NauMai September 2021 Catholic Foundation Scholarships Applications are invited for the Catholic Foundation Scholarships. Applications opened on 1 August and close on 24 September 2021. Eight scholarships are available to students living in the Archdiocese of Wellington who are in their final year of secondary college education. The scholarships of $2,000 each for the first […]
NauMai September 2021 Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand has announced the winners of the 2021 SINGout4JUSTICE song-writing competition. The theme was ‘A NEW WAY FORWARD’. The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world and we are faced with finding a ‘new way forward’, with love, justice and peace at the heart as we are all part of […]
NauMai September 2021 Penelope Van Der Lee Defining, unpacking and instilling ‘hope’ was a key takeaway from this year’s Passionist Young Adult Retreat, held at the Magnificat Retreat Centre, Featherston, in July. Hope was seen as – and explored in – ‘light, goals, strength, beginnings, questions and future’. Newcomers and seasoned retreaters alike dove into […]
NauMai September 2021 Following campaigning led by students of Ōtorohanga College, from the Waikato region, two years ago the government announced that history of Aotearoa New Zealand would be required in the school curriculum to year 10. The proposed history curriculum encourages learners to be critical citizens – learning about the past to understand the […]
NauMai September 2021 First Catholic Māori priest (1914–1994) – Ngāti Maniapoto and Ngāti Hāuaroa Wiremu Hākopa Toa Te Āwhitu, the first Māori to be ordained as a Catholic priest, was born at Ōkahukura, near Taumarunui, on 28 July 1914. He was the third of 10 children of Tamakaitoa (Toa) Te Āwhitu and his wife, Katarina […]
NauMai September 2021 Changes to the Privacy Act, which came into effect on 1 December 2020, have wide-ranging implications in the Catholic Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Matthew Balm, Privacy Officer for the Diocese of Palmerston North, explains. ‘Privacy’ is a bit of a buzzword in certain circles, conjuring emotions from disinterest to concern in […]
NauMai September 2021 The sixth report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which assesses scientific, technical, and socio-economic information about climate change, was published as The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change, on 9 August 2021. Grim but not hopeless. A foreboding future but the potential for a better one, if immediate, […]
NauMai September 2021 The IPCC’s latest report on climate science only confirms with greater certainty and immediacy the need for rapid action to cut greenhouse gas emissions and prioritise the poor and future generations in adapting to an uncertain climatic future, says Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand. ‘Oceania peoples on the frontlines of climate change have […]
NauMai September 2021 Peter Healy sm The UN Intergovernmental Panel on climate change has released its latest report. This Sixth Assessment Report is a weighty document at nearly 4000 pages and the science is described as robust. It has been tagged ‘code red’ because human activity is changing our climate in unprecedented ways. A key […]
NauMai September 2021 Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand will host an online talanoa*, ‘Dialogue for our Future Home’, on 28 September, for Oceania voices to share experiences of environmental impact and response, and imagine their common future. This Season of Creation event will support Caritas Oceania’s annual State of the Environment for Oceania assessment to be […]