Book review Pa Gerard Burns 5 April, 2013 Pa Henare Tate, He Puna Iti I Te Ao Marama (A Little Spring in the World of Light– Towards an Indigenous Māori Theology), Libro International, 2012. RRP $75 At a time when we are invited to work on a New Evangelisation, Pā Henare Tate’s book on the […]
News 5 April, 2013 The Sisters of St Joseph of Whanganui have received authorisation from the Congregation of Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life in Rome, to proceed with ‘fusion’, or merger, with the Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart.Congregational leader, Sr Catherine Shelton, said the sisters were very pleased […]
Features Sr Catherine Jones SMSM 5 April 2013 Lyon, France, 1809: Philippe Joseph Viard, the man wwas to become the first Bishop of Wellington, was born into the chaos of post-revolutionary France. Lyon was also the birthplace of the Society of Mary which Viard joined as a diocesan priest to fulfill his desire to leave […]
Feature Cecily McNeill 5 April, 2013 A long-term homeless woman Rebecca Voice of Upper Hutt whose story inspired the search for a homeless women’s facility in Wellington, says the churches have saved her life. Rebecca’s sleeping rough behind St Anne’s Church in Newtown regularly in 2008 prompted the parish to explore the implications of homelessness […]
News 5 April, 2013 Temporary accommodation for homeless women is to open in Wellington late this month. The Wellington Homeless Women’s Trust will run the accommodation in the central city to house up to five women for a maximum three months. The women must be referred to the trust. The trust, chaired by Rongotai MP […]
Feature Kieran Fenn fms 5 April, 2013 Vatican II document Dei Verbum was the focus of Fr Bernard Espiritu‘s lively presentation at the Joy and Hope: Vatican 2day symposium on 23 February. Fr Bernard briefly outlined the history of the contentious first draft of Dei Verbum (Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation – the Word of […]
Feature Cecily McNeill 5 April, 2013 New Zealand has the second highest rate of imprisonment, second only to the United States, Chief District Court Judge and Parole Board chair Sir David Curruthers told participants in the Joy and Hope Vatican 2day symposium in February. ‘We spend millions of dollars locking up our fellow citizens.’ The […]
News Derek Johnson 5 April, 2013 St Vincent de Paul Society’s Wellington headquarters in Ozanam House Newtown needed part of a wall removed so that the old altar-bread making machines could be removed. The new machinery arrived from Papini Officina in Italy on 27 March and needed to be hoisted through the hole. Top, manager […]
Feature Mary Scanlon, LCM 5 April, 2013 The Little Company of Mary celebrates the 100th anniversary this year of the death of its founder the Venerable Mary Potter. Mary was born in London on 22 November 1847, the youngest of five and the only daughter of William and Mary Anne Potter. Her father abandoned the […]
Feature Cecily McNeill February 28, 2013 The experience some years ago of Eucharist in an African American parish in Washington DC illustrated the workings of the Holy Spirit for the keynote speaker at last month’s Joy and Hope: Vatican 2Day Symposium. Dominican sister Dr Helen Bergin told the almost 200 people gathered at St Patrick’s […]