Kia ora koutou, One of the great figures of Catholicism from the 19th Century is  Cardinal St John Henry Newman (1801 – 1890) whose feast day comes up on Wednesday, 9 October. Newman was an English theologian, academic, philosopher, historian, writer, and poet, ordained first as an Anglican priest and then later as a Catholic […]

Over 30 years ago we welcomed a refugee family into our Passionist Family Group, it wasn’t easy as they had no English & of course there were cultural differences. We got to know & love them as family and were asked to be Confirmation sponsors for their sons. The children grew & flew their nests, […]