Karen Holland
10 June 2010
My week began with an extremely full diary and I was wondering why I had signed up to be a part of the retreat when I couldn’t see how I could fit it in and do justice to the process. I should have had more faith, because I know that whenever God calls the way opens up.
Parishes 10 June 2010 Archbishop John Dew, the parish priest of St Mary’s, Nelson, Fr Raymond Soriano, and St Joseph’s School principal Mike Burton, arrived at the opening of new school buildings last month in a re-enactment of Fr Garin’s arrival in the town 160 years ago. St Joseph’s senior pupils met them on the […]
But somewhere along the journey I realised that because she was perfect and she had a perfect child I was never going to attain the ultimate. That realisation was a great relief
The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre ‘ The Nathaniel Centre ‘ has appointed John Kleinsman as its new director.
Parishes 10 June 2010 The chairperson of St Pius X parish, Titahi Bay, Pauline Boyles, was sworn in as a JP on March 25 after two years of interviews and training. Pauline’s particularly concerned for people with disability, having a disability herself ‘and there are very few JPs in New Zealand who represent in any […]
If these are the adults of the church in the coming decades, the leadership is in inspired hands.
A seriously inconvenient fact spoiling this fantasy is that Galileo and Copernicus were men of deep religious faith, as were other scientific ‘greats’ of the century, such as Kepler (1571’1630) and Newton (1642’1727).
The ‘Progressives’, too, were not really united but one suspects often met informally in small groups before the council. Like the conservatives they came from every continent, but their first strength tended to be from north-west European
Jesus formed a community around himself, animated it, then left it his word, his Spirit and the Eucharist. These are such evident issues in the Acts of the Apostles and in the Gospel of John that filled our weekday lectionary after Easter.