Author: wmc

A youth movement that attracted some 1400 members in the 1950s and 1960s, a national association of priests comprising half of all the country’s priests in the 1970s and an ongoing scholarship that led him to attempt to challenge his congregations out of mediocrity are achievements for which John Broadbent might be remembered although these are not his most important.

Schools Cecily McNeill4 September 2009 Pupils of St Patrick’s School, Masterton, dusted off their performance gear for two concerts in the Masterton town hall last term. The Biggest Little Kiwiana Show was staged as a benefit concert for the sister of one of the school’s pupils. Pre-schooler Sophie King is receiving treatment for a brain […]

Areti will be studying for his Master of Strategic Affairs degree which will lead to the highly sought after Master of Diplomacy programme. His focus will be on New Zealand’s strategic role in the Pacific.

There would be few popes in history whose death has caused the universal mourning that accompanied that of Pope John XXIII in 1963. I recalled this 46 years later this Pentecost because he died a day later, on Pentecost Monday. As we shall see later it was somehow appropriate for his lifelong trust in the Holy Spirit.