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 30 May 2012 St John’s College Hastings has for the first time won the O’Shea Shield. The college won the highly competitive prize with its sister college, Sacred Heart in Napier on the weekend of May 5 and 6. The Shield was hosted for the first time by Cullinane College in Whanganui. The contest […]
News 30 May 2012 New Zealand is not looking good when it comes to promises it made 20 years ago at the Rio Earth Summit. New Zealand officials have been in a series of meetings with other countries to redraft and alter principles of the original document to water down and back away from caring […]
News 30 May 2012 As well as being a portal for cute and entertaining videos, YouTube has launched a Human Rights Channel, where serious human rights stories can be told. YouTube is keen to enable citizen journalists and organisations to upload footage on under-reported human rights stories. ‘In the case of human rights, video plays […]
News 30 May 2012 Mary, the Mother of Jesus, would have been proud of us. The two communities of St Anthony’s Parish, Seatoun, celebrated Mother’s Day this year with the children helping Father at the 8.30 and 10.00 am Masses and preparing floral gifts for all mums. It was heartening to see the churches full […]
News 31 May 2012 New Evangelisation is nothing new, Archbishop John Dew told the Joshua Catholic Men’s Fellowship’s May meeting.‘It is the same message but we are now being encouraged to find and explore different ways to present the gospel with meaning for the whole world. We need to find and promote relevance in peoples’ […]
News Gary Finlay31 May 2012 This year is the 40th anniversary of the introduction of the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA) which will be celebrated with a gathering in Auckland next month. If you have not witnessed an adult receiving the sacraments of initiation at the Easter Vigil Mass recently it is perhaps […]
News 30 May 2012 The Refugee Family Reunification Trust has just welcomed another family from Somalia who have settled into a house, which the Sisters of Compassion have organised for them in Island Bay. They have spent the past 10 years in transit in Ethiopia, fleeing the ongoing civil war in their own country. The […]
News Monica O’Connell31 May 2012 The Wellington Catholic Social Justice group, which includes parishioners from St Joseph’s, Mt Victoria, St Mary of the Angels and St Bernard’s, Brooklyn are running a winter lecture series linked to the Caritas Social Justice theme for 2012 on ‘Food’. The series starts at St Joseph’s Bill Pearce room on […]
News Jemima Lomax-Sawyers31 May 2012 A Year 13 student at St Mary’s College, Jemima Lomax-Sawyers, has won a nationwide speech contest run by the United Nations Association of New Zealand (UNANZ) this year partnered with UN Youth. The topic for this year’s speech, of up to eight minutes in length, was ‘New Zealand and the […]
News 31 May 2012 Side by Side mentors will learn how to use toys to teach children about compassionate communication in the next training module in July. Mentors learn to connect the gifts of experience, wisdom, empathy and knowledge that are abundant in any Sunday Mass congregation or school meeting to families with young children […]