NEWS 7 February 2011 Challenge has been forced to close its alternative education centre due to an ongoing lack of ‘realistic’ Ministry of Education funding. A smaller amount of money provided by Trusts during the current recession has added to the toll. Since Challenge College opened in the year 2000 Challenge has carried the financial […]
NEWS Cecily McNeill7 February 2011 Challenge 2000 has opened a second House of Hospitality this time in Johnsonville to complement the youth house that has been open for three years on the south side of the city. The new house will operate along similar lines with a core group of residents offering hospitality to those […]
February 2011 The Child Poverty Action group has put on notice the government’s lack of a comprehensive policy for children in the way of a UN report scrutinising child health and welfare statistics. The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has examined the combined third and fourth periodic report of New Zealand on […]
Archbishop John DewFebruary 2011 ‘Any place is sacred ground, for it can become a place of encounter with the Divine Presence.’ These words from Br David Steindl-Rast, appeared on the ‘Word for the Day’ on the gratefulness.org website on New Year’s Day this year. Wonderful words for the beginning of the year, they reminded me […]
Cecily McNeill February 2011 The gospel of the fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time, provides a blueprint for living in society. In the Beatitudes (Mt 5:1-12) Jesus gives eight ways in which we can as a community find true happiness. The first thing to note is that Jesus is talking to a crowd because this gospel […]
Lisa BeechDecember 2010 The Alternative Welfare Working Group has criticised the government’s welfare think tank for its lack of analysis of the data used to justify welfare reform. The group, which released its first report Welfare Justice: What we heard on November 26, was also given a platform for its analysis of the government’s welfare […]
Something of the intensity of club rugby in those days was captured in the poem by a St Pats Town old boy, Jack Kelleher, later editor of the Dominion. He penned it after St Pats Old Boys beat Petone 20-5 at the Petone Rec on July 31, 1950, one week after Marist had also beaten them, 22-12 at Athletic Park.
Her desire to do something special for the poor during what had developed into the Great Depression was constant. She prayed often and sought advice from many. How could she reconcile becoming a member of a church often equated with the wealthy with the call she felt to do something for the poor?
The change represents a more unified approach to providing courses for people working in pastoral ministry, teaching, chaplaincy and for Catholics interested in learning more about their faith.