CathNews New Zealand and CathNews Pacific report news about the Catholic Church and subjects of interest to the Church primarily in New Zealand and the Pacific, but also the world.
CathNews should be seen as an expression of the Pastoral Constitution of the Church in the Modern World, paragraph one:
“The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the people of this age, especially those who are poor or in any way afflicted, these are the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ. Indeed, nothing genuinely human fails to raise an echo in their hearts. For theirs is a community composed of human beings. United in Christ, they are led by the Holy Spirit in their journey to the Kingdom of their Father and they have welcomed the news of salvation which is meant for every person. That is why this community realizes that it is truly linked with humanity and its history by the deepest of bonds.”
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New Zealand
Food for Faith podcast producer Fr John O'Connor is about to tackle a new opportunity presented by disconnected or no-religion Catholics. He's starting by taking a sabbatical and collecting food for his faith. After more than a decade of providing written and audio reflections for the popular Food for Faith podcast, the Christchurch priest (pictured) Read more
Disconnected or no-religion Catholics - an opportunity... Read moreNew Zealand's Papal Nuncio, Archbishop Novatus Rugambwa, has returned to Rome. The archbishop left the country on Saturday and has arrived safely after a "smooth" journey, the NZ Catholic Bishops Conference says. Rugambwa (pictured) is recovering from a stroke he suffered in Wellington last October. He will continue his rehabilitation at a Catholic facility in Read more
Papal Nuncio Archbishop Novatus Rugambwa back in Rome... Read moreThree major Catholic aid agencies are urging Australia, Canada and New Zealand's leaders to take immediate diplomatic action over the "catastrophic" humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip The agencies working in the area are warning that starvation and famine threaten hundreds of thousands of Palestinian civilians. Catastrophic conditions in Gaza In a joint statement, the Read more
Gaza humanitarian crisis - Government urged to take action... Read moreWestpac Bank says New Zealand will need to ramp up its house building machine to about 125,000 homes over the next five years if it hopes to keep up with rampant migration and mitigate the post-pandemic slowdown. Westpac senior economist Satish Ranchhod said while some parts of the country were catching up with longer-term underbuilding Read more
House building: NZ needs 125,000 homes in 5 years to meet high migration... Read moreThe Government has set in place a new "cloud first" policy requiring all its agencies to store their information on the cloud. "Do not invest in on-premise ICT infrastructure unless information meets specific criteria," chief executives are told. Ideally, it says, information classified as "restricted" should be hosted in a New Zealand-based data centre, where Read more
Amazon cloud pays barely $1m tax on $391m revenues... Read moreNew Zealand Volunteer Services Abroad (VSA) workers are volunteering to support training opportunities for detainees as they reintegrate into society. The husband and wife team Rob Wait and Katy Buess are putting their Invercargill-based business on hold in April to return to Vanuatu and continue their VSA work. Skills for life From leading building and Read more
VSA volunteers provide prisoners with opportunities... Read more
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