Opinion November 2013 Fr Kevin Neal Prayer and singing are two topics I ponder often. A friend of mine, a De La Salle brother, as I was before ordination, clothed me in priestly vestments. He had been a good friend since I was in my early 20s and was a big person in every way […]
Schools November 2013 Cecily McNeill ‘The story of Polish refugees escaping from the Soviet occupation during World War II became a winning topic for one St Patrick’s College Kilbirnie student last month in a double first for the college. Aleksander Noble-Campbell won the Wellington Speaking Union’s Stockley Cup on 21 October with his grandmother’s story […]
Schools November Helen O’Sullivan rndm Napier’s Sacred Heart College students presented the results of mission fundraising at a Special Character ceremony on 25 September. Two months earlier, on 7 August, the college’s Special Character leaders had challenged students to find creative ways to raise funds to support the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions’ […]
Reflection November 2013 Sandie Cornish Catholic Social Teaching reminds us that we are ‘social by nature’. In this passage (38) from his encyclical on The Light of Faith (Lumen Fidei) Pope Francis explores the meaning of this phrase: ‘Persons always live in relationship. We come from others, we belong to others, and our lives are […]
Feature November 2013 Jim Consedine Even the puppies under the table eat the crumbs from the table. (Mark 7) The Catholic Worker Movement has won a victory for one of its community members who was ‘physically and mentally incapacitated’ when his wife died two years ago. The High Court in Christchurch has allowed that a […]
International November 2013 Catherine Marshall Isaías Caldas knows the value of a good education. The Jesuit scholastic grew up in Timor Leste and was one of a privileged few who attended St Joseph’s College, a Jesuit-run senior high school. But most of his peers had no such luck – their country’s education system had been […]
Palmerston North November 2013 Eileen Mosquera and Rosie Steiner-Fastier, both born on 1 September 50 years ago and celebrating on the 50th anniversary of St Philomenas Parish Brooklands, New Plymouth. They are pictured with the patron’s statue. Rosie writes that she and Eileen unknowingly sat together at the jubilee Mass on 21 September in the […]
News 18 October 2013 New Zealand church people are full of hope after the visit last month of the chair of the Council of eight cardinals who are helping the pope reform Vatican administration. Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga SDB of Honduras visited Wellington unexpectedly 10 to 12 October immediately after the inaugural meeting of […]
News 16 October, 2013 The Justice, Peace and Development (JPD) Commission of the Wellington Archdiocese are hosting the ‘Pacem in Terris’ event on Saturday 26 October at Tu Hono Hall adjacent to Bishop Viard College, Kenepuru Drive, in Porirua. This event intends to connect the 50th anniversary of the papal encyclical Pacem in Terris […]
News 11 October 2013 Cecily McNeill The Catholic Church in New Zealand is likely to have more representatives at the highest echelons of church governance, the president of the Council of eight (C8) cardinals, Cardinal Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga SDB, said in Wellington this week. Cardinal Rodriguez, of Honduras, arrived in Wellington fresh from the first […]