Social Justice Week September 12, was marked at St Mary’s Church, Palmerston North, with people from the faith community wearing traditional dress and expressing the various elements of their culture in the liturgy.
Funding in Catholic schools was a hot topic at a pastoral area forum in Hawke’s Bay in August with one speaker saying that there is a total moratorium on new building in Catholic schools but ‘some state schools are benefiting from millions of dollars being spent on extensions and upgrades’.
A life of turmoil with a grandchild in the house or a relaxed yet ordered existence with just two teenagers to deal with ‘ there’s no contest, you would think, but now that she’s an adult, my husband and I would not swap the last 20 years for anything.
Many women re-enact their abortion experiences through repeat pregnancies and abortions, substance abuse, eating disorders, broken relationships and worse. The Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries offer such women forgiveness, peace and hope.
The newspaper for the dioceses of Wellington and Palmerston North, Wel-com, has won an award for best news story in recent Catholic press awards.
A widespread fear among beneficiaries that benefits will be cut amid changes to the welfare system brought many to a series of meetings the Alternative Welfare Working Group called last month.