Promising young Maori leader farewelled
Former Hato Paora dux, Areti Metuamate, is off to the Australian National University’s Canberra campus this month (February 2010) to take up a scholarship to complete a Masters’ degree in strategic studies.
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Hutt students win new regional writing competition
Schools Carla Penman10 February 2010 Two pupils from Ss Peter and Paul’s, Lower Hutt, have won first and third prizes in the New Zealand Book Council’s regional ‘Speed-Date an Author’ writing competition last month. Aimee Penman took top prize in the Wellington region and Logan Byrne was third. Equipped with the required six words to […]
The cardinal marks 30 years a bishop, 50 a priest
He cites as a major challenge the meeting of the NZ bishops on the day of his episcopal ordination that decided to have all Catholic schools integrated into the state system.
Brothers take their skills to war zones
here was more to the speeches than a simple goodbye. For example, the Brothers are picking up the challenge of the new church in Africa.
From the servant Jesus to Paul and then to priests
The Jerusalem apostles had to choose between waiting on tables and preaching the word of God (Acts 6:2). Yet Paul’s example reminds us that ordinary work is within the scope of the sacred ministry, though not, perhaps, as a primary occupation.
Editorial: Haiti: Christians must ask why
Haiti’s 1804 slave rebellion transformed the population into a people able to organise themselves and defeat the most powerful European nations of their day …
Editorial: the plight of young NZers
Last month we learned that one in five children grows up in a household for which the only income is a benefit.
Archbishop’s column: a way to listen to God in our hearts
An ancient art, practised at one time by all Christians, is the technique known as lectio divina ‘ a slow, contemplative praying of the scriptures as a means of union with God.
First Catholic cemetery in for a makeover
A new conservation plan for the Mount Street Roman Catholic Cemetery in Kelburn, where Wellington’s first priests and nuns are buried, has been unveiled.