The voice of mature women needs to be heard and the experience behind it valued, Wellington Central MP Marian Hobbs told the Wellington branch of the Catholic Women’s League recently.
This was in praise of the league’s persistence in speaking up for
The devastation wrought by a recent fire at Nukutere College in Rarotonga, was a catalyst for a major Lenten fundraising drive at St Patrick’s Kilbirnie.
Nukutere College is a Catholic College and it operates under the New Zealand Education system.
The St Vincent de Paul’s new pregnancy assistance programme has been in demand since it started a couple of months ago.
The programme took over where Pregnancy Help left off, offering help to mothers on low incomes with clothing, bedding and nappies
Two events added more than the usual interest to our Holy Week Triduum liturgies at St Joseph’s, Waitara.
Doreen and Dennis Hanover had designed an innovative tomb to fit neatly beneath the altar.
The sombre red and black colours of Good Frida
St Joseph’s, Mount Victoria, crowned its new church at Easter with a full immersion baptism. For the parish this was the culmination of some five years of searching for a way to move from the old to the new.
Kate Bell puts this Easter moment in cont
Refugees from Congo (Democratic Republic of Congo), Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Burundi, Laos, Sudan and Burma, are due to arrive in Wellington and Palmerston North this month under New Zealand’s refugee quota programme.
The Burmese group is the largest t
As we prepare to celebrate the risen Christ next weekend, it is timely to consider how those early communities that formed each account of Jesus’ death and resurrection might have gone about discussing and then recording their memories. Here Br Kieran Fen
It’s Holy Week this week and the people of Guatemala will be making their usual large processions. Figures of Christ or Mary are carried on large platforms through the streets carpeted with flowers and coloured sawdust. Crowds of people process or watch t
Do we wake each morning with a sense of newness? Do we see each morning as a promise of Christ’s glorious rising? Will next Sunday, Easter Sunday 2006, be different for us this year? Will we truly be able to say, from our hearts and in a sense with all ou
The numbers of vowed members of religious communities may be diminishing, but the Australian Jesuits have found a way to include in their growing congregation the almost 2,000 lay people who work with them.
The provincial of the Jesuits for Australia