St Peter’s College and Hato Paora College have joined other 9 other schools in the Manawatu in proposing a blanket boycott of all legal-high retailers throughout the wider Manawatu region. Their support has added weight to a Palmerston North mother’s campaign to stop retailers in the Manawatu from selling legal highs. Esther McLean has proposed Read more
After 4 young men were killed in a car accident last weekend, a South Auckland priest has urged South Auckland youth to take it easy on the roads for the sake of their families. Viane Gaga and his family would usually have been attending church last Sunday. But instead, they were at his bedside in Read more
The new Chaldean Patriarch, His Beatitude Louis Raphael I Sako, (on Bishop Dunn’s right) the spiritual leader of Chaldean Catholics throughout the world, visited New Zealand last week for the first time since his elevation to the Patriarchal See in January 2013. Patriarch Sako, who is based in Bagdhad, Iraq, was accompanied by a number Read more
The Holy Father, with the agreement of the respective governments, has announced that Archbishop Martin Krebs is the new Apostolic Nuncio to New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Palau, and Federated States of Micronesia in the Pacific. Archbishop Krebs (56) was born in Essen, Germany. He was ordained priest in 1983, and after obtaining a doctorate in Read more
Hunger in an agricultural country where the shops and even the garbage bins are full of food seems too hard to believe, said Hamilton Bishop Denis Browne said on Thursday. The NZ Herald reports Bishop Browne is calling on the Government to allow different policy options for food programmes in schools to be examined and Read more
Bishop Peter Cullinane was among speakers remembering those who have died at work, at a commemoration service for Workers Memorial Day in Palmerston North on Sunday 28 April. Bishop Peter said that each one of the “terrible statistics” of workplace deaths, injuries and illnesses represented the suffering of individuals and families. He said human wellbeing Read more
A Christchurch demolition engineer, Eugene Chang, has been refused communion at his Korean Catholic church after being accused of being a North Korean sympathiser and spy. He has had to step down from the board of trustees of the Korean school after parents refused to send their children while he was involved and been shunned by his Read more
The Hui Aranga 2013 took place at Hawera using the TSB Hub sports centre and the Hawera High School College. These proved ample space for the 1300 participants who came from Opononi in the North, Tauranga in the East and Whanganui, Manawatu and Wellington in the South. In all about 12 Clubs participated. The host Read more
The New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference have written to the group calling themselves Catholic Action and instructed them to cease using the word Catholic in their name immediately. The bishops do not consider the language used by the group in its communications, and actions the group has taken, to be consistent with the way in Read more
New research from the University of Otago, Christchurch, suggests abortion does not reduce the mental health risks of unwanted pregnancy. Currently, abortion can only be performed legally in New Zealand if there is a risk to the mother’s physical or mental health or if the baby would have a serious disability. About 98 per cent Read more