Archdiocesan Pastoral Services has a new director. Michael Noonan brings to the pastoral team wide experience of Catholic life from Catholic Social Services to Relationship Services to chair of his parish council in Tainui, Dunedin. He is a founding member of the Dominican Family Community in Dunedin, a trained counsellor, retreat leader and spiritual director […]
Columns Archbishop John Dew 5 April 2013 On Sunday 17 March, just four days after he was elected, Pope Francis gave his first Angelus message. 150,000 people gathered on this St Patrick’s Day in St Peter’s Square to hear him. It was also the Fifth Sunday of Lent and he therefore spoke on God’s mercy. […]
Scripture Kieran Fenn fms 5 April, 2013 The feast of the Immaculate Conception made its first appearance towards the end of the seventh century, influenced by popular apocryphal accounts of Mary’s own miraculous birth. A little background A vision seen by the abbot of a monastery in Kent during a life-threatening storm led to the […]
Feature Sr Judith McGinley and Cecily McNeill 5 April, 2013 Dominican Fr David Kammler reiterated Pope Benedict’s call for lay people to be seen as truly co-responsible for ‘the being and acting’ of the Church when he spoke in Connolly Hall at the beginning of March. He said lay people should not just be collaborators […]
Book review Pa Gerard Burns 5 April, 2013 Pa Henare Tate, He Puna Iti I Te Ao Marama (A Little Spring in the World of Light– Towards an Indigenous Māori Theology), Libro International, 2012. RRP $75 At a time when we are invited to work on a New Evangelisation, Pā Henare Tate’s book on the […]
News 5 April, 2013 The Sisters of St Joseph of Whanganui have received authorisation from the Congregation of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life in Rome, to proceed with ‘fusion’, or merger, with the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.Congregational leader, Sr Catherine Shelton, said the sisters were very pleased […]
Features Sr Catherine Jones SMSM 5 April 2013 Lyon, France, 1809: Philippe Joseph Viard, the man wwas to become the first Bishop of Wellington, was born into the chaos of post-revolutionary France. Lyon was also the birthplace of the Society of Mary which Viard joined as a diocesan priest to fulfill his desire to leave […]
Feature Cecily McNeill 5 April, 2013 A long-term homeless woman Rebecca Voice of Upper Hutt whose story inspired the search for a homeless women’s facility in Wellington, says the churches have saved her life. Rebecca’s sleeping rough behind St Anne’s Church in Newtown regularly in 2008 prompted the parish to explore the implications of homelessness […]
News 5 April, 2013 Temporary accommodation for homeless women is to open in Wellington late this month. The Wellington Homeless Women’s Trust will run the accommodation in the central city to house up to five women for a maximum three months. The women must be referred to the trust. The trust, chaired by Rongotai MP […]
Feature Kieran Fenn fms 5 April, 2013 Vatican II document Dei Verbum was the focus of Fr Bernard Espiritu‘s lively presentation at the Joy and Hope: Vatican 2day symposium on 23 February. Fr Bernard briefly outlined the history of the contentious first draft of Dei Verbum (Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation – the Word of […]