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).
Dear Father John
A lot of Catholics are up to Dolly’s wax (or the Plimsoll Line for those with a nautical bent) with questions about the Church and life in general with no one to ask.
Pastoral areas in the archdiocese are up and sort of running,
Condolences came from the top of the Catholic Church when the Māori queen, Dame Te Atairangik‚Äöhu, died last month.
The papal secretary of state, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, issued a statement conveying the pope’s sadness at her death.
‘His Holiness
It’s Sunday evening 20 August 2006. Preparations are being made in Ngaruawahia for Dame Te Atairangik‚Äöhu’s final journey tomorrow.
Her casket will travel by waka from T˚rangawaewae Marae seven kilometres down the Waikato River before being carried u
Over the next couple of months, leading up to the launch on 15 October of the first module, ‘Our Beginnings’, you will hear and read about Worshipping Under Southern Skies, a national catechesis that the Bishops of Aotearoa New Zealand have commissioned i
Wartime tunnels and French students with a love of rugby combined for a joyful exchange of both the language and the game in Wellington last month.
St Catherine’s and St Patrick’s Colleges, Kilbirnie, hosted students from the Lyc√àe Robespierre in Ar
A former Marist priest is the new principal of St Patrick’s College, Silverstream.
Philip Mahoney, who has headed Sacred Heart College, Auckland, for nearly six years, returns to Wellington having left as a priest of the Society of Mary in 1990 to wo
Two months ago we gathered at St Mary’s College, in the Hall and in the classrooms and in the corridors and in Sacred Heart Cathedral, and we talked and shared our common faith and discerned our dreams for the future. And in all of that, we felt the prese
Engaging our future today – Aotearoa New Zealand Pastoral Planning Conference.
Lorraine McArthur
Pastoral planning is not about goals and aims strategically prepared in order to make a financial gain. It is about preparing for the way we meet t
Environmental justice’ is the theme for Social Justice Week in the Catholic Church, 10-16 September this year.
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand has produced a resource kit, including the Social Justice Week booklet entitled Renew the face of the earth,
I am not one who angers easily but recently I have been increasingly very angry. The actions, and attitudes, of the Israeli government, and its treatment of the Palestinian peoples are, in my opinion, an insult to humanity on the part of people who were t