By TONY FORTUNE It was a while in the planning, and Sunday, August 20 was the day that the two Catholic parishes in the Buller district reformed into the one combined parish, renamed “The Buller- Inangahua Catholic Parish”. On that weekend, Wellington Archbishop Paul Martin, SM, was in Westport to confer the Sacrament of Confirmation … Read More about Two Buller Catholic parishes combine
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Disability theology and ageing
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Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge to address NZ Catholic priests at Rotorua assembly
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Some 175 years ago, Fr Antoine Marie Garin, SM, built a school house in Howick, Auckland, which doubled as a chapel for Mass on Sundays. The anniversary of that beginning of Our Lady Star of the Sea parish and school was celebrated this year, over several days leading up to … Read More about 175 years of storms, peace and prayer
The biggest challenge for a senior prison chaplain is finding people who would take up this ministry. Sr Veronica Casey, PBVM, has retired after more than 10 years as senior prison chaplain. She had been a prison chaplain at the Otago Corrections Facility for six years before leading the Catholic … Read More about Plea for more promotion of prison chaplaincy
The Knights of the Southern Cross New Zealand can trace their origins a century ago to a time characterised by anti-Catholic prejudice in some quarters of society – and there are similarities in today’s society. Auckland Bishop Stephen Lowe made this point in his keynote address at the centenary dinner … Read More about Bishop wants more to follow example of Knights
By MINA AMSO Nearly 1000 young people flocked to World Youth Day [WYD] in Auckland on August 6 to celebrate their Catholic faith and their love for Jesus. The attendance was three times greater than last year. The event at Sancta Maria College in Flat Bush coincided with the global … Read More about Record Turn-out at World Youth Day Auckland
The Auckland Liturgy Centre has run a training course for lay leaders of liturgical prayer, with the objective of “future-proofing” public worship against the declining number of priests. Liturgy and Ministry coordinator Randall Ramos said that the course was attended by 52 ministers of the Word and/or Holy Communion. It … Read More about Lay Leaders of liturgical prayer trained with view to future
The fact that the ordination of women to the diaconate is in the Instrumentum Laboris of the Synod on Synodality to be held in October is “hopeful”, because then there will be a “real discussion” on the issue, according to internationally-acclaimed Catholic scholar Dr Phyllis Zagano. Dr Zagano, author and … Read More about US academic makes case for women deacons
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