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 Joy Cowley3 July 2012 The kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure lying buried in a field. The man who found it, buried it again; and for sheer joy went and sold everything he had, and bought that field. (Matthew 13:44) If you put nine Catholics together and asked them to define ‘Faith’ you […]
Features Fr James Lyons3 July 2012 Divine Cafe! It couldn’t be better named. Not just because the food is heavenly (and it is, with delicate homemade filo pastries and tasty shank pies, succulent soups and roasts, not to mention the desserts) but it comes as part of a retirement village that’s home to a number […]
Features Msgr John Broadbent3 July 2012 A reformist party sprang up around the reformed Benedictine monastery of Cluny founded in 910. Cluny was the first centralised order in the Church. Although it remained a Benedictine abbey, its abbots were usually elected by the local community. The Abbot of Cluny founded many reformed and observant monasteries […]
NEWS Cecily McNeill7 February 2011 The archdiocese is introducing a new, simpler way of levying parishes to better support priests and lay pastoral leaders. An explanatory letter is being sent to all parishes. Throughout the archdiocese parishes support active and retired clergy (including the bishops) from the first collection which is the responsibility of the […]
NEWS Archbishop John Dew7 February 2011 Many in the archdiocesan community are concerned at apparent divisions following changes in the Samoan chaplaincy and misreporting in a number of community newspapers has added to people’s confusion. Contrary to erroneous newspaper reports, I met Archbishop Alapati Mata’eliga on October 24 last year and subsequently accepted in writing […]
NEWS Cecily McNeill8 February 2011 The founder of Challenge 2000 and a tireless worker for a better deal for countless young people over many years, Kitty McKinley, is ‘shocked and stunned’ that her work has been nationally recognised. Kitty has been made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year’s […]
NEWS Sue Devereux7 June 2011 At its heart, stewardship is a recognition that all we have and all we are is a gift from God. It is a way of looking at the world through the eyes of a disciple of Christ. It is saying ‘I am a gift from God’ and being generous with […]
NEWS Sue Devereux2 December 2011 The Training Team for Side by Side Mentoring (Catholic and Anglican) is pleased to introduce Lisa Halliwell, as a mentor fieldworker for the Side by Side mentors. Lisa who comes from St Anthony’s Parish Seatoun will work between the Catholic and Anglican dioceses supporting and offering professional development to trained […]
NEWS 3 December 2011 Pastoral ministers must find fresh ways to engage young people with the gospel, adult educator Chris Duthie-Jung told a youth ministry conference in Palmerston North last month. Drawing on doctoral research into the Catholic identity of Gen Y New Zealanders, he suggested that to respond adequately to the needs of young […]
COLUMN Cecily McNeillAugust 2012 We all like to believe that we have total control over our own lives and our country’s elected leaders in their turn have control over what happens in the country. A key plank of Catholic social teaching is subsidiarity where decisions are made at the lowest level possible to give people […]