Column Fr Kevin Neal2012 Recently I had the privilege of blessing the gravestone of Kathleen Barry in the cemetery in Hastings. It was exactly a year since she died. The immediate families gathered with close friends. We followed more or less the prayers and readings outlined in the Pukapuka Karakia. It’s very similar in prayer […]
World News Tara Bahrampour2010Just 18 days ago, Nyi Nyi Aung didn’t know whether he would live to see his home again. Imprisoned in the Burmese jungle, he’d been beaten, forced to sleep in a kennel in his own excrement, denied medical treatment and told by captors that his US citizenship didn’t matter. At times, it […]
Columns Archbishop John DewSeptember 2012 Last weekend, the archdiocese held its second Stewardship weekend, beginning with a day of prayer at the cathedral. For me, it was an opportunity to reflect and share on a practice that I learned as a seminarian, and which has become one of the foundation stones of a pastoral spirituality. […]
Reflect Veronica M Lawson RSM30 August 2012Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23 After our lengthy detour into John 6 with its focus on Jesus as the Bread of Life and the Bread of Wisdom, we return to Mark’s gospel and a legal dispute about ritual purity. The parties to the dispute are Jesus, the Pharisees, and some […]
Eugene Crosby30 August 2012 The last mass to be held at a packed St John’s, Ngaio, was on Sunday, May 20.For over 100 years, the church has served Ngaio and Crofton Downs. After six years of discussions and planning, on Sunday October 16, 2011 the last Mass was celebrated in St Benedict’s in Khandallah. Having […]
Features Rodney Macann9 November 2011 Church leaders are calling on all political parties to acknowledge their shared responsibility to provide a just share of society’s wealth and resources for all its citizens, especially the most vulnerable. This includes adequate income for everyone, fair taxation policies, access to good healthcare, affordable housing and provision for sustainable […]
Features Jim Consedine1 December 2011 Greed is Good! Gordon Gecko’s famous declaration in the 1988 movie Wall Street has echoed through time. Greed is now in the very DNA of the global economic system at the heart of the financial crises of the past 20 years. It has become an accepted marketplace ethic shown in […]
Features Msgr John Carde3 December 2011 With the songs of Chris Skinner [sm] still ringing after attending one of his concerts, Mary Kane said to me in her understated way, ‘Mother’s not well’. Tony White, Florence’s brother, rang with the same message. ‘And if you go to see her in Mary Potter, ring first as […]
Features December 2011 Thank you Greg Byrne for your reflections on homosexuality in the 289 issue of Wel-com. I, too, have a homosexual son. I believe the attitude of the Church towards gay people to be very wrong. This attitude has undue influence on our Catholic population. Many adult Catholics impress their children with bias, […]
Features Brian Quin sm3 December 2011 In ‘Lives on a different course’ Australian Greg Byrne described the bitter experiences his family had gone through since finding that one of his sons was gay. He believes that the Churches bear much of the blame for the bigotry his family experiences and that the Catholic Church particularly […]