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).
Schools 4 February 2013 St Francis Xavier school year 6 student Keller McDonald with the Tawa Citizenship Award 2012. Keller is an exceptional student and shows true leadership, willingly taking on many tasks around the school, including road patroller, peer mediator and Young Vinnie. He is motivated, shows initiative and always tries his best. Friendly, […]
Palmerston North Sue Seconi3 February 2013 Two priests in the Palmerston North Diocese have swapped parishes. Monsignor David Bell left his post of 10 years as parish priest of St Mary’s Whanganui on 25 November and Fr Brian Carmine relinquished his post as parish priest in Stratford. Mgr Bell told the 500 squeezed into St […]
Parishes 3 February 2013 Kevin McEvoy of Upper Hutt with Anne-Marie McCarten of St Vincent de Paul Society and his wife Deirdre after receiving the papal medal, Pro Ecclesia et Pontifice, for long and devoted service to the Church. Archbishop John Dew presented Kevin with the medal during Mass in the Sisters of Mercy Chapel […]
World News Anna Robertson1 November 2012 Earlier this year, the Prime Minister of Timor Leste, Xanana Gusmao, was being interviewed by Radio Timor Kmanek (RTK), the Timorese Catholic radio station supported by Caritas. Talking about his vision for Timor and the role RTK can play, Mr Gusmao said, ‘I want to encourage RTK as a […]
Palmerston North Fr Kevin Neal2 February 2013 Reading is something I’ve always done, especially in areas that I’m interested in which is most things so I have a huge library. Or, at least, I used to. I don’t have as much to come and go on nowadays so I’ve joined the public library. I always […]
Features Msgr John Broadbent2 February 2013 The beginnings of the Church in Wellington owed much to lay Catholics who, for the first three years of the Port Nicholson colony, met on Sundays to pray; Bishop Pompallier came from Auckland for confirmation. The parish which even included a choir was run by an outstanding young Catholic […]
Features Mike Kelly2 February 2013 The mission of lay people in the Church will be centre stage when the Dominican Order’s promoter for the laity Fr David Kammler visits Palmerston North and Wellington next month. Since 2008 the lay Dominican movement in New Zealand has been growing steadily and forging links with the Dominican friars […]
Parishes 2 February 2013 Lights behind the cross on the Sacred Heart church in Kaikoura have been restored so that as well as lighting the way, they glow red, blue or green according to the liturgical season. Parishioner Kerry Howden replaced the expensive neon tubing with LED strip lighting. He says he came across this […]
Schools 1 February 2013 The first graduates of the newly formed The Catholic Institute received their certificates at a ceremony in Sacred Heart Cathedral on 27 November, at the end of the first full year of operation. Most began studying under the Wellington Catholic Education Centre. The New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference formed The Catholic […]
Schools Patrick J Horan1 February 2013 For the first time in the eight years that the Knights of the Southern Cross has been running its religious writing competition, it has attracted more than 100 entries. Students from nine colleges entered the national competition, with two winners coming from Wellington and Palmerston North dioceses. Olivia van […]