Merv Duffy - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 12 Aug 2013 05:03:57 +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 Merv Duffy - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Merv Duffy https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/08/12/merv-duffy/ Mon, 12 Aug 2013 01:03:41 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=48406

One of the negatives I would have about Greenmeadows is there is no old boys association. The relationship between it and its alumni was bizarre. There were hangovers of the Irish 'spoiled priest' routine - that there was something bad about opting out along the way. In the early days people just disappeared. There's be Read more

Merv Duffy... Read more]]> One of the negatives I would have about Greenmeadows is there is no old boys association. The relationship between it and its alumni was bizarre. There were hangovers of the Irish 'spoiled priest' routine - that there was something bad about opting out along the way. In the early days people just disappeared. There's be informal farewells; actually underground farewells, in the champagne shed and places like that, but in its public life the seminary didn't advert to it.

Then, and now, that strikes me as wrong. Given how good the group of people in the place was, it seemed to me that there was a massive reservoir of goodwill and great talent around the country.

I've been told that the seminary was the best 'finishing school' in the country. One woman I know says that every prospective husband should be sent through it, if only to learn how to clean toilets. James K Baxter said, "We're called to be a servant church and a servant's job is to clean lavatories, actual and metaphorical."

onamissionRead more excerpts from On a Mission by:

Tim Howard
Andrew Gunn
Dennis Farrelly
Chanel Houlahan

Get your copy of On a Mission

Merv Duffy]]> 48406 Head to head: same-sex marriage https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/08/03/head-to-head-same-sex-marriage/ Thu, 02 Aug 2012 19:30:15 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=30868

Catholic priest Father Merv Duffy argues a change is wrong, dangerous, expensive and unnecessary while Presbyterian minister Margaret Mayman says it is equality that most New Zealanders, gay and straight, want. Father Merv Duffy: I oppose the proposed re-definition of marriage in Labour MP Louisa Wall's bill before Parliament because it is wrong, dangerous, expensive and Read more

Head to head: same-sex marriage... Read more]]> Catholic priest Father Merv Duffy argues a change is wrong, dangerous, expensive and unnecessary while Presbyterian minister Margaret Mayman says it is equality that most New Zealanders, gay and straight, want.

Father Merv Duffy: I oppose the proposed re-definition of marriage in Labour MP Louisa Wall's bill before Parliament because it is wrong, dangerous, expensive and unnecessary.

It is wrong because marriage is a historical and cultural universal reflecting our nature.

Humans are a sexually differentiated species - males and females are different - and we pair-bond. A couple who are attracted to each other set up a household and raise a family. The family, involving the genetic parents of the children co-operating to raise them, is an enduring institution which has taken many forms. Read more

Sources

  • Merv Duffy and Margaret Mayman in Stuff
  • Image: 3News

Fr Merv Duffy is a Catholic priest who lectures at Good Shepherd College in Auckland; Rev Margaret Mayman is a Presbyterian minister.

Head to head: same-sex marriage]]> 30868