Features Archbishop John Dew1 December 2012 The Year of Faith is opening the doors of new discoveries, new possibilities for all of us. One of these doors is to the door to reconciliation, to forgiveness, and the experience of new life and joy. At the Synod in Rome in October I met Bishop Michael Campbell […]
News 30 November 2012 Ray Lindsay, director of the Diocesan Car Fund Trust, with staff Janne Scoullar and Robyn Snyders, threw a barbecue for Catholic Centre staff last month while winding down the Car Fund which has been looking after cars in the archdiocese for some 30 years.
Schools 29 November 2012 St Patrick’s School Kaponga celebrated its 90th year last month. Here the oldest former pupils Josie Gillbanks, Charlie Chamberlain and Ann McBride help newest pupils Emily Gardner and Alivia Kells to cut the birthday cake.
Schools Mary-Ann Greaney29 November 2012 Three students from Catholic schools have received awards for special achievements this year. The Frances Clarke Memorial Awards recognise special achievements by people with Down syndrome in the greater Wellington area. The awards also provide an opportunity to draw public attention to the worthwhile contributions people with Down syndrome can […]
Features Cecily McNeill29 November 2012 Convicted sex offender Stewart Murray Wilson of Blenheim may be a difficult man to deal with but the media has not helped his release from prison into the community by labelling him ‘the beast’. Br Kieran Garvey who has just retired as the longest serving Catholic prison chaplain in New […]
Features Mgr John Broadbent29 November 2012 In the last 100 years or so, we have been fortunate in having some outstanding popes. It was not so when, last month, we finished with Pope Leo X (1513-1521), who excommunicated Martin Luther in 1520, followed by Luther’s heretic burning of a papal bull in public. Descent into […]
Features Fr James Lyons PP Sacred Heart Cathedral Parish29 November 2012 John 4 – The Woman at the Well As I started to think about this topic and how the beginning of this special Year coincided with the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, I found myself remembering a little publicised […]
Features 29 November 2012 Andrew Kim Inseok was ordained to the priesthood on November 9 in a moving ceremony in the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, Thorndon that included music and song from his Korean culture. Fr Andrew has been serving in Heretaunga and Stokes Valley parishes since February 2011. He was ordained deacon in […]
Palmerston North Bishop Emeritus Peter Cullinane29 November 2012 Plain, old-fashioned greed is at the root of much of the earth’s destruction, says emeritus Bishop of Palmerston North Bishop Peter Cullinane, citing the way rents in Christchurch rose 15 percent after the earthquake. Bishop Peter told an ecumenical conference – ‘Christianity and the Ecological Crisis: Lament, […]
News 29 November 2012 Left, Challenge 2000 founder Kitty McKinley, left, Maryanne Moon and Heath Hutton from Challenge with graduates from the Challenge 2000 gap year, Finn Egan, Lezza Moananu, Peter Gasologa, Shona-Leigh Kuvarji and Kotuku Riwaka. Right: Challenge director Bridget Roach. The ‘gappies’ have had a taste over the year of what working life […]