NEWS 7 February 2011 After nearly 23 years as director of Challenge 2000, founder Kitty McKinley is stepping aside for social worker Bridget Roche who’s been working with the organisation for the past three years. The board of Challenge has been developing a succession plan for the past 18 months to enable Kitty to continue […]
NEWS 7 February 2011 Challenge has been forced to close its alternative education centre due to an ongoing lack of ‘realistic’ Ministry of Education funding. A smaller amount of money provided by Trusts during the current recession has added to the toll. Since Challenge College opened in the year 2000 Challenge has carried the financial […]
NEWS Cecily McNeill7 February 2011 Challenge 2000 has opened a second House of Hospitality this time in Johnsonville to complement the youth house that has been open for three years on the south side of the city. The new house will operate along similar lines with a core group of residents offering hospitality to those […]
Archbishop John DewFebruary 2011 ‘Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the Divine Presence.’ These words from Br David Steindl-Rast, appeared on the ‘Word for the Day’ on the gratefulness.org website on New Year’s Day this year. Wonderful words for the beginning of the year, they reminded me […]
Cecily McNeill February 2011 The gospel of the fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, provides a blueprint for living in society. In the Beatitudes (Mt 5:1-12) Jesus gives eight ways in which we can as a community find true happiness. The first thing to note is that Jesus is talking to a crowd because this gospel […]
Archbishop John Dew December 2010 This is a wonderful phrase ‘God’s great enterprise of self-giving’. We prepare during this Season of Advent for the self-giving of God at Christmas. We are blessed to be the people who benefit from the self-giving of God in every liturgy we celebrate: Liturgy is essentially something given and, in […]
Sharing Faith Interfaith (Catherine Jones in Action on this) Ecumenism (Catherine Jones in Action on this) Theology – Need to reference some courses from CIANZ (Wcec site) Growing in Community Leadership Catholic Mäori Deaf Chaplaincy (Dave Loving-Molloy in action) Appeals (DM to complete) Stewardship Working for justice and peace Prison Chaplaincy Hospital Chaplaincy Professional Standards/Confronting […]
Parishes J P Twaalfhoven and the Holy Molies13 September 2010 What does it mean to be a young Catholic these days? Who better to ask than our young chaps themselves? Here’s what the Holy Molies of Ss Peter and Paul Parish, Lower Hutt, had to say about it: ‘… to be involved in our local […]
Parishes Fr David Dowling3 September 2010 On Sunday July 25, parishioners of Our Lady of Grace, Heretaunga, rejoiced with Fr Brian Fletcher’s relatives and friends as they celebrated his Golden Jubilee of priesthood in a special Mass of Thanksgiving. Historically, the priest has been viewed by many as being better, or different or holier than […]
World News Cecily McNeill9 July 2007 Counting is expected to be underway in Timor Leste this weekend as the country chooses the government in the second parliament since the tiny Pacific nation gained independence from Indonesia in 1999. Timor’s independence came with a high price—massive bloodshed at the hands of Indonesian militia reluctant to hand […]