Earlier this year students at Cardinal McKeefry School in Wilton took an opportunity to enhance global understanding and interaction.
We spent a morning with approximately 40 young people from the Japanese Ship for World Youth, with representatives from Australia, Canada, Chile, Egypt, Japan, Mexico, Oman, Russia, Seychelles, the Solomons, Tonga, UK, and Yeman giving tours of the school and sharing ideas and experiences.
Pahiatua Polish Children’s 75th Reunion
WelCom December 2019 Phil Cotter, a life-long parishioner of St Brigid’s parish, Pahiatua, remembers as a seven-year-old welcoming the three trains carrying the Polish children and their care-givers in 1944….
Care for our common home
Manaakihia tō tātou kāinga From Garden To Table WelCom December 2019 ‘Grow, harvest, prepare, share’ is the motto for ‘Garden to Table’. It’s a programme founded in 2008 to teach…
New Zealand Catholic Bishops Meet Pope
WelCom December 2019 The New Zealand Catholic bishops met Pope Francis for an 80-minute private audience in the Vatican on Monday 28 October during their Ad Limina visit to Rome. …