Whanganui marae thriving on community love
The marae beside the new St Mary’s Church in central Whanganui, has been open for little over six months providing a cup of tea and a chat for around 45 regulars, Monday to Thursday.
Author: wmc
Californian warning on ‘three strikes’ legislation
California’s three-strikes legislation has resulted in prison conditions that are ‘draconian, inhumane and cost a fortune’, former California Prison chaplain director Ron Givens told an audience of around 40 gathered at St Joseph’s parish, MÄoria on May 13.
Dominican family life for the 21st century
Catherine of Siena, Meister Eckhart, Bartolome de las Casas, Francisco de Vitoria and Martin de Porres, to name just a few, touched the centre of Dominican life and made it new by active engagement in their societies and boldly challenging injustice…
Base feeds US torture, court told.
Dominican priest Peter Murnane, one of the so-called ‘Waihopai three’ told the Wellington District Court in March that, though he loves the United States as a country, he has watched with horror its military activities ‘over many decades of my life’.
Legal aspects of the ‘Waihopai Three’ decision
The decision has generated much debate, and this comment seeks to explain the legal basis of the decision, and the implications for the future.
Why Thai politics is no longer normal
Thai locals seek refuge in Jesuits’ Bangkok base
World News
Bernard Hyacinth Aputhasamy SJ
9 June 2010
As the Thai capital faced a dramatic climax to a nine-week standoff between anti-government protesters and troops on Wednesday May 19, the Jesuit community in Bangkok opened its doors to a group of ‘Bangkok refugees’.
More than 100 awarded for parish service
A packed cathedral of family and friends rejoiced with over 100 recipients of the first Fitzgerald Awards of the Archdiocese of Wellington last month.
JPD on the Budget for low-income earners
Budgets cover many items but a particular feature of the 2010 Budget was its changes to tax policy.