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).
May 2014 News The Focolare Movement is responding to an increasingly multicultural and multi-religious society worldwide, with an afternoon discussion with a world leader on interfaith and cross-cultural dialogue. Director of the International Office for Interreligious Dialogue for Focolare Roberto Catalano holds a Doctorate in Missiology and a Masters Degree in Philosophy, and was involved […]
May 2014 Feature Cecily McNeill Acceptance is assured for the controversial Liberation Theology born from reflection on the gospel in light of the poverty and oppression of many communities in Latin America in the 1960s after one of its key architects spoke in the Vatican in February. Pope Francis received Gustavo Gutierrez last September but […]
May 2014 Feature Bridget Taumoepeau On the commuter train from Waikanae to Wellington recently a dear little boy caught my eye and reminded me of Pope Francis in his exchanges with children. This two-year-old was with his mother and grandfather and whooping with delight at the excitement of tunnels and railway stations and opening and […]
May 2014 News Tricia Kane Finding God in everyday life as developed in the exercises of St Ignatius of Loyola was brought to the New Zealand context in March when representatives of Christian Life Community groups in Wellington and the Manawatu met at the Home of Compassion in Wellington. A recent CLC gathering in Australia […]
May 2014 News St Patrick’s Day on 17 March was an occasion for celebration for the Caring Companions of St Peter Chanel parish Hastings. The companions hold a social afternoon on the second Thursday of the month for anyone who feels that they would like a bit of company. In March the group celebrated St […]
May 2014 Schools Ioana Manuele On Friday 20 March, a special assembly was held at St Claudine Thévenet school, Wainuiomata. Everyone had been told that the principal Ms Sue Jury had made a decision to shave her head for ‘Shave for a Cure’ to show her support for two members of our school community who […]
May 2014 Scripture Kieran Fenn fms Pope Francis ends his 2013 apostolic exhortation, Evangelii Gaudium, with a prayer to Mary as mother of evangelisation. In her presence with the disciples in the upper room (Acts 1:14), praying for the coming of the Holy Spirit, the pope sees the beginning of the great mission to bring […]
News April 2014 Cecily McNeill Would the two-and-a-half million visitors to New Zealand each year give such glowing accounts of the country on their return home if they knew that a third of the 600,000 people living in poverty were children? Archbishop John Dew put this question to a large crowd gathered in Parliament grounds […]
Opinion April 2014 Archbishop John Dew ‘Holiness, a message that convinces without the need for words, is the living reflection of the face of Christ’. Pope John Paul II, Novo Millennio Ineunte (At the Beginning of the New Millennium). These words have always appealed to me, challenged me and inspired me to try to be […]
News April 2014 Cecily McNeill The New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services CEO Trevor McGlinchey told the gathering members working at the grassroots of social services say their communities aren’t feeling the impact of New Zealand’s ‘rock star economy’. Instead they are seeing: Families who don’t have enough resources – the queues to get […]