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by MICHAEL OTTO Rain may have wet a few heads and seats but it didn’t dampen the occasion at the performance of a passion play in the stunning setting of Villa...

There is a strong case for the New Zealand Catholic Church to shift its personnel and resources to the north and adopt a “survival strategy” in the south, a...

More than a year after Pope Francis issued his Motu Propio on liturgical translations, Magnum Principium, the fight over the “translation wars” seemed to have lost steam as bishops’...

Youth across the dioceses take up the Caritas Challenge to show solidarity with poor. Cardinal supports youth living rough Wellington by NZ CATHOLIC staff The Johnsonville youth group Challenge 2000 endured the hardships...

The 103-year-old cathedral presbytery in Hamilton is to be demolished, probably to be replaced by a new presbytery and diocesan pastoral centre.The planned demolition has earned the ire of...

The 500th issue of NZ Catholic is an opportunity for me to thank all who have supported our newspaper from its inception – our staff, contributors, advertisers,promotors and above...

Deacon Gary Stone spent decades being a warrior for his country, Australia, and is now a warrior for God.  That’s how he was introduced at the Max18NZ  event for men titled...

by Simone Olsen In a moving and joyful celebration of the Mass, Bishop Stephen Lowe was consecrated and formally installed as the third Roman Catholic Bishop of Hamilton, on Friday....

by JOHN KLEINSMAN The long-awaited Justice Select Committee report on ACT MP David Seymour’s End of Life Choice Bill was finally presented...

The celebration of a Mass for Life in Auckland on February 13 was the start of a great wave of prayer for life that will resound around the world. That...

by ROWENA OREJANA Auckland Bishop Patrick Dunn has strongly urged the faithful to consider making a submission to the Health Select Committee, opposing the legalisation of euthanasia. “It is important...

by BILL MOORE AUCKLAND — A stunning, handpainted mural, created by the Studio of John the Baptist to mark the canonisation of St John Paul II and St John XXIII, has...

by PETER GRACE Despite his name, Blockhouse Bay parishioner Vern Walker was for some years one of New Zealand’s best runners. The contemporary of Peter Snell, Barry Magee, Bill Baillie,...

The Master of the Order of the Preachers, Fr Bruno Cadoré, has asked the Dominican family in New Zealand not to forget their charism. In his first visit to the...

by ROWENA OREJANA AUCKLAND — Maronite Bishop Antoine-Charbel Tarabay has encouraged the Maronites in New Zealand to keep the faith and traditions of the Eastern Churches alive in their families...

Biblical, traditional and spiritual perspectives on St Thomas the Apostle — the so-called “doubting Thomas” — were the focuses of an Ecumenical Day in Auckland last month. The day, organised in cooperation between...

“We call for an immediate halt to all deep-sea mining including exploratory testing as this will undermine the ability to achieve sustainable development goal 14,” said Julianne Hickey, director...

by ROWENA OREJANA Motorists off to the Hokianga for the summer will see the restored statue of Our Lady of Lourdes, known in the community as Our Lady of the...

by PHIL McLAUGHLIN Sunday, November 18, at Tuakau saw a large gathering of Marist Brothers, former brothers and old boys assemble at the Tuakau Hotel for a reunion luncheon on...

It was the perfect melding of romance, fashion and history for a social cause. When the Society of St Vincent de Paul’s Dunedin pastoral area food bank was running low...

by Jim Consedine “I see a picture of our blue planet with a large bread and a chalice of wine poised above it, and the risen Christ offering himself as...

A concern brought to authorities by a parishioner helped bring down the first person to be convicted of human trafficking in New Zealand. Immigration New Zealand people smuggling and trafficking...

by SUE SECONI WANGANUI — The forcing of the Yaziki people from their villages by Sunni militants in Northern Iraq has become more real for the congregation of St Anne’s Wanganui. Parishioner...

by JOHN FONG Twenty years of episcopal ministry of Bishop Emeritus Denis Browne in Hamilton diocese was celebrated in a Mass of Thanksgiving at the Cathedral of the Blessed Virgin...

by RITA O’CALLAGHAN The home of Samoan Catholics in Auckland, Malaeola Centre, celebrated 20 years of community life last month. Samoan Catholics in Auckland diocese consist of 25 Samoan communities. In 1952...

by PETER GRACE AUCKLAND — A change is as good as a rest for Ugandan priest Fr John Vianney Makanda, in St Mary’s parish, Papakura. Fr Makanda told NZ Catholic that...

by NZ CATHOLIC staff AUCKLAND — The historic importance of two Auckland Catholic landmarks has been recognised. The NZ Historic Places Trust recently registered Bishop’s House in Ponsonby, and St Benedict’s...

by PAT McCARTHY Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Christians, who once made up one of the largest Christian communities in the Middle East, are facing double discrimination as displaced persons...

by JEFF DILLON DUNEDIN — The southern most Polish-built church, formerly at Allanton south of Dunedin but now at Broad Bay on the Otago Peninsula, was the focus of a...

by ROWENA OREJANA AUCKLAND — Part of the joy of being Roman Catholic is belonging to the Universal Church, according to Catholic revivalist Fr Tony Ricard. Fr Ricard was one of...