On Friday 12 February, 1937, seven Carmelite sisters left their Sydney Carmelite monastery and boarded the Awatea which sailed to Auckland, arriving on Monday 15th. The Bishop of Auckland, Bishop James Liston, was on the wharf to greet them, accompanied by several priests of the diocese. Representing the oldest Religious Order in the Catholic Church

The combined Catholic and Anglican Ash Wednesday service which is held each year at one of their two cathedral churches in the city will take place at 7.30 in St Patrick’s Cathedral in Wyndham Street. Catholic Bishop Patrick Dunn and Anglican Bishop Ross Bay will officiate and the choirs of the two cathedrals will combine

The newly-appointed music director for St Patrick’s Cathedral in Auckland, Mrs Christine Eschete, took up her appointment at the cathedral last week. Christine and her husband have come to New Zealand from Chicago, where Christine was assistant to the director of music at Chicago’s Holy Name Cathedral. In addition to her experience as a Church

The Catholic Diocese of Auckland is appalled that consent has been sought to allow the building of a massive 15-storey brothel in the central city which will compound the growing number of brothels (both legal and illegal), pawn brokers and massage parlours which have sprung up in recent times around the Sky Tower right in