Palmerston North Gwen Mardle2 October 2012 Brother Ferdinand Alquiroz Miranda believes that his vocation to the priesthood is ‘in the blood’. The 34-year-old Filipino student at Good Shepherd College has two uncles who are priests (one a Cistercian monk) and an aunt, a religious sister. ‘I was also influenced by my grandmother who is a […]
Palmerston North Luke Collins2 October 2012 On the weekend of September 22, 65 young people were confirmed at St Patrick’s Napier and Sacred Heart Hastings in exciting youth-led Masses. In the previous 10 weeks these young people and 14 youth leaders had met weekly to deepen their self understanding, other awareness, their relationship with God […]
Palmerston North Shirley Knuckey2 October 2012 The Feast of Ss Peter and Paul marked a special celebration at New Plymouth’s St Joseph’s Church, as parishioners, family and friends joined Fr Fergus Reeves to celebrate his golden jubilee of ordination to the priesthood. Fifty years ago Fr Fergus was ordained for the Archdiocese of Wellington on […]
Editorial Cecily McNeillOctober 2012 Two teenagers murdered on the same spot at Paraparaumu just one month apart and a national suicide rate said to be double the road toll – the most vulnerable are 15 to 19-year-olds. As well, about a quarter (around 270,000) of our children are now living in poverty, lacking access to […]
David Loving-Molloy2 October 2012 We recently had our SC 101 ‘Introduction to the Old Testament’ weekend at the St Francis Retreat Centre in Auckland. This went very well and we are half way through the course. The second half will take place on the weekend of November 2–4. The Catholic Deaf Centre also recently had […]
2 October 2012 Sacred Heart parish Thorndon wants to hear from anyone who may know the origin of the statues that grace the cathedral crib each Advent. As the parish prepares to celebrate with joy and anticipation the mystery of the incarnation, members are hoping to have the statues’ many cracks and chips repaired. Last […]
Features Cecily McNeill2 October 2012 Children will be the biggest losers in a review of the Family Court which recommends that the court’s highly successful counselling service be cut. This is despite the government framing proposed changes as ‘putting children first’. Catholic Social Services counsellor Gail Teale says it is likely couples who want to […]
Features 2 October 2012 More needs to be done to give children in need of state intervention a better chance, a Family Court Judge told the Public Health Association conference at Pipitea Campus, Victoria University, Wellington on September 5. New Zealand’s Principal Family Court Judge, Peter Boshier, was responding to the Ministry of Justice’s proposed […]
Features Msgr John Broadbent2 October 2012 Last issue, we reached the point where the French pope Clement V (1305-1314) had moved the papacy to Avignon, starting the 70 years of so-called ‘Babylonian captivity of the papacy’. Clement died in 1314, leaving a papal treasury depleted from excessive personal use. The next in lineThe line of […]
Features Jane Langham and Cecily McNeill2 October 2012 Palliative care specialist Sinéad Donnelly says she presumes the prime minister is confusing the ceasing of curative treatments with euthanasia when he says he supports its legalisation. John Key told Newtalk ZB on August 23, ‘I think there’s a lot of euthanasia that effectively happens in our […]