Cecily McNeill 3 July 2012 The visit of biblical scholar Sr Veronica Lawson gave leaders in the archdiocese a chance to focus on the Sunday gospel readings of Ordinary Time and learn something of the importance of seeing the stories in the context of the time. Some 35 people, priests and lay pastoral leaders as […]
Derek Johnson 3 July 2012 Marist priest Peter Healy of St Mary’s parish Otaki is planning a series of workshops offering a way through the turmoil and change currently affecting global society. Fr Peter is a supporter of the Transition Town movement which looks at ways groups of people can live more sustainably on the […]
3 July 2012 More aid is needed to avert a famine in the Sahel region of West Africa, says Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand Director Julianne Hickey. Eighteen million people across almost a dozen countries face hunger and malnutrition. Erratic weather led to poor harvests in 2011, which in turn pushed up food prices this year, […]
3 July 2012 The New Zealand government has attracted international attention with its refugee policies as the world focused on International Refugee Day, June 20 – for the wrong reasons. Plans to lock-up refugees arriving in New Zealand in groups have drawn concern from across the Tasman. The Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office (ACMRO) […]
News Cecily McNeill 20 July 2012 US theologian, storyteller and spiritual writer Megan McKenna is to give a two-day seminar in Wellington next month. She is a keynote speaker at the Education Convention in the second week of August and will give seminars on the weekend (August 11-12) in St Joseph’s Church, Mt […]
3 July 2012 The Race Relations Conciliator has recognised St Anne’s Parish, Newtown, for its multicultural Stations of the Cross. The parish recently installed new Stations of the Cross in the church, which was renovated last year, to reflect the parishes’ multicultural community. Parishioner Maria Rodgers came up with the idea of having a visual […]
Columns Msgr John BroadbentJuly 2012 St Camillus was born in Abruzzi in the south of Italy in 1550 when his mother was nearly 60. He grew to be nearly two metres tall (six and a half feet). When he was 17 he and his father fought for the Venetians against the Turks. Soon he contracted […]
Columns Kieran Fenn fmsJuly 2012 In the New Testament we find the start of Christian reflection on Mary – just the beginnings, not the fullness of Marian teaching and practice which has developed over the centuries. The earliest reference to the mother of Jesus is found in Paul’s letter to the Galatians from the mid-50s: […]
Cecily McNeillJuly 2012 The early Christians with their communal living may have had the recipe for sustainable living just right, according to some of the speakers at last month’s Earth Summit in Brazil, dubbed Rio+20. If saving the world one recycled milk bottle at a time seems daunting for the individual, a coalition of organisations […]
Archbishop John DewJuly 2012 Throughout the world the question of ‘same-sex marriages’ is being debated. In our own country some Members of Parliament are working on a Definition of Marriage Bill that would allow same-sex couples to marry and have equal status with married couples. Other moves are to review the adoption laws and allow […]