WelCom July 2020:
A former Catholic brother and schoolteacher who admitted historic sexual offending of three children has been sentenced to nine months‘ home detention and placed on the child sex register.
Kevin Healy, 81, entered guilty pleas to four charges of indecency between a man and boys aged 12 and 13, and one of indecency with a girl aged under 12. The offending occurred in 1976 and 1977 when Healy – known as ‘Brother Gordon’ – was a member of the Marist Brothers and an active schoolteacher in Wairarapa. He appeared before Judge Geoff Rea in the Napier District Court on Friday, 5 June 2020.
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception 8 December
‘As has been the custom for many years an archdiocesan Mass will be celebrated on our diocesan feast day, 7pm, Thursday 8 December, at St Teresa’s Pro-Cathedral, Karori. The archdiocese will again be entrusted to the care of Mary under the title of the Immaculate Conception at this Mass. Parishes are asked to renew that Consecration on the following Sunday, 11 December, at All parish Masses.’ – Cardinal John Dew
Dates and events – what’s on
December 2022
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Pope Francis registers for the next World Youth Day in Lisbon
At the conclusion of the Sunday Angelus, Pope Francis registered for the next World Youth Day to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, in August 2023. Assisted and accompanied by Portuguese university students studying in Rome, the Pope tapped his way to becoming the first officially registered pilgrim for World Youth Day.