Editorial Cecily McNeillOctober 2012 Two teenagers murdered on the same spot at Paraparaumu just one month apart and a national suicide rate said to be double the road toll – the most vulnerable are 15 to 19-year-olds. As well, about a quarter (around 270,000) of our children are now living in poverty, lacking access to […]
David Loving-Molloy2 October 2012 We recently had our SC 101 ‘Introduction to the Old Testament’ weekend at the St Francis Retreat Centre in Auckland. This went very well and we are half way through the course. The second half will take place on the weekend of November 2–4. The Catholic Deaf Centre also recently had […]
2 October 2012 Sacred Heart parish Thorndon wants to hear from anyone who may know the origin of the statues that grace the cathedral crib each Advent. As the parish prepares to celebrate with joy and anticipation the mystery of the incarnation, members are hoping to have the statues’ many cracks and chips repaired. Last […]
Features Cecily McNeill2 October 2012 Children will be the biggest losers in a review of the Family Court which recommends that the court’s highly successful counselling service be cut. This is despite the government framing proposed changes as ‘putting children first’. Catholic Social Services counsellor Gail Teale says it is likely couples who want to […]
Features 2 October 2012 More needs to be done to give children in need of state intervention a better chance, a Family Court Judge told the Public Health Association conference at Pipitea Campus, Victoria University, Wellington on September 5. New Zealand’s Principal Family Court Judge, Peter Boshier, was responding to the Ministry of Justice’s proposed […]
Features Msgr John Broadbent2 October 2012 Last issue, we reached the point where the French pope Clement V (1305-1314) had moved the papacy to Avignon, starting the 70 years of so-called ‘Babylonian captivity of the papacy’. Clement died in 1314, leaving a papal treasury depleted from excessive personal use. The next in lineThe line of […]
Features Jane Langham and Cecily McNeill2 October 2012 Palliative care specialist Sinéad Donnelly says she presumes the prime minister is confusing the ceasing of curative treatments with euthanasia when he says he supports its legalisation. John Key told Newtalk ZB on August 23, ‘I think there’s a lot of euthanasia that effectively happens in our […]
News Fr Penehe Patelehio2 October 2012 The man who had Alzheimer’s disease and was dying had struggled for so long. He had endured memory loss for many years. All the while his daughter had taken very good care of him. One day, towards the end of his life, she asked him, ‘Do you know who […]
News Shane Olsen2 October 2012 New Zealand has one of the worst rates of income inequality of the developed or wealthy countries in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). In two decades the country has gone from being one of the most equal to among the most unequal countries in the developed world. […]
Archbishop John Dew2 October 2012 It is almost 10 years since Cardinal Tom Williams and I began the archdiocesan wide consultation process that resulted in the setting up of pastoral areas for the Archdiocese of Wellington on October 1, 2003. Since then we have built up ‘a church of communion’ of parish communities working together […]