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By JEFF DRANE, SM This last year has seen church groups in Aotearoa New Zealand working together more closely to offer a...

It is a time of change for the Church, and also for Good Shepherd College in Ponsonby, said the chair of the college’s senate at...

by ESME O’RAFFERTY A Catholic secondary school headmaster has come out swinging against the cannabis (marijuana) referendum due to be held at the 2020...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Catholic young adults felt the hierarchy started listening to them in preparation for the 2018 synod of bishops on young people, and...

Arguing in defence of the faith is not about winning a debate, but walking with Jesus in the relationship that he wants us to have with the...

“Put the victims first” was the message from the worldwide meeting of the presidents of bishops’ conferences held in Rome in February this year on “The Protection...

The Government’s decision, announced in the Budget, to offer decile 1-7 state and state-integrated schools the choice of not seeking donations from parents is a good one,...

While welcoming the focus of the Government’s “Well-being” Budget delivered on May 30, Auckland diocese’s Justice and Peace Commission believes it would have been improved...

The James Liston Hostel, an emergency housing facility for homeless people in Auckland’s city centre, re-opened this month after undergoing a top-to-bottom make-over, which cost more...

“A hundred years of life — it’s a long hikoi, isn’t it?” That was how Hamilton Bishop Stephen Lowe started his homily at the...

The first New Zealand Member of Parliament of Filipino descent has made a strong pro-life statement in his maiden speech in the House.

Christchurch Bishop Paul Martin will hold meetings with the different parishes in Christchurch city and the greater Christchurch area this month (July) on the proposed changes to...

Part II of NZ Catholic’s interview with the director of the Vatican Observatory, Br Guy Consolmagno, SJ. In one of the anecdotes he related while talking about...

by Jeff Dillon Despite a somewhat challenging year — which he could hardly have envisaged when he started — the leader of...

Good Shepherd College — Te Hepara Pai in Ponsonby in Auckland has been ranked along consultor side much larger New Zealand tertiary education organisations in terms...

The New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference has decided to remediate the leaky building issues faced by Holy Cross Seminary, Ponsonby, at an estimated cost of...

The New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference president, Bishop Patrick Dunn, called on Catholic health professionals to remember always that their vocations are deeply rooted in Catholic...

Not long after the start of an address at the University of Auckland, the director of the Vatican Observatory, Br Guy Consolmagno, SJ, talked about “family” ...

Vatican Observatory director Br Guy Consolmagno, SJ, made a big splash allover New Zealand recently and NZ Catholic had a chance to catch up with him.Part I...

How do you convince hundreds of Year 13 students from Catholic schools that faith and science are not opposed to each other?

Two young Lasallian volunteers from Australia have found they can have fun — in New Zealand — while growing in maturity and faith. Micah...

The combined Christian churches of Christchurch, represented by Te Raranga, have gifted more than $150,000 to Muslim communities that were the subject of a brutal terrorist attack...

CANBERRA (CathNews and CNS) — A New Zealand canon lawyer has been appointed as a member of a panel of experts which will conduct a review of...

by MEENA AMSO A large scale event to unite Christian congregations in Christchurch city last month was postponed. “Tatou...

Praying and playing are both key to keeping it together when you are a youth minister, said US-based Life Teen coach and coordinator of diocesan collaboration Lily...

by MARY EASTHAM “I feel like I have lost members of my family”, wrote Sr Bertha Hurley, SMSM, to members of the New...

“Pray for us and pray for more priests,” requested the two first-year seminarians at Holy Cross Seminary in Ponsonby, Auckland. Matthew White and...

Memorial Masses were celebrated in several churches in New Zealand for the victims of the Easter bombing attacks at churches and top-end hotels in Sri Lanka, which...

by JEFF DILLON Brian Vernon Dillon was born on what was to become a very significant day, April 25. He was born on that day in 1893...

While other churches are closing down and amalgamating, Holy Cross Parish in Henderson has embarked on a $4.1 million project to rebuild and expand its church to...