Opinion Archbishop John Dew The recent CORE days – ‘Together We Are One – a CO-REsponsible Church’ – on 4 and 11 May both had great significance in terms of the history of the Archdiocese.Large numbers of people gathered at Bishop Viard College in Porirua, almost 163 years to the day since Bishop Philippe Viard […]
Feature Cecily McNeill The presence of Christ in a welcoming community was one absolute in a sea of questions at a meeting of parishioners from Johnsonville, Khandallah and Newlands last month. The meeting in Khandallah Town Hall on 19 June drew around 55 people keen to discuss how to live their faith and how their […]
Feature: the future of archdiocesan parishes Cecily McNeill More than 200 people turned out on Sunday afternoon 30 June to discuss the future of parishes in the Hutt Valley with many calling for more vision and strategic planning to reach a sustainable solution. As with other parish meetings in the archdiocese called to discuss the […]
Scripture Kieran Fenn fms Christian theology distinguishes between truths that are essential and primary and accidental or secondary truths that take their importance only in relation to more essential truths, The Blessed Virgin may have appeared at a given shrine, but this truth does not have the same importance as the central truth of the […]
Church History Mgr John Broadbent Antoine Garin was born in St Rambert-en-Bugey in France on 23 July 1810. He was ordained a priest for his local diocese of Belley in 1834 and for three years worked in the parish of Chalamoant. After experiencing the call to overseas missions, he joined the Society of Mary in […]
Editorial Cecily McNeill As parishes in the archdiocese seek to recognise fresh ways to use their resources to better reveal Christ in their communities, the spotlight is starting to fall on lay leadership in the church. Recent combined parish meetings have dwelt on concern for the priests’ workload and its impact on the health of […]
Archdiocesan News Tricia Kane Christian Life Community groups in Wellington and the Manawatu join their counterparts throughout the world this month to celebrate 450 years of lay organisations based on the Jesuit charism. Jesuit founder St Ignatius and his companions set up devotional sodalities of lay people to work among the laity; Belgian Fr Jean […]
Archdiocesan News The Marists are to take over the combined parishes of Otaki and Levin as part of a major amalgamation exercise Archbishop John Dew is proposing for the archdiocese. The planned reduction in the number of Wellington parishes is based on an two-year review where two or more parishes in each pastoral area would […]
Archdiocesan News David Mullin Sunday 28 July is Caring Sunday in Aotearoa New Zealand when the archdiocese focuses on its services for the poor and marginalised. The archdiocese supports many groups through its own agencies and helps to fund others. This month, Catholics around New Zealand focus on the ministries in the Church which care […]
Archdiocesan news Mary-Ann Greaney Celebration was in the air at St Michael’s, Taita, on Sunday 7 June as the parish welcomed two Presentation Sisters, Fran Nicolle and Ruth Coleman, into their community. Srs Fran and Ruth were toddlers when the first wave of five Presentation Sisters arrived in New Zealand in 1951. The first group […]