NauMai September 2021 In June this year, parishioners in Rongotea marked Sacred Heart Church’s 126th year anniversary with a brunch after Sunday Mass. The church, originally built in 1895, has been part of various parishes over the years – most recently Bulls, Feilding and Our Lady of Lourdes. It’s 125-year jubilee was held late last […]
NauMai September 2021 Parishioners at Te Whaea Tapu o Kāpiti – Our Lady of Kāpiti enjoyed a six-day retreat in May, facilitated by the Kāpiti-based Cenacle retreat team Srs Anne Powell, Mary J Kay, Clare O’Connor with Fr Alan Roberts and Mrs Merle Whiteman. The theme – encountering Jesus – was inspired by St Ignatius […]
NauMai September 2021 Pope Francis has called for dialogue to end the conflict in Afghanistan so that locals can live in peace, safety, and with mutual respect. ‘I join in the unanimous worry about the situation in Afghanistan. I ask you to pray along with me to the God of peace so that the clamour […]
NauMai September 2021 If world leaders don’t take steps in the next few months to get Covid-19 vaccines to the world’s poorest countries, then the darkest days of the pandemic still lie ahead. This is the view of Eric LeCompte, the executive director of Jubilee USA Network, an interfaith alliance founded to advocate for debt […]
NauMai September 2021 The president of the European Commission has paid tribute to Europe’s Christian roots after talks with the Pope, praising the Catholic Church’s role in fostering peace and reconciliation across the continent. ‘Christianity is deeply rooted in Europe – in our daily actions, we perceive their origin in Christian values,’ Ursula von der […]
NauMai September 2021 For Iraqis, the first week of August 2014 will forever be etched into their memory as the start of one of the worst episodes of religious and ethnic persecution the country has ever seen when the so-called Islamic State overtook the Plain of Nineveh. Hundreds of thousands of Christians, Yazidis, and even […]
NauMai September 2021 Scotland’s Catholic international development agency has launched a petition asking the UK government to pledge to do more to tackle climate change ahead of a major UN climate conference. The UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) will take place in Glasgow from October 31–November 12, 2021. The Scottish Catholic International […]
NauMai September 2021 Polish Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, the ‘Iron Primate’ known for his resistance to communism, is to be beatified in Warsaw on September 12. He was a mentor to St John Paul II who said, ‘There would be no Polish Pope without the Primate’. Wyszyński was a martyr of the communist era – he […]
NauMai September 2021 Cardinal Raymond Burke, a former archbishop of St Louis, USA, who was hospitalised after contracting Covid-19, is now off a ventilator and has been moved out of intensive care into a regular hospital room. Burke, 73, one of Pope Francis’ loudest critics, is a former Vatican official who has expressed scepticism about […]
NauMai September 2021 President Joe Biden is poised to nominate Caroline Kennedy to serve as ambassador to Australia, three people familiar with the search process told CNN, in one of the highest-profile envoy selections yet by the White House. Kennedy, the daughter of former President John F Kennedy, served as ambassador to Japan during the […]