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Wel-com wins best news story
The newspaper for the dioceses of Wellington and Palmerston North, Wel-com, has won an award for best news story in recent Catholic press awards.
Beneficiaries anxious about welfare changes
A widespread fear among beneficiaries that benefits will be cut amid changes to the welfare system brought many to a series of meetings the Alternative Welfare Working Group called last month.
Editorial: Pakistan floods call for a sea change
Australian disappointment in the two main parties’ inability or unwillingness to face the climate change issue with sustainable policy was manifest in the federal elections last month when no party won the right to govern outright.
Archbishop’s column: learning God’s way on ancient pilgrimage
By the time you read this Archbishop John Dew will be some way along the old pilgrimage trail in northern Spain known as the Camino (the Way) to Santiago de Compostela.
Reflection on the gospel for 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time Year C
Sharing possessions
At a meeting in July to launch the Alternative Welfare Working Group, as our government prepares to institute the most wide-ranging changes to our social welfare system in decades, I was reminded of a reflection I had recently read on the feeding of the five thousand.
From the Greek
This column looks at the way some Greek words are used in scripture and tradition in English translation.
Vatican II – onto the thorny third session
A particularly ominous sign appeared towards the end of the second session when the Archbishop of Cologne, one of the outstanding German bishops, Cardinal Frings, attacked the Holy Office…
Wellington provides new top brass for CWL
The archdiocese is well represented in leadership changes at the recent national conference of the Catholic Women’s League.