The Sisters of Mercy’s presence in Palmerston North for many years will come to an end when Sr Cecily Finucane rsm moves to Villa Joseph in Upper Hutt. She will join Srs Joan Manson and Pamela Ward who also recently moved there from Palmerston North.
‘Those who sing pray twice,’ said St Augustine.
The choir at St Teresa’s Church, Karori, Wellington, is looking for new members. Under the directorship of Douglas Mews, besides leading the congregational singing, the choir sings a variety of liturgical music: Palestrina motets, plainsong hymns, Māori waiata, Gelineau psalms as well as modern repertoire.
The Marist St Pat’s Rugby Football Club Premier Women’s team have cleaned up at the famous club’s annual prize-giving. Along with Team of the Year honours, Monica Tagoai, a St Mary’s College Old Girl, became the first woman player to win Marist St Pat’s Paul Donoghue Cup for Sportsperson of the Year.
Maureen McKillop and Sarah Dench, two Wellington members of Christian Life Community – an Ignatian Lay organisation, attended the five-yearly World Assembly – in Amiens, France.
The title of Pope Francis’ next Apostolic Exhortation will be Laudate Deum, the Pope revealed, while addressing participants in a meeting of Latin American university rectors in the Vatican, and as he vehemently warned against a throwaway culture.
Australia’s Catholic bishops say the issues surrounding the proposed Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice referendum ‘are not just political’, but are also ‘moral and ethical’.
Amid rising tensions among European leaders over how to respond to a new influx of migrants, Pope Francis arrived in the French port city of Marseille on 22 September 2023, warning that civilisation is at a crossroads.
The incoming Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith has warned that bishops – both progressive and those from traditionalist groups – who think they have a ‘special gift of the Holy Spirit to judge the doctrine of the Holy Father’ are on a road to ‘heresy’ and ‘schism’.
Newly discovered correspondence suggests that World War II-era Pope Pius XII had detailed information from a trusted German Jesuit that up to 6000 Jews and Poles were being killed each day in German-occupied Poland.
Brazilian soccer legend Ronaldo Luís Nazario da Lima, nicknamed ‘The Phenomenon’, has received the sacrament of Baptism.