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).
Columns Cecily McNeillNovember 2012 It’s been 50 years since the Church was stirred, shaken in some quarters and subjected to a blast of refreshing air with the opening of the second Vatican Council. The Church marked the 50th anniversary of the opening of this momentous council on October 11. Where previously the Church had mostly […]
Columns Msgr John BroadbentNovember 2012 St Elizabeth, a daughter of King Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania, was born in 1207. At the age of four, she was promised to the landgrave of Thuringia’s son, Louis, and was brought up in the castle of Wartburg with her future husband. What was a planned […]
Features Cecily McNeill7 November 2012 Wel-com’s masthead as it appeared on its first issue, September, 1984. Click here for a selection of past front covers. For 300 issues, Wel-Com readers in the Wellington Archdiocese and later in the Palmerston North Diocese have had the benefit of a free monthly diocesan newspaper. […]
Wellington Elizabeth Julian RSM7 November 2012 The elves from Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings on the red carpet for the Wellington launch of the third in the series, Return of the King. Dr Elizabeth Julian rsm offered this analysis of the spirituality of place in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy […]
Columns Kieran Fenn fmsNovember 2012 The church has stated that there is ‘a hierarchy of truths’ and one could easily get the impression that the Marian dogmas, for better or worse, do not currently have the priority and influence that they used to have. They are often the source of great difficulty with regard to […]
Features Cecily McNeill6 November 2012 Christians often ignorant of even the core of their faith, says Pope. The Holy Father is to start a new series of catechetical talks for the Year of Faith amid concern that ‘Christians today often do not even know the central core of their Catholic faith’. At his regular weekly […]
Features Msgr John Broadbent6 November 2012 The papacy, barely returned to Rome in 1377, would soon split off into two papacies and then three, before being resolved. Last month, we saw how St Catherine of Siena managed to persuade Pope Gregory XI to leave Avignon and return to Rome. He lived for only a year […]
Schools Billie Jarman-Bridges6 November 2012 Winner of the Masked Mayhem category, right. Wednesday September 12 brought great excitement, anxiety and nervousness to the Intermediate girls of Ss Peter and Paul School, Lower Hutt. It was the day of their World of Wearable Arts Extravaganza! The preparation for this event had been going on for weeks, […]
NEWS Choi Jong-hyeok6 November 2012 New Zealand Columban Fr Bob Brennan has been awarded the City of Seoul’s Grand Prize for Social Welfare. The Mayor of Seoul, Park Won Soon, made the award at a public ceremony on September 4. In his address of congratulations the mayor said, ‘This blue-eyed foreigner is a model of […]
NEWS 6 November 2012 A Wellington symposium on Vatican II today In the last issue of Wel-com, the archdiocese announced the ‘Joy and Hope’ Symposium to mark the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council. This event will not only celebrate the council but also explore what Vatican II can bring to […]