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When doubts go unanswered

Nevil Gibson — Tue, 02 May 2017 22:00:22 +0000

Ever since Japanese Catholic writer Shusaku Endo published his 1966 novel Silence, film-makers and others have been fascinated by its themes of religious doubt, martyrdom and apostasy. Although set in the 17th century, when mainly Portuguese Jesuit missionaries were actively converting the Japanese to Catholicism, the novel’s legacy is about efforts to suppress belief and

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Fr Murphy encourages silence at Mass

Rowena Orejana — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 20:30:21 +0000

Papakura parish priest Fr Peter Murphy is encouraging priests in Auckland diocese to practise three minutes of silence after Communion. Fr Murphy, the diocese’s director for contemplative prayer, said a moment of quiet in the frenetic pace of life is a means of healing one’s soul. Fr Murphy is also a member of the New Zealand Community for Christian Meditation. “The silence,

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