Feature Cecily McNeill 5 April, 2013 New Zealand has the second highest rate of imprisonment, second only to the United States, Chief District Court Judge and Parole Board chair Sir David Curruthers told participants in the Joy and Hope Vatican 2day symposium in February. ‘We spend millions of dollars locking up our fellow citizens.’ The […]
News Derek Johnson 5 April, 2013 St Vincent de Paul Society’s Wellington headquarters in Ozanam House Newtown needed part of a wall removed so that the old altar-bread making machines could be removed. The new machinery arrived from Papini Officina in Italy on 27 March and needed to be hoisted through the hole. Top, manager […]
Feature Mary Scanlon, LCM 5 April, 2013 The Little Company of Mary celebrates the 100th anniversary this year of the death of its founder the Venerable Mary Potter. Mary was born in London on 22 November 1847, the youngest of five and the only daughter of William and Mary Anne Potter. Her father abandoned the […]
Feature Cecily McNeill February 28, 2013 The experience some years ago of Eucharist in an African American parish in Washington DC illustrated the workings of the Holy Spirit for the keynote speaker at last month’s Joy and Hope: Vatican 2Day Symposium. Dominican sister Dr Helen Bergin told the almost 200 people gathered at St Patrick’s […]
News 28 February 2013 A key point about Gaudium et Spes (The Church in the World) is that it is addressed to all peoples regardless of beliefs, Caritas director Julianne Hickey told the symposium. The second important fact about this document is that it came from the floor of Vatican II rather than being drafted […]
News 28 February 2013 Director of The Catholic Institute Anne Tuohy described Lumen Gentium (The Dogmatic Constitution on the Church) as an exciting document because there is such a clear trace of the Holy Spirit throughout. The documents from the Second Vatican Council have two common and quite discernible threads running through them. ‘The first […]
Feature Cecily McNeill28 February 2013 Fr James Lyons of Sacred Heart Cathedral parish led participants at the Joy and Hope: Vatican 2day Symposium down a 1960s Memory Lane on Friday 22 February with a rousing rendition of Bob Dylan’s The times they are a-changing which soon raised the roof as people joined in. There were […]
Columns Archbishop John Dew March 2013 ‘Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.’ Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation took many of us by surprise, others said that they were not surprised at all, and some even spoke of his decision to resign as ‘a noble and selfless decision’, […]
Column Cecily McNeill March 5, 2013 In this Year of Faith when we recall the vision of Pope John XXIII in convoking the Second Vatican Council 50 years ago, the papacy is again in focus with the conclave to elect Pope Benedict’s successor about to start. The cardinals gathering for the conclave this month would […]
Monsignor John Broadbent’s exploration of the issues surrounding the promulgation of Vatican II documents, Vatican II: Between the lines, is on sale from the Wel-Com office for $10 per copy within New Zealand. These articles were first published in Wel-Com during 2010. For more information email wel-com@wn.catholic.org.nz or phone +44 (0)4 496-1759.