April 2016 Diocesan News Justin du Fresne, Parish Council Chair On Friday February 26, Cardinal John Dew returned to the Milne Drive Paraparaumu property of Our Lady of Kapiti Parish. It was just a day short of 17 months since he had previously visited the site to see first-hand the proposed home of a relocated St […]
April 2016 Diocesan News Frances O’Leary On the morning of Sunday 13 March, some 550 people joined for the Inauguration Mass for the Holy Family Parish, Nelson and Stoke. The Mass marked the amalgamation of the former parishes of St Mary’s, Nelson, and St Francis of Assisi, Stoke. Cardinal John Dew celebrated the Mass, during […]
April 2016 Diocesan News Joan McFetridge At the Parish of Wellington South inaugural Mass, Cardinal John Dew commissioned Joe Green as the new Lay Pastoral Leader who will minister with the parish leadership team. The team consists of Joe, Fr David Dowling and Fr Dennis Nacorda. The Eucharistic celebration and commissioning ceremony were filled with […]
April 2016 Diocesan News Paul Elenio The new Parish of Wellington South was launched during a celebration that lived up to our new vision: ‘We are a community of joyful disciples, growing together and sharing Christ’s message’. Cardinal John Dew celebrated the inaugural Mass at St Patrick’s College, Kilbirnie, along with parish priest Fr David […]
Apri 2016 Features Bill Kilgallon Sexual abuse in the Catholic Church has once again been grabbing the media this year. The film Spotlight has won wide acclaim and an impressive range of awards. It tells the true story of how the Boston Globe newspaper uncovered the extent of sexual abuse by clergy in the Archdiocese […]
April 2016 A forgotten man Annette Scullion In early March, the body of an elderly man was found in his apartment, two blocks from Wellington’s Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sacred Heart. Police estimated he may have died two months previously. Attempts to find next of kin failed. There was no one to claim the body. […]
April 2016 Feature Is it enough to drift along with prevailing views, whether secular or religious? Do we need to sharpen our responses to them both? Emeritus Bishop Peter Cullinane DD explores these questions. Both religion and secularism should expect to have to account for themselves. Neither should be accepted unthinkingly and uncritically. This essay […]
April 2016 Catherine Gibbs, TCI Pope Francis has called us ‘to imagine with freshness who we are as God’s people…for adults this is particularly important if we are to contribute effectively to the sacred duty to pass on our faith to the next generation’. The Catholic Education of School-Age Children’ NZCBC: 2014; p2. How do […]
April 2016 Diocesan News Annette Scullion Music and choral director for Wellington’s Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Michael Fletcher, is taking a two-month sabbatical from July to September this year. He will visit UK and Paris to learn first-hand about their Cathedral choirs, repertoires and school music programmes. Michael will attend the international summer school […]
April 2016 Profile Mike Martin The Catholic Parish of Hastings recently honoured one of its best-loved identities on the occasion of his 100th birthday, with a morning tea after 10am Sunday Mass. Jim was born in Hastings, February 1916, the youngest of three siblings. His father died when Jim was only a year old. He […]