We meet new friends and we want to get to know them better. How do we do it? We share our stories. We tell them about our childhood, how we met our spouse or how our great-grandparents moved here.
We live in a rational, left-brain world with global
Sometimes the unbearable can be made bearable, if you just change the way you look at it.
I was telling my spiritual consultant about this truly dreadful school board meeting I had to attend. Lousy chairing, no finishing time, everyone frustrated out
There are countless stories from those who have been part of a World Youth Day. A thought I had in preparing to host pilgrims ourselves is the reality of being a visitor.
When you visit a foreign country you are in the hands of your host. You are in
Catholic Schools Board Limited has invested more than $3 million in a record number of projects this year.
CSBL CEO Mary Neazor says she is delighted with the number of exciting projects that have been undertaken through CSBL’s Property Programme.
Veronica Lawson has a doctorate in theology from Trinity College, Dublin, and taught biblical studies and theology at Australian Catholic University for many years. She is now congregational leader for the Sisters of Mercy, Ballarat diocese.
Veronica
Māori Catholic voices were added to a gathering in Alice Springs last month to mark 20 years since Pope John Paul II’s landmark message about the rights of indigenous peoples in 1986.
Danny Karatea-Goddard of Palmerston North addressed the gathering
ABRAchordABRA from St Catherine’s College have recently been named one of New Zealand’s top female secondary school barbershop quartets being placed second in the national finals in Hamilton.
The quartet, consisting of Ashleigh Twist (tenor), Rowena
The crypt under St Mary of the Angels is recognising the end of an era this month with the departure from Wellington of its founding order, the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (RSCJ). Eighteen months ago Sr Helen Gilroy handed over to Sister Sarto
The archdiocese has a new vicar for education.
She is Jenny Gordon who has been working in the education area for the past 30 years and currently teaches at St Mary’s College.
She will represent the archbishop in all things to do with education
That our task is the same as that of Jesus and of Mary his mother, to get our egos out of the way and let God work through us, was the message of Franciscan priest, Fr Richard Rohr, in Wellington last month.
As well as the 300 or so people at the tw