World News Derek Johnson2 October 2012 That the Church is ‘200 years out of date,’ was the way some Catholics learned of the death of one of the Church’s most senior and controversial cardinals. The emeritus Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Martini, who died on August 31, had made the statement in an interview published shortly […]
The Sisters of St Joseph of the Sacred Heart have verified a claim that their foundress Mary MacKillop was excommunicated because she reported priestly child abuse.
Similarly the sisters in Aotearoa New Zealand taught Māori children but initially the congregation had no formal mission to Māori.
I’m really happy in Taradale but it’s getting harder to live on the second floor of the house here and my joints are sending out signals for help!
Had Mary the mother of Mercy been around today, she would have been in Christchurch with those struggling to find stability amid the rubble of last month’s big shock and the continuing aftershocks.
About 30 people attended the week-long workshop, drawing in expertise from Caritas member organisations in Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, New Caledonia, Fiji, Kiribati, Samoa, Tonga and Australia, including four staff from Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand. Congolese priest Fr Pierre Ntakobajira represented the global Caritas Internationalis network and Caritas Asia sent a representative.
Senior St Patrick’s College Silverstream student Roneil Kintanar is just back from Melbourne where he joined five other New Zealand youth delegates at a United Nations conference.
Imaginative monologues by key characters in the Passion and Death of Jesus captured the hearts of the audience at a locally-devised and produced play at St Mary’s Church, Palmerston North, on Passion Sunday, March 28.
During one of the periods when the court was closed to the public while counsel discussed points of law, Aunty Raina looked around the packed waiting area outside courtroom number 3 and said, ‘This is church. Look at all these people come to support the three men.