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The Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Wellington was filled to capacity on Sunday, June 7, as it hosted the first Mass in a pilgrimage of a relic of St Carlo Acutis in this country. Source: Archdiocese of Wellington.
Food banks have been allocated another year of funding in the Government’s Budget, but there are fears there could be closures beyond that timeframe. Source: NewstalkZB.
Fr Michael Pui, the national director of MissioNZ (the Pontifical Mission Societies in New Zealand), has had a second meeting with Pope Leo XIV in Rome.
Auckland’s Catholic migrant communities came together last week for the fifth annual Migrant Chaplaincies Festival – a vibrant celebration of faith, culture and unity.
Pope Leo XIV said his goal in visiting Spain is to encourage the faithful and stand up for freedom of religion and belief. Source: The Tablet.
Auckland Bishop Steve Lowe was among attendees at a symposium in Canada about the “Doctrine of Discovery”, its consequences for indigenous peoples and the Church’s involvement in colonisation in the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Cistercian monks, iwi, environmental groups, schools and volunteers have contributed to a project that aims to restore a remnant of a once vast ancient forest near Our Lady of the Southern Star Abbey at Kopua.
A Catholic bishop in Mozambique shot and killed at his residence on June 6 is being remembered for his pastoral heart and humility. Source: The Pillar.
Several Federal Bureau of Investigation analysts tied to the creation of a 2023 memo in the United States warning of a potential threat from Catholic “violent extremists” were fired last week. Source: CruxNow.