Features Michael Fitzsimons31 March 2012 The legions of St Bede’s old boys spread around New Zealand will enjoy the very thorough and well-written history of St Bede’s produced for their centenary. The Faith of Our Fathers, The History of St Bede’s College 1911-2011, all 458 pages of it, is a handsome, hard-covered history written by […]
Emeritus Bishop Peter CullinaneMarch 2012 Ka pū te rūhā, ka hao te rangatahi. This is a Maori proverb which means that the old net is being pulled in and replaced by a new net. Old nets get a bit worn and harder to mend. New nets are supple and strong. But – and this is […]
Carmel Cole 15 February 2012 The Congregation of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Missions gathered in Napier at Christmas to celebrate 150 years and begin a year of jubilee. On Christmas Day 1861 in Lyon, France, Euphrasie Barbier brought the congregation (RNDM) to birth and, within three years, four Mission Sisters had arrived […]
15 February 2012 The Columban Mission’s outreach to the marginalised last Christmas included donating 800 Columban Calendars to prisoners around New Zealand through Catholic prison chaplains. While 2012 marks the 90th edition of the Columban Calendar, Mission Coordinator, Fr Michael Gormly, says the prison initiative is just one example of the many ways the Mission […]
15 February 2012 Efforts to bring healing and hope to a land where Christ continues to suffer will be centre stage this Lent with a visit to Palmerston North and Wellington dioceses of the secretary-general of Caritas Jerusalem, Claudette Habesch. Ms Habesch, who has headed up the Church’s aid and development agency in the Holy […]
The YCL leadership team 15 February 2012 They should have been on holiday, celebrating the end of exams. Instead, on December 10, 59 young people from around the archdiocese gathered in Paraparaumu to celebrate and explore the time, treasure and talents they have to offer as Young Catholic Leaders. The archdiocese has run YoungCatholicLeader (YCL) […]
22 February 2012 The grief and pain of ongoing earthquakes in Christchurch were marked yesterday in an Ash Wednesday ecumenical service in St Paul’s Cathedral, Wellington. During the liturgy, the large congregation stood in two minutes silence at 12.51pm, the moment, a year before, when the devastating quake hit. The quake, one of thousands to […]
Reflect Veronica Lawson rsm23 February 2012 Lent comes around each year and presents us with its usual challenge to take stock of our lives, to see more clearly what is in our hearts, and to discover what might be calling us out of our comfort zones. It is a time for personal as well as […]
Palmerston North 15 February 2012 Those of us worried that young people are struggling to grasp the treasure that is faith amid the challenges of our secular and church environment, can be cheered by the response to the first ever young Catholic leaders’ programme in Palmerston North diocese. The programme was run in the Pohangina […]
Fr Kevin Neal15 February 2012 I was brought up in the south. I still have two sisters in Blenheim and a brother in Christchurch. So once a year I set out to spend some time in Blenheim and then drive south. I’ve been doing this for years. I’ve come to know Christchurch like the back […]