Catholic Masses dedicated to Pike River miners
Catholic Churches around New Zealand are dedicating their daily Masses to the miners who lost their lives at the Pike River coal mine and to their loved ones.
Author: wmc
First Sunday in Advent Year A
33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
The Hobbit resolution – sovereignty or sellout?
Sovereignty, or the right to independent nationhood, is something which must be jealously guarded, and something New Zealand took particular pride in more than a quarter of a century ago when the then Prime Minister David Lange took a firm stance against the United States Government to declare New Zealand nuclear free.
Editorial: the church and workers’ rights
Cecily McNeill2010 The Hobbit films are safe – Time Warner and the New Zealand Government have cut a deal which gives the Hollywood movie maker a larger incentive to work here, courtesy of the taxpayer. The catalyst for this deal was, ostensibly at least, industrial action. The resulting law change, enacted under urgency suspending the […]
Vatican II the final documents summarised
A summary of documents passed during the final session of Vatican II
Vatican II the final session Sep 14-Dec 8, 1965
Following the interminable debates and document revisions of the third session of Vatican II, it was with a great deal of apprehension that bishops gathered in September 1965 for the final session.
That puzzling parable and the poor
Columns Kieran Fenn FMS2010 The gospel for the 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Luke 16:1-13) features the parable of the rascally steward with a series of attached sayings that Luke thought had some connection because of their association with mammon (wealth). Jesus expresses admiration for the shrewdness if not the morality of the rich man’s […]
Archbishop’s column: on the way to celebrate a saint
Archbishop John Dew2010 ‘Believe in the whisperings of God to your own heart.’ These words of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop greeted me when I walked into our cathedral on my return last Friday from my sabbatical leave. I hope that many parishioners throughout the archdiocese have seen the wonderful banners hanging in the […]