The Diocese of Mendi is nestled in the mountains in the southern highland region of Papua New Guinea. When the first missionaries came to the area in the mid-1950s there were no Catholics. The diocese now has 80,000 – around 10 percent of the population. Bishop Donald Lippert says the diocese has a vibrant and Read more
The director of Papua New Guinea’s national museum said he would ensure compliance with a national court ruling against the Speaker of Parliament’s removal of cultural carvings and a totem pole from the national Parliament. The speaker, Theo Zurenuoc, had claimed that the cultural adornments were unholy and that their removal was part of the Read more
“We need to stress the weaknesses and at the same time the complexity of the family in the Melanesian context”, according to Catholic Bishop Arnold Orawae of Wabag. He said this at a press conference in Port Moresby as he was setting out to Rome to attend the synod on the family with Pope Francis. Read more
The vacancy at the head of the Vatican’s congregation for worship is an opening for a liturgical overhaul in the Church, a Jesuit commentator believes. Writing in the National Catholic Reporter, Fr Thomas Reese, SJ, stated that liturgical reform was stalled by the papacies of Popes John Paul II and Benedict XVI. True liturgical reform Read more