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).
A youth movement that attracted some 1400 members in the 1950s and 1960s, a national association of priests comprising half of all the country’s priests in the 1970s and an ongoing scholarship that led him to attempt to challenge his congregations out of mediocrity are achievements for which John Broadbent might be remembered although these are not his most important.
Schools Cecily McNeill4 September 2009 Pupils of St Patrick’s School, Masterton, dusted off their performance gear for two concerts in the Masterton town hall last term. The Biggest Little Kiwiana Show was staged as a benefit concert for the sister of one of the school’s pupils. Pre-schooler Sophie King is receiving treatment for a brain […]
Areti will be studying for his Master of Strategic Affairs degree which will lead to the highly sought after Master of Diplomacy programme. His focus will be on New Zealand’s strategic role in the Pacific.
The machines Stewart’s company builds will break down car and truck tyres at the rate of 200 to 3,000 an hour to fine granules that can then go back into road-making.
Emphasising key opportunities the Church already has for evangelisation Fr Leonard claimed with great passion, ‘I baptise anything that moves, I marry anything that moves and I bury anything that doesn’t!’
New Zealand’s Catholic bishops have stressed that reconciliation, rather than revenge, must become the focus of the justice system to create a safer and more secure society.
There would be few popes in history whose death has caused the universal mourning that accompanied that of Pope John XXIII in 1963. I recalled this 46 years later this Pentecost because he died a day later, on Pentecost Monday. As we shall see later it was somehow appropriate for his lifelong trust in the Holy Spirit.
Next month Timor-Leste celebrates 10 years of independence as a proud but fragile nation.
So what Ray has done over 50 years in his ministry of word and sacrament and what Mark has begun to do is rooted in the ministry of Jesus and the practice of the early church. For their generosity in continuing this great tradition of service I am truly grateful.