News Angela Pyke4 April 2012 Dr Anne Tuohy was formally welcomed in March 2012 to her new role as the inaugural director of The Catholic Institute of Aotearoa New Zealand (TCI). Members of Dr Tuohy’s family, with Bishop Peter Cullinane, representatives of the local Maori community, TCI staff and board members and interim principal Paul […]
News Cecily McNeill4 April 2012 Catholic Social Services is concerned that a review of the Family Court may do away with one of its most valuable aspects for families, that of couples counselling, forcing families in strife to pay for this vital service themselves. The Justice Ministry initiated the review a year ago with former […]
News Cecily McNeill4 April 2012 Pastoral areas are being urged to identify alternative centres for worship in the midst of a major archdiocesan assessment of parish and school buildings for earthquake risk. Parishes and schools are also facing increases of some 80 percent in insurance premiums – $380,000 a year to $680,000 a year – […]
News Olivia van Woerkom3 May 2012 On Good Friday, the Hutt Valley Ecumenical walk of witness began at the St James Anglican Church. More than 400 people walked together as the group moved onto the Lower Hutt Baptist Church, then to Ss Peter and Paul Catholic Church and finished at St Marks United Congregation Church […]
News Sally Anne Moffat3 May 2012 Marist Father Peter Roe is a man of a mission, on a mission. While Marists are missionaries, Father Roe’s mission is to bring comfort to Wellington’s frontline emergency service workers, the people who pick up the pieces at accident scenes and in life-threatening situations in the community. Through his […]
News Ethne Wyndham-Smith3 May 2012 In its submission to the government’s Green Paper for Vulnerable Children in March, the Catholic Women’s League’s identified family poverty as the major point of vulnerability.Poverty can lead to poor housing, inadequate provision of basic needs, bad health, separation of parents, physical or mental handicap, violence, alcohol, drugs and gambling, […]
News Barbara Henley rndm4 May 2012 March was a good time for our annual Eco walk. It was fresh and the early morning mist over Lake Waikaremoana added a touch of mystical wonder to this hidden treasure of Te Urewera National Park. Lake Waikaremoana was the destination for the seven of us RNDMs this year […]
News 4 May 2012 Andrew Kim has been ordained deacon in Our Lady of Grace parish, Heretaunga.The parish turned out in force on April 22 to celebrate with Andrew and his parents Joseph and Joanna pictured with Archbishop John Dew. Andrew is expected to be ordained to the priesthood towards the end of the year.
News 4 May 2012 St Catherine’s College student Gabrielle Armstrong-Scott is the latest recipient of a coverted United World Colleges Scholarship. This is the second time in recent years a nominee of the College has won the award. Gabe Armstrong-Scott is already well-known nationally because she represented New Zealand at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in […]
News Tricia Kane4 May 2012 ‘I find myself fired by the wonders that science is revealing as well as being deeply inspired by the wisdom of the spiritual traditions of the human family. Holding the empirical evidence of science and the intuited wisdom of spirituality together in one mind and heart isn’t always easy, and […]