Four New Zealanders, part of an International Solidarity Mission to the Philippines, said they could not visit some of the places on their itinerary because of an escalation in violence there.
After the 9/11 attacks on the United States in 2001 Presi
Unity in diversity was the undoubted theme of the Multi-cultural Mass celebrated at St Teresa’s, Karori, on Sunday, 30 October.
About 500 people gathered in the parish church to celebrate the richness of a community encompassing many of the languages
Senior students from Chanel College in Masterton have been visiting in some of the city’s resthomes. The eight students have been making the visits weekly.
The Synod of Bishops has ended in Rome with bishops taking up the challenge of Archbishop John Dew to re-think the Church’s rule that bars divorced Catholics who remarry from receiving communion.
A Wellington priest has suggested commemorating Parihaka on 5 November as a more relevant milestone in New Zealand’s history.
Fr Gerard Burns of St Anne’s Newtown told his congregation last month that Guy Fawkes was suspect as an event for Catholics
The sisters of the Order of St Brigid have adopted a new model of working which better suits their diminishing numbers.
The new model allows for all sisters to take a leadership role depending on the particular need.
This is the third in our series featuring the 40-year-old document of Vatican II which has arguably the most impact on the laity. This month Elizabeth Julian rsm explores what the document has meant for women in the church.
Our new Labour-led government has brought together a very surprising combination of parties and provided an equally surprising explanation: ‘We had to work with the cards the voters dealt us’. So let’s look at that. If Labour has New Zealand First with
From 2 to 23 October I had the privilege of representing the New Zealand Bishops Conference at the 11th General Assembly of Bishops, the theme being ‘The Eucharist: Source and Summit of the Life and Mission of the Church’.
It was certainly a very ric
A huge debt and a leap of faith were remembered in September when the Catholic Schools Board gathered its past and present adherents to celebrate its 25th anniversary. In 1980 the Catholic Education Common Fund was established to help the 12 proprietors o