WelCom August 2020 Australian Cardinal George Pell, who served 13 months in prison and was subsequently acquitted of molesting two choirboys, is set to publish his prison diary. The diary contains musings on life in solitary confinement, the Catholic Church, politics and sports. Catholic publisher Ignatius Press says the first instalment of the 1,000-page diary […]
WelCom July 2020: Fr Trung Nguyen welcomed Emma Dodsworth and Thom Saywell Palmerston North has welcomed a new priest to its diocese following the ordination of Trung Nguyen at the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit on Saturday, 6 June. Mary Sutton delivered the welcome and described how Trung had first arrived in the Palmerston North […]
WelCom July 2020: Pope Francis spoke out against the sin of racism in a speech about George Floyd’s death that was broadcast around the world. After an eighth night of protests across the United States, Pope Francis addressed Floyd’s death during his weekly Angelus prayer at the Vatican on Wednesday, 3 June. The Pope called […]
WelCom July 2020: Police Commissioner Andy Coster and the abolition of the Armed Response Teams – a principle-based decision. Police Commissioner Andrew Coster announced, 9 June 2020, that Armed Response Teams (ARTs) will not be part of the New Zealand policing model in the future. Lay Pastoral Leader in the Catholic Parish of Wellington South […]
WelCom July 2020: Lisa Beech During Covid-19 lockdown Te Tai o Marokura social services – a community organisation of the Takahanga Marae in Kaikōura – partnered with the Archdiocese of Wellington and Sacred Heart Parish Kaikōura, to support families with warm homes and food. Takahanga Marae is one of the marae in the Archdiocese with […]
WelCom July 2020: Karen Holland The Wellington Archdiocese Filipino chaplaincy outreach group worked during the Covid-19 lockdown with Challenge 2000 and Wellington Catholic Social Services to provide emergency food parcels to over 70 Filipino construction and road workers in the Wellington region, living on 80 per cent of their usual wages. Filipino chaplain Fr Marlon […]
WelCom July 2020: Pope John Paul I, ‘the smiling pope’, will have a foundation dedicated to his memory, the Vatican has announced. The move is a sign of how much the late pontiff is a point of reference for his successor, Francis. Called the ‘Vatican John Paul I Foundation’, the new entity is tasked with […]
WelCom July 2020: The Vatican is encouraging Catholics to put their faith into action to promote integral ecology and care of creation. It has released a new 200-page document, On the Journey for Care of the Common Home, following the inspiration of Pope Francis’ Laudato si’ encyclical. The introduction says, ‘the intention is to offer […]
WelCom July 2020: The Archbishop of Lima, Carlos Castillo had his church filled with more than 5,000 portraits of those who have died in the pandemic. He then used his broadcast homily to criticise a health system he said was ‘based on egotism and on business and not on mercy and solidarity with the people’. […]
WelCom July 2020: A Hong Kong cardinal told Catholic News Agency changes to Hong Kong’s status in China could threaten the religious freedom of Catholics and other religious believers. The legislature of China on May 28 approved a resolution to impose new ‘security laws’ on its formerly autonomous region, Hong Kong – a move pro-democracy […]