Monsignor Vincent Joseph Hunt, former Rector of Holy Cross College, died yesterday died on Wednesday 8 October at Mercy Parklands Hospital, in Auckland New Zealand. He had celebrated his 90th birthday on 14 July this year. Hunt was born in Roscommon, Ireland. He was a priest for 62 years in the Diocese of Auckland. From Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Priest’
Gift for a priest – Go beyond the socks and hankies
Friday, June 13th, 2014Many Catholics find it hard to choose a gift for a priest. Well here is something that takes you beyond the black sock and handkerchiefs… a set of clerical pyjamas. They come with a black top which has a clerical collar. You have a variety of colours and patterns to choose from for pants. If Read more
Priests – employees of an NGO or a shepherds
Tuesday, June 10th, 2014“Am I a pastor, or an employee of this NGO called the Church?” This is the question that every Catholic priest should ask himself. “This is the question that I, the bishops, and the priests, everyone, must ask themselves”, said Pope Francis. He was commenting on the last words of Christ that close the Gospel Read more
Hero priest saves Muslims from militia in Central African Republic
Tuesday, March 4th, 2014
A priest in the strife-torn Central African Republic is being hailed as a hero after saving the lives of hundreds of Muslims. Fr Xavier-Arnauld Fagba opened his church doors to protect the Muslims from attacks by a militia, the Globe and Mail reports. “They didn’t have anyone to help them,” said Fr Fagba, 31, who Read more
Making God laugh out loud
Tuesday, February 18th, 2014
“God made us for joy. God is joy, and the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us” Blessed John Paul II The day before my ordination last summer I was giving my four-year-old nephew a lift in the car. I wanted to test him, so I said: “Tristan, what’s happening Read more
A normal priest for normal people
Friday, February 7th, 2014
With the sometimes rabid exception of people at the ultra-traditionalist fringe of Catholicism who sputter at seeing him being respectful toward non-Catholics and acting “undignified,” Catholics are very pleased with Pope Francis. More notable, though, is the wild adulation he draws from those outside the Church, even more adulation, it appears, than he draws from Read more
Catholic priest to sue church for unfair dismissal
Tuesday, December 17th, 2013A Scottish priest who says that his vocation was “destroyed” after he spoke out against sexual abuse is to claim unfair dismissal against the Catholic church at an employment tribunal. Father Patrick Lawson, who was removed from St Sophia’s parish church, in Galston, Ayrshire, in September by the Bishop of Galloway, John Cunningham, has been Read more
Pope praises newly beatified Argentine cowboy priest
Tuesday, September 17th, 2013On the occasion the beatification of Fr. Jose Gabriel Brochero of Cordoba, Argentina, known to locals as the “cowboy priest,” Pope Francis praised him for his open heart. “Brochero was a normal man, fragile, like any of us,” said Pope Francis. But his greatness came from the fact that, “he knew the love of Jesus. Read more
100 year old nun, still fighting for women priests
Tuesday, September 3rd, 2013Today is Sister Vivian Ivantic’s 100th birthday. She’s spent 90 of those years hoping to one day become a priest, and she still holds firm to that conviction. “I think the American church is outstanding,” she told The Chicago Tribune. “But I’m waiting for women’ ordination. We have been deprived of the celebration of the Read more
Catholic priest’s view of the Vietnam war
Friday, July 26th, 2013
AUCKLAND — Twenty-three years ago the life of Vietnamese Community chaplain, Fr Andrew Nguyen, was transformed. On June 6, 1990, Fr Nguyen arrived in New Zealand to a life of peace and freedom, after a life of war, repression, imprisonment and torture. Speaking of that day in 1990, he told NZ Catholic: “I was very Read more