Palmerston North Diocese Louise Pease August 2013 More than 1000 North Taranaki Catholics met in the province’s cavernous sports stadium on a wet and wintry Sunday morning on 30 June to celebrate the first regional Mass in 13 years. Bishop Charles Drennan called for the Mass to give people from North Taranaki the opportunity to […]
News Marist fathers and brothers in New Zealand have elected David Kennerley as their new provincial. Born in 1955 in Clive Hawke’s Bay, David enjoyed family life with his parents, Harry and Val, and his brothers, Philip and Peter. Educated at St Joseph’s Hastings and Napier Boys High School, he joined the Marist seminary at […]
Schools Martin Elms, principal, St Patrick’s school, Paraparaumu August 2013 Increasingly New Zealand schools are putting in place WiFi systems that enable children to take their laptops, netbooks or tablets to school to support their learning. St Patrick’s Paraparaumu students have been able to join this digital revolution after a generous donation from the Infinity […]
Schools August 2013 More than a third of Catholic schools in the Wellington and Palmerston North dioceses have had their computer networks upgraded in a programme the government hopes to finish in two years. Catholic Schools Board executive chair Gary Quirke says the network at 33 of the 84 schools in the two dioceses has […]
Feature Seismic strengthening of school buildings is underway in Wellington and Palmerston North dioceses. Catholic Schools Board executive chairperson Gary Quirke says in the next three years, CSBL plans to spend more than $20 million strengthening and replacing buildings to make schools safer in a major earthquake. As the property manager for the proprietors of […]
Opinion Archbishop John Dew The recent CORE days – ‘Together We Are One – a CO-REsponsible Church’ – on 4 and 11 May both had great significance in terms of the history of the Archdiocese.Large numbers of people gathered at Bishop Viard College in Porirua, almost 163 years to the day since Bishop Philippe Viard […]
Feature Cecily McNeill The presence of Christ in a welcoming community was one absolute in a sea of questions at a meeting of parishioners from Johnsonville, Khandallah and Newlands last month. The meeting in Khandallah Town Hall on 19 June drew around 55 people keen to discuss how to live their faith and how their […]
Feature: the future of archdiocesan parishes Cecily McNeill More than 200 people turned out on Sunday afternoon 30 June to discuss the future of parishes in the Hutt Valley with many calling for more vision and strategic planning to reach a sustainable solution. As with other parish meetings in the archdiocese called to discuss the […]
Scripture Kieran Fenn fms Christian theology distinguishes between truths that are essential and primary and accidental or secondary truths that take their importance only in relation to more essential truths, The Blessed Virgin may have appeared at a given shrine, but this truth does not have the same importance as the central truth of the […]
Church History Mgr John Broadbent Antoine Garin was born in St Rambert-en-Bugey in France on 23 July 1810. He was ordained a priest for his local diocese of Belley in 1834 and for three years worked in the parish of Chalamoant. After experiencing the call to overseas missions, he joined the Society of Mary in […]