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Auckland bishop is new president of New Zealand bishops’ conference

May 11, 2023

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CWN Editor's Note: The bishops of New Zealand have elected Bishop Stephen Lowe of Auckland as their new conference president.

In 2018, Bishop Lowe said that the Church may be facing a “Galileo moment” on homosexuality.

“The psychology is still up for debate, but the Church has got to engage with the science and engage with the experience of couples with same-sex attraction,” he said.

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Monday of the Thirty-First Week in Ordinary Time; Opt Mem of St. Martin de Porres, Religious

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Today the Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Martin de Porres (1579-1639), who lived a life of fasting, prayer and penance as a Dominican lay brother. He was born in Peru of a Spanish knight and a Negro woman from Panama. Martin inherited the features and dark complexion of his mother, and for…

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