Patrick Dunn – NZ Catholic Newspaper https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Sun, 21 Jan 2018 20:57:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.5 Remembering the core teaching of Jesus at Christmas https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2017/12/24/remembering-the-core-teaching-of-jesus-at-christmas/ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2017/12/24/remembering-the-core-teaching-of-jesus-at-christmas/#respond Sat, 23 Dec 2017 20:00:59 +0000 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=16582 Bishop Colin Campbell of Dunedin has sent a very sobering Christmas card this year.  It features a painting of Mary and Joseph being turned away from the inn at Bethlehem, alongside a photo that shocked the world in September, 2015, showing the body of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi which was washed ashore in Turkey.  He, and

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]]> https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2017/09/26/building-bridge-gay-brothers-sisters/feed/ 2 My biggest worry: the lack of priestly vocations in NZ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2017/08/16/my-biggest-worry-the-lack-of-priestly-vocations-in-nz/ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2017/08/16/my-biggest-worry-the-lack-of-priestly-vocations-in-nz/#comments Tue, 15 Aug 2017 23:00:56 +0000 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=15666 On the Feast of St James [25 July] I shall celebrate the 23rd anniversary of my ordination as a bishop. It is not a major celebration, but it is another milestone. Back in 1994, Archbishop Thomas White was the Pope’s ambassador in Wellington and he suggested it was often appropriate when possible to hold the

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