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There has been an unexpected increase in the total number of students attending Catholic schools in Aotearoa New Zealand.

A programme that has helped support the learning and development of pupils in Catholic primary schools has been extended to state schools, following a Rātā Foundation grant.

The End of Life Choice Act is not operating well, with a researcher raising questions over current safeguards and oversight, as well as fears of pressure being applied to Māori. Source: The Post.

All but two parishes in Auckland Diocese have completed a safeguarding review and recommendations for improvement have been well accepted, the diocese has reported.

A New Zealand economist says those who say Catholic Social Teaching as expounded by Pope Leo XIV is Marxist are demonstrating their intellectual limitations. Source: Pundit.

Papua New Guinea’s first saint, Blessed Peter To Rot, will be canonised on Mission Sunday, October 19.

Pope Leo XIV will revive a tradition begun by St John Paul II in 1983 by personally placing a pallium around the shoulders of recently-appointed archbishops. Source: Catholic News Service.

Scientists and scholars say it is possible that the first humans with rational souls interbred with other humans many thousands of years ago. Source: Catholic News Agency.

CathNews NZ will not be published on Friday, June 20, due to the Matariki public holiday. Our next edition will be published on Tuesday, June 24.

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