Schools Clare Warren2 December 2012 More than 650 people registered for the Sacred Heart College Lower Hutt centenary celebrations at Labour weekend. Past pupils and staff travelled from the UK, France, Dubai, Hong Kong, Canada, Australia as well as from all over New Zealand. Principal RNDM Sr Maureen McBride came from Rome for the occasion. […]
Features Elizabeth Julian rsm2 December 2012 Fifty years ago we did not have the Mass in English, a three-year lectionary cycle, or even a homily based on the gospel – rather they were based on Church teaching or practice. Before Vatican II 50 years ago, the Bible played a minimal role in the lives of […]
Features Kieran Fenn fms2 December 2012 The Gospel of Luke has done much to shape our understanding of the compassionate, forgiving and loving Father through the parable of the Prodigal Son. Forgiveness comes through in the repentant thief on the cross. This is the gospel of joy, 20 references beginning with the joyful tidings to […]
Features Archbishop John Dew1 December 2012 The Year of Faith is opening the doors of new discoveries, new possibilities for all of us. One of these doors is to the door to reconciliation, to forgiveness, and the experience of new life and joy. At the Synod in Rome in October I met Bishop Michael Campbell […]
News 30 November 2012 Ray Lindsay, director of the Diocesan Car Fund Trust, with staff Janne Scoullar and Robyn Snyders, threw a barbecue for Catholic Centre staff last month while winding down the Car Fund which has been looking after cars in the archdiocese for some 30 years.
Schools 29 November 2012 St Patrick’s School Kaponga celebrated its 90th year last month. Here the oldest former pupils Josie Gillbanks, Charlie Chamberlain and Ann McBride help newest pupils Emily Gardner and Alivia Kells to cut the birthday cake.
Schools Mary-Ann Greaney29 November 2012 Three students from Catholic schools have received awards for special achievements this year. The Frances Clarke Memorial Awards recognise special achievements by people with Down syndrome in the greater Wellington area. The awards also provide an opportunity to draw public attention to the worthwhile contributions people with Down syndrome can […]
Features Cecily McNeill29 November 2012 Convicted sex offender Stewart Murray Wilson of Blenheim may be a difficult man to deal with but the media has not helped his release from prison into the community by labelling him ‘the beast’. Br Kieran Garvey who has just retired as the longest serving Catholic prison chaplain in New […]
Features Mgr John Broadbent29 November 2012 In the last 100 years or so, we have been fortunate in having some outstanding popes. It was not so when, last month, we finished with Pope Leo X (1513-1521), who excommunicated Martin Luther in 1520, followed by Luther’s heretic burning of a papal bull in public. Descent into […]
Features Fr James Lyons PP Sacred Heart Cathedral Parish29 November 2012 John 4 – The Woman at the Well As I started to think about this topic and how the beginning of this special Year coincided with the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, I found myself remembering a little publicised […]