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).
Faced with an abundance of painful questions, the Yahwist author asked: why do we suffer these ills? What is their origin? He is certain that they cannot come from a good and just God, who always desires what is best for humanity.
If the first human beings were so perfect, how come it did not occur to them that in falling into sin, they would lose everything that God had given them? Was God so angry that the first people suffered tremendous punishment because they ate a piece of fruit, and we are stuck with it in our throats to this day?
The Adam and Eve account, along with the remaining chapters up to Abraham, is unsurpassable as an account of the origin of sin. Let us be quite clear. At the beginning of last century there was a very literal approach to certain parts of the Genesis story; the existence of Adam and Eve, the appearance of the devil in the form of a snake, though how this was reconciled with ‘one of the good creatures God made’ at the time of the tempting, I can only wonder.
An increase in government spending on rest home workers and overseas aid, as well as concern for a range of social issues were part of a two-day annual conference last month of the more than 90 Catholic Women’s League members from Wellington Archdiocese.
High speed internet access is being provided to schools in central Wellington using City Link in a venture called the Wellington Loop Project. The enterprise was launched last month and St Mary’s College Year 13 student, Miria Royal, told the gathering that the students of today are ‘digital natives’ being the first generation to be brought up digitally. ‘We are multitasking, multiple goal orientated, parallel processing, hypercommunicators.
3 April 2007
Controversial Swiss theologian and papal critic, Fr Hans Kung, says that he has a right to be part of what he describes as Pope Benedict’s ‘loyal opposition’. Canadian Catholic News reports that Fr Kung says that he has a ‘right to be in his holiness’ loyal opposition’, representing thousands of liberal-leaning Catholics who remain disappointed the Second Vatican Council renewal did not go far enough.
World News Robert Mickens, Mark Brolly, Christa Pongratz-Lippitt, Graham Keeley3 April 2007 Large numbers of dissenting voices around the world responded last month to the Vatican’s recent judgement on works by the Jesuit theologian, Jon Sobrino. The Vatican, for its part, went out of its way to engage with the media and explain the reasons […]
Cecily McNeill
3 April 2007
Fr John Dear has been travelling through Australia with his impassioned message modelled on Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, speaking out against the ’35 wars’ throughout the world, in all of which America is involved. His protesting has led him many times to the Pentagon with friends to carry out such creatively nonviolent actions as sitting on the floor in the foyer outside the lifts and reading aloud the names of those who have been killed in the Iraq war.