Ōtari Parish of Wellington has been slowly integrating more te reo Māori into our Mass responses for some years.
Around 8.30am on Sunday 8 October, the sound of taonga puoro (traditional Māori instruments) echoed over Wilton’s valley from St Thomas More Church.
A double celebration was held at St Michael’s Church in Taita of Te Awakairangi Parish over a weekend in September. On Saturday 23 September, St Michael’s Taita Samoan Aulotu/community celebrated their 30 years’ anniversary of establishment within the parish.
On 8 August, to celebrate St Mary MacKillop’s Feast Day and as part of their Local Histories Curriculum, everyone dressed-up as children and teachers from the 1860s.
It was with great rejoicing and gratitude we celebrated the 70th Jubilee of Religious Profession of Srs Mary-Ellen O’Sullivan rndm and Valerie Lawson rndm. Family, Sisters and friends gathered firstly in Notre Dame Chapel in Hamilton for the celebration of the Jubilee Mass. Rev Darren McFarlane and Rev Msgr Frank Eggleton were the celebrants.
All parishes throughout the Palmerston North Diocese will be invited to seek out the Poor and the causes of their poverty in response to World Day of the Poor on 19 November.
Material poverty can be obvious, but Pope Francis prompts us to seek out other less obvious forms of poverty and address their causes.
Are you motivated to contribute to the Church’s work for justice and peace inspired and informed by Catholic Social Teaching? The archdiocesan Ecology Justice and Peace Commission and its committees for integral ecology, poverty, and bicultural relationships, invite nominations for 2024 membership.
Statistics show that women of faith are more exposed to sexual abuse than others, no matter what religion they belong to. A survey carried out in 2000 showed that 7.8 per cent of women with no religious affiliation were victims of domestic violence, while the figure rose to 9.1 per cent for Catholic or Protestant women, and 17 per cent for Muslim or Jewish women.
Hong Kong authorities are on the verge of granting official approval for a new Catholic university to be established.
This initiative has been announced several times by Bishop Stephen Chow, who was recently appointed a cardinal by Pope Francis.
New statistics released by the Vatican show that the global Catholic population is increasing. The annual report, released 22 October by the Vatican’s Fides news agency on World Mission Sunday, covers the one-year time period comparing the numbers of 31 December 2021 to 31 December 2020.
At a September 30 consistory, Pope Francis created 21 new cardinals from 15 different countries. Eighteen of the new cardinals are under the age of 80 and are therefore eligible to vote in a conclave. The consistory was in continuity with Francis’ steady geographic diversification of the College of Cardinals.