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College prepares for 160th

Schools 9 June 2010 Students from the oldest Catholic school in the country, St Mary’s, released balloons on Catholic Schools Day, May 19, to spread the message of their 160th birthday in September.  Balloons bearing the inscription, ‘St Mary’s College Wellington, 160 years of education’ were reported to have been seen all over Wellington.

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Catholic schools day in Napier

Sacred Heart College, Napier, invited pupils and staff from St Joseph’s School, Hastings, St Patrick’s School, Napier, and Reignier Catholic School, Greenmeadows, to spend Catholic Schools Day, May 19, with them.

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Napier teacher dies

Napier’s Sacred Heart College is mourning the death of one of its beloved teachers, Trish Carthew. Jun10NapierCarthew_Patricia.jpgShe was to be buried on Saturday May 28 at St Patrick’s Church.

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Californian warning on ‘three strikes’ legislation

California’s three-strikes legislation has resulted in prison conditions that are ‘draconian, inhumane and cost a fortune’, former California Prison chaplain director Ron Givens told an audience of around 40 gathered at St Joseph’s parish, Māoria on May 13.

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Dominican family life for the 21st century

Catherine of Siena, Meister Eckhart, Bartolome de las Casas, Francisco de Vitoria and Martin de Porres, to name just a few, touched the centre of Dominican life and made it new by active engagement in their societies and boldly challenging injustice…

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Base feeds US torture, court told.

Dominican priest Peter Murnane, one of the so-called ‘Waihopai three’ told the Wellington District Court in March that, though he loves the United States as a country, he has watched with horror its military activities ‘over many decades of my life’.

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