The Palmerston North Diocese has embarked on an internship programme that centres on young people and their relationships with God, their parish and the diocese building on World Youth Day 2008 pilgrims’ desire for more of the Sydney experience.
A community house has opened in the Palmerston North Diocese where young people can live together while they discern their purpose in life.
Jordan Anderson, deputy head girl of Sacred Heart College, Napier, has won a spot in the youth parliament in July topping a speech contest on the top five things that would make Hawke’s Bay the ‘best place in the world to live’.
Lil had often thought about the kind of coming-of-age celebration Jesus might have had.
I’ve just returned from a week in Dunedin. It’s quite a trek. Even flying direct from Wellington it still took almost two hours in a smallish plane.
Archbishop John Dew of Wellington has apologised to the people of the archdiocese for ‘the deviant and sometimes criminal behaviour of clergy in many parts of the world’.
‘Those policies caused deep division between the haves and the have-nots in New Zealand, the effects of which are still felt today.’
Parish groups, agencies and church organisations are being asked to identify and support parish groups that need funding to provide a helping hand to families in their midst.
Tony Devereux of Our Lady of Fatima Parish, Tawa, hangs up his rugby boots after 55 years of playing rugby.
Ss Peter and Paul Parish, Lower Hutt, last month celebrated the preparation of eight catechumens for reception at Easter and the award of a papal medal and farewelled a parishioner moving into religious life.