A Crown Response Office is being established within the Public Service Commission to drive the Government’s response to the Royal Commission into Abuse in Care. “The creation of an Office within a central Government agency was a key recommendation by the Royal Commission’s final report. “It will have the mandate to drive action across the Read more
A parish priest in France was able to rescue the Blessed Sacrament and some 20 other religious artefacts — including the reliquary bust of St Corneille — after his church was set ablaze by an arsonist on Sept 2. The historic Church of the Immaculate Conception in Saint-Omer, in the Pas-de-Calais department of northern France, Read more
Spreading kindness in the community brought “pure joy” to the faces of Dunedin school children. The pupils of nine Dunedin Catholic schools held a social justice day yesterday, taking part in 14 different projects throughout the city including a rubbish cleanup of the Town Belt, baking for residents of Ross Home and connecting with pensioners. Read more
Minutes before the start of the Mass that concluded Pope Francis’ stay in Indonesia, a small army of volunteers wearing black and green T-shirts with the slogan “Your waste, your responsibility” guided the 60,000 pilgrims filling the stands of the vast Gelora Bung Karno (GBK) Stadium in Jakarta. An additional 25,000 people followed the Mass Read more
ZdK (Central Committee of German Catholics) president Irme Stetter-Karp described the Sept 2-4 discussions with members of the Roman Curia as “fruitful.” “There was a remarkable willingness to listen and also question our own view of our counterpart,” she told the German Catholic news agency KNA Sept 5. “I found it fruitful, even where it Read more
For more than a year, religious organisations have lobbied Congress and the Biden administration to fix a sudden procedural change in how the government processes green cards for religious workers, which threatens the ability of thousands of them to continue to minister in the United States. The Catholic Diocese of Paterson, New Jersey, and five Read more
A Dunedin secondary school teacher has an alter ego that comes out to rock once the students have gone home. Trinity Catholic College’s Sophie Whibley is teaching a range of subjects this year — religious studies, drama, maths and integrated studies. However, when the last of the students file out of the classroom, she heads Read more
Step into Saint Joseph Academy and the only technology you’ll find are a few computers in the teachers’ lounge. That’s because the newly opened Catholic school is choosing to go as tech-free as possible. “It’s also very cool to see their natural curiosities when they don’t have a screen in front of them and to Read more
A Roman Catholic boarding school in the UK has become one of the first of its kind to close in the face of Labour’s VAT raid on private education. The tax change is cited as a factor in the shutdown of Kilgraston School, near Bridge of Earn, Perthshire, on Tuesday. Local authorities are now rushing Read more