New Zealand is opening a series of charter schools and giving them "considerable flexibility" when it comes to the curriculum ...

Under Pope Francis, there was also an increase in cardinal electors representing the Eastern Catholic ... Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and Tonga. Marco Mancini of ACI Stampa, CNA’s Italian ...

One group defending the pope’s record and cheering his election are the victims of the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - The New Zealand government said on Friday it would spend NZ$ ... system for Catholics to report suspicions of abuse or cover-ups by bishops. The Catholic church on Thursday elected ...

South America 17; North America 16 (10 American, 4 Canadian, 2 Mexican); Central America 4. Oceania 4 (1 each from Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Tonga).

To her students at The Lakes College north of Brisbane, Year 1 teacher Suzanne Walker is “kind and helpful”, and “she makes us happy”.

The Detail also speaks to two New Zealand women, both with deep Catholic faiths but very different experiences of the church. Christina Reymer of Hamilton, a long-time agitator for change in the ...

The time has long passed for church leaders to practice what they preach. Victims and survivors of church-based abuse deserve ...

Survivors of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in New Zealand have responded to the papal election of Robert Prevost with grave concern. The survivors say Prevost’s election to the papacy is ...

New Zealand’s deputy prime minister says that talks over a free trade agreement between his country and India were ongoing.

Catholic missions in places like Ōtaki, Whanganui, and Hokianga became cultural and spiritual hubs for generations of Māori.

A New Zealand court on Thursday discharged the husband of an Australian diplomat without convicting him, months after the man pleaded guilty to assault for drunkenly spitting on a teenager during ...