by CathNews New Zealand | Apr 29, 2025 | 8th, Uncategorized
Eight in 10 of those eligible to vote in the conclave were appointed by Pope Francis in the past 12 years. Twenty became cardinals only in December last year. Many had never met each other before heading to Rome over the past week after the Pope’s death on April 21....
by CathNews New Zealand | Apr 24, 2025 | 8th, Uncategorized
After being driven around St Peter’s Square in the popemobile on Easter Sunday, the Pope rested in the afternoon and had a quiet dinner. Around 5.30am the next morning, the signs of a sudden illness appeared, prompting an immediate response from those keeping watch...
by CathNews New Zealand | Apr 22, 2025 | 8th, Uncategorized
Nearly a decade after booming house prices prompted a reckoning in the political system that New Zealand had a “housing crisis”, and a 2017 election preoccupied with the issue, the circumstances remain broadly similar today. While political consensus has reached the...
by CathNews New Zealand | Apr 17, 2025 | 8th, Uncategorized
Thousands of people across the UK are to be received into the Catholic Church this Easter. Westminster Diocese alone will receive 500 adults into the Church this Easter, a 25 per cent increase on the previous year. Southwark, the other Catholic diocese in London, also...
by CathNews New Zealand | Apr 15, 2025 | 8th, Uncategorized
More than two dozen Jewish and Christian groups had filed a lawsuit against the policy. On April 11, US District Judge Dabney Friedrich in Washington refused to grant a preliminary injunction to the plaintiffs. She found that only a handful of immigration enforcement...
by CathNews New Zealand | Apr 11, 2025 | 8th, Uncategorized
At the Palmerston North District Court on April 8, Judge Bruce Northwood sentenced Fr Michael O’Donnell SM on one charge of unlawful sexual connection of a male between 12 and 16, as well as 15 charges of indecent assault. The charges are representative, which means a...
