Comments on: Many priests in NZ now from overseas https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2014/06/06/many-priests-in-nz-now-from-overseas/ The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Wed, 27 Jan 2016 01:24:12 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.4 By: Jan Curran https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2014/06/06/many-priests-in-nz-now-from-overseas/comment-page-1/#comment-4098 Sun, 08 Jun 2014 23:17:31 +0000 http://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=7085#comment-4098 One wonders if the Hamilton Diocese is Xenophobic – has an irrational fear of foreign priests. I am especially concerned about this because we have large numbers of Asian people in our diocese. I was completely dismayed to read this in a Waihi Parish newsletter where Mons Trevor Murray is the parish priest. Mons Trevor Murray is one of the main organisers of the Hamilton Diocese Pastoral Plan. What is stated in the newsletter – written by an Anna Holmes from the Dunedin Diocese – I find completely offensive:

“Travelling around NZ at the end of last year I heard stories of clericalism everywhere. Priests who refused to acknowledge or affirm the ministries of the people; priests imported from other cultures who issued orders and expected to have their hands kissed by grateful parishioners.”

The full article, which is a complete diatribe against the priesthood, can be read here:

http://waihicatholic.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Newsletter-2014.06.08-Pentecost-Sunday.pdf

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