Nuova Zelanda
Abortion is both a health issue and a justice issue
catholic.org.nz

The New Zealand Catholic Bishops today expressed concern about the proposed new abortion regime for New Zealand, whilst also looking forward to contributing to what they hoped would be an honest, respectful dialogue that explored the complexities surrounding abortion. “The Bishops hear from a wide community of Catholic women and men on this important issue, and are also (...)

Nuova Zelanda
The Leadership of Pope Francis
Catholic Outlook

Address by Cardinal John Dew, Archbishop of Wellington, Servant Leadership in the spirit of Pope Francis, Diocese of Parramatta, July 16 2019 -- It was just on 8am in New Zealand on 14th March 2013, 13th March in Rome, when it was announced that Jorge Bergoglio had been elected the Bishop of Rome. I had just begun the 8am Mass at the Cathedral when one of the priests came in and handed me a note with this news. (...)

Nuova Zelanda
Cardinal John Dew visits Diocese of Parramatta Chancery

catholicoutlook.org

(Mary Brazell) Ahead of his speaking engagement later on Tuesday, Cardinal John Dew was invited to morning tea hosted by the Diocese of Parramatta. Members of the Diocesan Chancery Office, Catholic Education Diocese of Parramatta, and other agencies and ministries across the diocese were in attendance. Fr Chris de Souza, Vicar General and Episcopal Vicar for Education and Formation and Bishop Vincent Long welcomed Cardinal Dew to the diocese, before the Cardinal gave a few words of appreciation for the hospitality. (...)

Nuova Zelanda
NZ's top Catholic says time to stop calling priests 'Father' in response to sexual abuse crisis
Stuff

Don't call me Father, call me John: New Zealand's top Catholic has declared he no longer wants to be referred to by his title and he's encouraging other priests to take the same step. Cardinal John Dew, the Archbishop of Wellington, says dropping the traditional title 'Father' could be one way for priests to respond to the church's crisis over sexual offending by its senior officials. (...)

Nuova Zelanda
Boys abused by late priest in Auckland church open up in new book

rnz.co.nz

(Phil Pennington) Chris Ledingham can still remember the first time he drove past an Auckland church where he was sexually abused as a seven-year-old Catholic schoolboy decades earlier. "Quite a few years ago before any of this stuff came out, my younger brother wanted some help buying some carpets to take back to Taranaki," Chris said. "And he drove me down to Onehunga - I'd said I'd give him a hand - and we passed that presbytery, and it was like I was being stabbed in the chest with a brick with a knife on it. It really affected me." (...)

Nuova Zelanda

Papal audience: Māori King invites Pope Francis to New Zealand

tvnz.co.nz

Pope Francis has been invited to visit New Zealand by the Māori King, who attended a private audience with the Pope in the Vatican yesterday. His Majesty Kiingi Tuheita Pōtatau Te Wherowhero was accompanied by his wife Makau Ariki Atawhai and his daughter Te Puhi Arik Ngā Hono i te Po. It was his first visit to Rome and his first such Papal engagement, usually reserved for heads of state. The king's mother, the late Te Arikinui Dame Te Atairangikahu, visited the Vatican to meet Pope John Paul II in 1975. (...)

Mondo
(Stati Uniti) Priest and former McFarland student athlete facing misconduct allegations

turnto23.com

(Tori Cooper) A priest who is also a former McFarland High School student athlete is now facing sexual misconduct allegations according to the Diocese of Fresno. According to Dinuba Police Department officials received an anonymous tip from a community member that alleged Father Raul Diaz of St. Catherine in Dinuba was inappropriate with minors. Bishop Brennan of the Diocese of Fresno delivered the following statement at all Masses at St. Catherine in Dinuba this past weekend: “It is my responsibility as your Bishop to inform you that I have placed Father Raul Diaz, Pastor of St. Catherine Siena, on “Paid (...)

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Vaticano
Le Lettere Credenziali degli Ambasciatori di Thailandia, Norvegia, Nuova Zelanda, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Lussemburgo, Mozambico, Etiopia. Discorso del Santo Padre
Sala stampa della Santa Sede

[Text: Italiano, English]

Alle ore 10 di questa mattina, nella Sala Clementina del Palazzo Apostolico Vaticano, il Santo Padre Francesco ha ricevuto in Udienza gli Ecc.mi Ambasciatori di Thailandia, Norvegia, Nuova Zelanda, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Guinea Bissau, Lussemburgo, Mozambico ed Etiopia in occasione della presentazione delle Lettere Credenziali. Pubblichiamo di seguito il discorso che il Papa ha rivolto ai nuovi Ambasciatori nonché i cenni biografici essenziali di ciascuno:

Nuova Zelanda
Cardenal John Dew: la cumbre antiabusos tuvo un buen parto, no como el de los montes, pero limitado

religiondigital

(Edgard R. Beltrán, Teólogo Pastoralista) La pasada cumbre antipederastia clerical celebrada en el Vaticano, (21-24 febrero, 2019) fue un buen parto, no como el parto del monte, que después de mucho esfuerzo parió ratoncitos, según la fábula (RD 2-17-19). Fue un gran HECHO, un re-inicio eclesial histórico, pero fue limitado. Dejó una TAREA gigantesca de copernicanas proporciones, obligatoria, inaplazable, urgente. Tarea que exige una previa y simultanea ACTITUD continua (...)

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Russian priest completes row from New Zealand to Chile in 154 days

stuff.co.nz

(Hamish McNeilly) A Russian priest on a world record rowing attempt has landed in Chile – 154 days ago after he left Dunedin. Fedor Konyukhov, 66, left Dunedin on December 6 with the aim of becoming the first person to row the Southern Ocean. On Saturday He arrived in the Chilean town of Puerto Williams on Saturday, after rowing 11,500 kilometres from New Zealand to Cape Horn. "I can smell the earth, the grass, the trees, because in the ocean there is no smell," he told Chilean media after his arrival. He described his journey as being just 50 days of relatively good weather conditions, while the other 100 featured storms that included waves of up to 10 metres and wind gusts of 100kmh. (...)

Nuova Zelanda
History made in New Zealand as first indigenous woman elected to serve as bishop

ACNS

The first Maori woman to be elected bishop has been named by the Archbishops of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. Waitohiariki Quayle, currently the Archdeacon of Wairarapa, will become the Bishop of Upoko o Te Ika, in the lower North Island after she is consecrated later this year. The announcement was made by Archbishop Don Tamihere, senior bishop of the Maori tikanga, or cultural stream of the Church, alongside his fellow Primates, Archbishop Philip Richardson and Archbishop Fereimi Cama. (...)

Mondo
(Messico) Actriz acusa a Legionario de Cristo por abusar de ella cuando iba en la escuela
am - Agencia Reforma

La actriz Analu Salazar acusó en Twitter al padre Fernando Martínez Suárez, miembro de la congregación Legionarios de Cristo, de haberla violentado sexualmente cuando ella tenía 8 años. De acuerdo con la también conductora de televisión el sacerdote abusó de ella entre 1991 y 1992, en el Instituto Cumbres, en Cancún, Quintana Roo. (...) 

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- (Nuova Zelanda) Outrage over senior bishops attending funeral of abusive priest Father Tom Laffey (stuff)

Nuova Zelanda
Catholic priest says terrorists don't dictate interfaith relations

radionz.co.nz

A Catholic priest told a gathering of about 300 people in Auckland for a service to remember the victims of the Easter Sunday bombings, that terrorists do not dictate interfaith relations. People from different faiths and communities lit candles and prayed during the special mass at St Mary's Catholic Church in Northcote last night. The service was led by the local priest, Father Jude Algama who was originally from Sri Lanka, and said this week had been a very difficult time for his nation and also his local community in Auckland. "They are really in a very desperate situation, crying and in pain and in fear." (...)

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Sri Lanka, il governo: "Attacchi una risposta a massacro nelle moschee di Christchurch". Tra le vittime 45 bambini. L'Isis rivendica gli attentati
La Repubblica

Tra le vittime 45 bambini, più di 500 i feriti. Le forze di polizia hanno arrestato 40 sospettati. L'esecutivo ha decretato lo stato di emergenza, non accadeva dalla guerra civile. Polemiche sugli allarmi inascoltati dell'intelligence. Il ministro della Difesa: "Attentati vendetta per le stragi nelle moschee in Nuova Zelanda" (...) 

(en) Sri Lanka attacks 'retaliation for Christchurch': Minister (Aljazeera)

Fiji
No room for ethnic hatred: Archbishop
FBCnews

(Aliki Bia) Hate is never a language of religion.The Archbishop of the Catholic Church of Fiji Peter Loy Chong shared these sentiments while attending a Vigil organized by Interfaith Fiji to remember lives lost at the Christchurch shooting in New Zealand. Archbishop Chong says to have the vigil being held at the Toorak Masjid speaks volume of how religious bodies in the country came together and support the Muslim community in Fiji. (...)

Mondo
Après Christchurch, les pays musulmans demandent des "mesures concrètes" contre l'islamophobie
AFP - ParisMatch

Les représentants des pays membres de l'Organisation de coopération islamique ont appelé la communauté internationale à prendre "des mesures concrètes" contre l'islamophobie, après l'attentat de Christchurch.  Les pays musulmans ont appelé vendredi la communauté internationale à prendre "des mesures concrètes" contre l'islamophobie après le massacre perpétré dans deux mosquées en Nouvelle-Zélande, dans un communiqué publié à l'issue d'une réunion à Istanbul. (...)

Nuova Zelanda
4 facts about religion in New Zealand

pewresearch.org

(Katayoun Kishi, Stephanie Kramer, Joey Marshall and Aleksandra Sandstrom) New Zealand’s small but growing Muslim population is in the news of late after a terrorist attack left 50 dead and dozens injured at two mosques in Christchurch last week. Many have expressed shock that these attacks could occur in New Zealand, where crime rates are low, mass shootings are rare and people are largely accepting of religious minorities and immigrants. At the same time, world leaders cite the massacres as the latest example of rising nationalism and Islamophobia around the world. Here are four facts about religion and religious tolerance in New Zealand. (...)

Nuova Zelanda
Fusillades à Christchurch - La "cathédrale en carton" prie pour les victimes des mosquées
Belga - l'avenir.net

Des fidèles de l'Eglise anglicane de Christchurch priaient dimanche dans leur "cathédrale en carton", bâtie après le séisme de 2011, en mémoire des victimes de l'attentat terroriste perpétré vendredi dans deux mosquées de cette ville néo-zélandaise. "Lors des tremblements de terre, nous avons appris que dans les temps d'épreuves, il était bon de se retrouver les uns les autres. (...)

Vaticano
Tweet del Papa: "Prego per le vittime dell’orribile attentato contro due moschee a #Christchurch, in Nuova Zelanda. Rinnovo l’invito ad unirsi con la preghiera e i gesti di pace per contrastare l’odio e la violenza." (17 marzo 2019)
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Nuova Zelanda

Fine dell’innocenza. Dopo la strage anche la Nuova Zelanda, terra di immigrati, deve fare i conti con le ombre suprematiste

L'Osservatore Romano

(Paolo Affatato) Covava sotto la cenere, in una società multietnica e multireligiosa, il suprematismo bianco in Nuova Zelanda. Se la strage di Christchurch è un atto isolato e senza precedenti per la violenza con cui è stata perpetrata e per il bilancio delle vittime, tra i giovani kiwi sono andati affermandosi negli ultimi anni movimenti che hanno lanciato segnali inequivocabili.