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Staff challenged to plan for diocesan growth

Rowena Orejana — Tue, 19 Jul 2016 21:09:52 +0000

Palmerston North Bishop Charles Drennan has urged the faithful to reflect on what place Jesus is given in the Church’s efforts at evangelisation, as he challenged his staff to plan for growth in the diocese. Bishop Drennan said the “Kiwi drift” Auckland Bishop Patrick Dunn talked about earlier is “very real”, even though Palmerston North diocese reported a “modest growth” in

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‘Kiwis’ drift out of Church

Rowena Orejana — Sun, 12 Jun 2016 20:30:31 +0000

The “Kiwi drift” is the elephant in the room in the Church in New Zealand, according to the Bishop of Auckland, Bishop Patrick Dunn. Bishop Dunn, the president of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference, defined Kiwi drift as “the haemorrhage of New Zealand-born or New Zealand-bred people from the Church”. “It is affecting all our parishes,” he said in his bishop’s forum talk

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