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WelCom June 2020, Issue 383

WelCom June 2020 is available in parishes and schools. It is also available here online.

Our Lady of Kapiti WelCom Supplement

Congratulations to Our Lady of Kāpiti Parish – new church and parish centre opened and blessed 30 May 2020. Download the WelCom supplement here, or view an online version here.

WelCom May 2020, Issue 382

Due to Covid-19 restrictions, WelCom is not currently being printed and distributed to parishes and schools. The May 2020 issue of WelCom is available online here as a double-page version.

Worshipping Together in our Faith Communities

WelCom May 2020: The last day of the month of May will be Pentecost Sunday. At this stage, we do not know what we can expect in terms of where…

Pray for Vocations – He Īnoi mō ngā Tūranga Whakapono

WelCom May 2020: Good Shepherd Sunday, 3 May 2020 – Te Rātapu o te Hēpara, Pai 3 o Haratua 2020 Good Shepherd Sunday is on the fourth Sunday in the Easter…
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Pope warns against ‘worse virus’ of indifference

WelCom May 2020: The aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic will be an opportunity to practice mercy toward the poor and those who are suffering, says Pope Francis. The Pope was…

English bishops urge ‘criteria of fairness’

WelCom May 2020: Human value is not a measure of ‘our mental or physical capacity, our societal function, our age, our health or of any other qualitative assessment,’ said the…

Convictions against Cardinal quashed

WelCom May 2020: Cardinal George Pell has been freed from prison after Australia’s highest court quashed his convictions for child sexual abuse. Cardinal Pell was convicted by a jury of…

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Gospel Reading: Sunday 3 May 2020

WelCom May 2020: Fourth Sunday of Easter – John 10: 1-10Good Shepherd Sunday 1Jesus said: ‘Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever does not enter a sheepfold through the gate…

Catholic Thinking – Why study theology? Part 5

WelCom May 2020: Professor Thomas O’Loughlin, Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham, UK, and a priest of the Archdiocese of Arundel and Brighton on England’s south coast,…

Catholic Thinking – Coronavirus and the Eucharist

WelCom April 2020: Thomas O’Loughlin is Professor of Historical Theology, University of Nottingham, UK, a priest of the Archdiocese of Arundel and Brighton on England’s south coast, and a contributing writer…