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).
News December 2013 Cecily McNeill A Wellington father of three sons says only the community can bring about the changes needed to crackdown on Internet pornography after a group of boys and young men boasted on social media sites about their raping girls and young women who were drunk and sometimes underage. The internet bragging […]
Opinion December 2013 Cecily McNeill Parents have got it in the neck once again for not supervising the sons who boasted online about having sex with drunk and sometimes underage girls. News that this group of ‘blokes’ has been preying on girls, some of whom have reportedly ‘asked for it’ has captured the wrath of […]
Opinion December 2013 Archbishop John Dew Let peace fill our heartsLet love fill our mindsMake us loving disciples of Christ.May we be oneMay we be yours.Abide with us, O Spirit of life. These words have been prayed up and down the archdiocese during the ‘Faith on Foot Pilgrimage’ (17-24 November) to mark the end of […]
Feature December 2013 Bridget Taumoepeau The last eight months have given us the ‘Francis effect’. The world – not just the Catholic world – has been captivated by a previously little-known man who is teaching by example. From the first moment on the balcony in the Vatican when the leader of the Catholic Church bowed low […]
Reflection 1 December 2013 Veronica Lawson RSM Matthew 24:37-44 ‘Where is the Life we have lost in living?’ asks the Chorus in T S Eliot’s The Rock. The Jesus of Matthew’s gospel is implicitly asking much the same question as Eliot’s Chorus. He is making much the same observation as Henry David Thoreau: ‘Most [people] […]
Feature December 2013 Anne Touhy Paul’s letter to the Galatians reminds his fledgling Christian community they now belong to the body of Christ. This means their old identities have been transformed and their old ways of being in the world have been changed forever. Through faith, the Galatians are called by the Spirit to be […]
Scripture December 2013 Kieran Fenn fms Pope Paul VI’s great Marialis Cultus, published 10 years after the Second Vatican Council, called for a devotion to Mary that was ecumenically sensitive, especially to the centrality of Christ. We need to recognise our own contribution to the Protestant reaction against Mary. The roots lie in the 16th […]
Church History December 2013 Msgr John Broadbent Francis Redwood was among the first boys to board at Fr Antoine Marie Garin’s new school which opened in Nelson in 1852, a decade after the large Redwood family had emigrated from England to a farm near Brightwater on the Waimea Plains. Bishop Viard and the Marists had […]
News December 2013 On Sunday 20 October St Teresa’s parish Featherston celebrated the feast of its patron St Teresa of Avila with a number of special touches recalling the young woman known as ‘the little flower’. A banner of St Teresa was placed on the lawn in front of the church and, as people arrived, […]
News December 2013 Bob Cater On 16 February 2014, the Catholic community of Titahi Bay will celebrate the Golden Jubilee of their parish, before it joins Our Lady of Fatima parish Tawa a year later. St Pius X separated from Holy Family Porirua in February 1964. Despite being able to enjoy just one jubilee year, […]