A priest in France who smashed a statue of Jesus in his church has attributed his action to the stress and fatigue of his job. Fr Jean-Jacques Le Roy, 55, a priest in Plestin-les-Greves in Brittany, shouted out “one less” as he threw the statue to the ground last Thursday during a visit by a sacred art Read more
Church goers in Paihia may be busting to go to the loo – but they can’t go yet. St Paul’s Anglican Church, known as the stone church, on Marsden Rd in Paihia has been trying to build a toilet block for forty years. Due to building on consecrated ground and heritage restrictions their plans have Read more
About 200 people turned up at Hamilton’s St Peter’s Cathedral this afternoon to farewell Br Brian Harley, a 90-year-old Franciscan Friar who spent the last 10 years of his life at Hamilton’s Friary of Divine Compassion. When you consider that Br Brian had long had a love of what he called a “semi-erimitical life” – Read more
The Nazareth Community of Care retirement village and aged care complex is now well underway on the Sisters of Nazareth site in Brougham St, Sydenham in Christchurch The state of the art complex is a new development for the Sisters, and marks their entry into the retirement living market. It is a boutique development that Read more
Pope Francis is the fourth most powerful person in the world, according to Forbes magazine. The Pope was ranked behind Russian president Vladimir Putin, German chancellor Angela Merkel and US president Barack Obama in Forbes’s 2015 list. The Pontiff was ranked ahead of Chinese president Xi Jinping, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and US Federal Reserve Read more
Ireland’s national television station is to drop the Angelus after 53 years, replacing it with videos reflecting “people of all faiths and none”. The Angelus is broadcast daily on RTÉ television at 12pm and at 6pm. It traditionally offers a silent image of the Virgin Mary to allow viewers the time to pray, followed by Read more
A German diocese has admitted a man has made a “plausible” claim that he was sexually abused by a former bishop. A man came forward year with the claim against the late Bishop Heinrich Maria Janssen of Hildesheim diocese, who died in 1998. The man said he was abused in the late 1950s and early Read more
Doctors hope to have Christchurch bishop Barry Jones on his feet soon after he suffered his third stroke. Vicar general Father Rick Loughnan confirmed Jones was taken to hospital from his Christchurch home about midday Sunday after suffering a stroke. It is Jones’ third stroke in recent years. His second happened around October 14 after Read more
Blessed are the rich millennials for they shall inherit the earth – that’s if researcher Max Rashbrooke’s new book is anything to go by. In a project with Statistics New Zealand, the data, which looked at people’s wealth between 2004 and 2010, has yielded grim results, says Rashbrooke. The wealthiest 1 per cent of the Read more