Unleashing the writer
Two creative women with many years experience and flair in their respective fields are featuring at the Josephite Retreat Centre, Whanganui, in the next few weeks.
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Iraq war ‘totally against Jesus’ nonviolent message’
Cecily McNeill
3 April 2007
Fr John Dear has been travelling through Australia with his impassioned message modelled on Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, speaking out against the ’35 wars’ throughout the world, in all of which America is involved. His protesting has led him many times to the Pentagon with friends to carry out such creatively nonviolent actions as sitting on the floor in the foyer outside the lifts and reading aloud the names of those who have been killed in the Iraq war.
Sobrino judgement ignites widespread anger
World News Robert Mickens, Mark Brolly, Christa Pongratz-Lippitt, Graham Keeley3 April 2007 Large numbers of dissenting voices around the world responded last month to the Vatican’s recent judgement on works by the Jesuit theologian, Jon Sobrino. The Vatican, for its part, went out of its way to engage with the media and explain the reasons […]
‘Loyal opposition’ a right – Kung
3 April 2007
Controversial Swiss theologian and papal critic, Fr Hans Kung, says that he has a right to be part of what he describes as Pope Benedict’s ‘loyal opposition’. Canadian Catholic News reports that Fr Kung says that he has a ‘right to be in his holiness’ loyal opposition’, representing thousands of liberal-leaning Catholics who remain disappointed the Second Vatican Council renewal did not go far enough.
St Mary’s enters a cyber loop
High speed internet access is being provided to schools in central Wellington using City Link in a venture called the Wellington Loop Project. The enterprise was launched last month and St Mary’s College Year 13 student, Miria Royal, told the gathering that the students of today are ‘digital natives’ being the first generation to be brought up digitally. ‘We are multitasking, multiple goal orientated, parallel processing, hypercommunicators.
CWL recommits to working for social issues
An increase in government spending on rest home workers and overseas aid, as well as concern for a range of social issues were part of a two-day annual conference last month of the more than 90 Catholic Women’s League members from Wellington Archdiocese.
Easter Vigil Year C
Spirituality is being awake
Years of struggle to define spirituality in a way that does justice both to the traditional and religious framework in which the spiritual life has been treated in the past have brought Fr David Ranson to realise that it is about being awake.
Compassion extends to low city rents
The Sisters of Compassion’s new purchase, Compassion House in Luke’s Lane, central Wellington, was opened on 23 February. The Governor-General of New Zealand, The Honourable Anand Satyanand, gave the following speech.
Blood donating sister retires from active service
Sister Frances Gibbs has belonged to the Order of Brigidine Sisters for the past 52 years, and has touched the lives of hundreds of people in a very special way. Over the years she has been an active blood donor, and also cared for those who needed blood.