Opinion Cecily McNeill October 2013 Local bodies govern many aspects of our daily lives and this month the country votes for a new set of representatives to make decisions about, for example, the quality of drinking water and whether its use should be measured and further charged for. Water is essential for survival and, in […]
National Clergy Assembly October 2013 Fr James B Lyons Grace, gift and benediction were three words picked up by Archbishop John Dew when he formally closed the Diocesan Clergy Assembly in Rotorua on 20 September. Keynote speaker, Dominican priest Timothy Radcliffe, had used these words as he explored images of leadership suitable for the Church […]
Palmerston North October 2013 A Social Justice Week seminar in Palmerston North on 14 September was an attempt to get politicians and others to walk alongside young people in looking at the issue of meaningful work for the young worker. A Tongan student who came to New Zealand when she was five, said her parents […]
Archdiocesan News October 2013 At the Australasian Catholic Press Association conference in Melbourne on 4-5 September, Wel-Com beat down fierce competition to win best editorial in 2012-2013. The winning editorial was ‘A living for the least’, on the living wage, published in the February, 2013 issue of Wel-Com. In the citation, the judge said: […]
Palmerston North October 2013 Sian Owen rsj The ritualisation of the re-unity of the Sisters of St Joseph of Nazareth, Whanganui, with the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart took place on Saturday 24 August after 137 years of separation. It was a day filled with rich symbolism, moving ritual, joy and much […]
Archdiocese News October 2013 As part of the archdiocesan reimagining project A future full of hope, the two parishes in Karori and Wilton have renamed their combined parish, Catholic Parish of Otari. The new name will take effect on 1 April 2014, a year after discussions started at Masses and joint meetings between parish councils […]
Scripture October 2013 Kieran Fenn fms In an insightful comment, theologian Karl Rahner reminded us that it was the image of the woman Mary that enabled the church in past centuries to prevent society, with which it was too uncritically identified, from setting up a purely patriarchal domination. He adds that the Church had to […]
The two Kapiti parishes celebrate their coming together as one under the new name, Our Lady of Kapiti, on Sunday 13 October, at 10am. Our Lady of Fatima in Waikanae and St Patrick’s Paraparaumu have been discussing merging for the past three years under the guidance of a committee comprising members of both parish communities. […]
Church History Mgr John Broadbent October 2013 Stories of lay women as outstanding public figures among Catholic pioneers in Wellington are scarce. Many women religious came to New Zealand by invitation of one of the Church’s founding bishops to found schools. A Mrs Petre was a great hostess in Wellington and the Hutt in the […]
Schools October 2013 Petra Jaeger-Letts The two Lower Hutt colleges St Bernards and Sacred Heart came together recently for a moving rendition of the Te Rakau Trust play, The Battalion. Helen Pearse-Otene wrote the play based on the story of the 28th Maori Battalion in World War II and it was first performed in the […]