WelCom May 2022
The Russian Orthodox Church’s use of Christian teaching to justify Russia’s war on Ukraine is leading to calls for its expulsion from the World Council of Churches (WCC). Former Archbishop of Canterbury Lord Rowan Williams said the case for expelling is ‘a strong one’. He says he cannot accept the use of Christian terminology to justify ‘a nakedly aggressive, unprincipled act of violence against a neighbouring Christian nation’.
The leader of the independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Epiphany Dumenko, says Patriarch Kirill of Moscow has ‘made his choice in favour of the Antichrist…I urge those who still have him as their shepherd: open your eyes…and do not be his accomplices.’
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.