Archdiocesan News Sacred Heart Cathedral was packed on Sunday afternoon 21 July when Columban Frs Noel Connelly of Australia and Michael Gormly of New Zealand presented a stone carving of Fr Francis Vernon Douglas to the archdiocese on the 70th anniversary of his death. Fr Michael Gormly wrote in Wel-Com‘s September, 2012 issue of an […]
Archdiocesan News Sue Devereux The faith community of St Bernard’s Brooklyn has farewelled their lay pastoral leader, Dr Kathy Orr-Nimmo. The parish and school gathered for a final Mass on 30 June to thank her for her five-and-a-half years of faithful service. Speakers paid tribute to the joy Kathy brought to the parish. Music was […]
Feature Pope Francis drew some three million flag-waving faithful to Rio’s Copacabana beach on Saturday 27 July for the final evening of World Youth Day, hours after he chastised the Brazilian church for failing to stem the ‘exodus’ of Catholics to evangelical congregations, reports AP in The Sydney Morning Herald. The Pontiff also urged Brazilians […]
Feature Fr James Lyons August 2013 The Second Vatican Council was ‘Remarkably exciting and very unnerving,’ for Fr Gerry Scott who was a seminary professor during the council’s term. Ordained in 1954 and appointed to the staff of New Zealand’s diocesan seminary, Holy Cross College Mosgiel, in 1961, he taught church history and dogmatic theology […]
Palmerston North Diocese Julia du Fresne August 2013 The first Lay Carmelites of the Order of the Ancient Observance (O Carm) in New Zealand made their First Profession in the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit in Palmerston North on 20 July, feast day of St Elijah the Prophet, a patron of the order. The ceremony […]
Palmerston North Diocese August 2013 A stalwart of Hunterville which is part of St Francis Xavier parish Marton has been honoured for her services to the community. Maureen Fenton was invested with the Queens Service Medal in May. She has lived in Hunterville for 40 years and is widely respected for her knowledge of the […]
Palmerston North Diocese August 2013 On Wednesday 3 July 15 young adults gathered around the fireplace in the front room of Te Ahi Kaa to hear Sam Clear of Harvest Inroads tell of his epic journey of discovery. The journey began in 2002 when, as a member of the Catholic organisation Youth Mission Team in […]
Film Review Fr James Lyons August 2013 Helping her dad milk cows at four and families to grow their own vegetables at 90 provides the frame for a religious life like no other. Sr Loyola Galvin has lived more than 63 years as a Sister of Compassion and is the subject of a feature-length documentary […]
News Mike Fitzsimons August 2013 The stories of 22 young men who joined Mount St Mary’s Seminary, Greenmeadows in the 1970s are told in a new book, On a Mission, Men of Mount St Mary’s tell their stories. These honest, intensely personal stories capture a very volatile time in the seminary’s history and a way […]
Feature Mary Eastham August 2013 The art of making peace will be the focus of a Year of Faith interfaith event in Palmerston North later this month when leaders from the Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Baha’i faiths share a podium to discuss a common ancestry in Abraham ‘our father in faith’. Helen Chong from the […]