Obituary - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Sun, 28 Feb 2016 19:55:01 +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 Obituary - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Obituary: Bishop Barry Jones ‘humble and pastoral' https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/03/01/obituary-bishop-barry-jones-humble-and-pastoral/ Mon, 29 Feb 2016 15:50:32 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=80857 Pope Francis, on his recent tour of Mexico and the United States, said priests and bishops must be servants of the people. They should not regard their calling as a career in which to seek advancement and notice. As he spoke, a bishop who personified this ideal was dying, in far-off Christchurch, New Zealand. Bishop Barry Jones was Read more

Obituary: Bishop Barry Jones ‘humble and pastoral'... Read more]]> Pope Francis, on his recent tour of Mexico and the United States, said priests and bishops must be servants of the people.

They should not regard their calling as a career in which to seek advancement and notice.

As he spoke, a bishop who personified this ideal was dying, in far-off Christchurch, New Zealand.

Bishop Barry Jones was the servant-priest that Pope Francis wants all priests to be.

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