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A new improved programme, written largely by Bishop Peter Cullinane, started in August last year to prepare candidates for confirmation at Pentecost, May 23.

The leader of a grief counselling programme in the high-medium unit of Rimutaka Prison says the men she works with are struggling day-to-day because they have no one in whom they can safely confide.

Parishes 15 May 2010 This group of women and men from St Peter Chanel Parish, Motueka, come together regularly after Mass to share their views on the church in the modern world, the state of the economy and the price of fish.  Anticlockwise from front left: Twinkle Black, Carol Cowell, Shelly Fry, Leo Hylton-Slater, Fr […]

Parishes 15 May 2010 More than 150 parishioners from Our Lady of Fatima, Waikanae, and St Patrick’s, Paraparaumu, were welcomed back to the cradle of the Catholic faith on the Kapiti Coast, at Pukekaraka Marae early in the morning of Saturday, March 13. They came to find out more about each other and about what […]

Parishes 15 May 2010 The Youth Ministry Team at St Patrick’s Parish, Paraparaumu, spent a weekend in February with 41 young people from the Kapiti Coast and Horowhenua, at Forest Lakes in Otaki pondering church for youth. The teenagers participated in various learning and fun outdoor activities including a mud slide, flying fox, confidence course […]

Irish Columban Fr Sean McDonagh’s call for a Synod for Creation in light of the need to almost halve carbon emissions worldwide in the next decade set the tone for a recent school principals’ conference in Hobart, Tasmania. This was an inspirational Conference of Catholic Secondary Principals of Australia (CASPA) where cosmology and ecology were explored in depth.

An Earth Day meeting of environmentalists, gathered to hear Scots missionary to Brazil Padre Tiago (James) Thorlby, has called for a halt to biofuels imports from third world countries.

More than a thousand people gathered at Te Aute College to celebrate Easter. This was based around what Māori call the Hui Aranga, the ‘Gathering of the Resurrection’.

Last month the Diocese of Palmerston North Māori Apostolate Coordinating Board and Forum acknowledged Mr Tamaterangi (Tom) Paku as the outgoing chairman.