News

  • St Catherine's and St Mary's triumph

    Cecily McNeill 10 June 2010

    The two Mercy colleges in Wellington scooped the two top prizes in the O'Shea Shield competition run in the first weekend of May at Francis Douglas Memorial College, New Plymouth. St Mary's won the shield and St Catherine's won the Viard Cup. St Patrick's College, Silverstream, was third.
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    Mercy colleges take main trophies in 2010 O'Shea contest
  • 10 June 2010

    The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre – The Nathaniel Centre – has appointed John Kleinsman as its new director. more»
    New director for bioethics centre
  • Ron Givens tells how it works in the US

    Lisa Beech 9 June 2010

    California's three-strikes legislation has resulted in prison conditions that are 'draconian, inhumane and cost a fortune', former California Prison chaplain director Ron Givens told an audience of around 40 gathered at St Joseph's parish, Mt Victoria on May 13. more»
    Californian warning on 'three strikes' legislation

World News

  • Jesuits shelter 'refugees' during May crisis

    Bernard Hyacinth Aputhasamy SJ 9 June 2010

    As the Thai capital faced a dramatic climax to a nine-week standoff between anti-government protesters and troops on Wednesday May 19, the Jesuit community in Bangkok opened its doors to a group of 'Bangkok refugees'. more»
    Thai locals seek refuge in Jesuits' Bangkok base
  • Cecily McNeill 30 July 2009

    Next month Timor-Leste celebrates 10 years of independence as a proud but fragile nation. more»
    Timor-Leste turns 10 as it struggles against poverty
  • Rosa Moiwend visits Wellington as a guest of Wellington Peacemakers

    Cecily McNeill 30 July 2009

    But the forests have been decimated by foreign logging companies, particularly P T Intimpura which exports logs to countries like New Zealand. The Merbau tree in the Papuan forest is sold in New Zealand as Kwila for decking. The West Papuans want the government to limit the companies' licences to slow down the rate of logging. more»
    Papuan justice worker tells of undermining of rights

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Features

  • 10 June 2010

    But somewhere along the journey I realised that because she was perfect and she had a perfect child I was never going to attain the ultimate. That realisation was a great relief more»
  • 10 June 2010

    A seriously inconvenient fact spoiling this fantasy is that Galileo and Copernicus were men of deep religious faith, as were other scientific 'greats' of the century, such as Kepler (1571–1630) and Newton (1642–1727). more»
    Galileo, science and the church
  • 9 June 2010

    The 'Progressives', too, were not really united but one suspects often met informally in small groups before the council. Like the conservatives they came from every continent, but their first strength tended to be from north-west European more»
    Vatican II nothing passed, the lines are drawn

Wellington

  • Fitzgerald Awards made

    Catherine Jones smsm 9 June 2010

    A packed cathedral of family and friends rejoiced with over 100 recipients of the first Fitzgerald Awards of the Archdiocese of Wellington last month. more»
    More than 100 awarded for parish service
  • Cecily McNeill 15 May 2010

    The leader of a grief counselling programme in the high-medium unit of Rimutaka Prison says the men she works with are struggling day-to-day because they have no one in whom they can safely confide. more»
  • Club has been highly successful and productive.

    Helen O'Sullivan RNDM 9 October 2009

    Convent Old Girls Netball Club the oldest club still in existence in the Hutt Valley recently celebrated its 75th Jubilee at the Angus Inn in Lower Hutt with more than 100 past and present players and friends. more»
    Convent Old Girls celebrate 75 years on the court

Palmerston North

  • 9 June 2010

    Sacred Heart College, Napier, invited pupils and staff from St Joseph's School, Hastings, St Patrick's School, Napier, and Reignier Catholic School, Greenmeadows, to spend Catholic Schools Day, May 19, with them. more»
    Catholic schools day in Napier
  • Miriam Smith 9 June 2010

    Seeing Anna Maria as her usual calm and joyous self, the children's worry dissolved into excitement at the arrival of a rescue helicopter. more»
    Saved by the Resurrection post
  • 9 June 2010

    Napier's Sacred Heart College is mourning the death of one of its beloved teachers, Trish Carthew.
    Jun10NapierCarthew_Patricia.jpgShe was to be buried on Saturday May 28 at St Patrick's Church. more»
    Napier teacher dies

Reflect

  • Luke 10:25-37

    Veronica Lawson rsm 9 July 2010

    The present ecological crisis calls us to new ways of being neighbour. We used to speak in terms of thinking globally and acting locally. If we are to be neighbour in our times, we need to think more»