Finding a new priestly leader for MissioNZ has been a problem for our Bishops says outgoing MissioNZ director, Father Paul Shannahan. “At last, a very experienced and qualified priest with missionary experience has been appointed,” he says. He is Father Bernard Espiritu. Espiritu is a Filipino missionary who belongs to the Australian province of the Societas Read more
Pope Benedict XVI emphasized that good Catholic families are necessary to bring about a re-Christianization of countries throughout the world.
“The New Evangelization depends largely on the domestic Church,” the Pope said Dec. 1 at the Vatican.
“In our time, as in times past, the eclipse of God, the spread of ideologies contrary to the family and the degradation of sexual ethics are intertwined,” he added.
“And just as the eclipse of God and the crisis of the family are linked, so the New Evangelization is inseparable from the Christian family.”
“The family founded on the Sacrament of Matrimony is a particular realization of the Church, saved and saving, evangelized and evangelizing community,” the Pope said.
He explained that just like the Church, the Catholic family is also called to “welcome, radiate and show the world the love and the presence of Christ.”
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The prime minister of Papua New Guinea, Peter O’Neill, wants more foreign missionaries in the country. He said a government/church partnership in service delivery would deliver a lot of benefits to the people. O’Neill told the Vatican’s Nuncio to PNG that churches have contributed enormously to the country by delivering services to remote areas that Read more
“Do converts to the faith make better evangelists than ‘cradle Catholics’? Pope Benedict XVI seems to think so. Christians since childhood should “ask forgiveness,” the pope told a group of his former theological students recently, “because we bring so little of the light of [Christ’s] face to others, and emanate so feebly the certainty that Read more
A new cultural epoch means new ways of doing things. “We’re living in the fourth cultural epoch, or cultural period, the first having been the Agrarian Age and then the Industrial Age followed by the Information Age and now what I refer to as the Inventive Age,” says Doug Pagitt. “My suggestion is that in each of Read more
The Church of England in the UK has a church locator website. It has seen a 28% increase in people seeking church information in the 12 months to April Peter Crumpler, Director of Communications for the Archbishops’ Council, said: “The increasing popularity of the site is one further indication of the trend for people to Read more
Are Catholics chicken or something? That is the question is the question that came to mind after Jimmy Akin had a conversation with an evangelical Christian who approached him as he was getting into his truck. “I couldn’t help admiring about the gentleman the fact that he was bold enough to go up to a Read more
Around 90 Pacific church leaders, principals of theological schools, faculty staff, and pastors recently gathered for a week long consultation on hermeneutics in Namoli village situated in Fiji’s second city Lautoka. Discussions took place around the theme “Rethinking the Journey and Course of Hermeneutics in Oceania” The gathering is a joint initiative between the Pacific Conference of Read more