WelCom April 2017
Diocesan News and Views
Young people gathered at parliament to call for teaching about respect. Photo: WelCom
Catholic school students joined hundreds of young people at parliament grounds on Monday 13 March to call for full respect for one another, respect aimed at allowing every person to live in freedom and safety in society at large. Students from Wellington’s colleges and universities and other young adults gathered in solidarity calling for respect for both women and men and for the compulsory teaching at secondary schools about consent and human rights. The demonstration was organised as a collective protest and a call for change about the disrespectful attitudes to women and men that still exist in society and have, most recently, been highlighted through the inappropriate use of social media.
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. …