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It is a light, attractive tale of the wonderful achievements of the two missionaries and of the delight of the Māori in heaven who welcomed Fr Melu through a special gate, dancing noisy hakas.

Parishes Irene Mackle9 October 2009 New Zealand’s oldest working Catholic church, St Mary’s, Otaki, is to be feted on Saturday October 10 with a series of parties to mark the 150 years since its opening, coinciding with the 200th birthday of Phillipe Viard sm, the first Catholic bishop of Wellington. There will be a powhiri […]

ATS ’09, a Samoan version of World Youth Day, attracted young Samoans from Australia, New Zealand and the United States for a week of singing, dancing, praying and festivities in September.

Ten Year 12 students gathered in July for a three-day retreat focusing on leadership and service based on the style and image of Jesus and St Marcellin Champagnat.

The catch cry was ‘we are all youth we are all the same and we are all different’, said Gemma O’Donnell who attended the Youth Diversity Forum at the end of August.

A story on World Youth Day which featured in the August 2008 issue of Wel-com won best devotional article applying faith to life at the Australasian Catholic Press Awards in Sydney last night.

The beginning of winter was when the recession hit hardest among clients of Catholic Social Services with a 70 percent increase in social work appointments from May this year compared with the same month last year.

Drawing on 32 years of experience in the Probation Service, Mr McConnell said the service used to be focused on both care and control of former offenders. ‘Care disappeared and control took over,’ he said. His experience was that the prison and probation service have become increasingly coercive, hindering the aim of reducing reoffending. ‘We must maintain as a priority the rehabilitation of prisoners,’ he said.