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There is to be an unveiling on Saturday, 9 December for Bishop Max Takuira Mariu who died on 12 December 2005.

Pope Benedict XVI’s encyclical Deus Caritas Est challenges young people to look at people as Jesus would have done, something which is easier to say than to put into practice. This was the view of one of three students from Lower Hutt’s Sacred Heart Colle

Expressing his ‘grave worry’ over the deterioration of the situation in the Gaza Strip, Pope Benedict last Sunday prayed that Israeli and Palestinian authorities would work to end the bloodshed in the region.

Synod 2006 held over Queen’s Birthday or Pentecost weekend, 2-4 June, presented a number of propositions. These have now been released with the promulgation of the synod booklet.

There is mounting evidence and increasing awareness that the world is in serious trouble, environmentally, socially, and economically.
In most cases we’re aware of what steps are required in order to address the problems, but remedial action is often

‘Here I Am, Lord’ sang the congregation with a spirit of expectation, challenge, promise and purpose as the archdiocese’ second lay pastoral leader, Barbara Rowley, and Archbishop John Dew processed in St Bernadette’s, Naenae, for her installation on 1 Oc

The proceedings of the Pentecost Synod 2006 have been finally decreed in ceremonies in Wellington and Nelson.
The booklet contains future statements and propositions from Synod 2006 and some stories from the appreciative inquiry process which took pl

For two-thirds of Catholic families in Queensland, the school their children attend is the only face of the church, according to a Queensland study from 2002.
And the executive director of schools for the Parramatta diocese in New South Wales, Anne

Critical thinking about God, and relationship teaching were two major gaps in Catholic school religious modules, identified at the Catholic Education Convention last month.
But at least one RE teacher says this gap may have been filled at her school

A narrow majority of Christians say the pope should not have quoted a derogatory remark about the Prophet Muhammad that has sparked Muslim protests around the world, a survey of London Tablet readers has revealed.
Fifty-three percent of Tablet reader