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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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10 June 2010
The New Zealand Catholic Bioethics Centre – The Nathaniel Centre – has appointed John Kleinsman as its new director. more»
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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»
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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»
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Cecily McNeill 30 July 2009
Next month Timor-Leste celebrates 10 years of independence as a proud but fragile nation. more»
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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»
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Cecily McNeill
If these are the adults of the church in the coming decades, the leadership is in inspired hands. more»
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The new liturgy
Archbishop John Dew
The revision of the prayers and responses we use during the Mass is intended to give deeper meaning to the celebration of the Mass. more»
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The new liturgy
Archbishop John Dew
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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»
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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»
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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»
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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»
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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»
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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»
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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»
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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»
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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»
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