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).
Opinion March 2014 Michael Noonan Pope Francis’ short papacy has given us plenty of examples of how we can work together (visiting and embracing the sick, welcoming prisoners) in order to bring to those of us who need it mercy and encouragement rather than judgement and condemnation. He invites us to get out of our […]
News March 2014 Stephanie Kitching rsm One hundred years of happy living is being celebrated by Sister Mary Winefride Blake, a Mercy Sister at Villa Joseph Upper Hutt on her birthday, 8 March. A longtime Wellingtonian, Sister Winefride comes from a musical family who sang together regularly. She entered religious life in 1933 and is […]
News March 2014 Westport breeds resilient people who are willing to help the needy, none more than Mrs Margaret Todd, the eldest member of the local St Vincent de Paul Society who has just celebrated her 90th birthday. The society congratulates Margaret and thanks her for her many years of service to the Westport conference. […]
Feature March 2014 Bridget Taumoepeau Just about everyone, it seems, loves Pope Francis – Catholic and non-Catholic alike. To be fair there are a few curmudgeons who prophesy doom and gloom, but they don’t stand a chance. Celebrities, and a lot of ordinary folks, who previously rather sheepishly acknowledged that they were Catholic, are now […]
Schools March 2014 Dave Lamont On Thursday 13 February, St Benedict’s School held its first Mass of the year at St Benedict’s Church and the following day we went to Eastbourne Beach for our School Picnic. These two events are important parts of how we begin our school year as they bring our school and […]
Palmerston North March 2014 Shirley Knuckey Wel-Com regularly features through its obituaries memories of priests, religious and laity and their service – jubilees likewise. May I single out for special collective tribute those religious sisters who played a special part in our post-Vatican II history? Many of us were hugely privileged to be part of […]
Palmerston North March 2014 On Sunday 26 January, Bishop Charles Drennan commissioned 11 spiritual directors at a parish Mass in the cathedral. The 11 were among 14 invited to study the Ignatian Spiritual Exercises to guide retreats in parishes throughout the diocese. They have been following the diocesan formation programme Nga Huarahi o te Wairua […]
Opinion March 2014 Fr Kevin Neal The days we’ve been having lately in the Manawatu have been glorious. The sun is shining brightly and people of every description are parading around town. Young and old wait patiently at the traffic lights in their small gangs. The older people have lists on their mind and they […]
News March 2014 A year of celebrations of St Brigid’s Parish began on 1 February, the feast day of its sixth century Irish patron. The Feilding parish turns 125. Although the first Catholic Church was built in Feilding in 1885 it was another four years before it became a separate parish. St Brigid’s has organised […]
Schools March 2014 Hāto Pāora College and St Joseph Māori Girls College have both opened the new academic year with rolls well up on last year. Hāto Pāora Principal Debbie Marshall-Lobb says the pōwhiri marking the new term was by far the largest in her time as principal and admissions of new boys were still […]