Schools Lynda Pipe Sacred Heart College celebrated its feast day on Friday 14 June by entertaining pupils from the special school Fairhaven in Taradale and past-pupils from before 1960 in preparation for the 150th jubilee in 2017. The day started with Mass at St Patrick’s Church in Napier. A large group of past pupils attended […]
Palmerston North Diocese It is arguable whether being the daughters of a committed Catholic Women’s League member is a matter for hilarity, but Therese and Monica O’Connell’s account was highly entertaining during the New Plymouth branch’s recent jubilee celebrations. Past and present members, including six foundation members from 1963, with Frs Craig Butler and Vijay […]
Schools As part of the biggest capital investment in St Patrick’s College since its move from Cambridge Terrace to Kilbirnie 33 years ago, the college has installed the first full-size artificial turf in the eastern suburbs. St Pat’s old boy, Attorney-General Chris Finlayson, joined Mayor Celia Wade-Brown in opening the new turf on Thursday 6 […]
Schools Bernadette Radich, DRS Students at St Josephs School Stratford, celebrated Catholic Schools Day (22 May) by showing their appreciation and gratitude for those generous and committed people who serve others in the town. Teachers Miriam Van der Lee and Kevin Ryan took their students to visit the elderly residents of Marire Rest Home where […]
Feature Anne-Marie Pike Nineteen people from the Wellington and Palmerston North dioceses were among the 200 gathered in Christchurch on 26 May to mark 25 years of Faith and Light in New Zealand. Coordinator of Southern Cross Province Mary de Leijer opened the conference with the story of Jean Vanier’s founding of Faith and Light […]
Challenge 2000 Helen O’Sullivan RNDM Some 77 young people spent Queen’s Birthday weekend at Highland Home Christian Camp in the Pohangina Valley. A retreat team from Challenge 2000 supported other young leaders from Hawke’s Bay to lead the 50, 15 to 25-year-olds considering the Sacrament of Confirmation. Luke Collins and Manisha Jobard, who are leading […]
Opinion Fr Kevin Neal I recently had the chance to spend some time with my family in the South Island. I have two sisters in Blenheim and a brother in Christchurch and while I was in Christchurch my brother suggested that I might like to spend a day with him at the Mid Canterbury Vintage […]
Obituary On 18 June heavy rain did not deter family and friends from gathering with Sisters of Mercy in the Villa Joseph chapel at Upper Hutt to celebrate the life and death of Sr Mary Labouré Albert. Shirley Albert was born in Lyall Bay Wellington in 1920 the daughter of Hattie and Leo Albert. Shirley […]
Feature Peter Veugelaers JRR Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, used to say that his Catholic faith was implicit in his stories. The Archbishop of Canterbury’s representative to the Holy See, Palmerston North-born Archbishop David Moxon, has made a study of Catholicism’s influence on the writer. ‘As time went on, […]
Feature Cecily McNeill A passion to get more Pacific people into higher education and skills that will lead to meaningful work drives the new Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s first Chief Advisor, Pasifika, Matalena Leaupepe. Pacific people have fared worst in the economic recession from which New Zealand is just starting to recover but […]