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September 27, 2024 | News
Catholics renew abuse in care apology
New Zealand’s Catholic bishops and leaders of religious congregations have renewed a “sincere and unconditional apology” to people who suffered abuse in Catholic settings.
March 8, 2026
July 15, 2024 | News
Treaty principles mapped to Catholic social aims
Two Catholic organisations, the Christian Life Community and the Bicultural Committee of the Archdiocesan Commission for Ecology, Justice, and Peace, have held a two-day hui in Wellington to help Catholics to develop an understanding and appreciation of Te Tiriti and related issues .
March 28, 2024 | Paakiwaha
Charles Ropitini | Hui Aranga ki Kahungunu 2024 Spokesman
Hui Aranga 2024, The Church of the Immaculate Conception Pakipaki belongs to the Māori Mission and is a part of the Catholic Parish of Hastings serving Catholic Māori across all of Heretaunga and Ngāti Kahungunu,
April 4, 2023 | News
No relevance in Columbus sailed the ocean blue
Former New Zealand First MP Shane Jones says Māori whipping up concern over the doctrine of discovery are pushing an agenda which has nothing to do with real Māori needs.
April 4, 2023 | News
Tamihere discovers colonial angst
Māori Party president and former lawyer John Tamihere says the so-called doctrine of discovery lives on as a way to suppress Indigenous peoples.
April 4, 2023 | News
Doctrine of discovery lives on in official mindset
A Māori environmentalist says the Catholic Church may have repudiated the doctrine of discovery, but its effects linger on in the way this country is governed.
April 3, 2023 | News
Vatican repudiates discovery doctrine
Aotearoa’s five Catholic bishops says they strongly support the Vatican’s repudiation of the concept of the “Doctrine of Discovery”
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