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 5 December 2007 Concern about children trick or treating in strange neighbourhoods on Halloween has led to an alternative, a light party, held for the first time in Richmond’s Our Lady of Perpetual Help parish. Organised by the St Paul’s Vinnies, the event catered for the children of the local Catholic School and parish […]
Some 40 classmates of Sacred Heart College, Whanganui, met at the racecourse for lunch on a sunny, show day, 10 November 2007.
The principal of Hato Paora College, Feilding, has appeared in the Palmerston North District Court on Wednesday 7 November on charges relating to allegations of a sexual nature.
Sister Marie Benedicte Ollivier who lives just outside Lyon in France travelled to Napier in November to launch the biography she wrote on one of the founding sisters of Sacred Heart College, Euphrasie Barbier.
Pakipaki is a small village south of Hastings and during the years that Suzanne Aubert lived in Hawke’s Bay (1871-1883) she was first a regular visitor and later lived there. She was fluent in the Māori language and at ease within Māori culture and she went to Pakipaki to nurse and dispense medicines, to catechise and teach.
After a round of sharing on Friday night, hui organiser, Pa Hemi Hekiera, said he felt the Waka had had a sign in one of the contributions to the korero of the previous night. Mandy Scanlan had told of how there had been just two Māori in her parish for a long time but recently the numbers had swelled to 10.
Sr Catherine joined the Board when it changed from being an advisory body to one of governance, with ability to appoint the director and approve budgets.
The presentation took place on 15 November at 1.11pm with 111 school children representing the 111 Māori’s dolphins now estimated to be left in the world.
Bishop Viard College’s barbershop chorus, One Voice, is to sing in San Antonio in Texas from 22 to 29 January 2008.
Schools 4 December 2007 Luana Larsen, Jesse-Lee Morrison, Ina Devine, Kieran Tankersly, Ria Goble, Sinead Namana, Shannon Burgess and Alex Goodin are the enviro group at St Mary’s, Carterton. The group was formed as a way St Mary’s can contribute towards the environment by planting fruit and vegetables, feeding scrap food to the tiger worms […]