Features Sue Devereux4 May 2012 With another ‘end of life choice’ bill poised to enter the parliamentary debating chamber, the Salvation Army warns that people at the end of their lives may feel pressure to choose an ‘early exit’. Labour health spokesperson Maryan Street is to introduce a private members’ bill to legalise voluntary euthanasia […]
Features Mgr John Broadbent31 May 2012 By the year 650, the whole complexion of the civilised world was changing. The Eastern or Byzantine hold on Ravenna in the north of Italy was weakening by murders and the assignations of emperors in Constantinople. But, more importantly, after Muhammad’s death in 632, his Arabian warriors had swiftly […]
Features 31 May 2012 Catholic schools in the Wellington and Palmerston North dioceses are generally in good shape although there are some school buildings in need of earthquake strengthening.Catholic Schools Board Limited which looks after the 77 schools in the two dioceses is currently implementing a strengthening programme for the buildings that have been identified […]
News Kieran Fenn fms31 May 2012 Otaki Lodge was the venue where 72 men of the archdiocese with visitors from further afield gathered for the weekend of April 28. They had come to be challenged to become Men Alive in their relationships with their families, their God and Church. When your men returned home to […]
Features Kieran Fenn fms31 May 2012 Love, gentleness and the joy of catching up are features of the Shalom group of Faith and Light’s monthly meetings in Waiwhetu. Most of the group’s members come from the Dawn Trust, but there are several faithful regulars. Jan’s brilliant baking makes afternoon teas a highlight but there are […]
Features Mary Eastham3 July 2012 With the radiance of someone deeply fulfilled in life Sr Milada of the Missionaries of Charity based in Porirua shared the joys of her vocation to love God and serve the poorest of the poor with some 100 people on a May afternoon in Palmerston North. In the Community Leisure […]
Features Joy Cowley3 July 2012 The kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure lying buried in a field. The man who found it, buried it again; and for sheer joy went and sold everything he had, and bought that field. (Matthew 13:44) If you put nine Catholics together and asked them to define ‘Faith’ you […]
Features Fr James Lyons3 July 2012 Divine Cafe! It couldn’t be better named. Not just because the food is heavenly (and it is, with delicate homemade filo pastries and tasty shank pies, succulent soups and roasts, not to mention the desserts) but it comes as part of a retirement village that’s home to a number […]
Features Msgr John Broadbent3 July 2012 A reformist party sprang up around the reformed Benedictine monastery of Cluny founded in 910. Cluny was the first centralised order in the Church. Although it remained a Benedictine abbey, its abbots were usually elected by the local community. The Abbot of Cluny founded many reformed and observant monasteries […]
NEWS Cecily McNeill7 February 2011 The archdiocese is introducing a new, simpler way of levying parishes to better support priests and lay pastoral leaders. An explanatory letter is being sent to all parishes. Throughout the archdiocese parishes support active and retired clergy (including the bishops) from the first collection which is the responsibility of the […]