19 December 2023 Catholic Church officials in New Zealand “have failed to fulfil, and are not fulfilling their obligations to victims and survivors of clergy and religious sexual abuse under their own redress scheme,” according to a new study on the New .
Pope Francis has appointed Fr. Richard Laurenson as the new Catholic Bishop of Hamilton. SNAP expects the new bishop to be more effective than his predecessor, Bishop Stephen Lowe, in supporting victims and survivors of clergy abuse, and in protecting vulnerable .
In 2021, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) in Aotearoa New Zealand, received reports of ritualistic abuse and other forms of faith-based abuse alleged to have been committed by Catholic priests of the Christchurch Diocese. The .