Sister Mary Joseph, a member of the Sister Servants of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, shared her thoughts on a potential sequel to the Barbie movie in a viral tweet. ‘Barbie becomes a nun’ would be a great sequel,” she wrote. She seriously considers draining the pool, putting her condo on the market, cutting Read more
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Changes in store for erstwhile convent buildings
Monday, June 18th, 2018
A historic convent building in Newton has found a new life as a bookshop. And another former convent in Grey Lynn has just been sold for $4.1million. Warwick Jordan who runs Hard to Find Bookshop needed a new home for his 90,000 books. His shop was in Onehunga but the building was sold and the new Read more
Does religious life have a future?
Friday, March 4th, 2016
Those of us who entered religious life just after Vatican II will probably remember it in the words of Wordsworth after the French Revolution: “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive”. Those were exciting years. In February 1968, aged 19, I entered an Irish Cistercian monastery. It was just three years after the Read more