Solemnity of Christ the King at St Benedict’s
As we approach Advent with ever increasing speed, preparing these weeks with family for feasting and giving thanks, let’s take a few moments to consider how we’ll celebrate this coming 34th Sunday, the...
View ArticleRetired doctrinal head rejects divisive media portrayal of Pope Francis
DUBLIN (CNS) — The retired head of the Vatican’s doctrinal congregation said some media portrayals of Pope Francis risk making him appear as a sign of division in the Church. American Cardinal William...
View ArticleSt Peter’s bones to be publicly venerated at end of Year of Faith
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — For the first time, the bones traditionally believed to be the relics of St Peter the Apostle will be on public display for veneration. Archbishop Rino Fisichella, president of the...
View ArticleCaritas launches appeal for Philippines typhoon relief efforts
WELLINGTON — Caritas Aotearoa New Zealand has launched an Appeal and will contribute at least NZ$100,000 to relief efforts in the Philippines following the deadly impact of super-Typhoon Haiyan on...
View ArticleNZ bishops lead Masses for the Philippines
by NZ CATHOLIC staff WELLINGTON — The Catholic Bishops of New Zealand have expressed their sympathy to all those who lost loved ones as a result of Super-typhoon Haiyan, and are leading Masses to pray...
View ArticleQuestions for family synod put online for NZ
WELLINGTON — New Zealand’s Catholic bishops have put the questions from the preparatory document for the Extraordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome next year in an online survey format so...
View ArticlePope goes to Confession once a fortnight
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Pope Francis said he goes to confession every two weeks, knowing that God never tires of forgiving those who repent, but also knowing that having a priest say “I absolve you”...
View ArticlePope Francis calls for reform of Church to make it more missionary
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — In his first extensive piece of writing as Pope, Pope Francis lays out a vision of the Catholic Church dedicated to evangelisation in a positive key, with a focus on society’s...
View ArticleNZ bishops call for simpler Christmas
New Zealand’s Catholic bishops are asking their congregations and the wider community to remember in their Christmas preparations those people who struggle to put food on their table for their...
View ArticleCatholics now NZ’s largest Christian denomination
by MICHAEL OTTO AUCKLAND — Catholics are New Zealand’s largest Christian denomination according to 2013 Census data on religious affiliation released by Statistics New Zealand on December 10. The...
View ArticleGod speaks in whispers, so silence needed before Christmas, Pope says
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — If silence is not one of the sounds associated with Christmas preparations, chances are people will miss an experience of the love and tenderness that is at the heart of the...
View ArticlePope wants top Roman Curia officials to hear confessions in parish church
ROME, (Zenit.org) — Pope Francis has personally directed cardinals and archbishops of the Roman Curia to take turns hearing daily confessions in a church near the Vatican. The parish priest of Santo...
View ArticleNZ Catholic seeks journalist
AUCKLAND — New Zealand’s only national Catholic newspaper, the award-winning NZ Catholic, requires a journalist. Key requirements include accurate note-taking, good output, a care for meaning and the...
View ArticleQuestions for family synod put online for NZ
WELLINGTON — New Zealand’s Catholic bishops have put the questions from the preparatory document for the Extraordinary Assembly of the Synod of Bishops in Rome next year in an online survey format so...
View ArticleCatholic decline in NZ ‘alarming’
by PETER GRACE WELLINGTON — The decline in the Catholic population shown by the 2013 census “is quite alarming”, according to history professor Peter Lineham of Massey University. Statistics New...
View Article22 new Catholic schools principals
WELLINGTON — Four secondary principals and 20 primary school principals are new — or relatively new — at Catholic schools this year. St Peter’s College, Gore Kate Nicholson is the first female...
View ArticleSocial media, smartphones give young people a new look at Lent
By Carol Zimmermann Catholic News Service WASHINGTON (CNS) — This is not your parents’ Lent. That’s pretty clear when smartphone alarms — sounding like police whistles — ring at mealtimes on Fridays...
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Hitman’s target likes being in NZ
by ROWENA OREJANA AUCKLAND — A mysterious death threat turned Filipino priest Fr Elric Jorquia’s path towards New Zealand. A young priest from a sleepy town in Malaybalay, Southern Philippines, Fr...
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Get a pocket Bible, read it during your commute, pope recommends
By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service ROME (CNS) — If you get a seat on a crowded bus, you should use your travel time to read a few lines from the Bible, Pope Francis told members of a suburban parish...
View ArticlePope to proclaim Brazilian, Canadian church pioneers saints in April
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Without a canonization ceremony, Pope Francis will declare three pioneers of the Catholic Church in the Americas saints April 2, according to a Jesuit working on the causes....
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