Tongan Language Week at Bishop Viard College
Last month, Bishop Viard College celebrated Tongan Language Week, 3–9 September, starting with a whole-school Mass at the Holy Family Parish in Porirua as students and whānau began celebrations together.
Author: Rose Miller
Young people invited to work with young people
Tuākana Youth Minster Lavinia Foliaki (Nia), pictured front third from right, at a World Youth Day event in Wellington, 6 August, where Nia organised her sisters, youth group and students from St Catherine’s College to take on roles for the day.
Challenge 2000 through the winter months
Challenge 2000 – Wellington’s Catholic-centred Youth Development, Community and Family Social Work Agency – have had a busy and change-filled time over winter. Since June, Director Damian Dempsey left to become the NZ Catholic Bishops Conference Executive Officer and Kitty McKinley returned as acting CEO. Kitty who founded Challenge in 1988 knows our mahi and charism well.
Dates and events – what’s on
If you would like your event listed free on this page, please email an outline to welcom@wn.catholic.org.nz including the name of the event, date, time, location and contact. Sunday 8 October Support Life Sunday – (see p 3).Blessings of Pets – St Francis of Assisi Church, Stoke, 8.30am Mass, all parishioners’ pets welcome. Monday 9–Friday […]
Archbishop Martin to receive pallium in Wellington
Archbishop Paul Martin sm is to receive his pallium at a special ceremony in Wellington from Papal Nuncio Archbishop Novatus Rugambwa, on Sunday, 5 November, at the 5pm Mass, St Mary of the Angels. The New Zealand bishops will be present.
WelCom September 2023
The latest issue of WelCom is available to read here.
“Let Justice and Peace Flow”
In his 2023 message for the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, 1 September, Pope Francis appeals for a renewal of our relationship with creation. His message focuses on the theme, ‘Let Justice and Peace Flow’, inspired by the words of the prophet Amos: ‘Let justice flow on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream.’
‘Build a better world’, says Australian RE expert
The gifts we have as Catholics are not just to build a stronger church but to help build a better world, says visiting Australian religious educator Professor Br David Hall fms.
Catholic bishops say abhorrent abuse at Marylands and Hebron Trust should never have happened
The nature and scale of abuse set out in the report, released 2 August 2023, from the Royal Commission on Abuse in Care is abhorrent and should never have happened, says Archbishop Paul Martin sm, General Secretary of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference.
Newly amalgamated Catholic Parish of Buller and Inangahua
It was a while in the planning… and Sunday 20 August 2023 was the day the two Catholic parishes in the Buller District reformed into one combined parish.