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...

by PETER OWENS and PAT McCARTHY St Theresa’s Church in North Invercargill, one of the largest churches in...

Fr Pierre Denzil Meuli was a priest of great learning and deep piety, who touched many souls in his ministry in...

by Ken Joblin A daily experience for me is to be driven around Christchurch as I go about my...

by JEFF DILLON A congregation of some 50 people attended a special Mass on a Monday evening at 7pm recently at...

Christchurch Bishop Paul Martin, SM, preached the homily at an inter-church non-denominational service of prayerand hope six days after the mosque shootings...

by Jeff Dillon In the midst of national mourning for the Christchurch mosque shooting victims, the Dunedin Catholic community...

Auckland Bishop Patrick Dunn has told an Auckland Council annual budget process that the council’s current rates exemptions on land...

When a group of school friends got together near Thames last August, it was just for a chinwag. But towards the end, they decided to have another meeting...

Auckland diocese’s new general manager, James van Schie, was “handed over” to his new role by friends, family and other supporters at a powhiri at the...

Last month, the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference appointed Fr John O’Connor of Christchurch diocese as acting director of the National Liturgy Office. Fr O’Connor agreed to do...

by DALE GREENBURY On February 18 this year, a group of five women from the parish of St Mary’s, Whanganui travelled to Kaupokonui Beach in South Taranaki for...

Organisers of Auckland’s annual Candlelight Rosary Procession at Sacred Heart College on the first Sunday of October have decided not to carry on with the event. Co-organiser Colin...

  Patrick Seconi and Ted Downs of the Catholic Parish of Whanganui — Te Parihi Katorika ki Whanganui took a final look at the stations of...

In the wake of the terror shootings in Christchurch, with the dead still awaiting burials as this editorial is being written, it is difficult to find...