July 2014 Palmerston North Pat Rhodes Father Des Levins, parish priest of Holy Family Parish, Gonville, celebrated his 80th birthday recently. Celebrations commenced on Friday night at the Parish Centre with a social evening. A large crowd gathered to reminisce and were entertained by items from Jonathan Greenwell on the trombone, the Samoan Community and […]
July 2014 Palmerston North Adrienne Bolton At the invitation of parish priest Fr Simon Story, Sacred Heart Church, Hastings hosted Principal Georgina Kingi and the boarders of St Joseph’s Maori Girls’ College, Greenmeadows, at their 9.30am Mass on Sunday 8 June. Fr Don Hamilton, the college Chaplain, said the Mass in Te Reo Maori. The […]
July 2014 Opinion Fr Kevin Neal It was a simple enough request – find a slide projector for my friends. Up to the ‘60s nearly every house in this country had one. They ranged from a very simple machine with a low wattage bulb, no fan and maybe one or two slides at a time […]
July 2014 News Sue Seconi Plans are well underway for the first project of the Associates of Suzanne Aubert – Te Hunga Whai i nga Akoranga a Suzanne – since being established in January 2012. Nationally and locally known quilter, Merrilyn George from Ohakune will exhibit over 20 quilts inspired by and honouring Suzanne Aubert. […]
July 2014 Feature Kevin P Clements Western democracies are facing a cruel dilemma. Instead of feeling secure in our affluence and generous in our disposition we feel insecure, fearful and selfish. Politicians play on our insecurity and fear and we become passive rather than active citizens, infants instead of adults and supporters of the status […]
July 2014 Palmerston North Brian Walsh St Brigid’s Church Pahiatua has recently been renovated, upgraded, and earthquake strengthened to the new building code. Stage one involved the replacement of the flat roof with a pitched roof and considerable interior refurbishment. Stage two will involve the extension of the gathering area, kitchen, parish office and toilets. […]
July 2014 News Suzanne O’Rourke The remembrance service held at St Peter & Paul’s Catholic Church, Lower Hutt on Saturday 21 June served as a poignant reminder of the joy of lives remembered as well as the grief at their loss. The idea to hold a remembrance service on the shortest day of the year […]
July 2014 Feature Cecily McNeill In February, Wel-Com carried the first of a two-part article about the independent report Ngāpuhi Speaks which documents northern Māori interaction with settlers and the British crown. Part two was to have been run in March but a complaint to the Press Council stalled publication. The complaint was not upheld […]
July 2014 Book review Brian Easton Economist Brian Easton gave this review to a Wellington gathering in April for the launch of the latest book from Accent Publications But Is It Fair? Faith Communities and Social Justice edited by Neil Darragh The 36 writers are from the faith communities. Their diversity is admirable: there is […]
July 2014 Holy Land 2014 Cecily McNeill For the Palestinian people their land is a big cage out of which they cannot escape without a permit, granted only at Easter and Christmas, as well as in emergency cases, but then only until 7pm. The eight-metre-high separation wall that surrounds Bethlehem has, since around 2004, prevented […]