Author: wmc
Beaten but unbroken in a Burma jail
World News Tara Bahrampour2010Just 18 days ago, Nyi Nyi Aung didn’t know whether he would live to see his home again. Imprisoned in the Burmese jungle, he’d been beaten, forced to sleep in a kennel in his own excrement, denied medical treatment and told by captors that his US citizenship didn’t matter. At times, it […]
Tertiary students graduate
Elizabeth Julian rsm2 December 2011 Two more graduates of the Diploma in Pastoral Leadership were among 37 students who graduated from The Catholic Institute of Aotearoa New Zealand Te Pūtahi Katorika ki Aotearoa. The diploma is a requirement of the lay leadership training programme, Launch Out. The ceremony at Sacred Heart Cathedral on November 30 […]
Policies towards children criticised
February 2011 The Child Poverty Action group has put on notice the government’s lack of a comprehensive policy for children in the way of a UN report scrutinising child health and welfare statistics. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has examined the combined third and fourth periodic report of New Zealand on […]
Calls for a radical shift in welfare focus
Heeding the plight of beneficiaries
Lisa BeechDecember 2010 The Alternative Welfare Working Group has criticised the government’s welfare think tank for its lack of analysis of the data used to justify welfare reform. The group, which released its first report Welfare Justice: What we heard on November 26, was also given a platform for its analysis of the government’s welfare […]
St Pat’s town spawns sports and historic tales
Something of the intensity of club rugby in those days was captured in the poem by a St Pats Town old boy, Jack Kelleher, later editor of the Dominion. He penned it after St Pats Old Boys beat Petone 20-5 at the Petone Rec on July 31, 1950, one week after Marist had also beaten them, 22-12 at Athletic Park.
Dorothy Day – a modern prophet and visionary
Her desire to do something special for the poor during what had developed into the Great Depression was constant. She prayed often and sought advice from many. How could she reconcile becoming a member of a church often equated with the wealthy with the call she felt to do something for the poor?
National Catholic tertiary institution
The change represents a more unified approach to providing courses for people working in pastoral ministry, teaching, chaplaincy and for Catholics interested in learning more about their faith.
All for life, love and compassion
Jane Mair
8 December 2010
With almost 18,000 abortions a year, New Zealand has the second highest per capita abortion rate among OECD countries.