1 March: First Sunday of Lent. Readings: 1. Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7; Psalm: 51; 2. Romans 5:12-19; Gospel: Matthew 4:1-11. How we deal with...

Pope Francis’ 2015 encyclical letter Laudato Si’, on care for our common home, the earth, continued the tradition of the prophets and of...

He aha te mea nui o te ao. He tāngata, he tāngata, he tāngata! What is the most important...

February 23: 7th Sunday of Ordinary Time. Readings: 1. Leviticus 19:1-2,17-18; Psalm: 103; 2. 1 Corinthians 3:16-23; Gospel: Matthew 5:38-48. A number...

On December 7 last year, exactly 92 years after it was formed, St Mary’s parish, Papakura, launched its official history book title...

Keeping hope alive for the Palestinian students of Bethlehem University is one of the biggest challenges for vice-chancellor Br Peter Bray, FSC,...

by JEFF DILLON The only Christian Brother left in Dunedin, Br Graeme Donaldson, CFC, celebrated his 70th jubilee...

by WIGA AUTET More than 300 tangata whenua (locals) and manuhiri (guests) gathered at Totara Point in Hokianga...

by WIGA AUTET Eight priests (including five Dominicans), a representative number of local parishioners and many others who travelled...

The Kiwi-Filipino couple who first brought the devotion to the Santo Niño to Auckland 26 years ago have been made a knight...

February 16: 6th Sunday of Ordinary Time; Readings: 1. Sirach 15:15-20; Psalm: 119a; 2. 1 Corinthians 2:6-10; Gospel: Matthew 5:17-37.

Auckland diocese’s Justice and Peace Commission has told a parliamentary select committee that urgent attention should be given to the tight control...

by MINA AMSO The largest ever gathering of young Chaldean people in Auckland, which took place last month,...

Caring for people in need and advocating for human rights for more than 60 years has seen a Wellington religious sister receive...

St John the Evangelist parish in Orewa, Auckland, lost its “matriarch” when Valerie Ann Bennett passed away in her home on January...

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In a first for the West Coast, two Anglican bishops and a Catholic bishop gathered on February 1 at Makaawhio/Jacob’s River to celebrate and...

Accusations of “whitewashing” and calls for racial and gender quotas again accompanied the 2020 Oscar nominations. Sheer merit alone, judged by...

Auckland diocese liturgy advisor Marcelles Amiatu has been appointed by Samoan Archbishop Alapati Lui Mataeliga to head a newly-established national liturgy office in the...

February 9: 5th Sunday of Ordinary Time. Readings: 1. Isaiah 58:7-10; Psalm: 112; 2. 1 Corinthians 2:1-5; Gospel: Matthew 5:13-16. Today,...

Wellington archdiocese’s new general manager is John Prendergast, who comes from a position of chief executive of Southland Presbyterian Support.

“The west is the best,” the Bishop of Auckland keeps being told when he visits parishes in West Auckland. “Henderson is the...

It is important to encourage young people in their faith as well as in bringing their faith to areas of leadership in the secular...

New Zealand prisoners share issues of poverty, mental illness and being overly from ethnic minorities with their jailed counterparts in many other countries, Senior...

by PATRICIA BROOKS The Tauranga parish of St Thomas Aquinas recently said farewell to a  most remarkable parishioner,  Beverley Roberts....

by MICHAEL LORETZ It was a special day for 500 people who gathered in the north Canterbury village...

At 5.30am on New Year’s Day, a Mass was celebrated on Midway Beach, Gisborne, by Msgr Frank Eggleton and Fr Jack Smith,...

The spirit of hospitality offered to St Francis of Assisi by a Muslim Sultan was rekindled eight centuries later at St Francis Friary...

February 2: Presentation of the Lord. Readings: 1. Malachi 3:1-4; Psalm: 24; 2.Hebrews 2:14-18; Gospel: Luke 2:22-40. This feast day...

During the summer months, Whangarei’s Catholic parish and schoolsare trying something new to help build up the faith life of families.