Today we mark 182 years since the first signatures were put to the Treaty of Waitangi on Thursday 6 February 1840.
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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...
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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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In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you