The memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary on October 7 saw a special celebration in a holy place on the Awhitu Peninsula north of Waiuku in Auckland diocese.
Every winter, Auckland-based priest Fr Andrew Nuu Le Nguyen suffers great pain from the many injuries he received while a prisoner for 13 years in the hell of “re-education” camps in Vietnam.
Pope Francis has appointed Father Richard Laurenson from the Diocese of Hamilton as the new Catholic Bishop of Hamilton. The appointment was announced in Rome at 11pm New Zealand time tonight, Wednesday 25 October. Bishop-elect Laurenson replaces .