Parishioners throughout Dunedin diocese have spent recent weeks in coming to terms with an unpleasant financial reality – how best to provide for a means of coping with damage to parish assets.
Eleven recently ordained diocesan priests from the six dioceses in New Zealand gathered at the St Francis Friary and Retreat Centre in Auckland for a time of prayer, reflection and fellowship.
Dunedin vicar-general Fr Gerard Aynsley has expressed hope that the young people coming out of Catholic schools would be able to connect their lived faith to living justly.