A Waikato parishioner has tested negative for Covid-19 after coming into indirect contact with the Auckland coronavirus cluster. Father Mark Field, a priest at catholic churches in Morrinsville, Te Aroha and Paeroa, confirmed to Stuff the parishioner unknowingly met someone who had been in contact with another person from the Auckland cluster. Read more
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Waikato parishioner tests negative after indirect contact with Covid-19 cluster
Thursday, August 20th, 2020Pope Francis donates ventilators and ultrasounds to coronavirus-hit Brazil
Thursday, August 20th, 2020Pope Francis has donated ventilators and ultrasound scanners to hospitals in coronavirus-ravaged Brazil. In a Aug. 17 press statement, papal almoner Cardinal Konrad Krajewski said that 18 Dräger intensive care ventilators and six Fuji portable ultrasound scanners would be shipped to Brazil on the pope’s behalf. Brazil has reported 3.3 million cases of COVID-19 and Read more
It’s hard to admit we’re lonely, even to ourselves
Monday, August 17th, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn attention to loneliness in Australia. This is especially so as Melburnians entered the strictest lockdown to date. Meanwhile, the rest of Australia braces for the possibility of a second wave and people are adapting to new habits and restrictions. This has disrupted our social routines, and in many cases has Read more
Diocese launches virtual school
Monday, August 17th, 2020
The US Diocese of Arlington is launching an virtual school for families who want a Catholic education but are worried about the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The online-only St. Isidore of Seville Virtual School – named after the patron saint of the internet – aims to be fully operational on 8 September. It will teach the Read more
Marist College offers support to Mt Albert schools struck by COVID-19
Monday, August 17th, 2020
Marist College, the Catholic girls’ school in Auckland, which was linked to 96 cases between March 22 and May 15, is just across the road from Mt Albert Grammar, where a new Covid-19 case was confirmed. Both are close to Mt Albert Primary School, where a student was tested last week because family members had Read more
15 Students asked to self-isolate after trip to Rotorua
Monday, August 17th, 2020A group of Francis Douglas students have been told to self-isolate after they visited the Rotorua luge at the same time as an Auckland family who has tested positive for Covid-19. In an alert sent out to parents and caregivers of students at the New Plymouth Catholic boys high school on Thursday, principal Martin Chamberlain Read more
Two Popes actor has COVID-19
Thursday, August 13th, 2020Jonathan Pryce spent more than a week in hospital after contracting coronavirus. The ‘Two Popes’ actor used to believe that, as he got older, he’d find comfort in religion but that hasn’t been the case. Read more
Would St. Thomas Aquinas wear a mask to Mass?
Thursday, August 13th, 2020
What is the proper spiritual response to the coronavirus pandemic? Although many Catholics seek to use this period as “a time of renewal,” as one priest put it, a vocal minority are approaching the pandemic with words more suited to culture warriors than to spiritual warfare. Any Catholic who has spent time on social media Read more
Bishops worry about looming mental health crisis
Thursday, August 13th, 2020
Australia’s Catholic bishops have identified a looming mental health crisis as their priority social justice focus this year. During the past year Australian’s resilience has been tested with the country coping with droughts and deadly bushfires followed by the Covid-19 pandemic and the uncertainty that goes with it. “People experiencing mental ill-health are not some Read more
No Masses in Wellington this weekend
Thursday, August 13th, 2020
The Archbishop of Wellington, Cardinal John Dew, in a letter to parish leaders has announced that he has suspended all masses and parish activities which involve gatherings until 18 August. “This means there will be no Masses this weekend, and the dispensation from the Sunday obligation is in place.” The dispensation also applies to the Read more