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The Wikileak you may not have heard about
First of all, let me say that I am opposed to the efforts of a group of people to expose military secrets and classified highly sensitive material to the world that I believe will lead to people —...
View ArticlePausing to remember
In two minutes, New Zealand will stop to remember the 29 men who perished in the Pike River mine near Greymouth either 13 days ago or in one of the subsequent explosions at the mine. This has been a...
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Looking for an environmentally-friendly Popemobile
Let’s be honest. In recent years, it hasn’t been hard to see examples of Christian groups who have seemed obsessed with the lowering of greenhouse gas emissions and looked at it as the most important...
View ArticleAustralasia’s second (or third) saint?
Those of us living Down Under, and we Kiwis claim that label as well when it suits us, have been bombarded with information in recent weeks and months about the wonderful occasion of the canonisation...
View ArticlePope meets with survivors of Church massacre
Just over a month ago, more than 50 people were killed in a Syriac Catholic Cathedral in Baghdad as they were simply trying to worship their God. In some non-Christian parts of the world today, it is...
View ArticleA memorable gaffe
Yesterday was the Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe, the patron saint of the Americas. According to tradition, Our Lady appeared to a recent Mexican convert to Catholicism in the 16th century as he was...
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