Assembly - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 22 Mar 2018 01:19:32 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Assembly - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 National priests' assembly returns to South https://cathnews.co.nz/2018/03/22/national-priests-assembly/ Thu, 22 Mar 2018 06:52:21 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=105323 Christchurch is to be the venue for the fourth national assembly of diocesan priests later this year. These assemblies, an initiative of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference, happen every five years. The three previous national assemblies were in Blenheim (twice) and in Rotorua. Continue reading

National priests' assembly returns to South... Read more]]> Christchurch is to be the venue for the fourth national assembly of diocesan priests later this year.

These assemblies, an initiative of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference, happen every five years. The three previous national assemblies were in Blenheim (twice) and in Rotorua. Continue reading

National priests' assembly returns to South]]> 105323 Women religious warned against entitlement mindset https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/05/13/women-religious-warned-entitlement-mindset/ Thu, 12 May 2016 17:05:57 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=82673 Catholic women religious leaders have been warned against an "entitlement creep" that numbs them from confronting poverty and environmental destruction. St Joseph Sister, Sr Carol Zinn, issued the warning at the triennial assembly of the International Union of Superiors General in Rome The US sister said religious life has widely been a "first-world lifestyle" marked Read more

Women religious warned against entitlement mindset... Read more]]> Catholic women religious leaders have been warned against an "entitlement creep" that numbs them from confronting poverty and environmental destruction.

St Joseph Sister, Sr Carol Zinn, issued the warning at the triennial assembly of the International Union of Superiors General in Rome

The US sister said religious life has widely been a "first-world lifestyle" marked by opportunities for higher education and job and housing security.

While Sr Zinn said such education is important, she said it also "numbs our minds and blinds our heart".

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