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Restoring a sense of the sacredness of earth

The world in which we live is at risk.
Earth is threatened by overpopulation, overconsumption of unrenewable resources, the depletion of the ozone layer, the fouling of fresh water supplies, the extinction of the species and an overall degradation o

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Why we go to Mass on Sunday

Why do I have to go to Mass on Sunday? For generations children have asked their parents this question. Today many adults ask it, too. It is an old and a new question, for, though Mass remains the same, Sunday has changed. Australian Jesuit, Fr Andrew Ham

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Young adult leaders graduate

The archdiocesan Leadership Formation Programme culminated in a graduation Mass on 2 April. Here are two impressions of the programme from young participants.

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Samoan community talks synod

Ioane Vito Hall in Newtown resounded with the voices of 180 Samoan leaders singing joyfully as they welcomed Archbishop John Dew to their gathering last month. The occasion gave Archbishop John, Frs Maleko and Mauola, Sr Pesio Iosefo, and Lorraine McArth

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Teachers flock to annual commissioning Mass

Teachers are the salt of the earth in the sense that they are catalysts in getting their children to learn.
This was Archbishop John Dew’s message to the largest group of teachers ever at the annual commissioning Mass in the cathedral on 21 February.

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Singing priest donates proceeds to earthquake victims

Marist father, Chris Skinner sm, has donated the proceeds from the sale of his Christmas song to victims of last year’s earthquake in Pakistan.
Fr Chris recorded the song, ‘It’s Christmastime in Aotearoa’ late last year with the help of some money fr

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Genesis: myth or mythdirection?

The recent visit of the director of the Kolbe Centre in the United States, Hugh Owen, raises again the question of how a Catholic is to read the Book of Genesis? The first important guideline in recent times was laid down by Pope Pius XII in his 1943 ency

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