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 February 2014 Fr Kevin Neal You are looking at the proud owner of an iPad – me and a zillion others as it turns out. Those who haven’t bought iPads seem to have bought the Android equivalent. I’m told these machines are convenient and incredibly powerful once you get the hang of them. I […]
Opinion February 2014 Michael Noonan A few Christmases ago, I was given a coaster and a miniature bottle of whisky. The coaster had a picture of a square-jawed man eagerly picking up a glass. The caption said, ‘the glass can be half empty or half full … as long as there is whiskey in it. […]
News February 2014 Twelve secondary schools boys teams from throughout New Zealand will compete in Wellington 8 and 9 February in the inaugural New Zealand Marist Secondary School Sevens. The tournament will be played on the new artificial turf at St Patrick’s College and will feature a host of national sevens talent including Sancta Maria […]
Feature February 2014 Sue Devereux Valentine’s Day reminds us that there is only one basic Christian principle – love. As Christians we believe in love. We aim to practise it, we teach it and we find our deepest sense of fulfilment in love. To be a Christian is before anything else to be a person […]
Feature February 2014 In December 2013, the Archdiocesan Young Church Ministries Team ran Young Catholic Leader, a 2004 gift to the archdiocese from the Marist Fathers. Last year 56 participants from Catholic schools and communities around the Wellington Archdiocese joined the five-day, live-in programme at Forest Lakes in Otaki. Four participants have written of their […]
Book Review February 2014 The Score, by Adrienne Jansen (Escalator Press, 2013) Reviewer Mandy Hager This is the first offering from Whitireia’s new publishing venture Escalator Press and, if it is anything to go by, this is a publisher worth watching out for. It tells the story of a disparate group of immigrants and misfits […]
Book Review February 2014 Chosen, by Liz Maluschnig (Pleroma Press, 2013) Reviewer: Charlotte Bell Liz Maluschnig has written a beautiful book about caring for the love connection between two people who are courageous enough to explore and be intimate with each other. In Chosen, she describes the journey of vulnerability required, with all its fears […]
Feature February 2014 Sue Devereux Watching my children with their offspring over Christmas, I was reminded of the challenge in raising a young family, keeping up with meals and multiple activities, often after a broken sleep in a world made more frantic by the speed of communications. Today’s young parents often struggle without the support […]
News 10 December 2013 New Zealanders were among the first in the world on Tuesday 10 December to start a worldwide ‘wave of prayer’ that launched a global campaign to end hunger, with the blessing of Pope Francis. A video message from the Pope (available on the Caritas website) marked the start of a two-year […]
News 10 December 2014 One month on from Typhoon Haiyan, more than 10 million Filipinos are working hard to rebuild their lives. ‘With a million homes damaged or destroyed and the livelihoods of 5 million people impacted, the scale of need is immense’, says Caritas director Julianne Hickey. ‘However, we’re enormously grateful for the generosity […]