A Home Away From Home Like No Other, published by the Ozanam House Trust to celebrate a half-century of the House’s operations, tells the history of this charitable endeavour. Conceived by the Society of St Vincent de Paul and developed in 1971 in collaboration with the Cancer Society Manawatu, the original Ozanam House began with Read more
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Presbyterian Church elects Pasifika leader as Moderator
Thursday, October 26th, 2017The Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand has elected the Rev Taimoanaifakaofo (Fakaofo) Kaio as its future leader. He will take up the role of Moderator from 3 October 2018 at the Presbyterian Churchs General Assembly Continue reading
Finn is dedicated to changing the world just one step at a time
Thursday, October 19th, 2017
Finn Egan, a former Marist Challenge 2000 Gap Year Student and Youth Worker at Challenge 2000, has walked the 1600km of the Te Araroa Trail from Cape Reinga to Wellington to support Roar4PNG. Roar4PNG is an organisation devoted to preventing and healing sexual and domestic violence. This organisation wants to build a women’s refuge in Read more
Priests’ children need to be acknowledged
Thursday, October 19th, 2017
Mr Bill Kilgallon, director of the National Office for Professional Standards in New Zealand, says the Catholic Church as yet has no idea how many people in New Zealand may have a father who is or has been a priest. But he says priests’ children have the right to know who their parents are. He Read more
Vietnamese woman in visa ‘limbo land’ marries Kiwi husband
Thursday, October 19th, 2017A couple mired in a struggle with Immigration New Zealand (INZ) were able to set aside their visa woes – at least for a day – when they tied the knot. Kirk ‘Seamus’ Robertson and his Vietnamese partner, Pham Thu Thuong Nguyen, known as Thuong, were married at the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Oxford, North Canterbury Read more
Fijians take Log ‘o Wood to church
Thursday, October 19th, 2017The Ranfurly Shield has made a surprise visit to church as Taranaki continues to bask in their dramatic come-from-behind victory over Canterbury at the weekend. The side’s Fijian players took the Log o’ Wood along to the City of Refuge Church in New Plymouth so the congregation could get up close to the famous rugby Read more
Cullinane principal moving to St Peter’s
Thursday, October 19th, 2017After 29 years working in education in Whanganui, Cullinane College principal Kevin Shore is moving to Palmerston North. Mr Shore has been appointed principal of St Peter’s College, a co-educational Catholic secondary school, and takes up the position in March. The student body of about 650 is twice the size of Cullinane College. Continue reading
Steve Thomson – a good shepherd in more ways than one
Monday, October 16th, 2017
Steve Thomson has been a sheep and beef farmer in the eastern Wairarapa. He is also an Anglican priest. A recent episode of TVNZ’s Country Calendar took a look at his life. Thomson is the parish priest in Tinui. The parish covers a large geographical area stretching from Riversdale Beach, Homewood Road to Whareama and Read more
Bishops welcome feedback on refreshed websites
Monday, October 16th, 2017
The New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference and National Liturgy websites have been refreshed. Both sites had a restricted introduction last week while further revision and refinements were carried out behind the scenes. These sites provide a functional and accessible interface for members of the Catholic community and broader public. Feedback is welcomed. “These refreshed portals Read more
A better translation of the Mass possible
Monday, October 16th, 2017
The Bishop of Palmerston North Charles Drennan says the clunky sentence construction and often awkward vocabulary in the six-year-old translation of the Mass have tested us all, “Notwithstanding the introduction of some evocative language.” Writing in Welcom, Drennan made a plea for patience in regard to what action may be taken in New Zealand as a consequence Read more