Years of struggle to define spirituality in a way that does justice both to the traditional and religious framework in which the spiritual life has been treated in the past have brought Fr David Ranson to realise that it is about being awake.
The Sisters of Compassion’s new purchase, Compassion House in Luke’s Lane, central Wellington, was opened on 23 February. The Governor-General of New Zealand, The Honourable Anand Satyanand, gave the following speech.
Sister Frances Gibbs has belonged to the Order of Brigidine Sisters for the past 52 years, and has touched the lives of hundreds of people in a very special way. Over the years she has been an active blood donor, and also cared for those who needed blood.
Members of the three canonical bodies, the Archdiocesan Pastoral Council, the Board of Administration and the Council of Priests met for their annual gathering during the first weekend of March.
Catholic Social Teaching (CST) is one of the tools we have for helping us understand what God is asking of us today in our world.
At the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi in 1840, Governor Hobson affirmed, in response to a question from Catholic Bishop Pompallier, ‘the several faiths (beliefs) of England, of the Wesleyans, of Rome, and also Māori custom shall alike be protected’. This foundation creates the opportunity to reaffirm an acknowledgement of the diversity of beliefs in New Zealand.
This month, on 25 April, we remember the New Zealand and Australian soldiers who fought at Gallipoli in 1915. Many of them died as a result of a bungled leadership, others from the conditions in the trenches or from the poor nutrition that went with field battles. Margaret Orange of Masterton offers this reflection on her father’s experience of The Great War.
2 April 2007
Testifying at the Indonesia-East Timor Truth Commission, former Dili Bishop Carlos Belo said that Indonesian forces and their militia allies had systematically razed the diocese’s compound as well as other churches, killing several clergy and an unknown number of others.
2 April 2007
Refugee lawyer Julian Burnside has accused Immigration Minister Kevin Andrews, a Catholic, of betraying his religious principles and breaching international law over the sending of 82 Sri Lankan asylum seekers to detention camps in Nauru.
Three St Bernards, Lower Hutt, students won 11 scholarships between them last year.