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).
California’s three-strikes legislation has resulted in prison conditions that are ‘draconian, inhumane and cost a fortune’, former California Prison chaplain director Ron Givens told an audience of around 40 gathered at St Joseph’s parish, MÄoria on May 13.
Catherine of Siena, Meister Eckhart, Bartolome de las Casas, Francisco de Vitoria and Martin de Porres, to name just a few, touched the centre of Dominican life and made it new by active engagement in their societies and boldly challenging injustice…
Dominican priest Peter Murnane, one of the so-called ‘Waihopai three’ told the Wellington District Court in March that, though he loves the United States as a country, he has watched with horror its military activities ‘over many decades of my life’.
The decision has generated much debate, and this comment seeks to explain the legal basis of the decision, and the implications for the future.
Bernard Hyacinth Aputhasamy SJ
9 June 2010
As the Thai capital faced a dramatic climax to a nine-week standoff between anti-government protesters and troops on Wednesday May 19, the Jesuit community in Bangkok opened its doors to a group of ‘Bangkok refugees’.
A packed cathedral of family and friends rejoiced with over 100 recipients of the first Fitzgerald Awards of the Archdiocese of Wellington last month.
Budgets cover many items but a particular feature of the 2010 Budget was its changes to tax policy.
Having a stroke is about as near as you can get to dying and coming back, says Fr Kevin Neal of St Mary’s, Taradale. It’s as though half of the brain’s 12 or so hard disks have fallen off the shelf and been trampled underfoot.