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 November 2013 Priests from overseas ministering in the Archdiocese of Wellington meet monthly to follow up on the initial ‘Landing of the Waka’ programme and ongoing formation on cultural transition. The day usually begins with group sharing followed by input on a relevant topic of interest expressed by the group. There is plenty of […]
News November 2013 Adult education has had a vital injection of knowledge and expertise with the creation of two new roles to lead the National Centre for Religious Studies. Professor Anne Tuohy of The Catholic Institute of Aotearoa New Zealand has announced the dual appointments of Chris Duthie-Jung and Anne Kennedy to the positions of […]
News November 2013 The documentary film How Far is Heaven about the Sisters of Compassion and the tiny community of Hiruharama on the Whanganui River is soon to be available on DVD. How Far is Heaven premiered at the New Zealand International Film Festival in 2012. It then screened for more than six months in […]
News November 2013 Engaged Encounter is starting again after a year’s break in its 25 years of operating in New Zealand. Two couples and a priest went to Sydney last month to train in the new outline for a weekend and the organisation will again offer weekends in the archdiocese during 2014. Engaged Encounter is […]
Opinion November 2013 Fr Kevin Neal Prayer and singing are two topics I ponder often. A friend of mine, a De La Salle brother, as I was before ordination, clothed me in priestly vestments. He had been a good friend since I was in my early 20s and was a big person in every way […]
Schools November 2013 Cecily McNeill ‘The story of Polish refugees escaping from the Soviet occupation during World War II became a winning topic for one St Patrick’s College Kilbirnie student last month in a double first for the college. Aleksander Noble-Campbell won the Wellington Speaking Union’s Stockley Cup on 21 October with his grandmother’s story […]
Schools November Helen O’Sullivan rndm Napier’s Sacred Heart College students presented the results of mission fundraising at a Special Character ceremony on 25 September. Two months earlier, on 7 August, the college’s Special Character leaders had challenged students to find creative ways to raise funds to support the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions’ […]
Reflection November 2013 Sandie Cornish Catholic Social Teaching reminds us that we are ‘social by nature’. In this passage (38) from his encyclical on The Light of Faith (Lumen Fidei) Pope Francis explores the meaning of this phrase: ‘Persons always live in relationship. We come from others, we belong to others, and our lives are […]
International November 2013 Catherine Marshall Isaías Caldas knows the value of a good education. The Jesuit scholastic grew up in Timor Leste and was one of a privileged few who attended St Joseph’s College, a Jesuit-run senior high school. But most of his peers had no such luck – their country’s education system had been […]
Feature November 2013 Jim Consedine Even the puppies under the table eat the crumbs from the table. (Mark 7) The Catholic Worker Movement has won a victory for one of its community members who was ‘physically and mentally incapacitated’ when his wife died two years ago. The High Court in Christchurch has allowed that a […]