Archbishop John Dew December 2010 This is a wonderful phrase ‘God’s great enterprise of self-giving’. We prepare during this Season of Advent for the self-giving of God at Christmas. We are blessed to be the people who benefit from the self-giving of God in every liturgy we celebrate: Liturgy is essentially something given and, in […]
Sharing Faith Interfaith (Catherine Jones in Action on this) Ecumenism (Catherine Jones in Action on this) Theology – Need to reference some courses from CIANZ (Wcec site) Growing in Community Leadership Catholic Mäori Deaf Chaplaincy (Dave Loving-Molloy in action) Appeals (DM to complete) Stewardship Working for justice and peace Prison Chaplaincy Hospital Chaplaincy Professional Standards/Confronting […]
The New Zealand Catholic Bishops convey their deepest sympathies to the families, friends and loved ones of the men who lost their lives at the Pike River coal mine.
Catholic Churches around New Zealand are dedicating their daily Masses to the miners who lost their lives at the Pike River coal mine and to their loved ones.
Sovereignty, or the right to independent nationhood, is something which must be jealously guarded, and something New Zealand took particular pride in more than a quarter of a century ago when the then Prime Minister David Lange took a firm stance against the United States Government to declare New Zealand nuclear free.
Cecily McNeill2010 The Hobbit films are safe – Time Warner and the New Zealand Government have cut a deal which gives the Hollywood movie maker a larger incentive to work here, courtesy of the taxpayer. The catalyst for this deal was, ostensibly at least, industrial action. The resulting law change, enacted under urgency suspending the […]
A summary of documents passed during the final session of Vatican II
Following the interminable debates and document revisions of the third session of Vatican II, it was with a great deal of apprehension that bishops gathered in September 1965 for the final session.