The October edition of WelCom will be published a week later than scheduled so we can bring news coverage of Bishop-elect John Adams’ ordination and installation as the new Bishop of Palmerston North, which will take place at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, 11am, Saturday 30 September. October WelCom will therefore be distributed to parishes and schools for Sunday 8 October 2023.
Every year, the New Zealand Marist Rugby Federation embarks on a development tour with a selected group of young players to foster both rugby talent and the Marist culture.
In 1983, six months after the US Bishops landmark letter, ’The Challenge of Peace’, addressing the dangers of the nuclear age, Cardinal Bernardin of Chicago gave a famous lecture titled ‘A Consistent Ethic of Life’.
Musician Zosia Herlihy-O’Brien has been awarded the Maxwell Fernie Dame Malvina Major Foundation Award, worth $10,000 over two years, to further her organ education in Europe.
Hundreds gathered on 31 May in Melbourne to celebrate the ordination of Bishop John Panamthottathil cmi as the second shepherd of the Syro-Malabar Eparchy of St Thomas the Apostle in Melbourne.
Following yet another migrant tragedy in the Mediterranean, Pope Francis has expressed his sorrow and urged people not to be indifferent in the face of continuing migrant deaths during dangerous sea crossings.
Married Indigenous men should be allowed to be ordained as Catholic priests and the centuries-old rule of compulsory celibacy will ‘very likely’ ultimately be changed by the Vatican, says Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge.
President Joe Biden’s special envoy for climate issues is counting on Pope Francis’ support to get nations attending the next UN climate summit, at the end of this year, to adopt bold measures to mitigate climate change.
Catholics marked the 78th anniversary of the United States’ 1945 atomic bombings in Japan with calls for nuclear disarmament, prayers for peace and a protest at the White House.