Welcom Archive 2007-2026

With the help of local amateur radio enthusiasts and ham radio, the pupils conversed with space station commander Mike Fincke during a 10-minute interval when the station was over Australia.

Schools 20 December 2008 Viard College’s barbershop quartet, Pacific Flavours, has won fourth place in the ninth Pan Pacific Barbershop Convention in Hawai’i. Some 900 enthusiasts from countries in the Pacific rim assembled in 28 quartets and 17 choruses. Former Pan Pacific gold medalist, Matthew Gifford, coached the boys who also helped the Wellington regional […]

A Middle Eastern conference in November has called on ‘brothers and sisters in the worldwide church’ to protest the injustices perpetrated on the Palestinian people by a repressive Israeli military regime in the name of reconciliation.

An environmentally sustainable practice such as weaving in the traditional way and working with the seasons can be spiritually satisfying, Karori craftworker Enger Pelosifear has found.

The supply of fresh produce is as political in the Wellington region as it is internationally, organisers of a Newtown market have discovered.

The idea came from a social analysis workshop in St Anne’s Parish in May when participants decided to explore the impact of rising food prices on the local community.

A Crisis Pregnancy Service which Nelson GPs have set up as an alternative to abortion on request is now leading to many more pregnancies that progress to full term.

She had been involved in minimal liturgical formation in the past and found the course a wonderful confirmation of what she had already been doing.

This is a wonderful statement of confidence by the government in the national Catholic school system. It complements the $13.3 million in retrospective funding that was recently received to help pay for the establishment of Aquinas College in Tauranga.

Our lives are shaped and reshaped by those who have loved us’by those who have blessed us with their lives of faith, hope and charity.