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A Catholic bioethicist has criticised the reasoning that has led to transplants of organs donated by people who have had their lives ended by assisted dying.

A priest has been jailed for seven years and eight months for sexually abusing young people at St Bede’s College in Christchurch between 1996 and 2000. Source: New Zealand Herald.

The Church embraces “rigorous, honest science” as an essential aspect of her identity, Pope Leo XIV has told members of the Board of the Vatican Observatory Foundation. Source: Vatican News.

The chief executive of the Association of Proprietors of Integrated Schools has thanked the Education Minister for fuel-related decisions that will assist many integrated schools.

Cardinal John Dew marked the 50th jubilee of his ordination to priesthood by celebrating Masses at the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Wellington on May 9 and 10.

A teenager who stabbed a student from a Catholic college to death at Dunedin’s bus hub in 2024 has failed in a bid to have his manslaughter conviction overturned. Source: Otago Daily Times.

Students and staff from three Catholic colleges were among 65 attendees at a Climate Clarity Youth Forum in Palmerston North last month.

Australian Archbishop Anthony Randazzo has officially relinquished his position as president of the Federation of Catholic Bishops’ Conferences of Oceania following his appointment as Prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts.

A US Catholic diocese is facing the potential seizure of some of its land by the nation’s government as part of the project to construct a border wall between the United States and Mexico. Source: EWTN News.

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