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Catholic blog to end

Michael Otto — Tue, 24 Mar 2015 00:00:28 +0000

by MICHAEL OTTO Kiwi Catholic blog Being Frank is coming to an end after eight-and-a-half years of operation. The blog’s administrators announced the decision last month after the last permanent contributor stepped down and there were “no authors left”. “Best of Being Frank” items are being posted daily on the blog up until Good Friday

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Migrants help keep the Catholic ship afloat

Rowena Orejana — Sun, 28 Sep 2014 20:44:08 +0000

by ROWENA OREJANA AUCKLAND — The entry of Asian migrants in Auckland diocese presents that local Church with more tremendous growth, possibilities and challenges than any other diocese in New Zealand, according to a history professor. Presenting his study before priests of Auckland diocese on August 26, Massey professor Peter Lineham attributed the continued strength

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Moxon hails Francis authority

NZ Catholic Staff — Mon, 28 Apr 2014 20:58:41 +0000

by NZ CATHOLIC Staff
ROME — Kiwi Anglican Archbishop Sir David Moxon has labelled
Pope Francis as “the most iconic moral authority in the world today”.
Archbishop Moxon, the Archbishop of Canterbury’s representative
to the Holy See and the director of the Anglican Centre in Rome, said the Pope is precisely what a pluralistic and hedonistic
society needs today.
“He represents in himself the cumulative wisdom, experience and
missiology of a Franciscan and Jesuit Christian,” he wrote in the Catholic Herald, in the United Kingdom.
“This is what we need as a guide to Christian living in a pluralistic, hedonist and information technology-driven world.
“The Pope challenges us to move out of our sanctuaries and our computer- bordered worlds into the streets with common compassion and solidarity with the poorest of the poor. He wants
us to rediscover there, true humanity in Christ.”
The Pope’s popularity, which saw him painted as a superhero in Italian graffiti and featured in a rock and roll magazine, is
not a “charm offensive” by the Catholic Church, the Anglican prelate said.
“This is deep witness from the heart of the Gospel. This witness connects with so many because we are all made in the image
of God, however marred or soiled that image may be,” Archbishop Moxon explained.
He said the same image within us recognises the spirit of Christ in Pope Francis.
“This is not a human achievement, but a work of the Holy Spirit in the Church Catholic,” he stressed.
Archbishop Moxon described Francis’s pontificate as “transformative”, building on the works of those who had come
before him.
“I also find in Pope Francis the witness I need to be an ecumenical and justice-seeking Christian in the world today,” he
wrote.
He said the Pope’s words, “joy, mission, conversion, diversity, poor, inclusive, decentralise”, are the same ones used by Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Justin Welby.
“This synergy of spirit is surely God-given and a means of much grace. This is what God’s Incarnation is like: the ‘Word’
made flesh, Love incarnate, looks and feels and sounds like this,” he said.
In the New Year’s Honours, Archbishop Moxon was appointed a Knight
Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to the Anglican Church.
He has recently played a key role in an interfaith initiative involving Catholics, Anglicans and Muslims to combat human
trafficking worldwide.

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Communists control Vietnam’s Catholic Church, says priest

Michael Otto — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 04:52:37 +0000

by PETER GRACE AUCKLAND — The communist authorities control the Catholic Church in Vietnam, says Auckland Vietnamese Community chaplain Fr Andrew Nguyen. Fr Nguyen, who left Vietnam 23 years ago, said that after seizing power in 1945, the communists tried for about the next 30 years to destroy the Church there. Churches were destroyed, bishops

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Catholic approach to Aids starting to get recognition

Michael Otto — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:00:00 +0000

ROME (CNA/EWTN) The Vaticans representative to the United Nations in Geneva says international relief agencies and faith-based groups are beginning to show an openness to the Catholic solution for Aids. We are at the beginning of a convergence in the sense that functionaries of international institutions and organisations, and people from faith-based groups, are talking

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New payroll scheme is expected to help Church

Michael Otto — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:00:00 +0000

AUCKLAND Diocesan managers are welcoming a new voluntary payroll giving scheme that enables employees to give as they earn to charities. The scheme, which came into effect in January, allows employees to make donations directly from their pay to approved charities, and get one-third back immediately as a tax credit, reducing their tax paid in

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Catholic leaders at UN summit urge immediate action on climate change

Michael Otto — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:00:00 +0000

UNITED NATIONS (CNS) Climate change is more than an environmental concern; it is an issue of justice that merits immediate attention by world leaders. This was the message delivered repeatedly by Catholic participants in the September 22 United Nations Summit on Climate Change in New York. echo $variable;

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Upcoming Vatican conference focuses on role of the deaf in the Church

Vatican City (CNS) — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:00:00 +0000

VATICAN CITY (CNS) In response to numerous requests for how the Catholic community could increase its attention toward the deaf, the Vatican has organised an upcoming conference focusing on the role of deaf people in the Church. echo $variable;

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Locals fight plans for new school

Michael Otto — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:00:00 +0000

ARROWTOWN There is considerable local opposition to an application for resource consent to build a Catholic primary school near Arrowtown in Central Otago. Dunedin diocese is seeking consent from the Queenstown Lakes District Council to build a 112-student primary school on a 2.59-hectare block of land in Speargrass Flat Rd. The property is situated in

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Catholic officials, organisations launch campaign for climate change

Poland (CNS) — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:00:00 +0000

WARSAW, Poland (CNS) Catholic Church officials from 38 countries have launched a campaign with more than 170 Catholic organisations to persuade the United Nations to meet the "moral obligation" of tackling climate change. "Climate change is a reality today affecting the lives and livelihoods of millions in developing countries by exacerbating storms, droughts and natural

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