Maori leaders have paid tribute to Whanganui kaumatua Morvin Te Anatipa Simon, an exceptional composer, choirmaster, kapa haka leader, academic and historian. Simon died in Wellington hospital on 14 May after a long period of ill health. E te uri o Hinengakau, e te reo reka o te awa tupua, e te matua Morvin, kei te Read more
The Budget largely fails to address the root causes of poverty, provide more affordable and social housing, or adequately protect our environment says the The Justice and Peace Commission for the Catholic Diocese of Auckland. The Commission says: The Budget fails to adequately address the legitimate redistribution of economic benefits by the state as discussed Read more
Two hundred and twenty Anglican bishops, clergy and lay people from throughout New Zealand and the Pacific are at Waitangi to thrash out the direction the church will take in the next couple of years. Over the next three days, they will discuss its role in helping alleviate child poverty, and where it goes in Read more
Employing people from all corners of the globe has many benefits, according to Mt Albert Pak ‘n Save owner-operator Brian Carran. The supermarket won the Equal Employment Opportunities Trust diversity award for innovation in 2005 after Carran set up a prayer room for Muslim staff. “It’s just good business,” he says. “It’s just being a Read more
Recent publicity about bullying does not reflect what she sees at the school, says Prue Kelly, Bishop Viard College’s interim principal. “It’s easy to sit outside the school and say there’s bullying going on, or one incident is an indicator of general malaise in the place, of things going badly. “That’s not what I’ve found Read more
The Roman Catholic and Anglican Archbishops of New Zealand are calling for people to pray for the release and protection of the schoolgirls kidnapped in northern Nigeria. Anglican Archbishops Philip Richardson and Brown Turei, and Roman Catholic Archbishop John Dew, said last Sunday was an opportunity for churches across the country to pray for, and Read more
A Māori Presbyterian Church leader says he will join the push for an annual national commemoration day to remember the New Zealand Wars. Reverend Wayne Te Kaawa, the moderator of the church’s Māori synod, backs the calls made last month by the Waikato-Tainui leader Tukoroirangi Morgan. Te Kaawa says, “This is no longer a Māori Read more
She might have just turned 100, but Sr Marie Fitzpatrick still helps other residents and staff at Little Sisters of the Poor Sacred Heart Home, in Dunedin. She celebrated her birthday yesterday with more than 70 family and friends. Religious Superior Sr Bridget Donnelly said Sr Marie assisted hospital residents at mealtimes, and sometimes set Read more
Planning is under way for the celebration of the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the first Catholic parish in Southland. The sesquicentennial will be marked at Labour Weekend, the anniversary of when the first Catholic church was opened in the south, with mass to be said in a little church in Clyde St. From Read more
Family First International New Zealand leader Dame Colleen Bayer is has signed a declaration calling on the bishops of the Catholic Church to deny Communion to pro-abortion politicians. She is one of fifty two pro-life leaders from sixteen nations attending the first annual Rome Life Forum in Vatican City. They have all signed the declaration in Read more