WelCom August 2019: Palmerston North’s Lecturer and Diocesan Coordinator for The Catholic Institute, Rosalie Connors, invited some TCI students involved in teaching at Catholic schools to share impressions of their TCI Religious Studies courses. Hollie I’ve had such a fantastic experience with TCI. The lecturers are really understanding of other commitments ‒ in my case my […]
WelCom August 2019: Four Catholic Foundation Scholarships are available to students living in the Wellington Archdiocese who are in their final year of secondary education. Scholarships of $2,000 each for the first year of tertiary education are: The Catholic Foundation Scholarship open to all students undertaking tertiary study. The Margaret Ryan Scholarship for students studying for […]
Just 18, pregnant with her second child and facing a custody battle, Leilani Morris found refuge and support in the Titiro Whakamua Teen Parents School in Upper Hutt. That was 10 years ago and these days, her children older, Leilani helps out with the mothers and babies in the school while studying for her psychology […]
The Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart have verified a claim that their foundress Mary MacKillop was excommunicated because she reported priestly child abuse.
Similarly the sisters in Aotearoa New Zealand taught Māori children but initially the congregation had no formal mission to Māori.
I’m really happy in Taradale but it’s getting harder to live on the second floor of the house here and my joints are sending out signals for help!
Had Mary the mother of Mercy been around today, she would have been in Christchurch with those struggling to find stability amid the rubble of last month’s big shock and the continuing aftershocks.
About 30 people attended the week-long workshop, drawing in expertise from Caritas member organisations in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga and Australia, including four staff from Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand. Congolese priest Fr Pierre Ntakobajira represented the global Caritas Internationalis network and Caritas Asia sent a representative.
Senior St Patrick’s College Silverstream student Roneil Kintanar is just back from Melbourne where he joined five other New Zealand youth delegates at a United Nations conference.