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Catholic dioceses and parishes around Aotearoa New Zealand will be welcoming the Vatican’s four-month extension for the local phase of … Read More about Local synod process getting a welcome extra four months
Read MoreFr Nicholas Alleman, a priest in the Auckland diocese for almost 60 years, passed away on October 23, after a … Read More about Much-loved Auckland priest Fr Alleman dies
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One of the ten areas that the synod preparatory document proposes as key aspects of living as a synodal Church is titled … Read More about Holocaust talk offends
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The St John Paul II Catholic community in Albany, Auckland was challenged to live as missionary disciples, as they celebrated their tenth anniversary with a … Read More about North Shore community likened to early Church
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NICOSIA, Cyprus (CNS) – After Pope Francis denounced putting up “barbed wire” to keep out migrants and the practice of … Read More about Vatican announces Pope will bring migrants from Cyprus to Italy
Read MoreClass streaming at John Paul College in Rotorua will be phased out from next year, and the school’s principal is encouraging other … Read More about John Paul College to phase out class streaming in 2022
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PHOENIX (CNS) – Australian Cardinal George Pell, jailed for more than a year for sex abuse crimes he ultimately was … Read More about Cardinal Pell says prison helped him understand Christ’s suffering
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VATICAN CITY (CNS) – Pope Francis signed a decree recognising a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed Titus Brandsma, … Read More about Pope advances sainthood causes, including Dutch priest murdered at Dachau
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By MICHAEL OTTO and JEFF DILLON The stand of Aotearoa New Zealand’s most prominent wartime conscientious objector, Archibald Baxter, who became a Catholic late in his life, has been honoured with the opening of a national memorial in Dunedin. The Archibald Baxter Peace Garden – The National Memorial for Conscientious Objectors was officially opened on October … Read More about Memorial honours NZ’s most prominent pacifist
by JEFF DILLON Performing at a high level for 50 years has all been taken in his stride by Dunedin diocesan priest Msgr John Harrison. Born the eldest of eight children in 1946, he was built more for running than rugby. In fact, he was to get involved as a competitive athletic harrier in his late teens. Before … Read More about Reflecting on 50 years of priesthood, Dunedin jubilarian says God gave all that was needed
Priests not vaccinated against Covid-19 will be unable to visit classes and celebrate Masses and other liturgies in Catholic schools in New Zealand once the measures in a Government health order take effect. That is one of the conclusions that the New Zealand Catholic Education Office has drawn from a mandate for schools announced by the Government on October 11. … Read More about Integrated schools must follow health order
If the “engine” of a parish is the mobilization of the laity and the harvesting of their gifts, then most parishes are running at about five per cent “engine capacity”. That’s what Fr James Mallon, author of “Divine Renovation — From Maintenance to a Missional Church”, and member of the Global Catholic Alpha Board, told about 100 people at a Zoom … Read More about Running parishes at higher capacities
Jesicka Goei and Yun Wang thought lockdown had put paid to their plans to have an October wedding. It turns out, they were wrong. With Covid-19 level 3 step one restrictions in play, there were only ten people in the church in Auckland: the couple, Fr Tony King-Archer, Ms Goei’s parents, Mr Wang’s mother, their two witnesses, the organist and … Read More about Love and marriage in the time of lockdown
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