WelCom September 2022 The Church’s falling support in Australia is a ‘wake-up call’ for Catholics, says Archbishop Timothy Costelloe sdb, Archbishop of Perth and president of the Australian Bishops’ Conference. Catholicism is battling to balance its convictions with the realities of an increasingly secular nation. Forty per cent of the population identifies as having no religion […]
WelCom September 2022 Eighty years after Edith Stein’s death at Auschwitz, August 9, 1942, a Vatican cardinal has said Mass in her honour near the former death camp. Raised as a Jew, Stein was an atheist philosopher who converted to Catholicism in 1921 when she was 30. She became a Discalced Carmelite nun in 1938 and […]
WelCom September 2022 Pope Francis has called for ‘a covenant between human beings and the environment’ to combat climate change. Humanity can no longer ignore the cries of the earth that is suffering due to greed and the excessive consumption of its resources, the Pope said. In his message for the upcoming World Day of Prayer […]
WelCom September 2022 Nick Wilson The Palmerston North Interfaith Group in collaboration with the Palmerston North City Council facilitated a Religious Diversity Celebration Day last month. The theme was ‘Care of the Earth’ with a focus on our collective and sacred responsibility. The theme resonated with approximately 50 people who attended from Christian, Buddhist, Jewish, Baha’i, […]
WelCom September 2022 Fr Ron Bennett A group of members of Wellington’s Abrahamic Council were warmly welcomed to a weekend retreat last May at Kopua Monastery in Central Hawke’s Bay. The Abrahamic Council is a group of Jews, Christians and Muslims who seek to have a better understanding among one another, with Abraham as a common […]
WelCom September 2022 Our Lady of Kāpiti Church complex was completed in August when the ‘Risen Jesus’ stained-glass window in the chapel was blessed by Fr Michael McCabe, the previous parish priest. The original concept for the window came from artist and parishioner, Johannes Sijbrant. It was completed by Olaf Wehr-Candler at Pukerua Glass Studio and […]
WelCom September 2022 Cardinal John Dew met with Seán McMahon, Curator of Manuscripts at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, last month, to mark the transfer of the papers of Eileen Duggan from the Archdiocese into the Turnbull. Of Irish heritage, Duggan was a prominent New Zealand Catholic author as a poet and a columnist from […]
WelCom September 2022 Sue Seconi Religious Sisters, family and friends gathered in a spirit of joy and hope at St Mary’s Church Whanganui on 23 July to celebrate with Adrienne Gallie rsj, her life commitment as a Sister of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Congregational leader Monica Cavanagh rsj from Sydney received Adrienne’s vows. […]
WelCom September 2022 Alfred Tong will be ordained to the priesthood at the Church of St Joseph’s, Upper Hutt at 11am on Saturday 24 September. Please keep Deacon Alfred in your prayers as he prepares for priestly ordination.
WelCom September 2022 Cardinal John Dew is in Rome until 8 September, attending a Consistory, in which 21 new cardinals are being created, and a two-day meeting that Pope Francis has requested with all the cardinals. Following the Consistory, the cardinals will meet to discuss the new Apostolic Constitution on the Roman Curia, ‘Praedicate Evangelium’, promulgated […]