Lent is traditionally the time when we reflect on the life of Jesus, his death and resurrection through prayer, fasting and almsgiving.
The Caritas Lent Appeal offers Catholics a real and practical way of doing something extra this Lenten season. Th
A few days ago, someone commented that it was common for many people these days to shrug the shoulders and say ‘whatever!’ to something they didn’t agree with.
The context really was that anything goes, anything is acceptable and many people just ac
Last month the new pope’s first encyclical – the highest order of papal letter – burst upon the world with an unexpected freshness. Benedict XVI had chosen as his topic, love. The critics have, in the main, greeted it with enthusiasm, both for the eruditi
The Vatican reporter for the American independent weekly, National Catholic Reporter, John Allen Jnr, interviewed Cardinal Tom Williams last month for his newspaper. Amid remarks about New Zealand being imbued with the Anglo-Saxon work ethic fused with a
As a topic for his first letter to the world, Pope Benedict chose to write about God who is love. Many thought he might concentrate on aspects of worship or Church doctrine, calling believers to a stricter adherence to policy. But instead he wanted to s
For some women the after-effects of abortion never seem to go away. Somen women can really relate to a cry for help expressed by one young woman.
Everything I read on abortion before I experienced it told me that women do not suffer from depression
Fr Alan Roberts stood to say his final Mass at St Theresa’s, Plimmerton. He opened by saying ‘at least I can say the church was full when I left!’ This set the tone for the farewell speeches and presentation at the end of Mass in which humorous and fond m
Catholic Schools Board Limited will be investing a further $3 million for upgrading primary school administration areas in Catholic primary schools this year. The work is part of an ongoing commitment by CSBL, begun in 2000, to bring administrative office
For some time the tertiary chaplaincy has been wrestling with the idea of change. It’s a process that involves a loss of the familiar and fear of what is to come. But these are things the chaplaincy team is ready to face. After an extensive consultative p
Last night a recent 20-year-old reflected with some of us on the problem of her developing smile lines (if only everyone could see their futures so clearly). I would like to say to her, ‘but developing smile lines is perhaps our first priority in chaplain