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France, Wellington, rugby, language and war link students

Wartime tunnels and French students with a love of rugby combined for a joyful exchange of both the language and the game in Wellington last month.
St Catherine’s and St Patrick’s Colleges, Kilbirnie, hosted students from the Lyc√àe Robespierre in Ar

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Former Marist returns as ‘Stream principal

A former Marist priest is the new principal of St Patrick’s College, Silverstream.
Philip Mahoney, who has headed Sacred Heart College, Auckland, for nearly six years, returns to Wellington having left as a priest of the Society of Mary in 1990 to wo

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Did we have a synod? Did we ever!

Two months ago we gathered at St Mary’s College, in the Hall and in the classrooms and in the corridors and in Sacred Heart Cathedral, and we talked and shared our common faith and discerned our dreams for the future. And in all of that, we felt the prese

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It is not business as we know it!

Engaging our future today – Aotearoa New Zealand Pastoral Planning Conference.
Lorraine McArthur
Pastoral planning is not about goals and aims strategically prepared in order to make a financial gain. It is about preparing for the way we meet t

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SJ Week resources available

Environmental justice’ is the theme for Social Justice Week in the Catholic Church, 10-16 September this year.
Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand has produced a resource kit, including the Social Justice Week booklet entitled Renew the face of the earth,

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Bishop calls for opinion on the Middle East

I am not one who angers easily but recently I have been increasingly very angry. The actions, and attitudes, of the Israeli government, and its treatment of the Palestinian peoples are, in my opinion, an insult to humanity on the part of people who were t

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Sharing the gospel message

This sharing took place at the Home of Compassion soup kitchen in Wellington on 25 June among 50 Peace and Justice people of the Wellington Archdiocese.
Judette Gallares rc shared a little of her experience of the underground church in China. She r

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New leader for CWL

Tui Pasco from Invercargill has been elected the new national president of the Catholic Women’s League at its recent annual conference.
Married with four adult children and four grandchildren, Tui is currently associate principal of St Teresa’s Schoo

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French pilgrimage sparks renewed links with NZ

Thirty French pilgrims visited New Zealand last month to renew links between the French church and Aotearoa/NZ. Catholic Māori and Pakeha welcomed them, remembering with gratitude the French origins of Catholic Christianity in New Zealand, particularly th

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