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RNZ The Catholic Church says it's shamed and saddened by abuse in the church. The church has opened its evidence at the Inquiry into abuse in care on how it's handled complaints. (Video first published March 2021). It is also calling on anyone with personal information on the matter to come forward and speak with them. The allegations were made at a Royal Commission of Inquiry hearing on Tuesday by Keith Wiffin, a former ward of the state who lived at Epuni Boys’ Home in Lower Hutt in the 1970s. A victim of sexual abuse at the home when he was 11 Wiffin, now 61, said he never personally ...

A man honoured by the Pope for his service to the Catholic Diocese of Palmerston North says it is recognition for the work of the entire church.

Moncrief-Wright was later convicted and jailed on a number of sexual violation charges against boys and is now dead. At Tuesday’s hearing, Wiffin told the Commission while he didn’t experience the practice involving the Church officials himself, he did take many excursions in the van, which was always driven by Moncrief-Wright. The housemaster would take boys to pick up videos and lollies for the Saturday night entertainment and would sometimes take groups of boys to see movies. “In relatively recent times what has come to my attention is that boys were driven in that van to a Catho...

Letter from Rome: No stopping pope's push for synodality Archbishop Coleridge says the days of the autocratic, monarchical Church are over and supports the German synodal path Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane. (Photo: Wikipedia) Pope Francis has no one in his small circle of advisers, known as the Council of Cardinals, who is from Oceania. While the other continents have a seat in the seven-member "kitchen cabinet" or C7, Oceania's chair has been empty since October 2018. That's when the pope thanked Australian Cardinal George Pell for his services and removed him from the group. There a...

Pope Francis has no one in his small circle of advisors, known as the Council of Cardinals, who is from Oceania. While the other continents have a seat in the seven-member "kitchen cabinet" or C7, Oceania's chair has been empty since October 2018. That's when the pope thanked Australian Cardinal George Pell for his services and removed him from the group. There are three cardinals from Oceania who are all still under the age of 80 that could have easily taken the place of Pell -- John Dew of New Zealand, John Ribat of Papua New Guinea and Soane Patita Mafi of Tonga.