News 28 February 2013 A key point about Gaudium et Spes (The Church in the World) is that it is addressed to all peoples regardless of beliefs, Caritas director Julianne Hickey told the symposium. The second important fact about this document is that it came from the floor of Vatican II rather than being drafted […]
News 28 February 2013 Director of The Catholic Institute Anne Tuohy described Lumen Gentium (The Dogmatic Constitution on the Church) as an exciting document because there is such a clear trace of the Holy Spirit throughout. The documents from the Second Vatican Council have two common and quite discernible threads running through them. ‘The first […]
Feature Cecily McNeill28 February 2013 Fr James Lyons of Sacred Heart Cathedral parish led participants at the Joy and Hope: Vatican 2day Symposium down a 1960s Memory Lane on Friday 22 February with a rousing rendition of Bob Dylan’s The times they are a-changing which soon raised the roof as people joined in. There were […]
Columns Archbishop John Dew March 2013 ‘Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary.’ Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation took many of us by surprise, others said that they were not surprised at all, and some even spoke of his decision to resign as ‘a noble and selfless decision’, […]
Column Cecily McNeill March 5, 2013 In this Year of Faith when we recall the vision of Pope John XXIII in convoking the Second Vatican Council 50 years ago, the papacy is again in focus with the conclave to elect Pope Benedict’s successor about to start. The cardinals gathering for the conclave this month would […]
Monsignor John Broadbent’s exploration of the issues surrounding the promulgation of Vatican II documents, Vatican II: Between the lines, is on sale from the Wel-Com office for $10 per copy within New Zealand. These articles were first published in Wel-Com during 2010. For more information email wel-com@wn.catholic.org.nz or phone +44 (0)4 496-1759.
Palmerston North Catherine Cameron 4 March, 2013 On 5 December last year, St Vincent de Paul Havelock North Conference hosted an anointing Mass at Our Lady of Lourdes church. The twice-yearly event is always well attended and appreciated by the sick and elderly residents of Hastings and Havelock North area. They all enjoyed the Christmas-themed […]
Scripture Kieran Fenn fms March 5, 2013 The belief in Mary’s perpetual virginity comes from tradition rather than scripture or a definitive council. Only the virginal conception of Jesus is directly mentioned in the New Testament, where the emphasis is placed not so much on Mary or on virginity as such, but on Jesus and […]
News Jim Dooley sm March 5, 2013 After nearly two decades in Wellington, spiritual director Lyndall Brown rsj is moving to Auckland as part the leadership team of her congregation, The Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart. Lyndall had come to Wellington from Nelson in 1997 to join a ministry team at Futuna […]
World news Forrest Chambers West Papuan leader-in-exile Benny Wenda was barred from speaking in Parliament last month and instead had to tell his story across the road in Rutherford House. Foreign Affairs minister Murray McCully and prime minister John Key shunned Mr Wenda despite the fact that he has been welcomed in the British and […]