The daughter of a saint is coming to New Zealand next month. Dr Gianna Emanuela Molla, the daughter of St Gianna Beretta Molla, will be the dinner speaker at FLI’s “Go Forward in Hope” pro-life and pro-family conference in Auckland from March 23-26. According to Family Life International’s website, the conference is scheduled to take place … Read More about Daughter of saint coming to NZ
Events
Online event to celebrate World Marriage Day
by FELICITY GILTRAP An online, livestream event ... Read More about Online event to celebrate World Marriage Day
New Auckland home for theological college
Te Kupenga-Catholic Theological College is to move ... Read More about New Auckland home for theological college
New Flat Bush church set for May blessing
After four years of planning and construction ... Read More about New Flat Bush church set for May blessing
by Jeff Dillon What more could a person ask for? Mass on Sunday morning and a round of golf in the afternoon, supporting a great cause that is promoted by the Nano Nagle Charitable Trust (NNCT) in Dunedin. So it proved to be on the first Sunday in March, when … Read More about Teeing off for a good cause
by PILAR MacKINNON and MICHAEL OTTO Leaders in the pro-life movement say that a bill aimed at establishing 150-metre “safe areas” near abortion facilities on a case-by-case basis is an overreach, and targets behaviour which their groups don’t sanction and have not seen happen. Parliament passed the first reading of … Read More about Abortion ‘safe areas’ bill an overreach
St Joseph models for us faithfulness to God in “the most ordinary of ways”, said Wellington co-adjutor Archbishop Paul Martin, SM. In his homily at a Mass at St Mary’s Pro-Cathedral in Christchurch on March 19, Archbishop Martin, the apostolic administrator of Christchurch diocese, said the Year of St Joseph … Read More about St Joseph the saint for living an ordinary life well
A New Zealand Catholic academic, who is interested in public uses of the past and how communities make sense of violence and trauma, will give at talk at Devonport, on Auckland’s North Shore, in late February. The talk by Dr Rowan Light, an Auckland University historian of memory and commemoration, … Read More about Catholic academic to give talk on importance of memory
The Worshipping Under Southern Skies 2020 conference, scheduled to be held in Auckland in early October this year, has been postponed for a year because of uncertainty over Covid-19 restrictions. The conference, which had a theme of “Weaving together Liturgy and Life”, was scheduled to be held at Auckland’s Baradene College on October 1-3, 2020. It has been postponed until … Read More about Akld liturgy conference postponed
by Judith Williams For its first initiative the newly formed Warkworth-Puhoi Catholic Parish Social Justice Group will host a local area presentation of the Salvation Army’s report, A Mountain All Can Climb, originally released to New Zealand in February this year.
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