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Mercy Sisters around the world are ecstatic that their latest digital production has won at the Australian Teachers of Māories of hope in situations of injustice and gives scriptural reflection and suggestions

It was a significant and joyous moment when Jackie Jansen, the first graduate from the lay formation programme, Launch Out, was commissioned by Archbishop John Dew at St Peter and Paul’s parish church, Lower Hutt.
In his homily Archbishop John acknow

The church needs to listen to the people on its fringes to make itself credible in today’s world, says one speaker at the recent colloquium to mark the Palmerston North diocese’s 25th birthday.
The four-day colloquium drew speakers from New Zealand a

The apostolic nuncio, Archbishop Charles Balvo, says he is unable to comment on a reported Vatican move to screen prospective seminarians for homosexual orientation.
The publication of the document which purports to have all seminarians checked to ma

It is now two months since the life of Brother Roger of Taize came to a tragic end. I have not had the opportunity to write about him before this, but have wanted to do so. I believe he has had an enormous impact on the world and still has a great deal to

In this, the second of our series on the 40-year-old document of Vatican II which has arguably the most impact on the laity, Judy McCormack looks at the impact of the document on marriage and family life.

Catholic sexual ethics and a truly human civilisation – John and Kerry Kleinsman look at the Church’s attitude towards married sexual love in a summary of an address to the Palmerston North colloquium in September.

The 2005 general election brought out a particular brand of focus on the individual which Paul Green of the Palmerston North Justice and Peace Commission found was endemic to the common good espoused in Catholic social teaching.
He looks here at the

Fr Rodney Smyth sm of Blenheim has been following the work of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission which has been meeting over the past 35 years and has found their reflections and statements to be of real quality. ARCIC’s latest document

When interchurch couples are preparing for marriage, the Roman Catholic partner is required to make the following promise:
ÖI sincerely undertake that I will do all that I can within the unity of our partnership to have all the children of our marria