The Maori people, the Indigenous population of mainland New Zealand, have crowned a new queen after the death of their king — and she’s Catholic. King Tuheitia Potatau Te Wherowhero VII died ...

The Catholic Church in Aotearoa New Zealand has received news of the election of Pope Leo XIV with great joy. Bishop Steve Lowe, president of the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference ...

New Zealand’s Royal Commission of Inquiry into Abuse in Care made sharp criticisms of the Catholic Church in its final report. The report, published last week, included a summary of its findings ...

Around the same time, according to news media reports ... Brothers of St. John of God, a Catholic order, as the leader of Marylands School in Christchurch, New Zealand. His job was to care ...