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Housing every person in society should not be a matter solely of charity but one of justice in New Zealand, Wellington Archbishop Paul Martin SM said at an election forum.
During his visit to Lourdes on Sunday, Pope Leo XIV clearly rejected assisted dying, which was recently legalised in France. Source: National Catholic Reporter.
Rio de Janeiro’s most famous statue got an unlikely twin on a school field in Tauranga. Source: Bay of Plenty Times.
Bishop Steve Lowe has asked priests and liturgy committees in Auckland Diocese to reflect on the art of celebrating the liturgy by working through the General Instruction of the Roman Missal and considering what it says about the celebration and how local practices align with it.
More than 50 per cent of New Zealanders who responded to a recent survey indicated that they are open to the idea of leaving a charitable gift in their will. Source: Community Foundations of Aotearoa NZ.
A biblical studies lecturer at the University of Otago says the study of the humanities, including theology, is needed so that a “critical mass” of people can draw on intellectual and cultural traditions in order to make prudent and morally sound decisions for the sake of the common good. Source: Otago Daily Times.
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20th-century televangelist Archbishop Fulton Sheen was beatified at a Mass in St Louis in the United States with some 50,000 pilgrims there to witness the occasion. Source: Crux Now.
Some 50 people from several communities gathered for a Season of Creation Ecumenical Service at the University of Auckland on September 23.
Pope Leo XIV has called for a renewed commitment to peace, truth and human dignity during his visit to UNESCO in Paris, warning that scientific and technological progress, when separated from ethics, can become an instrument of domination and destruction. Source: Vatican News.