Members of St Vincent de Paul in Paris are helping migrants by providing practical and spiritual help. Coordinating Catholic aid is Jerome Perrin, president of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Paris. Read more
Members of St Vincent de Paul in Paris are helping migrants by providing practical and spiritual help. Coordinating Catholic aid is Jerome Perrin, president of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul in Paris. Read more
The closure of charter schools risks the spiritual impoverishment that New Zealand’s education system had historically imposed on Māori, a select committee has heard. Māori educator Sir Toby Curtis, who recently submitted a treaty claim against the closures, delivered an “emotional” plea for the schools to remain as is on Wednesday morning. Continue reading
Australian saint Mary McKillop has received thanks from a man she cured from Parkinson’s disease 10 years ago. On 18 July Ricky Peterson of Kansas City, Kansas revisited St Mary MacKillop’s tomb with a prayer of thanksgiving for the seemingly miraculous event that had changed his life a decade earlier. Peterson first knelt at the Read more
The Anglican Church of Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia and the Anglican Missions Board in Rotorua are hosting the World Council of Churches (WCC) for its 2018 Indigenous Global Ecumenical Gathering (IGEG) and youth pre-meeting. Read more
The International Federation of Catholic Universities has elected its first female president, Dr Isabel Capeloa Gil. Gil is the Rector of the Catholic University of Portugal. In her acceptance address at the 26th General Assembly Meeting, Gil said she will “work to make the power of the few the strength of the many”. Read more
Monday morning, 7.30am. While children across the country are waking up to a new school week, Lisa Boddy’s 8 and 10-year-old are already at childcare. They’re just two of the 190,000 Kiwi kids in both before and after school care, often doing longer hours than their parents. Continue reading
Italy’s deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini has been compared to Satan by a Catholic weekly newspaper. The Famiglia Cristiana cover shouts: “Vade retro Salvini” (“Get back, Salvini”). Evidently, the headline is a tweaked version of the medieval Latin formula used during exorcism. Read more
A homoerotic dance featured in a newly ordained priest’s first Mass. Fr. Fabian Ploneczka, 33, of Germany’s Rottenburg-Stuttgart diocese, celebrated his first Mass on 15 July at his home church of St. Moritz in Augsburg. Read more
I was born in 1951, at a time when New Zealand’s crime and prison numbers were incredibly low, averaging one or two homicides a year until the early 1960s say Garth McVicar. So what went wrong? The one common denominator – that Mr Little and his colleagues won’t dare talk about – is the traditional Read more