This is the final in our series featuring the 40-year-old document of Vatican II which has arguably the most inpact on the laity. This month Chris Duthie-Jung explores the document’s impact on young people.
I was born in the year that Gaudium et Spes
And there we have it! This is exactly what the Immaculate Conception celebrates. Mary was always full to the brim with grace. Grace is so much more original, so much more powerful than sin. Yet our Catholic mentality at times seems fixated on sin. As it s
The Wellington Council of Christians and Jews last month celebrated 40 years since the Second Vatican Council overturned the history of enmity between two of the world’s major religions.
A large, enthusiastic audience at Connolly Hall on 9 November
Sections of the public and a disappointing number of politicians seem to be under the misapprehension that it is easy for a refugee living in New Zealand to bring family members to join them here. In 12 years as a voluntary refugee advocate, I have found
The Vatican Congregation for Catholic Education has issued a document on admitting homosexual men to Catholic priesthood.
A Eureka Street comment commends its emphasis on maturity as the criterion of admission to priesthood.
‘The recent Vatican
Over the last few months there have been a number of 40th anniversaries celebrated as the milestones of Vatican II have been remembered. As the church and the world remembers the closing of the Second Vatican Council in 1965, it could be helpful for us t
The first three graduands of the Diploma in Pastoral Leadership were among students of a variety of archdiocesan certificate and diploma programmes at their graduation ceremony on 1 December.
The diploma is a requirement of the lay leadership traini
Feminists and popes in conversation was the tenor of a talk from Sophie McGrath to the colloquium in Palmerston North last September.
Dr McGrath took as her basic premise that ‘most feminists and popes were people of goodwill dedicated to promoting t
The possibility of finding a positive vision in Christianity in terms of sexual morality when all we hear in the religious context is ‘no’ against society’s ‘yes’ was explored by Gerald Gleeson.
Dr Gleeson told the Palmerston North colloquium to cel
The importance of wasting time together for building relationships has been a great discovery for the Marist Young Adult Ministry known as The Grove.
This five-year-old project sets out to have Marist Brothers and young adults living together in a su