However, when debates on whether the curia became the bureaucracy of the Pope and the bishops gathered momentum, the curia sensed its loss of the power it had retained for at least 900 years. There was little sign of the curial reform Pope Paul had promised.
The awakening that is taking place among us is of the universal interconnectedness and interdependence. We upset the balance of creation to our peril.
The resource is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate health-care professionals including those in social work and other allied health areas to foster debate and increase awareness about where people may choose to die when death is anticipated. It is also seen as useful for chaplains and others in pastoral care.
Social Justice Week September 12, was marked at St Mary’s Church, Palmerston North, with people from the faith community wearing traditional dress and expressing the various elements of their culture in the liturgy.
Funding in Catholic schools was a hot topic at a pastoral area forum in Hawke’s Bay in August with one speaker saying that there is a total moratorium on new building in Catholic schools but ‘some state schools are benefiting from millions of dollars being spent on extensions and upgrades’.
A life of turmoil with a grandchild in the house or a relaxed yet ordered existence with just two teenagers to deal with ‘ there’s no contest, you would think, but now that she’s an adult, my husband and I would not swap the last 20 years for anything.
Many women re-enact their abortion experiences through repeat pregnancies and abortions, substance abuse, eating disorders, broken relationships and worse. The Rachel’s Vineyard Ministries offer such women forgiveness, peace and hope.