NEWS Archbishop John Dew7 February 2011 Many in the archdiocesan community are concerned at apparent divisions following changes in the Samoan chaplaincy and misreporting in a number of community newspapers has added to people’s confusion. Contrary to erroneous newspaper reports, I met Archbishop Alapati Mata’eliga on October 24 last year and subsequently accepted in writing […]
NEWS Cecily McNeill8 February 2011 The founder of Challenge 2000 and a tireless worker for a better deal for countless young people over many years, Kitty McKinley, is ‘shocked and stunned’ that her work has been nationally recognised. Kitty has been made a member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year’s […]
NEWS Sue Devereux7 June 2011 At its heart, stewardship is a recognition that all we have and all we are is a gift from God. It is a way of looking at the world through the eyes of a disciple of Christ. It is saying ‘I am a gift from God’ and being generous with […]
NEWS Sue Devereux2 December 2011 The Training Team for Side by Side Mentoring (Catholic and Anglican) is pleased to introduce Lisa Halliwell, as a mentor fieldworker for the Side by Side mentors. Lisa who comes from St Anthony’s Parish Seatoun will work between the Catholic and Anglican dioceses supporting and offering professional development to trained […]
NEWS 3 December 2011 Pastoral ministers must find fresh ways to engage young people with the gospel, adult educator Chris Duthie-Jung told a youth ministry conference in Palmerston North last month. Drawing on doctoral research into the Catholic identity of Gen Y New Zealanders, he suggested that to respond adequately to the needs of young […]
COLUMN Cecily McNeillAugust 2012 We all like to believe that we have total control over our own lives and our country’s elected leaders in their turn have control over what happens in the country. A key plank of Catholic social teaching is subsidiarity where decisions are made at the lowest level possible to give people […]
NEWS Archbishop John Dew3 December 2011 After 18 months of consultation with people in the archdiocese involved in youth and young adult ministry a review has signalled a major shift in the way it will engage with the young church in the archdiocese in the future. This new vision means that all present positions in […]
NEWS 3 December 2011 The bishops have appointed a director for the new national tertiary education institute, The Catholic Institute. She is Dr Anne Tuohy, who presently heads the School of Theology at Australian Catholic University’s Strathfield campus in Sydney. Dr Tuohy is an old girl of St Mary’s College, Wellington and began her tertiary […]
NEWS Cecily McNeill3 December 2011 Archbishop John Dew has written to all parishes urging priests and lay pastoral leaders to inform parishioners of the safety of parish buildings in the wake of new post-Canterbury earthquake standards. The archdiocese set up Project Borgia (after St Francis Borgia, the patron saint of protection against quakes) earlier this […]
NEWS Paul Bayliss3 February 2012 The financial impact of a review of insurances for many parishes is likely to be significant. The Wellington, Palmerston North and Auckland dioceses are members of the Catholic Church Underwriting Agency. Insurance broker, FMR Risk, has recently been able to secure insurance cover for all our buildings including schools. This […]