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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. …

‘The Grace of God Has Appeared’

WelCom December 2019 Cardinal John DewArchbishop of Wellington ArchdioceseApostolic Administrator of Palmerston North Diocese Every year at Christmas Midnight Mass I am in awe at the words of the Letter…

‘One Body in Christ’

WelCom December 2019 On Tuesday 5 November, within days of returning from Rome where the New Zealand bishops met with Pope Francis, Cardinal John Dew visited the Diocese of Palmerston…
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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. …

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Christmas Greetings from Catholic School Education Leaders and Youth Ministry Leaders

WelCom December 2019 New Zealand Catholic Education Office Each year has its own highlights and challenges. For NZCEO we have enjoyed the adventure of participating in the OIEC* Catholic Education…

Catholic Thinking – Why study theology: Part 2

WelCom December 2019 Professor Thomas O’Loughlin, Professor of Historical Theology at the University of Nottingham, UK, and a priest of the Archdiocese of Arundel and Brighton on England’s south coast,…

Gospel Reading: Sunday 1 December 2019

WelCom December 2019 First Sunday of Advent – Mt 24:37-44 Jesus said to his disciples: ‘As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming…