of informed Catholic staff, the newspaper began, amidst the prevailing conservative editorial outlook, to address lively social issues outside the church. Mueli also instituted a correspondence column from 28 August 1969, the first such column the paper had ever had. The newspaper suffered a major drop in circulation in late 1969. But by mid 1971, the situation had improved and Zealandia had regained much of its old readership. Replacement Archbishop Liston submitted his resignation to the Pope at the age of 88 in December 1969, on the 40th anniversary of his succession as Bishop of Auckland. He stepped down in early 1970 and was replaced by his auxiliary bishop, Reginald John Delargey who on 27 May 1971 announced the appointment of a new editor for the newspaper, Pat Booth. Civil and Canon Lawyer In 1977, Meuli obtained an LL.B. from the University of Auckland and was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand (as it later became). In 1980 he graduated from the Lateran University in Canon Law and Civil Law as Doctor in Utroque Jure, Summa Cum Laude. His thesis was titled "The status and defences of the unborn child in common law". Further studies followed and he was licensed to appear before the Sacred Roman Rota and the Apostolic Signatura. In the early 1980s he worked with the regional tribunal in Bologna, Italy, as Defender of the Bond. Traditionalist ministry In 1987 he studied the work of Patrick Henry Omlor and his questioning of the validity of the Catholic Mass using the all-English Canon, particularly the replacement of the Latin "Pro multis" ("for many") with the English "for all" in the rite of consecration. Omlor argued that a deviation from the earlier wording resulted in the new Mass not constituting a proper sacrifice. Meuli was influenced by Omlor's arguments and resumed the celebration of the Mass in Latin. In 1989 Denis Browne, the tenth Bishop of Auckland, made a small church available to Meuli and this became the centre of the Mount St. Mary "non-geographic" parish, Titirangi, where the "traditional Latin liturgy" is followed. His congregation came from all over the greater Auckland region to worship in the pre- Vatican II manner. Meuli published an English translation of a sermon by Don Stefano Gobbi, an Italian priest and visionary. He took a public lead on some moral issues. In 2016 Meuli retired