If there was a quintessentially Auckland ceremony for ordination to priesthood, it would be Fr Martin Wu’s ordination.

One of the big challenges for the Church in Christchurch diocese, and likely elsewhere in New Zealand too, is to revitalise...

Ten years ago, the thought of addressing people at a eucharistic convention in Auckland wasn’t on TVNZ reporter Tim Wilson’s radar.

Several students from Catholic colleges participated in the 2019 Youth Parliament event, held in Wellington in July. The...

Last month, the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference released a video on Catholic prison chaplaincy in New Zealand, to raise awareness around...

There was a deep sense of joy and gratitude as family and friends gathered around the altar for Mass at the Cathedral...

by BOB HOUSTON With the imminent final Mass, closure and sale of the Parata St site of Our...

Auckland Bishop Patrick Dunn’s episcopal ordination might have had a fuse box explosion, power outage, heavy rains and floods. But on July...

On July 25, the day of Auckland Bishop Patrick Dunn’s jubilee of episcopal ordination (25 years), the Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand,...

One story told after the funeral of Msgr Ray Green was an illustration of both the man and of his many years...

by INFORM EDITORIAL TEAM June 24 is the feast of St John the Baptist and is the patronal feast...

An Archdiocesan Vocations Committee has been formed in Wellington Archdiocese to look at ways to raise the profile of priestly vocations, explore...

by MINA AMSO It took nine years and three million dollars to maintain and investigate possible options that would...

The Auckland Interfaith Council and Mercy Spirituality Centre sponsored an event on the theme of Gratitude. More than 50...

The proposed changes to abortion law will allow abortion on demand, practically up to birth, discarding the rights of the...

Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand is continuing to work with its partners in Bangladesh to help hundreds of thousands of displaced Rohingya.

Three things transformed the early Church and made it dynamic — being devoted to prayer and praying in groups, being dynamic, loving...

by Orlando Pedraza Doubting Thomas, one of the 12 apostles, is one character with whom I...

by GEORGE MATYSEK, Jr. BALTIMORE (CNS) — As the Nazi regime systematically killed those it deemed mentally ill or...

US priest Fr Roger Landry’s second talk at the Auckland Eucharistic Convention might have been about the vocation of the laity and...

Korea is not well known as a source of movies for New Zealand audiences, but that is changing. A growing market exists...

Imagine if the passion and energy being put into attempts to “liberalise” abortion law in New Zealand was instead directed to ensuring...

Since the first issue of NZ Catholic was published on October 6, 1996, many things have changed about the paper. There have...

The Church of the future might be very different from the Church of today, but it will still be the same Church.

by SUSAN WALKER The Term Two project for the Chanel Young Vinnies at Chanel College in Masterton was to...

Pope Francis called on young people to be the Church now and for people of faith to make room for the youth...

Mary MacKillop Care Auckland announced it will be closing its doors, after the Sisters of Saint Joseph of the Sacred Heart...

by ESME O’RAFFERTY Palmerston North diocese’s newest priest, Fr Vui Hoang, grew up firm inthe conviction that he would...

Work aimed at a future reopening of the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Wellington is ongoing.

The Society of St Vincent de Paul received a mention in Parliament during debate on the Government’s 2019 Budget.