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).
It’s really hard to talk about what it is to be Marist. I guess you could say the basics – he is a bloke who belongs to the Society of Mary; he’s either ordained or he’s a brother; he lives in community with his confreres; he strives to be a man of prayer
Timothy Doidge of St James’ School, Palmerston North, has just won five medals at the Southern Cross Games in Auckland.
The Southern Cross Games are held biennially for vision-impaired students throughout Australasia from ages 9 -18 years old. This
Catholics know that they are in dire straights with today’s shortage of clergy. What most do not realise is that the thinning of numbers in recent years is just the lead up to a haemorrhage, which will occur during the next 20 years.
Four generations
Bishop Julian Porteous of Sydney says the Pope would never allow part-time priests, as Fr Hodgens suggests.
The Catholic Weekly reports that Bishop Julian Porteous said part-time priesthood represents a radical departure from the concept of priestly
The voice of mature women needs to be heard and the experience behind it valued, Wellington Central MP Marian Hobbs told the Wellington branch of the Catholic Women’s League recently.
This was in praise of the league’s persistence in speaking up for
The devastation wrought by a recent fire at Nukutere College in Rarotonga, was a catalyst for a major Lenten fundraising drive at St Patrick’s Kilbirnie.
Nukutere College is a Catholic College and it operates under the New Zealand Education system.
The St Vincent de Paul’s new pregnancy assistance programme has been in demand since it started a couple of months ago.
The programme took over where Pregnancy Help left off, offering help to mothers on low incomes with clothing, bedding and nappies
Two events added more than the usual interest to our Holy Week Triduum liturgies at St Joseph’s, Waitara.
Doreen and Dennis Hanover had designed an innovative tomb to fit neatly beneath the altar.
The sombre red and black colours of Good Frida
St Joseph’s, Mount Victoria, crowned its new church at Easter with a full immersion baptism. For the parish this was the culmination of some five years of searching for a way to move from the old to the new.
Kate Bell puts this Easter moment in cont
Refugees from Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo), Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Burundi, Laos, Sudan and Burma, are due to arrive in Wellington and Palmerston North this month under New Zealand’s refugee quota programme.
The Burmese group is the largest t