The Diocesan Justice and Peace Commission’s Environment/Sustainability Committee will be releasing their parish programme God’s Earth: for all peoples and all generations on 5 June 2013 – World Environment Day. The programme is an introduction to environmental issues – and their connection with social justice – in light of our Catholic faith. Parishes are invited to use

The Budget shows a slow and steady economic recovery, but that should not be the extent of our ambition. We need more urgent attention given to poverty and recovery of social wellbeing, says the Auckland Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace. While the Government is moving towards implementation of some recommendations of the advisory group

New Zealand Catholic Bishops who consistently opposed the Marriage Definition Bill throughout the Parliamentary process have expressed their deep sadness that, despite the fact that such a large percentage of the public are opposed to this, it has become law. “We find it bizarre that what has been discarded is an understanding of marriage that

Your Holiness, On behalf of the Bishops, clergy, religious and lay faithful of Aotearoa New Zealand we send you our prayerful good wishes and congratulations on your election to the See of Peter. You are someone chosen to be Bishop of Rome from a country far away; we too are very far away deep in