Cecily McNeill10 August 2011 Timor-Leste has transformed from a country whose towns were empty of people – the citizens traumatised by violence and bloodshed 12 years ago – to a vibrant young nation with numerous signs of hope, according to a New Zealand Army commander, in Dili for a six-month duty. August 30 is the […]
Cecily McNeill9 August 2011 There are signs of hope in the mountain villages of Fohorem and Datorua with many Timorese building new houses, sometimes from cement blocks they make themselves, sometimes newly thatched traditional houses with fenced vegetable gardens to stop animals trampling new plants. It has taken a long time for the people of […]
Cecily McNeill1 September 2011 People from around the archdiocese gathered in the cathedral on Friday August 26 to pray for the success of the Stewardship Institute on the weekend. Archbishop John Dew [inset] began the day of prayer with a reflection on the Woman at the Well [Jn 4]. Also speaking were Sr Anne Powell, […]
Nikki Phillips1 September 2011 Karanga ki te Karakia took place in the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit on the evening of Thursday August 11, the opening day of the Let Us Pray Symposium. Principal of St Joseph School Wairoa Richard Puanaki (right), perhaps best known as the composer of ‘Ka Waiata ki a Maria’, described […]
Tony Lenton1 September 2011 We have and have had, many spiritual treasures in NZ. I have my personal list of heroes including Paul Reeves who I respected for his humanity and compassion, James K Baxter whose erudition and mellow voice when reading scripture transported you back to the Holy Land, his friend [and mine] Eugene […]
Fr Brian Keogh of Southern Star Abbey, Kopua, speaks of the prayer/work/life balance Cecily McNeill2 September 2011 The first key in the Rule of St Benedict, founder of the Benedictines of which the Cistercian monks at Kopua are a branch, is ‘listen’, Abbot Brian Keogh told those gathered for the Let Us Pray symposium in […]
Cecily McNeill5 September 2011 More than 370 people converged on Palmerston North last month to pray, be inspired to pray and to listen and discuss all aspects of prayer and what follows from prayer at the Let Us Pray symposium. Bishop Peter Cullinane was delighted with the number of people who registered and with the […]
Bob Houston30 September 2011 The foyer of Our Lady of Fatima church in Waikanae was transformed on Tuesday, September 13, when more than 120 people came together for a ‘cafe’ evening. People had been promised a night of enjoyment and fun combined with faith exploration and fulfilment; a number said how much they had enjoyed […]
Cecily McNeill3 November 2011 New Zealand is one of the most unequal countries in the world, says CTU economist Bill Rosenberg. He told a Social Justice group meeting in St Joseph’s Mt Victoria in July that NZ had the fastest rising income inequality in the OECD in the 1980s and 1990s and the country is […]
Margaret Connor4 October 2011 New Zealand is the lowest of the OECD countries in terms of investment in childhood well-being, according to new research commissioned by the Every Child Counts group. Economist David Grimmond presented the Infometrics report 1000 days to get it right for every child: the effectiveness of public investment in Aotearoa/New Zealand […]