Cardinal John Dew told a royal commission of inquiry that the Catholic Church in New Zealand is ashamed and saddened that people suffered abuse while in its care. The cardinal spoke during opening ...

The same-sex marriage debate has moved on to New Zealand and the Catholic Church there is readied for the battle. The New Zealand Church already began to take action with a letter sent to the ...

Can transgender men be priests? Are there rivalries among bishops? What is the hardest thing about being a cardinal? These were a few of the questions young New Zealand Catholics put to Wellington ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand’s Prime Minister Christopher Luxon made a “formal and unreserved” apology in Parliament on Tuesday for the widespread abuse, torture and neglect of hundreds ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — WELLINGTON, New Zealand --The Roman Catholic Church in New Zealand said Saturday that it knew of 38 cases of sexual abuse by church officers in the last 50 years and offered ...

The island nation has legalized nuptials performed in the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster — a secular religion that views the existence of a Flying Spaghetti Monster to be just as probable as ...

Twenty-four pastors and one imam lose argument that the rules designating worship “high risk” violated their religious rights. New Zealand’s High Court has ruled that government officials were not ...

New Zealand’s Catholic Church formally apologized on Friday to the survivors of abuse within the church and said its systems and culture must change. Cardinal John Dew, who is the Roman Catholic ...

Cardinal John Dew of Wellington, New Zealand, is pictured in a screenshot speaking March 22, 2021, at a hearing of the New Zealand Royal Commission on Abuse in Care in Auckland. The royal commission ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — New Zealand's Prime Minister Christopher Luxon made a “formal and unreserved” apology in Parliament on Tuesday for the widespread abuse, torture and neglect of hundreds of ...

Cardinal John Dew of Wellington, New Zealand, is pictured in a screenshot speaking March 22, 2021, at a hearing of the New Zealand Royal Commission on Abuse in Care in Auckland. The royal commission ...