NauMai September 2021 The sixth report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which assesses scientific, technical, and socio-economic information about climate change, was published as The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change, on 9 August 2021. Grim but not hopeless. A foreboding future but the potential for a better one, if immediate, […]
NauMai September 2021 The IPCC’s latest report on climate science only confirms with greater certainty and immediacy the need for rapid action to cut greenhouse gas emissions and prioritise the poor and future generations in adapting to an uncertain climatic future, says Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand. ‘Oceania peoples on the frontlines of climate change have […]
NauMai September 2021 Peter Healy sm The UN Intergovernmental Panel on climate change has released its latest report. This Sixth Assessment Report is a weighty document at nearly 4000 pages and the science is described as robust. It has been tagged ‘code red’ because human activity is changing our climate in unprecedented ways. A key […]
NauMai September 2021 Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand will host an online talanoa*, ‘Dialogue for our Future Home’, on 28 September, for Oceania voices to share experiences of environmental impact and response, and imagine their common future. This Season of Creation event will support Caritas Oceania’s annual State of the Environment for Oceania assessment to be […]
NauMai September 2021 In 2015, Pope Francis has established 1 September as the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation, encouraging the Catholic community around the world to pray for our common home. The day is inspired by the Holy Father’s landmark encyclical Laudato si’, which calls on ‘every person living on this […]
NauMai September 2021 On 24 April, 2021, Pope Francis approved a new synodal programme for the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops entitled: ‘For a synodal Church: communion, participation and mission’. The path toward the celebration of the Synod comprises three phases between October 2021 and October 2023: a diocesan phase; a […]
WelCom August 2021 May she Rest in Peace Sister Loyola Galvin dolc (Johanna Mary Frances) MNZM, QSM, died peacefully on 22 May 2021 at St Joseph’s Home of Compassion, Heretaunga, Upper Hutt. She was in her 100th year. Sr Loyola was a beloved member of the Sisters of Compassion for 71 years, loved daughter of […]
WelCom August 2021 Te Kupenga Catholic Theological College, hosted its first graduation ceremony on 11 June, at a special evening function at Sacred Heart Church and the Columba Centre in Ponsonby, Auckland. Te Kupenga (TK) came about from the merger of Good Shepherd College and the Catholic Institute. Of the 79 students – from every […]
WelCom August 2021 Annette Scullion The Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, 15 August, is Aotearoa New Zealand’s National Patronal Feast. On Sunday 15 August this year, it is being marked in a unique way. At a special Miha at St Mary of the Angels Church in Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand will […]
WelCom August 2021 Michael Fitzsimons The views of every Catholic in Aotearoa New Zealand will be sought during an expanded Synod of Bishops’ process announced by Pope Francis. The Synod has been postponed until 2023 so that an unprecedented consultation of Catholics can take place in advance. The Pope has asked all Catholic dioceses around […]