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The cost of living, especially housing, in Auckland is now so high that Catholic schools in the city are struggling to recruit suitably qualified staff from outside of Auckland. A...

by Pat Lythe I was to accompany my husband on a business trip to Geneva, with a quick visit to an institution in the northern Italian city of Turin. I was puzzled...

It is not often that St Augustine and his wisdom are subjects of everyday conversation, but his thinking might be given more of an airing after US Christian apologist...

by ROWENA OREJANA Confession and a return to a state of grace was the only wish an Australian father had for his son, Andrew. Fr Andrew Grace spoke before Divine...

Auckland Bishop Patrick Dunn shared his own migration story with pupils and staff from St Anne’s Catholic School in Manurewa on July 29. The occasion was the introduction of Caritas...

by PETER GRACE Horse care was once considered an important part of training for deacons — at least by some. At the Founders’ Mass for Holy Cross Seminary on May 4,...

by ROWENA OREJANA CHIFUNGA, Malawi — Former Baradene head girl, Maddie Little, has found a way to carry on with the Kindness Club all the way to Malawi. Miss Little, 18, is in...

by JOY COWLEY Put together 18 pilgrims, a bus brimming with laughter, sun-blessed scenery, prayer, Catholic history and the newness of God, and you have the fourth of annual Road...

by LYNDSAY FREER WELLINGTON — The Society of Mary has moved into a new province centre in Thorndon Quay in Wellington. It is the culmination of many moves over the...

by SUE SECONI WANGANUI — Songs Down Pauri Road 2012 is the title of a CD made by a group of prisoners from Wanganui’s Kaitoke Prison, with help from the...

by ROWENA OREJANA Our Lady of the Rosary Waiwhetu celebrated the 60th anniversary of priesthood of respected Church historian, lecturer, former rector of Holy Cross College, teacher, youth minister and...

by NZ CATHOLIC staff AUCKLAND — Those with intellectual disability and those struggling to feed their families have benefited from recent activities of St Vincent de Paul and Christ the...

by ANNE POWELL, RC The founder of the G.I.F.T. Centre that ministers to children and adults with intellectual disabilities, Cenacle Sr Jean Sinclair, MNZM, has died in Auckland aged 93. “I...

by ROWENA OREJANA When newly ordained Columban missionary Fr Robert John Brennan stepped onto Korean soil 50 years ago, South Korea was far from the bustling global economic powerhouse that...

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 ROWENA OREJANA Auckland parishes are struggling to find projects to undertake that fit the year-old Fit 4 Mission, Auckland’s diocesan pastoral plan. Parish and pastoral services group leader Pat Lythe...

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...

by SUSAN FOGARTY WELLINGTON — While many Wellingtonians revelled in the recent rugby sevens, St Mary’s High School hall in Thorndon overflowed with people attending a public meeting of the...

by CRYSTAL HEWETT NAPIER — Hundreds of eager children and families queued on a Friday night, May 16, to get the extreme fright of their lives. The original Marist building, which...

by KATHLEEN CASEY Two years of perpetual exposition in Christchurch have been marked by faithfulness and peace, but it took hard work to set it up. In 2011, Bishop Barry Jones was...

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...

Professor John Whitehall, foundation chair and professor of Paediatrics and Child Health at the University of Western Sydney, has warned against a rising phenomenon of treating gender confused children...

It was a far cry from the humble 2011 procession, the first, behind a broken cathedral in honour of Our Lady of Christchurch — the unattached statue that had turned to stand facing...

Cases of children having to eat cassava roots softened with paracetamol and people dying from lack of food and clean water are among the examples of widespread hunger and thirst throughout the Pacific. Such cases...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Celebrating Palm Sunday Mass with thousands of young people, Pope Francis urged them to continue singing and shouting "hosanna" in the world, proclaiming the lordship...

by PAT LYTHE The annual Mass commemorating Bishop Pompallier’s first Mass here in Aotearoa New Zealand in 1838 was celebrated on Sunday, January 14, at Totara Point in the Hokianga. In...

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Francis urged Christians to remember how they first encountered Christ and to share his love and mercy with others, especially through acts...

by NZ CATHOLIC staff Two Louis J. Steele works with connections to the Catholic Church are being sought by PhD researcher Jane Davidson-Ladd. The missing works are a pastel of...

by MICHAEL OTTO WANAKA — Ten students at Holy Family School, Wanaka, have been writing and drawing to highlight the meaning of Christmas. The fruit of their work is a full...

by Louise Campbell On April 25 we will commemorate the centenary of the Anzac landings on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey. That bitter eight month campaign in 1915 helped...