Columns Fr Michael GormlySeptember 2012 Nearly 70 years after the brutal death of Columban missionary Fr Francis Vernon Douglas of Johnsonville, the New Zealand Church remembers with deep affection the extrovert, idealistic, sports-loving man who began his priestly ministry in New Plymouth in 1934. Fr Frank died in the Philippines at the hands of the […]
Column Fr Kevin NealSeptember 2012 Well over 10 years ago I was visiting Fr Joe Grayland who was studying in Paris at the time. We set off with great enthusiasm to see the sites of Paris which, of course, included the Eiffel Tower. I wanted to inspect the metal joints on the side of the […]
Helen O’Sullivan3 September 2012 Many of Challenge 2000’s families will benefit once again from the annual quiz night on August 12 held this year in the larger space of the Johnsonville RSA building. The evening attracted 22 teams which battled for the top team prize while also buying innumerable raffle tickets and willingly parting with […]
Helen O’Sullivan3 September 2012 Many of Challenge 2000’s families will benefit once again from the annual quiz night on August 12 held this year in the larger space of the Johnsonville RSA building. The evening attracted 22 teams which battled for the top team prize while also buying innumerable raffle tickets and willingly parting with […]
Features Sue Ryan30 August 2012 Initiation in Eucharist continues long after the children make their first Communion – in fact it is just the start of a lifelong learning process. This is the message of faith educators and biblical storytellers Rina Wintour and Carol Danby who took their Education Convention workshops on a tour of […]
Features Derek Johnson30 August 2012 Some parishes are rejoicing as they return to churches which have been reassessed as safe after being initially deemed an earthquake risk. More than 25 Wellington churches have been assessed as prone to earthquake damage but some have had more detailed, favourable assessments. Lower HuttParish priest of Ss Peter and […]
Features Cecily McNeill30 August 2012 Oscar Romero and other modern martyrs, Ss Ignatius of Antioch and Polycarp of old, embody the link between Eucharist and martyrdom but, says theologian William Cavanaugh, ‘Christ in the Eucharist calls us all into union, saints and sinners alike’. Professor Cavanaugh of de Paul University, Chicago, was in Wellington last […]
Features Msgr John Broadbent3 September 2012 The changes instigated by Gregory VII (1073-1085), which altered the papacy from what it had been in its first thousand years, placed a burden on his successors.In changing the papacy from a last court of appeal when heresy raised its head to a centre of imperial dignity telling people […]
Features Cecily McNeill3 September 2012 Scripture stories are intended to be heard by communities of people who challenge each other to practise the story’s message. US storyteller, writer and theologian Megan McKenna, a key speaker at last month’s Catholic Education Convention, told a workshop at St Joseph’s Mt Victoria that the word ‘religion’ means something […]
Features David Orange3 September 2012 A picture of a rhinoceros which I did when I was in the primers may have been my first exhibited painting. Sister took the drawing and put it on the wall of the Standard 6 classroom for everyone to see! Imagine what that did for me! Later when I was […]