One of the first phone calls I made on hearing of the death of Bishop Barry Jones on Saturday morning was to the furthest periphery of the diocese of Christchurch, the...
Pitt Island
Pitt Island
It is now Monday morning and Bishop Barry Jones and myself have spent the weekend on Pitt Island. There is no Church further from Jerusalem and Rome than Our Lady of...
This Town – Chathams
In 1997 New Zealand historian Michael King published a well-received history of New Zealand Catholicism. He titled his work "God's Farthest Outpost." If New Zealand is...
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Today we mark 184 years since the first signatures were put to the Treaty of Waitangi
retreating
My suggestion is that in a time of retreat what we are retreating from is all that is not reality.
heartland
he simply sought to be fully with the one or two people he was with in any moment, and that was enough.
in the world
I was caught up in the drama and intrigue. I love a good story.
baptism
At conception, our human life begins. At baptism, our eternal life begins