by COLLEEN McMURCHY On March 18, the Belgian ambassador to New Zealand, Marc Mullie, unveiled a special plaque which...

by JEFF DILLON Easter Sunday became a chance to have a double celebration for members of the...

Two young Lasallian volunteers from Australia have found they can have fun — in New Zealand — while growing in maturity and...

The combined Christian churches of Christchurch, represented by Te Raranga, have gifted more than $150,000 to Muslim communities that were the subject...

by SARAH SPARKS When the Mayor of Auckland arrives at a meeting centred on social justice driving his own...

CANBERRA (CathNews and CNS) — A New Zealand canon lawyer has been appointed as a member of a panel of experts which...

by MEENA AMSO A large scale event to unite Christian congregations in Christchurch city last month was postponed....

In the wake of the fire which seriously damaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris last month, NZ Catholic asked its publisher, Bishop...

Praying and playing are both key to keeping it together when you are a youth minister, said US-based Life Teen coach and...

by MARY EASTHAM “I feel like I have lost members of my family”, wrote Sr Bertha Hurley, SMSM,...

by Sr MARGARET O’NEILL, RSJ If you happen to look out a window in Mary MacKillop Centre in Mission...

“Pray for us and pray for more priests,” requested the two first-year seminarians at Holy Cross Seminary in Ponsonby, Auckland.

Memorial Masses were celebrated in several churches in New Zealand for the victims of the Easter bombing attacks at churches and top-end...

Students from Carmel College and Rosmini College in Auckland combined for the first time to compete on the Samoan stage at Polyfest...

by JEFF DILLON Brian Vernon Dillon was born on what was to become a very significant day, April 25. He was born...

While other churches are closing down and amalgamating, Holy Cross Parish in Henderson has embarked on a $4.1 million project to rebuild...

The Association of Proprietors of Integrated Schools (APIS) has strongly opposed many of the recommendations that came out of a review of...

After Thomas Kiely died on March 31, aged 94, many people came forward and sent messages to his children and family ...

by JOHN KLEINSMAN The long-awaited Justice Select Committee report on ACT MP David Seymour’s End of Life...

Isabella McCafferty from Wellington archdiocese’s Family and Young Church Vicariate was one of 300 young people who gathered in Rome on March...

Couples who feel a calling towards being marriage educators for Auckland diocese should “just do it”, advised the diocese’s Marriage and...

Striving to do ordinary things extraordinarily well, a call first made by Sisters of Mercy founder Catherine McAuley, isthe inspiration that drove...

Catholic health practitioners will have an opportunity to get pastoral care, encouragement and collegial support in their practice with the launching of...

Joseph Moeono-Kolio was a synod auditor representing Caritas International Youth Forum, Samoa and New Zealand. In Christus Vivit, chapter VI — Young...

Q&A with Xyryll Gayagoy, year 12 student, St Mary’s College, Wellington, who took part in the School Strike 4 Climate...

Catholic school students joined thousands of their peers at the Student Strike for Climate Action held in key cities throughout the country...

The image of great canoes sailing from island to island across the great vastness of the Pacific that Joe Sapati...

Three St Joseph’s primary schools in Auckland got together for the first time to celebrate their collective feast day on...

by CATHIE BELLMore Marlborough and Kaikoura people are becoming baptised since the new Star of the Sea parish was shaken by earthquakes,...

by HAYDEN KINGDON On March 8, Msgr Paul Farmer led a ground-blessing on the site of the new chapel for St Peter’s...