Archdiocesan News Mary-Ann Greaney September 2013 Richard Archer, who died suddenly in July while on retreat in England, was a member of the Archbishop’s Justice, Peace and Development Commission. Richard had been to Berlin to represent Australasia for Pax Christi when he died on Saturday 20 July. His funeral was in London on the 14 […]
Archdiocesan News Kitty McKinley September 2013 Challenge 2000 started in the Johnsonville Parish in 1988 to walk alongside young people and families so that they might be enabled to experience life to the full. Today, Challenge 2000 continues to walk with those who find parts of life difficult and also to provide an opportunity to […]
Feature Mary-Ann Greaney September 2013 Peruvian women Sisi, Martha, Meche and Julia have finally succeeded in registering their craft-making venture of several years as a business Huarmy Huaytari (Women Blossoming). They have been creating original handcrafts and selling them overseas for some years and, until now, have depended on two Presentation Sisters for the sales […]
Reflection Veronica Lawson RSM Luke 13:22-30 We all know people or groups who seem to have an ingrained sense of entitlement or privilege, people who put themselves first without regard for the feelings or rights of others. Whether their behaviour derives from childhood experiences of over-indulgence or from some other source, it can be quite […]
Reflection Veronica Lawson RSM Luke 12:49-53 Prophets can get a bad time, as today’s first reading from Jeremiah demonstrates (Jer 38:4-6, 8-10). This is almost certainly because they tend to disturb the peace of the complacent as in the gospel reading for today. Jesus, the Lukan prophet, seems to be contradicting so much of what […]
Feature: Inequality a New Zealand crisis August 2013 It’s arrived at last! This much awaited New Zealand book was officially launched at the National Library on Thursday 27 June with much fanfare, enthusiasm and goodwill. It tells the story of rising income inequality in New Zealand, ‘where the gap between high and low incomes has […]
Feature: Inequality a New Zealand crisis Cecily McNeill August 2013 A skills mismatch is contributing significantly to New Zealand’s inequality crisis, says Lincoln University professor of economics Paul Dalziel. To reduce inequality the country needs to invest in developing skills that respond to the needs of a substantially changed work environment. Workers trapped in low-wage […]
Feature: Inequality a New Zealand crisis Cecily McNeill August 2013 Wealth has continued to be concentrated in the top one percent of incomes in Anglo-American countries despite the recession of 2007, says London School of Economics professor of political economy Robert Wade. In the previous 30 years the top one percent of Americans ‘gained 57 […]
Feature: Inequality a New Zealand crisis Cecily McNeill August 2013 Associate professor at the University of Auckland, Mike O’Brien, says welfare cuts that took effect last month make no sense. Quoting economist Susan St John, he says ‘A sole parent can earn up to $100 a week before income is reduced, and after that the […]
News Cecily McNeill Mass became rapidly more dramatic for parishioners in Seddon the nearest town to the big quake on Sunday 21 July. Blenheim parish priest Fr Aidan Kay CP had just started to read the gospel when the 6.5 quake struck just 25 kilometres away. ‘I stepped back from the lectern against the wall […]