President of the Federation of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Oceania, New Zealand Archbishop John Dew’s call to train lay evangelisers is one of the highlighted outcomes of the Synod of Bishops held in Rome. Among three of the highlighted recommendations, members of the Synod of Bishops recommended the Vatican develop guidelines for training evangelisers. Early Read more
While other stations are being forced to regroup, WSFI organizers say Catholic radio is “estimated to be growing at about a million listeners a month because of the powerful impact it is making on listeners’ lives.” Economic downturns are not only hard on the pocketbook; they are hard on the soul. That’s where Catholic radio Read more
Today I have had a couple of interviews, one with Radio Vaticana and one with the London Tablet. Both the reporters asked whether or not there was any one particular intervention that has spoken loud and clear to me, and of course what the general themes of the Synod are. So I have been thinking Read more
Archbishop Dew says the call to new evangelisation in the New Zealand situation “means that we must talk about Evangelisers.” He said “The formation and ongoing formation of all involved in the evangelising mission of the Church must be our first priority.” He was speaking on Monday in Rome at at the Synod on Evangelisation. Archbishop Read more
Last week Archbishop Dew, of Wellington New Zealand, was named by Pope Benedict XVI to serve as one of the papally-appointed Synod Fathers for the October 2012 Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelization. The Pope specifically appointed 36 Synod Fathers for the Thirteenth Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod Read more
The Episcopal Council of the Federation of Oceania Bishops has been meeting in Paita, New Caledonia. The Council, made up of eight Bishops, met to prepare for the General Assembly of the Federation of Episcopal Conferences of Oceania to be held in Wellington, New Zealand, in 2014. The Bishops looked at ways to prepare the different Catholic communities in Oceania Read more
Every Catholic should become a “new evangeliser”, the president of the Pontifical Council for New Evangelisation has told a conference in Sydney. Being an evangeliser, said Archbishop Rino Fisichella, is a vocation “born on the very day of our baptism and it is a vocation to every believer in Christ to make of himself or Read more
Petra Bagust says CBA is good at coming up with new ways of keeping people involved. TVNZ’s Breakfast host Petra Bagust has once again shown her support for Media Prayer Day by being one of the faces fronting the campaign in the lead up to August 5. Media Prayer Day is an initiative of Christian Read more
The Holy Father told participants of the World Seminar for Civil Aviation Chaplains focussing on new forms of evangelisation, to embody the world’s airports in the Church’s mission, to make airports as places where people encounter God. Airports “are places that increasingly reflect the globalised reality of our time. Here one finds people of a Read more
Pope Benedict has invited the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, to give some theological reflections at October’s world Synod of Bishops on the New Evangelisation. “I’m being invited to give some theological reflections on the nature of mission, the nature of evangelization, and I’m extremely honored to be invited to do this,” Williams told Vatican Read more