WelCom November 2021 Pope Francis said he hopes to continue traveling next year, including making visits to countries in Oceania and Southeast Asia. ‘I still have to pay the overdue bill for the trip to Papua New Guinea and East Timor,’ the Pope told Argentine news agency Telam. The Pope was originally planning to visit […]
WelCom November 2021 Fr Gerard Burns Our Lady Star of the Sea, Te Whetu o te Moana is a large parish. It was formed in 2016 with the combination of the former Picton, Kaikōura and Blenheim parishes so it stretches from the tips of the Marlborough Sounds to south of Kaikōura and halfway across towards […]
WelCom November 2021 The second postponement of the Cathedral Restoration Dinner made it 2-nil to Covid in the race to raise funds for Sacred Heart Cathedral! Both August 19 and October 11 coincided with national lockdowns and 170 paying guests had to be advised that their evening would not happen. A third date has been […]
WelCom November 2021 The dates of the next World Youth Day (WYD) in Lisbon, Portugal, have been announced. The world’s largest gathering of Catholic young people will take place from August 1–6, 2023. Making the announcement on October 3, Cardinal Manuel Clemente, the Patriarch of Lisbon, said: ‘We hope the 22 months that will lead […]
WelCom November 2021 The National Liturgy Office (NLO) supports the New Zealand Catholic bishops in their pastoral, liturgical, and teaching ministry, and ensures that the distinctive identity of the Catholic Church in Aotearoa-New Zealand, with its Māori dimension, is present and celebrated in the Liturgy and celebrated. NLO provides Liturgical resources as required by the […]
WelCom October 2021 In March 2019, almost immediately after the terrorist attacks on the mosques in Christchurch, in which 51 people were killed and many more injured physically and psychologically, the Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, coined the phrase ‘They are us’. She was saying as New Zealand reacted in horror to those attacks, the members […]
WelCom October 2021 Lisa Beech Support Life Sunday 2021 is celebrated on Sunday 10 October. This year the focus is on ‘Supporting and honouring health carers’, to acknowledge the work of health carers, including family carers and health professionals on the frontline supporting and protecting life. Pope Francis has acknowledged and thanked health carers in […]
WelCom October 2021 Aggie Paulo Fa’amalosi is the name of the Year 12 Business Studies class at Bishop Viard College in Porirua. This is particularly apt given the meaning of Fa’amalosi – a Samoan term meaning to ‘Stand Up’ – and the success of the group in Standing Up for their cultures and their own […]
WelCom October 2021 Pasifika leaders and health providers have been encouraging members of their communities and specific ethnic groups to get Covid-19 vaccination rates up and help save lives. They have been finding new and innovative ways to try to make a difference through education and campaigns to address some of the misinformation and fears […]
WelCom October 2021 The Vatican announced in May that the synod on synodality would open with a diocesan phase lasting from October 2021 to April 2022. A second, continental phase, will take place from September 2022 to March 2023. The third, universal phase will begin at the Vatican in October 2023 with the XVI Ordinary […]