The archbishop of Wellington, Cardinal John Dew, was in Australia last week to present an address on Servant Leadership in the Spirit of Pope Francis. He spoke at Our Lady of Mercy College, Parramatta on Tuesday. On Wednesday he spoke on the same topic when he presented the Helder Camara Lecture at Newman College in Melbourne. Read more
The son of a man killed in the Christchurch terror attack says police treated him as a potential threat after calling for the accused gunman to be tortured. Omar Nabi’s father, Haji-Daoud Nabi, was fatally shot at the Deans Ave mosque on March 15 as he tried to shield another person. Read more
The St John’s College 1st XV from Hastings was a little down and out after almost a decade with no wins. That all changed last year when Ritchie and Rochelle Williams stepped in as volunteer coach and manager. Read more
Dr Tony Lanigan told graduates, college staff and guests at the St Columba Centre on June 7 that this was the last such ceremony for GSC because the New Zealand bishops plan to merge the college and The Catholic Institute of Aotearoa New Zealand into a “single provider body”. Read more in NZCatholic
Jewish community leaders joined Muslim officials in Christchurch on Wednesday, to hand over 1.1 million dollars raised for the victims of the Christchurch mosque attacks. The Jewish community has asked that some of the donated money is used for interfaith activities to foster a greater connection between the Jewish and Muslim communities. “Our faith has Read more
Green MP Golriz Ghahraman has expressed the opinion that Mary and her husband Joseph were Palestinian refugees. Last Thursday Ghahraman posted a tweet: “They were literally Palestinian refugees. “And she (Mary) normally had her hair covered because that’s what modesty looked like in her culture…but let’s keep fighting about what race mermaids are.” She had Read more
New Zealanders tend to think there is little they can do about the detention of “kids in cages” on the southern borders of the United States. “But there’s actually a bunch of things you can do, even from here. We need not feel powerless,” says Thalia Kehoe Rowden writing in The Spinoff. “Here are some Read more
An Asian has been elected as head of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) for the first time in history. Father Gerard Francisco Timoner, a Filipino, was elected Master of the Order on July 13 during the Dominicans’ general chapter, which was held at a seminary some 80 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam. Read more
A Catholic secondary school headmaster is opposed to the legalising marijuana referendum due to be held at the 2020 General Election. St Paul’s College, Ponsonby, headmaster Kieran Fouhy said that legalising cannabis, when New Zealand already has an issue with alcohol, is just asking for trouble. Continue reading in NZCatholic
When Irish-born England captain Eoin Morgan was asked by a reporter whether the ‘luck of the Irish’ had helped the team win the World Cup, he responded: “We had Allah with us. I spoke to Aadil he said Allah is definitely with us.” Adil Rashid is one of two Muslims in the team. The world Read more