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God our Father,
we consecrate to you the World Youth Day in Sydney in 2008.
Guide and protect Pope Benedict
and all the leaders of the church.

The Kapiti Coast community farewelled a humble leader on 9 May, when hundreds of mourners gathered at Waikanae Catholic Church to pay their respects to Robert Herata Ngaia. Māori and Pakeha, civic leaders, army buddies and taxi drivers, church colleagues

Br Kieran Fenn fms reflects on the gospel reading for Corpus Christi (18 June) in light of the church’s exclusion from the eucharist of some of its members.
This year’s gospel reading for Corpus Christi was Mark’s account of the eucharist (14:12-16;

With the 61st anniversary of the United States bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan coming up on 6 and 9 August, John Maynard of Wellington Catholic Peacemakers remembers seeing the devastation of Nagasaki city more than 50 years after the bombing.<

While Sunnis were fighting Shi’as and Arab Palestinians were fighting Jewish Israelis and US Christians were fighting Iraqi Muslims, I was sitting in a Buddhist monastery on the top of a mountain in Taiwan. From the mountain top, the city in the distant v

A day of dialogue, input, and reflection has been designed to help participants explore the eternal questions of life:
> Who am I?
> Where am I?
> What is it all about?
This time in our history puts before us huge questions about the w

An ecological spirituality of relationships will be the topic of two workshops visiting US lecturer Sister Patricia Irr osf will present in Wellington and Christchurch.
Sister Patricia is a member of the Franciscan Sisters of the Province of Wheaton,

The New Zealand Catholic Bishops’ Conference has deemed today, 9 July, as the day when we particularly remember the needs of refugees and migrants.
Many of our Catholic parish and school communities are distinguished by the increasing cultural diver

Nikki Phillips
Every Sunday Te Kainga Māori Catholic Marae in Kilbirnie celebrates the Catholic Māori way. The mass incorporates into its liturgy Te Reo Māori, waiata and more recently Taonga Puoro or Māori musical instruments. In

From traditional times Māori arts have been strongly orientated to the representation of ideas. Through these, arts communities have been put in touch with their spiritual roots.
Gathering and preparation of the materials was conducted under ritual