(CEPAC, Suva, Fiji) – Pope Francis has appointed the Reverend Father Simon Samendra MANI of the Missionaries of the Sacred Heart (MSC), currently the Rector of the Pacific Regional Seminary in Suva, Fiji, as Bishop of the Diocese of Tarawa and Nauru in Kiribati and Nauru. This announcement was published in the Daily Bulletin of […]

We the Catholic Bishop’s Conference of the Pacific speak from the Oceania to communicate the prophetic and pastoral voice of the Churches and the vulnerable voices of peoples’ regarding the threats that climate change. The Oceania Context Our home, Oceania includes the three island sub-regions of Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia, plus Australia and New Zealand. […]

The Episcopal Conference of the Pacific, more commonly known as CEPAC (Conferentia Episcopalis Pacifici), held its plenary assembly on November 13-17, 2023 at the Accueil Mont-Mou, a retreat house administered by the congregation of Soers Missionaries de la Société de Marie in Paita, New Caledonia. The plenary assembly of CEPAC is held once every two […]

On July 7, 2023, the Synod Secretariat announced the additional non-bishop members of the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, often known as the Synod of Synodality. Ten people from Oceania were named among the Synod’s members, along with five people who will serve as experts and/or facilitators during the two sessions […]

By Vatican News Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI has returned to the Father’s House. The Holy See Press Office announced that the Pope Emeritus died at 9:34 AM on Saturday morning in his residence at the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery, which the 95-year-old Pope emeritus had chosen as his residence after resigning from the Petrine ministry in […]

Listening with the ear of the heart   Dear brothers and sisters, Last year we reflected on the need to “Come and See” in order to discover reality and be able to recount it beginning with experiencing events and meeting people. Continuing in this vein, I would now like to draw attention to another word […]

“That you may tell your children and grandchildren” (Ex 10:2) Life becomes history   I would like to devote this year’s Message to the theme of storytelling, because I believe that, so as not to lose our bearings, we need to make our own the truth contained in good stories. Stories that build up, not […]