Author: wmc

Archbishop’s column

Have I ever thought of being a priest? Well, yes, I have. Every day I find myself saying, ‘This is the situation God has put me in and I accept in faith that God will fill this day with grace’.

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Paul to the Corinthians

If one could trace a unifying and contemporary thread to most issues in 1 Corinthians, it would have to be getting wrong one’s thinking on the body, whether that of the community, one’s physical embodiment or the resurrection body of Christ.

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The complex question of the Deutero-Pauline letters

Every serious writer on the New Testament has to take into account the possibility that seven New Testament letters believed to be from Paul, (Ephesians, Colossians, 2 Thessalonians, 1-2 Timothy, Titus, and Hebrews) do not have direct Pauline authorship.

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Editorial: September 2008

As Catholics we have a duty to ensure that those we elect to care for this redistribution of income are people for whom the service of the common good is also their primary goal.

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Poverty in an affluent society

Despite a decade’s social investment, the government’s statistics indicate that living standards have not improved for the poorest New Zealanders.

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