We are now post-Lent and into Eastertide! In the gospels and in the Acts of the Apostles during these weeks we share the enthusiasm of the disciples as they come alive with the new life of the risen Jesus. The new life affected whole communities, as they
‘The Catholics Returning Home programme has been an invitation from heaven, giving me an opportunity to reclaim my Catholic faith – my deepest gratitude to those who have welcomed me home.’
[Comment from a returning Catholic]
‘Sharing the partic
For Anita Ulu, Catholics Returning Home helped her to realise that rather than judging her, God loves her with all her human failings.
Anita discovered the CRH programme after a long search which involved Alpha, a friend giving her books about the Ca
At a meeting on 3 May the priests, lay pastoral leaders, chairs of parish councils and finance committees from the Wellington and Hutt Valley areas met with Archbishop John Dew to unravel and explain the next step in clarifying pastoral area teams and pas
From the days of Irenaeus it was known that a Gospel of Judas existed, and that it pre-dated the year 180 CE. It was one of the Gnostic gospels emanating from a group of ancient religions, some of them closely related to Christianity. Gnosticism maintaine
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On Easter Monday I was on the Berhampore golf course with friends. We were mushrooming and before long we had half filled a plastic shopping bag. We took our treasures home and cooked them for lunch. They tasted great with my hom
The spirit of change entered the Church after the Second Vatican Council like a huge spring tide. In the face of this tide the Catholic community ran before it in search of high ground – ground that would be safe from the tide of change. For example, whe
St Catherine’s College has an entrance scholarship available for prospective students in 2007. The inaugural St Maria’s Scholarship was awarded at the 2005 College prizegiving to Sarah Castle, who is in Year 9 at St Catherine’s.
The scholarship has b
Love of God and love of neighbour was in action at St Catherine’s College throughout Lent. In response to a challenge to raise money for clean water in Indonesia and in keeping with Lenten almsgiving the students gave every day.
There were no mufti-
Despite rhetoric from some education quarters, NCEA is becoming cemented as our primary form of senior school assessment, according to Chris England, principal of St Peter’s College in Palmerston North.
The NCEA results of St Peter’s College have gra