Sacred Heart College, Lower Hutt, and St Patrick’s College, Silverstream, are joint winners of this year’s O’Shea Shield competition.
The O’Shea Shield Speech and Drama Competition is an annual event, which sees young people from 17 Catholic secondary schools throughout Wellington archdiocese and Palmerston North diocese gather to compete in a variety of speech and drama events over two days.
Eucharistic processions were held in many cities across the United States in celebration of the solemnity of Corpus Christi, 11 June, a more than 700-year-old feast day that commemorates the real presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
Sudan is in the front line again as the country is engulfed in war. Church leaders are among those calling for peace as desperate people try to survive the latest catastrophe.
While recuperating from his abdominal surgery earlier this month, Pope Francis was particularly grateful for messages and drawings received from children receiving treatment in the Gemelli Hospital’s paediatric oncology department.
University of Notre Dame Australia research academic Tracey Rowland has been appointed to the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (PASS), becoming the second Australian to receive the honour.
Pope Francis has expressed the hope that the 2024 Olympic Games in France will be an opportunity for ‘an authentic impulse of fraternity which the world needs so badly’.
Henri Didon, a famous 19th century Dominican friar in France, was the person who first came up with the Olympic motto Faster, Higher, Stronger (Citius, Altius, Fortius).
Famed Hollywood film director Martin Scorsese has indicated his intention to make another film about Jesus Christ, reports suggest.
Individuals become Christian because they have been touched by Christ’s love, not because they have been convinced or coerced by someone else, Pope Francis said.
The Catholic Church needs missionary disciples who have hearts like St Thérèse of Lisieux and who ‘draw people to love and bring people closer to God,’ he told people at his weekly general audience in St Peter’s Square, 7 June.
Dr Doug Walker, Head of Science at St Patrick’s College, Wellington, has won Te Puiaki Kaiwhakaako Pūtaiao – the 2022 Prime Minister’s Science Teacher of the Year Prize, valued at $150,000.