Reflect Veronica Lawson rsm14 February 2012 Today’s gospel reading is the first in a series of five conflict stories. The series culminates in a plot to assassinate Jesus-so we are not talking about minor conflict! What could so antagonise the religious leaders of the time that they would engage in strategies to get rid of […]
Elizabeth Julian rsm2 December 2011 Two more graduates of the Diploma in Pastoral Leadership were among 37 students who graduated from The Catholic Institute of Aotearoa New Zealand Te Pūtahi Katorika ki Aotearoa. The diploma is a requirement of the lay leadership training programme, Launch Out. The ceremony at Sacred Heart Cathedral on November 30 […]
Archbishop John DewFebruary 2012 It’s hard to believe that we are now into the second month of the year 2012 – more than 11 years since we celebrated the beginning of the Third Christian Millennium, the year 2000. As was said many times as we prepared for December 31, 1999 – this was not just […]
NEWS 3 February 2012 Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand has a new director. From a background in organisational and business management, including government policy advice and implementation, Julianne Hickey has spent the last 14 years as a consultant with UK-based, global consulting company PA Consulting, delivering projects in the health, social care, criminal justice and community […]
Reflect Veronica Lawson rsm2 February 2012 We all seek to be part of family and community. We are social beings who like to choose the extent of our engagement with others. Some are deprived of choice in this respect, in our times as in ancient times. To be a leper in the world of early […]
Palmerston North Cecily McNeill3 February 2012 Bishop Peter Cullinane of Palmerston North celebrated 50 years of priesthood on December 23. In his homily Cardinal Tom Williams who ordained Bishop Peter in 1980, just four months after his own episcopal ordination, told the congregation that ‘in the ordination ceremony the priest commits himself ‘to exercise the […]
Reflect Veronica Lawson rsm27 January 2012 Today’s gospel reading recounts the first episode in a section of Mark’s gospel that focuses on a typical day in the ministry of Jesus as authoritative teacher and prophetic healer (1:21-38). The setting is the Capernaum synagogue on the Sabbath, a thoroughly Jewish setting. The verbal forms in the […]
Reflect Veronica Lawson rsm27 January 2012 One of my regular global intelligence sources, STRATFOR (www.stratfor.com) featured in its January 11 edition an annual forecast for 2012. STRATFOR says 2012 is unique as a year in which the forecasts point to ‘a redefinition of the way the world works’. It seems to me that Mark evaluated […]
Palmerston North Anne Richards3 December 2011 On Saturday November 12 friends gathered from near and far at the Cathedral Parish, Palmerston North to celebrate Fr Peter Fahy’s 70th birthday. The biggest surprise of the afternoon was when his sister Mary, who lives in the UK, walked in. She had not told him she was coming […]
Palmerston North Fr Kevin Neal3 December 2011 It’s six years since I had the stroke. I remember it clearly – the growing numbness in my leg and my explaining that I’d need to lie down. I was with a team of lay parish workers on retreat in Whanganui. Fortunately they caught on straight away because […]