Coffin - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 16 May 2019 02:43:39 +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 Coffin - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 New Zealand's DIY coffin clubs take the sting out of death https://cathnews.co.nz/2019/05/16/coffin-clubs-springing-up/ Thu, 16 May 2019 07:50:45 +0000 https://cathnews.co.nz/?p=117611 Across the country, five major groups like the one in Hastings have sprung up in recent years for people wanting to build and customise their caskets. They're called coffin clubs, and members have a range of motivations, from thumbing a nose at death to warding off loneliness to cutting funeral costs. Read more

New Zealand's DIY coffin clubs take the sting out of death... Read more]]> Across the country, five major groups like the one in Hastings have sprung up in recent years for people wanting to build and customise their caskets.

They're called coffin clubs, and members have a range of motivations, from thumbing a nose at death to warding off loneliness to cutting funeral costs. Read more

New Zealand's DIY coffin clubs take the sting out of death]]> 117611 How do you sell an unwanted coffin? https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/09/30/sell-unwanted-coffin/ Thu, 29 Sep 2016 16:20:40 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=87568 A couple of Whanganui flatmates have turned to Facebook to offload an unwanted homemade coffin. Jesse Hosie made the coffin last year while he was student at City College. It was intended for his nana but she didn't want it so it sat lying around his flat until now. Continue reading

How do you sell an unwanted coffin?... Read more]]> A couple of Whanganui flatmates have turned to Facebook to offload an unwanted homemade coffin.

Jesse Hosie made the coffin last year while he was student at City College.

It was intended for his nana but she didn't want it so it sat lying around his flat until now. Continue reading

How do you sell an unwanted coffin?]]> 87568 Campaign for return of St Bernadette's remains to Lourdes https://cathnews.co.nz/2015/05/12/campaign-for-return-of-st-bernadettes-remains-to-lourdes/ Mon, 11 May 2015 19:05:50 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=71264 Campaigners are arguing for return of the body of St Bernadette Soubirous to Lourdes, where she reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary in 1858. An association, which has the support of several of the saint's descendants, want her body to be returned from a chapel in Nevers in Burgundy. The association argues that the Read more

Campaign for return of St Bernadette's remains to Lourdes... Read more]]> Campaigners are arguing for return of the body of St Bernadette Soubirous to Lourdes, where she reported seeing visions of the Virgin Mary in 1858.

An association, which has the support of several of the saint's descendants, want her body to be returned from a chapel in Nevers in Burgundy.

The association argues that the number of Sisters of Charity of Nevers is dwindling, and soon only lay people will run the chapel where St Bernadette's remains lie.

But opponents say Bernadette made it clear she did not want to return to Lourdes after leaving in 1866, because she was attracting too much attention from pilgrims and the media.

She died in Nevers in 1879.

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Campaign for return of St Bernadette's remains to Lourdes]]> 71264 Coffin-shaped toilet dumped https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/08/30/coffin-shaped-toilet-dumped/ Thu, 29 Aug 2013 19:30:20 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=48961 A coffin-shaped dunny will be removed from a far north Queensland cemetery and laid to rest in a nearby paddock. The curiosity, at the township of Millaa Millaa, doesn't meet building standards and has attracted a number of complaints. Continue reading

Coffin-shaped toilet dumped... Read more]]> A coffin-shaped dunny will be removed from a far north Queensland cemetery and laid to rest in a nearby paddock.

The curiosity, at the township of Millaa Millaa, doesn't meet building standards and has attracted a number of complaints. Continue reading

Coffin-shaped toilet dumped]]> 48961 Polish coffin-maker's topless calendar outrages Catholic Church https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/11/13/polish-coffin-makers-topless-calendar-outrages-catholic-church/ Mon, 12 Nov 2012 18:30:00 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=36076 A Polish firm that makes coffins has angered the Catholic church by trying to drum up business with a calendar depicting topless models posing next to its caskets. One image from the 2013 edition of the calendar has a blonde model, wearing only a skimpy thong and with a snake draped around her neck, reclining Read more

Polish coffin-maker's topless calendar outrages Catholic Church... Read more]]> A Polish firm that makes coffins has angered the Catholic church by trying to drum up business with a calendar depicting topless models posing next to its caskets.

One image from the 2013 edition of the calendar has a blonde model, wearing only a skimpy thong and with a snake draped around her neck, reclining on a coffin. In another, a woman wearing a crimson corset is depicted pulling out the heart of a man lying on a casket.

"My son had the idea of creating the company's calendar... so that we could show something half-serious, colorful, beautiful; the beauty of Polish girls and the beauty of our coffins," said Zbigniew Lindner, the firm's owner.

"We wanted to show that a coffin isn't a religious symbol. Its a product," he said. "Why are people afraid of coffins and not of business suits, cosmetics or jewelry?" Continue reading

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