Features Derek Johnson30 August 2012 Some parishes are rejoicing as they return to churches which have been reassessed as safe after being initially deemed an earthquake risk. More than 25 Wellington churches have been assessed as prone to earthquake damage but some have had more detailed, favourable assessments. Lower HuttParish priest of Ss Peter and […]
Features Cecily McNeill30 August 2012 Oscar Romero and other modern martyrs, Ss Ignatius of Antioch and Polycarp of old, embody the link between Eucharist and martyrdom but, says theologian William Cavanaugh, ‘Christ in the Eucharist calls us all into union, saints and sinners alike’. Professor Cavanaugh of de Paul University, Chicago, was in Wellington last […]
Features Msgr John Broadbent3 September 2012 The changes instigated by Gregory VII (1073-1085), which altered the papacy from what it had been in its first thousand years, placed a burden on his successors.In changing the papacy from a last court of appeal when heresy raised its head to a centre of imperial dignity telling people […]
Features Cecily McNeill3 September 2012 Scripture stories are intended to be heard by communities of people who challenge each other to practise the story’s message. US storyteller, writer and theologian Megan McKenna, a key speaker at last month’s Catholic Education Convention, told a workshop at St Joseph’s Mt Victoria that the word ‘religion’ means something […]
Features David Orange3 September 2012 A picture of a rhinoceros which I did when I was in the primers may have been my first exhibited painting. Sister took the drawing and put it on the wall of the Standard 6 classroom for everyone to see! Imagine what that did for me! Later when I was […]
Features 3 September 2012 How does an agricultural country with a low population end up with 7.3 percent of New Zealanders experiencing low food security and a further 33.7 percent having moderate food security? (Ministry of Health/Otago University nutrition survey.) Food security means having access to enough safe, nutritious food. Food banks, soup kitchens and […]
Features Ethne Wyndham-Smith3 September 2012 The proposed toughening of immigration law was a key focus for the Catholic Women’s League’s national conference in New Plymouth in July. League members heard that some of the proposed changes include the mandatory detention of groups of 11 or more illegal immigrants for an initial period of six months […]
Ethne Wyndham-Smith3 September 2012 At the recent Catholic Women’s League of New Zealand’s (CWL) national conference (July 11-14), some participants wanted to know more about why and how we and the National Council of Women of New Zealand (NCW) work together. The NCW gives CWL a pathway and voice to lawmakers in this country. Membership […]
Parishes Mary Kleinsman-Powell and Sue RyanDecember 2011 The third and final PALS [pastoral area liturgy support] weekend for the year was on the first weekend in November at the Magnificat Retreat Centre, amid the stunning natural surroundings of the Rimutaka Incline in the Wairarapa. The group of people, who mostly hadn’t met until the first […]
Parishes Judith McGinley OP3 August 2010 On Sunday June 13, 2010, I travelled with 20 others from Challenge 2000 across the Rimutakas to celebrate with more than 200 people the 40th jubilee of Fr Eddie Condra’s ordination at St Mary’s Church, Carterton. It was a day of amazing grace and, while we were there to […]