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Broadcaster Frank Ritchie has shared aspects of his personal journey to the Catholic Church, a journey that included a spiritual crisis, broad learning and an unexpected experience after calling upon the Blessed Virgin Mary in prayer.

New Zealand’s Catholic bishops will celebrate a special commemorative Mass in Wellington next month marking 100 years since the passing into eternal life of Venerable Meri Hōhepa Suzanne Aubert.

Nearly four dozen people from throughout Dunedin Diocese gathered last month to explore and experience synodality.

Palmerston North Bishop John Adams is forming a Diocesan Synodal Team and he says there has been strong interest in serving as part of the group.

Catholic communities were well represented at a Living Wage National Election Forum at which politicians were challenged to extend the living wage in the state sector.

A Catholic school principal says there should be less grasp on the curriculum by the Government’s agenda and there should be more focus on school resourcing and funding. Source: Franklin Times.

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An official estimate of the number of people who would die through assisted deaths in England and Wales in a decade under a proposed law has doubled after New Zealand statistics were included in calculations. Source: The Telegraph.

Pope Leo XIV has warned of a “paradox” in Western societies where a growing emphasis on individual freedom coexists with an increasingly widespread fear of being judged. Source: EWTN News.

Revisions of procedures for ad limina visits by diocesan bishops to Rome have been proposed by study groups from the Synod on Synodality. Source: Vatican News.