School 3 December 2011Year 13 students at Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt, celebrating their last week of school last month before studying for final exams. Traditionally the Year 13s dress expresses a different theme each day and here they are as their favourite characters: Tweedle Dee (Danielle Kellett) Tweedle Dum (Chloe Rodway) Beetlejuice (Brooke Nightingale) […]
Schools Margriet Lynch3 December 2011 Plimmerton’s Susannah Lynch is off to Malta in March to compete in the Secondary Schools Cross-Country World Championships. And at the College Sport Wellington annual awards evening on November 6, she was named Multisport Athlete of the Year. Suzannah’s excitement is tempered only by the fact that the 15-year old […]
Schools 9 November 2011 St Francis Xavier’s Tawa, paid tribute to the All Blacks in its school production this year basing it on the Rugby World Cup and welcoming visitors to Aotearoa New Zealand. The children singing the national anthem in Maori and English at the end was very moving, particularly as a ‘whistle’ blew […]
Features Paul Elenio5 September 2011 When is damage to public or private property justifiable on the basis that it apparently advances a cause or promotes a grievance? This question would have returned to the minds of many people last month when the so-called Waihopai Three appeared in the High Court in Wellington to respond to […]
Cecily McNeill1 September 2011 Going deeper can be scary, Anne Powell told a gathering in Sacred Heart Cathedral Wellington during the PrayLive day before the Stewardship Institute last month, but, it can also be invigorating. ‘Be aware of the silence of this sacred space so different from the clamour, noise and hurry going on down […]
Features Cathy Harrison3 May 2011 Hospitality is the act of the recklessly generous heart, says Joan Chittister. In this context, here in Christchurch, we have been submitted to epic proportions of recklessness! But one cannot downplay the devastating consequences of the recent earthquakes, the resulting brokenness, the unbearable grief and sorrow which continue to hang […]
Features Robyn O’Neil3 May 2011 Seasons 4 Couples is a weekend course for married couples who have been through a major change in their lives. This change may have been life-changing, or it may be slowly bubbling away invading all parts of a couple’s life. The course offers time out to reflect on the change […]
Features Gerard Burns2011 If we see water as a gift from God, caring for the waters of the earth is an obvious response. The parishes of the pastoral area have launched the Porirua Holy Water Project to raise awareness of the situation of the waters of the area. In launching the project on Plimmerton beach […]
Features Jessica Reiher3 May 2011 Children in the Gifted and Talented class at St Theresa’s school Plimmerton, GATE, are calling on New Zealand to follow the example of other some countries and ban the use of plastic bags. St Theresa’s wants New Zealand to be like Taiwan, Bangladesh and others that have banned plastic bags. […]
Features Mgsr John Broadbent1 December 2011 As with St John of the Cross, St Francis de Sales was a saint of the Counter-reformation, the Catholic movement which opposed the 16th century Protestant Reformation by trying to purify the Church of many of the evils and comforts it had grown into in the late Middle Ages. […]