Archbishop’s column: new words deeper meaning same Mass
The revision of the prayers and responses we use during the Mass is intended to give deeper meaning to the celebration of the Mass.
The revision of the prayers and responses we use during the Mass is intended to give deeper meaning to the celebration of the Mass.
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.
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.
Seeing Anna Maria as her usual calm and joyous self, the children’s worry dissolved into excitement at the arrival of a rescue helicopter.
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.
The marae beside the new St Mary’s Church in central Whanganui, has been open for little over six months providing a cup of tea and a chat for around 45 regulars, Monday to Thursday.
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, MÄoria on May 13.
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…
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’.
The decision has generated much debate, and this comment seeks to explain the legal basis of the decision, and the implications for the future.