WelCom May 2024
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Welcom Archive 2007-2026
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).
Dancing for joy at St Paul’s School 25th Jubilee
Students at St Paul’s School in Richmond danced for joy at a family picnic evening after a day of Silver Jubilee celebrations at the school on 8 April.
Cathedral reopening with a weekend of celebrations
Three days of celebrations to mark the long-waited reopening of the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Wellington will take place over the weekend of Friday 7, Saturday 8 and Sunday 9 June, 2024.
Finitude and the empty tomb
There are a number of issues that the modern secular world is reluctant to speak about. One of them, it seems to me, is our finitude. Finitude is the acceptance that our length of life here on earth is limited.
First gathering of Catholic educators in six years
The National Catholic Education Convention, a large-scale event for Catholic educators from throughout the country, will be hosted in Wellington, 19–21 June, 2024.
He Hīkoi Whakapono: A Journey of Faith
WelCom’s Journey of Faith continues this month to visit the Lower Hutt Parish of the Holy Spirit – Te Wairua Tapu. Formed in 2015, the parish covers four main Lower Hutt suburbs and their constituent areas geographically located across the harbour from Wellington city and surrounded by coastlines and bush tracks.
New Vatican document on human dignity
Sex change operations, gender theory and surrogate motherhood pose grave threats to human dignity, according to a major new Vatican document released in April.
Synod: Groups to study controversial issues
Pope Francis has decided some of the most controversial issues raised at the first assembly of the Synod of Bishops on synodality will be examined by study groups that will work beyond the synod’s final assembly in October this year.
‘Prayer and peace’ the best response
The stabbing of Assyrian Bishop Mar Mari Emmanuel and Fr Isaac Royel is ‘shocking and has caused distress to many in the community,’ says Sydney Catholic Archbishop, Anthony Fisher op.
Catholics must fight euthanasia campaign
The United Kingdom is gripped by the ‘aggressive promotion’ of doctor-assisted killing, according to a British archbishop who has urged Catholics to write to their local MPs to resist changes to laws prohibiting euthanasia.