2024 Olympics a time for global fraternity
Pope Francis has expressed the hope that the 2024 Olympic Games in France will be an opportunity for ‘an authentic impulse of fraternity which the world needs so badly’.
Welcom Archive 2007-2026
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).
Olympic motto created by Catholic priest
Henri Didon, a famous 19th century Dominican friar in France, was the person who first came up with the Olympic motto Faster, Higher, Stronger (Citius, Altius, Fortius).
Scorcese to make another movie about Jesus
Famed Hollywood film director Martin Scorsese has indicated his intention to make another film about Jesus Christ, reports suggest.
Pope plans document dedicated to St Thérèse of Lisieux
Individuals become Christian because they have been touched by Christ’s love, not because they have been convinced or coerced by someone else, Pope Francis said.
The Catholic Church needs missionary disciples who have hearts like St Thérèse of Lisieux and who ‘draw people to love and bring people closer to God,’ he told people at his weekly general audience in St Peter’s Square, 7 June.
PM’s science teacher of the year makes science fun!
Dr Doug Walker, Head of Science at St Patrick’s College, Wellington, has won Te Puiaki Kaiwhakaako Pūtaiao – the 2022 Prime Minister’s Science Teacher of the Year Prize, valued at $150,000.
Pātaka kai – sharing food with community
Nā tō rourou, nā taki routou ka ora ai te iwi. With your basket and my basket we sustain people.
St Brendan’s School in Heretaunga, Upper Hutt, is an Enviro School on a journey of learning about how to improve and give back to the school and church community.
First Holy Communions for Shannon
First Holy Communion was made by a group of children at St Joseph’s Church amidst a busy few weeks of celebration at the small Eucharistic community at Shannon.
St Pat’s Town shines at Big Sing
The annual Big Sing Regional festival is always a highlight for our St Patrick’s College, Kilbirnie, choir ‘Con Anima’. This year the overall standard of the other college choirs in attendance was the best we had seen in some time.
National recognition for student leadership
Dedication to protecting the environment has seen Lauren Harkness, a Year 12 student at Sacred Heart College Napier, named as 2023 Leader of the Year by the Duke of Edinburgh’s Hillary Award.
Popular youth worker commissioned
Parishioners of the Catholic Parish of Whanganui – Te Parihi Katorika Ki Whanganui were invited by parish priest Fr Craig Butler, at Sunday Eucharist on 14 May, to extend their right hands as Rain [Lorraine] Forrest was commissioned as a youth minister.