Palmerston North 3 September 2012 Bishop Charles Drennan has appointed Fr Brian Walsh vicar general for the Palmerston North Diocese. He succeeds Mgr David Bell who has been in the role for many years and who continues as Episcopal Vicar for Marriage. Ordained in Stratford in 1975, Fr Brian has served in several parishes in […]
Palmerston North Pat Rhodes3 September 2012 It was a great occasion on July 28 when Monsignor David Bell presented Leonie Newick with the Benemerenti Medal at the Vigil Mass in Gonville. This award is given to a person who is ‘well deserving’ of recognition for outstanding service to the Church and society. The medal was […]
Palmerston North 3 September 2012 The way that care for creation is integrated into the shared life of the Church, and into our everyday lives and how our worship, prayer and mission show God’s love for the whole of creation are the focus of an environmental conference in Wellington next month. Lament, Hope and Action […]
Schools Cecily McNeill3 September 2012 The quality above all which school leaders and teachers need in their work with young people is to see them as God sees them; so said Jesuit priest Michael Holman, key speaker at the Education Convention in Wellington last month. Fr Holman ranged over issues concerning young people today from […]
Columns Kieran Fenn FMS 2010 Early in the infancy narrative we meet Herod the Great (37 – 4 BC), a ruler engaged in expensive building projects, magnificent palaces in Jerusalem and other cities and fortresses around the country, the Herodium and Masada. His most famous project was the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem. The extraordinary […]
Cecily McNeill December 2010 Well into Advent, the church’s time of waiting and hoping for the new life that Christmas brings, our thoughts turn to the families of the 29 miners killed in gas explosions last month. Christmas in many families is a time of joy though maybe sometimes tempered with the fractiousness that can […]
Cecily McNeill2011 It is hard to put into words the horror of watching Christchurch city crumble, the crushed but alive, the bodies, the heroic rescues. The rest of the country and indeed the world has been listening to stories of people finding their loved ones, or discovering that a family member would no longer be […]
Cecily McNeill2011 Many Catholics are passionate about New Zealand’s abyssmal abortion rate and rightly so. This country has one of the highest rates in the world and children who have yet to be born are the most vulnerable. Yet while this country’s abortion rate is high, research shows that children who are already born have […]
Cecily McNeill2012 Last month a young father sitting in his car in Stokes Valley was stabbed to death in what is believed to be a fit of road rage – just one more in a spate of crimes perpetrated by young people. At the same time the Minister of Social Development, Paula Bennett, went on […]
Columns Msgr John Broadbent 2012 Brothers Ss Cyril and Methodius were born in the ninth century in Thessalonika in Greece. They studied at the imperial university in Constantinople and the emperor later sent them to Moravia to preach the gospel to the Slavs. The king had requested missionaries who could preach in the people’s language. […]