Finding post-abortion solace in Rachel’s Vineyard
In the 39 years that Voice For Life has been speaking for the protection of the unborn child a new reality has emerged in New Zealand’the ‘new normal’ of one in four pregnancies ending in abortion.
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After abortion healing
These meetings have been the catalyst for the development of ‘Beyond Abortion’, a major programme of post-abortion healing and support.
Another spark of the divine
This disrespect for life is a national scandal. We are only four million people and we are a moderately wealthy country. Yet we spend less than half the OECD average on children aged five and under. We have the highest youth suicide rate in the OECD and an above average child mortality rate.
L’Arche Kapiti an ecumenical community
Sitting in a suburban Paraparaumu lounge I am amazed at the wonderful variety of God’s children. In L’Arche young and old, some Christian and some not, people with disabilities and those with PhDs all live in community together.
Celebrating the life of a child with intellectual disability
These days attitudes are much the same, except that any indication of disability presents a choice of whether to proceed with the pregnancy. I’m glad I didn’t have that choice.
Convent Old Girls celebrate 75 years on the court
Convent Old Girls Netball Club the oldest club still in existence in the Hutt Valley recently celebrated its 75th Jubilee at the Angus Inn in Lower Hutt with more than 100 past and present players and friends.
Real Life! Real Power!
What a day! More than 300 young people gathered on Saturday September 5 for the Big Day Out ‘Real Life! Real Power! Generation 1’ to discover and celebrate what it means to be young and radically Catholic in today’s world.
Fr Tom Lawn happy in his priesthood but wondering
The experience opened his eyes to the everyday difficulties people in South America face and left him resentful of the excesses of the Western world.
A bishop’s dream
In contrast to Judas’s very sensible suggestion, this woman’s gesture represents the excess factor, the non-sensible factor that gets into love when we are struck by just how wonderful God’s love for us really is.
Good liturgy good community
I was dreading the task but not for very long because I’d checked only a few and an image came through and it came to mind easily when I was reminded of it again.