Feature November 2013 Jim Consedine Even the puppies under the table eat the crumbs from the table. (Mark 7) The Catholic Worker Movement has won a victory for one of its community members who was ‘physically and mentally incapacitated’ when his wife died two years ago. The High Court in Christchurch has allowed that a […]
International November 2013 Catherine Marshall Isaías Caldas knows the value of a good education. The Jesuit scholastic grew up in Timor Leste and was one of a privileged few who attended St Joseph’s College, a Jesuit-run senior high school. But most of his peers had no such luck – their country’s education system had been […]
Palmerston North November 2013 Eileen Mosquera and Rosie Steiner-Fastier, both born on 1 September 50 years ago and celebrating on the 50th anniversary of St Philomenas Parish Brooklands, New Plymouth. They are pictured with the patron’s statue. Rosie writes that she and Eileen unknowingly sat together at the jubilee Mass on 21 September in the […]
News 18 October 2013 New Zealand church people are full of hope after the visit last month of the chair of the Council of eight cardinals who are helping the pope reform Vatican administration. Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga SDB of Honduras visited Wellington unexpectedly 10 to 12 October immediately after the inaugural meeting of […]
News 16 October, 2013 The Justice, Peace and Development (JPD) Commission of the Wellington Archdiocese are hosting the ‘Pacem in Terris’ event on Saturday 26 October at Tu Hono Hall adjacent to Bishop Viard College, Kenepuru Drive, in Porirua. This event intends to connect the 50th anniversary of the papal encyclical Pacem in Terris […]
News 11 October 2013 Cecily McNeill The Catholic Church in New Zealand is likely to have more representatives at the highest echelons of church governance, the president of the Council of eight (C8) cardinals, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga SDB, said in Wellington this week. Cardinal Rodriguez, of Honduras, arrived in Wellington fresh from the first […]
Archdiocesan News October 2013 Cecily McNeill The archdiocese is proposing that little more than a third of its churches be insured against earthquake damage and to continue paying for full replacement cover over all buildings against such non-natural disasters as fire, theft, burglary, vandalism and storm. In a letter to parishes at the end of […]
Archdiocesan News October 2013 Cecily McNeill Doug Shepherd, ordained to the priesthood on 24 August, was first spotted in 2005 while part of the Anglican community of Seatoun Strathmore. His vicar there, Canon Deborah Broome, says Doug had a special quality, a ‘liturgical presence’. ‘There was something in him, something about his personality – the […]
Schools October 2013 St Peter’s College student Te Rangioinga Karatea-Goddard spoke in Māori from the floor of the Social Justice Week seminar in Palmerston North: From a Māori point of view, I came to learn that for my work to be meaningful it would consist of three main aspects: To consistently learn something new; For […]
Opinion Archbishop John Dew October 2013 As the Year of Faith draws to an end, Pope Francis has chosen ‘the precious gift of faith’ as the theme for his World Mission Day message, on Sunday, 20 October. The Pope reminds us that faith is a gift we cannot keep to ourselves … it is to […]