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...
by CathNews New Zealand | Apr 8, 2025 | 8th, Uncategorized
The International Theological Commission (ITC) published the in-depth document Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior: The 1700th Anniversary of the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea on April 3. Nicaea was the Church’s first ecumenical council. It defended the divinity of Jesus...
