Signature Choir: promoting Pacific music and culture
Wellington-based ecumenical-interfaith Signature Choir is achieving widespread national and international attention through performing and promoting Pacific music and culture.
Author: Rose Miller
‘How can we be a missionary synodal Church?’
At the end of this month I will be returning to Rome for the second session of the Synod on Synodality. Those who attended last year are required to be there again. It will be good to reconnect with people I met last year and with whom I spent the month in prayer, discernment and discussion. Fr Dennis Nacorda from the parish of Wairarapa is also attending.
Review of End of Life Choice Act – public submissions now open
Assisted dying – in the form of physician-assisted euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide – became legal in Aotearoa New Zealand three years ago on 7 November 2021.
That law stipulates there must be a review within three years of the practice coming into force and every five years after that.
Te Rōpu o Ngā Rangatahi o te Rūnanga o Ngā Pīhopa Katorika o Aotearoa
Representatives from the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference National Council for Young People of Aotearoa met with the New Zealand bishops at the Home of Compassion in Wellington, 20–21 August.
The council, with representatives from each diocese, meets regularly with the bishops. Its role is to advise and advocate on behalf of young Catholics in Aotearoa New Zealand.
West Auckland parish priest Fr Mosese Tui appointed Archbishop of Samoa-Apia
Pope Francis has appointed Fr Mosese Vitolio Tui sdb – the parish priest of St Paul’s Parish in Massey in West Auckland – as the new Archbishop of Samoa-Apia.
Wellington Catholic primary schools face potential closure
Two Wellington Catholic primary schools are facing potential closure because of growing financial pressures in maintaining the schools and stagnant population growth in the capital.
The Archdiocese’s General Manager, Reuben Norris, and Vicar for Education and Director of Catholic Schools Education Services, Kelly Ross, recently met with parents of children at the two schools. They have issued the statement in the panel below.
Sisters conserve rare flag
A rare military flag has received much needed conservation work from the Carmelite Sisters at Christ The King Monastery in Christchurch. The flag is the Regimental Guidon of the 9th Wellington East Coast Mounted Rifles of WWI and is paraded by Queen Alexandra’s Mounted Rifles (QAMR) based at Linton Military Camp, near Palmerston North.
Assessment of Catholic safeguarding offers blueprint for improvement
An independent assessment of Catholic safeguarding protocols and procedures in New Zealand has identified significant progress in many areas, while also highlighting where more work is needed.
Synod on Synodality: Bishops launch regional workshops ahead of October meeting in Rome
Around the world, bishops together with the Catholic faithful of their dioceses in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa have been gearing up for the second session of the 2021–2024 Synod on Synodality to take place 2–27 October in Vatican City.
Five religions gather to celebrate fraternity at Paris Olympics
Bishop Emmanuel Gobilliard of Digne, the Holy See’s special representative for the 2024 Paris Olympics, was the representatives of the five major religions involved in the Paris Olympics, at a significant interfaith ceremony held on Sunday 4 August outside Notre-Dame Cathedral, to highlight a message of universal fraternity.