Rotorua’s St Michael’s Catholic School was blessed, Sunday, by Fr Eamon Kennedy, principal Kristina Crouch posted on Facebook. “This blessing ensured that our school was prepared properly for the safe arrival of our tamariki and their whānau,” she wrote. Crouch said pupils and parents were given the opportunity to come together with staff and the board Read more
The Archbishop of Paris, Michel Aupetit has set new pastoral priorities for the coming year that include lay people for the coming year. Aupetit has called for a study into the possibility of housing families and lay people in the buildings of the Paris seminary building. Sharing meals and time for communal prayer, “seminarians will Read more
Just under 1,000 churches offered a prayer for the people working in media at their services last Sunday. It’s an initiative organised by the Christian Broadcasting Association, an organisation that creates Christian-themed content for secular media – largely for talk radio stations like Newstalk ZB and RadioLIVE. The Media Prayer Day initiative has been endorsed Read more
The Tyburn nuns’ community extended last month when two priests became Tyburn monks. Colombian priests, Fr Manuel Agudelo Marin, 52, and Fr Hector Nagles Santa, 53, are the first postulants of a male branch of the order of contemplative Benedictines. Read more
Slow progress in establishing the ground rules for New Zealand’s biggest ever inquiry is causing further pain for state care abuse survivors. New information also shows a formal proposal on the inquiry is yet to reach Cabinet – which must approve the final inquiry scope before anyone can be heard. Continue reading
A Bangladeshi nun has dedicated her life to serving God and healing the hearts of Bangladeshi people suffering various forms of psychological distress. Read more
Former head girl of Wellington’s Erskine College, Nicola Young, finds the memories of an extraordinary education and strange rituals come flooding back as she revisits the old chapel and school rooms which have lain empty for years. Read more
Two Malaysian Muslim lesbians received a public caning after being convicted under Islamic laws of attempting to have sexual relations. Lawyers and activists say the women, aged 22 and 32, were seated on stools facing the judges and given six strokes from a light rattan cane on their backs by female prison officers. More than Read more
Churchgoers have resorted to parking illegally on a West Auckland shared foot and cycle path and it’s not going down well with cyclists. The parking on Harbourview Orangihina Reserve on Te Atatū Rd had always been an issue but lately, it’s caused an uproar in the Te Atatū Peninsula community. Continue reading
Priests in Venezuela are a beacon of hope, providing spiritual solace is soaring as nation teeters on brink of collapse. The South American nation is facing a crippled economy amid falling oil prices, U.S. sanctions, hyperinflation and food shortages, according to a report in a diocesan paper in the United States.Read more