Sunday was a particularly exciting day for the 80 people who met in the Catholic Centre cafeteria. Why were they there? To hear more about the very exciting World Youth Day 2008. Hanton (the World Youth Day fanatic who brings you these enchanting updates)
Of all the questions generated by the Regensburg crisis, perhaps the one of greatest long-term consequences for this pontificate, across a range of issues much wider than Catholic-Muslim relations, is, who will say no to Benedict XVI?
It’s a question
Our prisons are bursting, and yet our communities don’t feel any safer. With over 7,700 inmates in our prisons, New Zealand has one of the highest imprisonment rates in the western world. Inmate numbers have risen a staggering 70 percent in the last 10 ye
How could otherwise upright citizens be unwittingly contributing to environmental degradation and social disintegration, simply through their legitimate day-to-day use of money? Once aware, what steps might they take to avoid this undesirable state of aff
Reflecting on environmental justice over my last few months at Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand leads me to think about what I could do to stop climate change and ‘renew the face the of the earth’.
I live in the city surrounded by concrete – footpaths, r
Race Relations Commissioner, Joris de Bres is inviting public feedback on a statement setting out the rights and responsibilities relating to religion and belief in New Zealand.
‘In the context of current global conflicts it is important that we rec
Capuchin Fr Cronan Fahey, who died in Ireland in September, spent his entire priestly career in New Zealand. He had an interest in this country from childhood: an aunt had come from Ireland in 1919 as a new bride.
Fr Cronan was born 20 years later, o
Sr Elizabeth Julian delivered this reflection at a Eucharist to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the founding of the Sisters of Mercy by Catherine McAuley in Dublin, Ireland, held at St Anne’s Church, Newtown, Wellington, 9 October 2006.
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Linda Mato is Head of Social Sciences at Garin College, Richmond, Nelson. During the September school holidays, Linda organised a ten-day trip to Vietnam for 24 students and six adults, including herself, one other staff member, Rachael Carson, the school
Congratulations to Cullinane College, Whanganui, at being awarded runner-up for the Mainstream Employer of the Year Awards held in Wellington on Thursday, 12 October 2006.