WelCom June 2017: St Mary’s College Rugby Sevens Team: Sanix World Champs Mark Hurley St Mary’s College represented New Zealand at the Sanix 2017 World Rugby Youth Tournament, played over 28‒29 April, at the Global Arena in Fukuoka, Japan. The Girls’ Sevens Tournament involved teams from Japan, Hong Kong, England, Australia and New Zealand. Over […]
WelCom June 2017: National Catholic Youth Ministry Conference 2017 The National Catholic Youth Ministry Conference is held every three years for people in youth ministry. This year more than 150 youth ministers from many backgrounds and dioceses gathered in Christchurch for the NCYMC, 21‒23 April, Alive and Well. They included employed and volunteer youth ministers, […]
WelCom June 2017: Over the past two months almost 300 parishioners from Sacred Heart Cathedral Thorndon, Star of the Sea Marlborough, and Ohariu parishes and school representatives, have taken up Cardinal John Dew’s invitation to experience and take part in a Stewardship Day in their local area. After Cardinal John’s presentation about Stewardship – ‘a […]
WelCom June 2017: My walk to work in Wellington tracks through Parliament grounds. Occasionally tourist groups gather on the driveway, fixatedly snapping pictures of the capital’s historic stone buildings with their backs to the magnificent trees that adorn the grounds. Beautiful trees play a valuable role in making the world the kind of place where […]
7 May 2017 To: Clergy, Religious and People of the Archdiocese of Wellington Dear Friends Last December I convoked a Synod for the Archdiocese, the second in my nearly twelve years as Archbishop. It will be held this year, in Wellington, from 15–17 September, and will explore the theme “Go, you are sent”. Our theme […]
WelCom May 2017: Danny Karatea-Goddard – A Language Exponent, a Storehouse of Genealogy, a Senior Priest 23 March 1938‒1 April 2017 The skies become misty, the northern tides break, a great tree of the Great Forest of Tāne has fallen. A descendent of Te Rarawa, a trout from the Hokianga. Pā Henare, rest in peace in […]
WelCom May 2017: The 2016 Kaikōura 7.8 earthquake that struck the upper east coast of the South Island early Monday 14 November and rocked the rest of New Zealand left Kaikōura’s 2000 permanent residents without water supplies and sewer systems and with no easy way out. Local resident and Chair of the Catholic Stewardship Group, Deb […]
WelCom May 2017: Roger Ellis – ‘A technological and economic development which does not leave in its wake a better world and an integrally higher quality of life cannot be considered progress. Frequently, in fact, people’s quality of life actually diminishes – by the deterioration of the environment, the low quality of food or the depletion […]
WelCom May 2017: Sophie Goulter – The Compassion Soup Kitchen in Wellington has organised a number of activities in May. On Thursday 11 May the Compassion Soup Kitchen is hosting a Sound Bites fundraising concert at St Joseph’s Church, 154–156 Brougham St, Mt Victoria. Doors open at 6.30pm with refreshments and the concert starts at 7pm. […]
WelCom May 2017: Crispin Anderlini – Rosa Lyo lives just outside Juba, South Sudan’s capital. Even here the drought and conflict are taking a heavy toll. Like many of the country’s 4.9 million people impacted, Rosa struggles to find food. She travels an hour and a half each way just to find bitter weeds to eat […]