An independent assessment of Catholic safeguarding protocols and procedures in New Zealand has identified significant progress in many areas, while also highlighting where more work is needed.
Each year, on the second Sunday in October, the Catholic Church in Aotearoa New Zealand holds a Day of Prayer for Life, otherwise known as Support Life Sunday.
A huge gathering assembled at St Patrick’s College Wellington Assembly Hall last month to farewell much-loved and respected First XV rugby coach, Willie Leota.
At 6am on Saturday 20 July, Sacred Heart College Lower Hutt school community gathered at dawn to celebrate the opening of our new Mission House and the blessing of the kaitiaki gifted by Mana Whenua.
Pope Francis has appointed Archbishop Gábor Pintér as the new Apostolic Nuncio to Aotearoa New Zealand. The appointment was announced on 27 July 2024, in Rome.
For the fourth consecutive year, the New Zealand Government has failed to address human trafficking in Aotearoa New Zealand, according to the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report, released 25 June 2024.
New Zealand’s only liturgically trained theologian, Dr Joe Grayland, has accepted the offer of a long-term position teaching at the University of Würzburg, Germany.
Late last year, in response to a new set of dubia, or doubts, on the Catholic Church’s cremation practices, the Vatican’s doctrinal office – the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith – reaffirmed a ban on spreading ashes in nature, but said they can be conserved in ‘sacred places’.
Matariki is the Māori name for the cluster of stars that appears in the morning sky in Aotearoa New Zealand during midwinter, between late June and early July. In 2024, Matariki is celebrated from 29 June to 6 July, with a national public holiday on Friday 28 June.
By invitation of Principal Dame Georgina Kingi, Bishop John Adams recently made his first visit to St Joseph’s Māori Girls College in Taradale, Napier, to celebrate the Feast of St Matthias the Apostle, and to renew relationships between the college and the Diocese of Palmerston North.