World News Cecily McNeill9 April 2008 Australian Jesuit provincial, Mark Raper, has been appointed to the job recently vacated by the society’s new superior general. Fr Adolfo Nicolás was elected Father General of the Society of Jesus at its 35th General Congregation which ended in Rome on March 6 after two months’ deliberation (for more […]
The Standards for Engagement: Guidelines for Central and Local Government, and NGOs Working with Refugee Background Communities is based on nine standards developed by ChangeMakers in conjunction with government and non-government agencies. ChangeMakers works in the Wellington region.
He finds that the principles associated with CST, for example, the commitment to working for the good of all, are vital to the integrity of the work Caritas does in his country.
‘Mandala’ the Sanscrit word for circle, represents wholeness, the connectedness of all things’”a model for the organisational structure of life itself, represented in nature’s daisy.
Part of their role is to facilitate an annual meeting of the representatives of 92 countries from all of the continents of the world where Worldwide Marriage Encounter is currently operating. The most recent of these meetings was held in Rome in January
Why did it take us so long to learn that God was there before we arrived; that every local church is both mission-sending and mission-receiving; to respect rather than to disrespect local culture; to be culturally sensitive rather than culturally dismissive?
Parishes 9 April 2008 Good Friday became unusually personal this year for audiences at a musical drama performed by Ss Peter & Paul Lower Hutt WYD pilgrims. They found themselves pulled into the action as the musical challenged them to acknowledge real responsibility for the suffering and death of Jesus. ‘One Friday In Eternity’, based […]
The New Zealand Council of Christian Social Services, with the support of church leaders, has launched an information programme aimed at raising public awareness of social justice and compassion issues.
This was the first time the New Zealand Bishops’ Conference agency leaders, diocesan managers and leaders of national movements have come together for such a gathering to focus on WYD and, perhaps more importantly, beyond.
Public Trust has established an annual award in memory of tireless archdiocesan and Tawa parish worker, Brian Blacktop who died unexpectedly at his home on June 23, 2007. He was 70.