WelCom September 2016: Reflections In his exploration of ‘Mary in Culture’ as a contemporary form of scriptural analysis, Kieran Fenn FMS presents part four of his series. Mary and Latin In 1974 Pope Paul VI published his Apostolic Exhortation, Marialis Cultus: Devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. Along with this, the National Conference of American Bishops […]
September 2016 Reflections The Wellington Abrahamic Council of Jews, Christians and Muslims, hosted a public discussion earlier this year at St Joseph’s Church, Mt Victoria, in celebration of the Year of Mercy. JoEllen Duckor (Jewish), Sr Elizabeth Julian (Christian), and Sultan Eusoff (Muslim), discussed ‘Mercy in our Sacred Scriptures’. Sr Elizabeth Julian’s presentation is reproduced in […]
September 2016 Youth, Schools, Education Students from opposite sides of Wellington Harbour got together to celebrate their shared patron saint’s feast day. Mac Duggan and Will Gentry, San Antonio’s School Eastbourne On Friday 13 June we went to St Anthony’s School in Seatoun. We went on the bus early in the morning. It was quite a […]
September 2016 Youth, Schools, Education A young pilgrim’s journey Monique Barrow I journeyed with Rimbrook and Lowana Opus Dei group to World Youth Day, made up of 20 Australian and five New Zealand young women. My pilgrimage took me with my group, first to Rome for a week where we visited important Catholic sites including […]
September 2016 Diocesan News A founding event of the Society of Mary in Fourvière, Lyon, France, on July 23 1816 lives on today through the vocations of Marist family members and communities across the globe. Two hundred years ago a group of laity, vowed religious and priests committed to the Fourvière pledge to unite in […]
September 2016 Reflection At a recent reflection day for clergy and pastoral leaders in Wellington about marriage in the context of Pope Francis’ letter Amoris Laetita, Louise and Mike Kelleher talked about Amoris Laetitia and its powerful and beautiful messages for couples at each stage of the marriage journey. ‘The life of every family is […]
September 2016 News The Health Select Committee inquiry into ending one’s life in New Zealand has received a staggering number of 21,435 written submissions, the majority of them unique rather than form submissions. According to Dr Jane Silloway Smith, Director of Every Life Research Unit who has analysed a randomised sample of the submissions, the […]
September 2016 Features This is the second part of a three-section article in which Bishop Peter Cullinane explores the meaning of gradualness in working for peace. It is well known, of course, that religions have played a part in many violent conflicts. This is what happens when religion is turned into ideology, with its impulse […]
September 2016 Features Reflecting on World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, 1 September 2016, WelCom invited Vicky Forgie, an ecological economist at Ecological Economics Research New Zealand, at Massey University, and a parishioner at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, Palmerston North, to write about sustainable agriculture. Pope Francis dedicated his weekly […]
September 2016 Reflections WelCom has invited a series of Gospel reflections – with a rural perspective – from Tom Gibson a retired dairy farmer who lives in Stratford and is a parishioner of the Immaculate Conception Parish. (Luke 14:25-33) The Demands of Revolution: Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem and – as we see […]