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).
Features Jane Langham and Cecily McNeill2 October 2012 Palliative care specialist Sinéad Donnelly says she presumes the prime minister is confusing the ceasing of curative treatments with euthanasia when he says he supports its legalisation. John Key told Newtalk ZB on August 23, ‘I think there’s a lot of euthanasia that effectively happens in our […]
News Fr Penehe Patelehio2 October 2012 The man who had Alzheimer’s disease and was dying had struggled for so long. He had endured memory loss for many years. All the while his daughter had taken very good care of him. One day, towards the end of his life, she asked him, ‘Do you know who […]
News Shane Olsen2 October 2012 New Zealand has one of the worst rates of income inequality of the developed or wealthy countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In two decades the country has gone from being one of the most equal to among the most unequal countries in the developed world. […]
Archbishop John Dew2 October 2012 It is almost 10 years since Cardinal Tom Williams and I began the archdiocesan wide consultation process that resulted in the setting up of pastoral areas for the Archdiocese of Wellington on October 1, 2003. Since then we have built up ‘a church of communion’ of parish communities working together […]
World News Derek Johnson2 October 2012 That the Church is ‘200 years out of date,’ was the way some Catholics learned of the death of one of the Church’s most senior and controversial cardinals. The emeritus Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Martini, who died on August 31, had made the statement in an interview published shortly […]
The Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart have verified a claim that their foundress Mary MacKillop was excommunicated because she reported priestly child abuse.
Similarly the sisters in Aotearoa New Zealand taught Māori children but initially the congregation had no formal mission to Māori.
Senior St Patrick’s College Silverstream student Roneil Kintanar is just back from Melbourne where he joined five other New Zealand youth delegates at a United Nations conference.
About 30 people attended the week-long workshop, drawing in expertise from Caritas member organisations in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga and Australia, including four staff from Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand. Congolese priest Fr Pierre Ntakobajira represented the global Caritas Internationalis network and Caritas Asia sent a representative.