Author: wmc

‘When the workshop started talking about social issues and resolving social issues by going and talking to the people involved, I know that works because I’ve been doing it since 1992.’

People living in a squatter settlement in Fiji were empowered to repair their homes themselves after cyclone damage using the techniques of social analysis they’d studied over about seven years.

Brian McKee and Pat Hoult both died on May 24 2008. History will remember them as among those who saved New Zealand Catholic education and made it what it is today.

Among the more than 450 free concerts, art exhibitions, and forums on offer at World Youth Day the Columban youth Theatre of the Oppressed depicts real life situations of struggle.

In appreciation of tangible and significant assistance given for the furtherance of better understanding and friendly relations among peoples of the world.

Many of the ingrained remnants of older Catholics’ upbringing and religious culture were recently subjected to rigorous scrutiny, exposure and confrontation at St Mary’s, Carterton, under the guidance of spiritual director, Jim Dooley sm.

Like the whisper of a gentle breeze the breath of the spirit takes me by surprise, awakens me, and touches the church and all mankind in unfathomable ways.

Some mornings I stand under the shower and think of being baptised into a new day. As the water cascades over my head I imagine Jesus in the Jordan river, probably standing much the same way and thinking of his life ahead.