Author: wmc

A story on World Youth Day which featured in the August 2008 issue of Wel-com won best devotional article applying faith to life at the Australasian Catholic Press Awards in Sydney last night.

The beginning of winter was when the recession hit hardest among clients of Catholic Social Services with a 70 percent increase in social work appointments from May this year compared with the same month last year.

Drawing on 32 years of experience in the Probation Service, Mr McConnell said the service used to be focused on both care and control of former offenders. ‘Care disappeared and control took over,’ he said. His experience was that the prison and probation service have become increasingly coercive, hindering the aim of reducing reoffending. ‘We must maintain as a priority the rehabilitation of prisoners,’ he said.

Seventeen-year-old St Bernard’s student, Jordan Kooge, gave this speech at the Education Convention in Wellington in July.

The karanga is used at the elevation of the host and the chalice to honour the Māori language, and incorporate biculturalism into the parish following synod recommendations that Māori culture play a significant role in Masses in the archdiocese by 2011.

What a gift to see this call to ‘be the change’ in reality during the 2009 Catholic Education Convention in the faces and in the hearts of the more than a thousand people who spent the three days sharing experiences, expanding these through the vision of keynote lecturers and celebrating them in prayer, liturgy and the arts.

It is a striking feature that, while there are pagan priests and Jewish priests in the pages of the New Testament, no individual Christian is ever specifically identified as a priest.