Covid has really highlighted the poverty gap. I live in a well-off suburb, where people don’t worry about where the next meal comes from, or whether they have food in the cupboards to feed their kids or not. Every day, I see, in the routine context of work, people on the benefit, and pensioners whose only … Read More about The poverty gap
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Nurturing everyday missionaries
by Paula Wells, Tumuaki, Sacred Heart Girls’ ... Read More about Nurturing everyday missionaries
Church penal law protects the faithful
by Msgr Brendan Daly Bishops and religious ... Read More about Church penal law protects the faithful
Hate speech law needs caution
The public consultation announced by the ... Read More about Hate speech law needs caution
For this week, I asked my husband to reflect on “Being a Modern Catholic Father”. We were both raised in Catholic families — he has four siblings, I have three, and we both grew up in Auckland. He works full time in IT in Auckland, as well as supporting the … Read More about Being a modern Catholic father
by James van Schie The Wall Street Journal recently carried a headline “Catholic Schools losing students at record rates, hundreds closing”. The story charts the decline of Catholic schooling in the United States, from 5.5 million students and 11,000 schools in the 1960s to 1.6 million students and 5900 schools … Read More about Catholic schools and the state
In an address to the recent 2021 Catholic Media Conference in the US, Filipino Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle spoke of Catholic communicators, with the Gospel of Hope, being able to “communicate with hope and to communicate hope in the face of trying times”. The cardinal spoke of “an unfortunate tendency” … Read More about Reporting the news with hope
It is a truism that schools reflect the communities they draw from. They must also grapple with the tensions and conflicts that exist within contemporary society, of which they are a part. In recent times, Aotearoa has felt the global impact of Covid-19, the Black Lives Matter protests, and the … Read More about Catholic education – beacons of hope in a troubled and confused world!
One of the statements made by Bishop Patrick Dunn at a recent bishop’s forum in Auckland was that belief in three core doctrines is needed for people to be missionary disciples. These are belief in the Incarnation of the Son of God, belief in the Resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth … Read More about Explaining the Eucharist
by PILAR MACKINNON As part of an internship with NZ Catholic, I was asked to review a range of popular Catholic and other denominational newspapers and websites to assess their appeal or otherwise to a younger audience. Having read through six recent publications, I have found that there is a … Read More about Gen Z Catholic media observations
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