Pope’s call for stewardship heard strongly in Upper Hutt
The machines Stewart’s company builds will break down car and truck tyres at the rate of 200 to 3,000 an hour to fine granules that can then go back into road-making.
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Global conference on Paul embraces new technology
Emphasising key opportunities the Church already has for evangelisation Fr Leonard claimed with great passion, ‘I baptise anything that moves, I marry anything that moves and I bury anything that doesn’t!’
Caritas, bishops call for prisoner reconciliation
New Zealand’s Catholic bishops have stressed that reconciliation, rather than revenge, must become the focus of the justice system to create a safer and more secure society.
Blessed John XXIII the church’s man of the moment
There would be few popes in history whose death has caused the universal mourning that accompanied that of Pope John XXIII in 1963. I recalled this 46 years later this Pentecost because he died a day later, on Pentecost Monday. As we shall see later it was somehow appropriate for his lifelong trust in the Holy Spirit.
Timor-Leste turns 10 as it struggles against poverty
Next month Timor-Leste celebrates 10 years of independence as a proud but fragile nation.
Ministers of word and sacrament
So what Ray has done over 50 years in his ministry of word and sacrament and what Mark has begun to do is rooted in the ministry of Jesus and the practice of the early church. For their generosity in continuing this great tradition of service I am truly grateful.
Global poverty must be tackled from the ground up
The problem is that our Western approach to development aid is flawed. A former World Bank economist, William Easterly, says it is more about devising solutions than listening to problems, despite the fact that poorer countries are all too aware of the specific needs of their people.
A time to reflect on the meaning of ordained ministry
But clericalism dies hard. It is still seen in the writings of those who imagine that priesthood needs to be somehow diminished in order to establish ‘equality’. A correct understanding of priesthood and indeed of sacramentality in general, does not lead to this conclusion.
The joys and puzzles of reunions
I thought of the mini-reunions that had taken place everywhere I looked. There were some quite recent old boys right through to men in their 60s. They had gained so much from their peers and it was great renewing their acquaintance’some hadn’t seen each other since they left school all those years ago.
Year of the Priest: tasks of the priests OT style
What happened historically was that the first function of priesthood’speaking the will of God’shifted to the prophet; the second function’teaching’shifted to the scribe, and, by the end of the Old Testament, the priest was left with the third function’sacrifice.