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).
Cecily McNeill 15 August 2011 The tiny nation of Timor-Leste, 500 kilometres north of Australia, is preparing to elect a new government next June, 12 years after its people voted overwhelmingly for independence from brutally repressive Indonesian rule. The independence vote on August 30, 1999, set off another round of massacres, rape and torture as […]
Archbishop John Dew2011 The last weekend in August will be an important weekend in the life of the archdiocese. We host our first Stewardship Institute in the hope and the prayer that this will make a big impact on the way we live the gospel, on the way we make conscious choices every day to […]
Features Msgr John Broadbent27 July 2011 Blessed Urban II was born Odo at Châtillon-sur-Marne (France) in 1042 and studied at the school of Reims under the founder of the Carthusians, St Bruno. He became Canon and then Archdeacon of Reims. But Odo gave it all away to enter Cluny, the largest and most important monastery […]
Archbishop John Dew2011 Reducing inequalities in New Zealand is a choice we are all able to make. The Catholic Church is proud to be a member of the New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services and to support its Closer Together WHAKATATA MAI project. I strongly encourage Wel-com readers to visit this website. The logo […]
Schools 15 June 2011 St Patrick’s College Wellington won the O’Shea Shield with a convincing three-point lead over runners-up St Catherine’s College and Sacred Heart New Plymouth on May 14-15. As Tom Kelly of St Peter’s, Palmerston North described the O’Shea experience, ‘Imagine the comradeship you feel when you’re hanging out with your friends, […]
Cecily McNeill10 June 2011 The government’s latest budget has dealt a blow to families with children by failing to address a growing gulf between low-income families and those on a benefit. Wellington economist Anne Else told a budget breakfast in Wellington on May 20 that the budget held good news for children with rheumatic fever, […]
Compassion Sisters in Awakening The Dreamer symposium Judith McGinley OP9 June 2011 Poverty, earthquakes, floods, people searching for freedom in many countries, others holding fast to the security of the ‘old ways’, worldwide mismanagement of money – all these things disturb us and urge us to question the way of life we have grown accustomed […]
Archbishop John Dew2011 Pentecost is sometimes known as ‘the birthday of the Church’ – a wonderful day when we remember that the Spirit of God that fills the whole of creation came to those first apostles in the Upper Room and fired them for mission. As we reflect on our own mission it might be […]
Parishes Kathy Orr-Nimmo5 May 2011 In June, St Bernard’s, Brooklyn, will celebrate both the centenary of the opening and blessing of its church, and the Golden Jubilee of the parish. Until 1904 the Catholics of Brooklyn, still a relatively new suburb, had to travel to St Mary of the Angels or St Joseph’s Buckle St, […]
Features Sande Ramage5 May 2011 All of them are dead. The bones of Jesus buried deep in Palestine and Kiwi soldiers in Turkey. Although we post-moderns might like to believe we don’t venerate relics, there’s an annual resurrection attempt every Easter and Anzac Day. Two festivals that usually jostle for space in New Zealand but […]