end of the year. ‘I’m sad to be leaving but owing to health reasons I feel it’s best for the Seminary and for me that I return to Australia […]
August 2014 Reflection Bridget Taumoepeau It is so easy to forget to be grateful. Yet gratefulness is an expression of generosity of spirit, which is so life-giving – both to the giver and to the receiver. I’ve always wanted to add another beatitude – ‘Blessed are you who are generous of spirit, for you will […]
August 2014 Feature Kim Workman QSO Prisons are but one measure of punitiveness; but the frequency with which we place people in them, and the way we treat prisoners, tells us a great deal about a nation’s attitude to power, authority, legitimacy, normalcy, morality, personhood, and social relations. As Nelson Mandela put it: ‘No one […]
August 2014 Feature Liz Heatley When Sr Annette Young RNDM retired in early July after 30 years on the staff at Sacred Heart School, Petone, it was the end of an era. Sr Annette, a former pupil at the school, first taught the new entrants’ class. After earlier retiring from full-time teaching she remained on […]
August 2014 News Peter Woods ‘As for me and my household we will serve the Lord’ Joshua 24:15 The Pontifical Mission Society’s work is critical to the success of the Church, yet it often goes unheralded. National Director of the Mission Society in New Zealand, Fr Bernard Espiritu svd, has much wisdom gained from […]