Feature February 2014 Sue Devereux Watching my children with their offspring over Christmas, I was reminded of the challenge in raising a young family, keeping up with meals and multiple activities, often after a broken sleep in a world made more frantic by the speed of communications. Today’s young parents often struggle without the support […]
News 10 December 2013 New Zealanders were among the first in the world on Tuesday 10 December to start a worldwide ‘wave of prayer’ that launched a global campaign to end hunger, with the blessing of Pope Francis. A video message from the Pope (available on the Caritas website) marked the start of a two-year […]
News 10 December 2014 One month on from Typhoon Haiyan, more than 10 million Filipinos are working hard to rebuild their lives. ‘With a million homes damaged or destroyed and the livelihoods of 5 million people impacted, the scale of need is immense’, says Caritas director Julianne Hickey. ‘However, we’re enormously grateful for the generosity […]
News December 2013 Cecily McNeill A Wellington father of three sons says only the community can bring about the changes needed to crackdown on Internet pornography after a group of boys and young men boasted on social media sites about their raping girls and young women who were drunk and sometimes underage. The internet bragging […]
Opinion December 2013 Cecily McNeill Parents have got it in the neck once again for not supervising the sons who boasted online about having sex with drunk and sometimes underage girls. News that this group of ‘blokes’ has been preying on girls, some of whom have reportedly ‘asked for it’ has captured the wrath of […]
Opinion December 2013 Archbishop John Dew Let peace fill our heartsLet love fill our mindsMake us loving disciples of Christ.May we be oneMay we be yours.Abide with us, O Spirit of life. These words have been prayed up and down the archdiocese during the ‘Faith on Foot Pilgrimage’ (17-24 November) to mark the end of […]
Feature December 2013 Bridget Taumoepeau The last eight months have given us the ‘Francis effect’. The world – not just the Catholic world – has been captivated by a previously little-known man who is teaching by example. From the first moment on the balcony in the Vatican when the leader of the Catholic Church bowed low […]
Reflection 1 December 2013 Veronica Lawson RSM Matthew 24:37-44 ‘Where is the Life we have lost in living?’ asks the Chorus in T S Eliot’s The Rock. The Jesus of Matthew’s gospel is implicitly asking much the same question as Eliot’s Chorus. He is making much the same observation as Henry David Thoreau: ‘Most [people] […]
Feature December 2013 Anne Touhy Paul’s letter to the Galatians reminds his fledgling Christian community they now belong to the body of Christ. This means their old identities have been transformed and their old ways of being in the world have been changed forever. Through faith, the Galatians are called by the Spirit to be […]
Scripture December 2013 Kieran Fenn fms Pope Paul VI’s great Marialis Cultus, published 10 years after the Second Vatican Council, called for a devotion to Mary that was ecumenically sensitive, especially to the centrality of Christ. We need to recognise our own contribution to the Protestant reaction against Mary. The roots lie in the 16th […]