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Newly-arrived priests learn about NZ

Rowena Orejana — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 00:00:27 +0000

by Msgr DAVID TONKS Nine priests who have come to serve in Auckland diocese from other places participated in a three day orientation programme, held at the Mary MacKillop Centre, Mission Bay, on October 16-18. Participants included one New Zealand-born Marist priest, two Sri Lankan diocesan priests, a Tongan Marist, and five Indians — a

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NZ Christian unity starts along a new path

NZ Catholic Staff — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 22:16:53 +0000

by NZ CATHOLIC staff A new path of the ecumenical journey was initiated in Wellington on February 25 with the launching of the National Dialogue for Christian Unity. New Zealand has been missing from the global ecumenical family, with no national body since 2005. And that absence has been noted and lamented. Following eight years

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Projects exemplify Fit 4 Mission

Rowena Orejana — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 21:42:42 +0000

by ROWENA OREJANA Auckland parishes are struggling to find projects to undertake that fit the year-old Fit 4 Mission, Auckland’s diocesan pastoral plan. Parish and pastoral services group leader Pat Lythe told NZ Catholic they are not yet where they want to be, “but it’s not too bad”. “We are not as far as I

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Catholics and Methodists keep on talking

Michael Otto — Wed, 13 May 2015 21:07:45 +0000

by PAT LYTHE The Methodist-Catholic dialogue continued in Auckland last month. Eight people from the Catholic and Methodist Churches talked with a view to increasing Church unity. The dialogue has grown out of the formation of the World Council of Churches in the early part of the 20th century. Following that, Protestant churches began to

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Timely reflections on NZ’s early Christian missionaries

Michael Otto — Mon, 25 Aug 2014 02:00:21 +0000

Reviewed by PAT LYTHE. TE RONGOPAI 1814, TAKOTO TE PAI — Bicentenary Reflections on Christian Beginnings and Developments in Aotearoa New Zealand edited by Allan Davidson, Stuart Lange, Peter Lineham, Adrienne Puckey (General Synod Office, “Tuia”, Anglican Church in Aotearoa and Polynesia, available from Anglican General Synod Office, PO Box 87188, Meadowbank, Auckland 1742. gensec@anglicanchurch.org.nz)

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Fit for Mission plan launched in diocese

Rowena Orejana — Mon, 16 Jun 2014 21:21:12 +0000

by ROWENA OREJANA
AUCKLAND — Parishes in Auckland started the launch of Fit for Mission, a grassroots diocesan pastoral plan, on Pentecost Sunday. The plan calls for Catholics to look outside their own
churches and spread the Good News in the suburbs they live in.echo $variable;

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