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).
Parishes 15 May 2010 A typically brilliant sunny Nelson day shone on around 400 parishioners for the recent 50th jubilee celebrations for Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish in Richmond. While 50 years is comparatively young, the parish draws on a rich history going back to 1856 when the Nelson colony was still in infancy […]
Chaplain to the deaf community David Loving-Molloy is concerned that deaf children are not being taught New Zealand sign language, which is an official language of the country, because it is not compulsory at school.
The Centre Waiora is a place for the expression of Christian faith, care and hospitality to students and staff on campus.
There are two films that I’ve seen lately that have made me really think. They are on dvd and I knew nothing about them when they arrived at my friends’ place.
A new improved programme, written largely by Bishop Peter Cullinane, started in August last year to prepare candidates for confirmation at Pentecost, May 23.
The leader of a grief counselling programme in the high-medium unit of Rimutaka Prison says the men she works with are struggling day-to-day because they have no one in whom they can safely confide.
Parishes 15 May 2010 This group of women and men from St Peter Chanel Parish, Motueka, come together regularly after Mass to share their views on the church in the modern world, the state of the economy and the price of fish. Anticlockwise from front left: Twinkle Black, Carol Cowell, Shelly Fry, Leo Hylton-Slater, Fr […]
Parishes 15 May 2010 More than 150 parishioners from Our Lady of Fatima, Waikanae, and St Patrick’s, Paraparaumu, were welcomed back to the cradle of the Catholic faith on the Kapiti Coast, at Pukekaraka Marae early in the morning of Saturday, March 13. They came to find out more about each other and about what […]
Parishes 15 May 2010 The Youth Ministry Team at St Patrick’s Parish, Paraparaumu, spent a weekend in February with 41 young people from the Kapiti Coast and Horowhenua, at Forest Lakes in Otaki pondering church for youth. The teenagers participated in various learning and fun outdoor activities including a mud slide, flying fox, confidence course […]
Irish Columban Fr Sean McDonagh’s call for a Synod for Creation in light of the need to almost halve carbon emissions worldwide in the next decade set the tone for a recent school principals’ conference in Hobart, Tasmania. This was an inspirational Conference of Catholic Secondary Principals of Australia (CASPA) where cosmology and ecology were explored in depth.