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<i>Brian Rudman</i>: Who needs enemies when Friends of Monte are on the rampage?

Sex offender still registered on teacher website

Hillsborough community loses battle to save Monte Cecilia School

Principal 'gutted' by boys' theft spree

The principal of an elite Australian Catholic college has suspended a group of boys allegedly involved in a $6000 theft spree in Queenstown.

Women priests a 'crime'

Church forces 'secular NZ' retreat

The Human Rights Commission has bowed to Catholic Church objections to a statement that NZ was a secular state and religion was only for the "private sphere".

Dioceses oust abusers they had pledged to monitor

At the peak of the Roman Catholic clergy sex abuse crisis, the discipline plan American bishops adopted prompted dioceses to remove nearly all accused clergy from the priesthood.

Aussie Archbishop says sorry to abuse victims

'I once again express my deep sorrow and offer a sincere and unreserved apology to all victims of sexual abuse,' says Archbishop Denis Hart.

Women challenge celibacy rule

Parents and pupils make final plea to save school

Candidates in firing line over school deal

Obama would ban guns if he could - Palin

<i>Fran O'Sullivan:</i> Clumsy jibe hardly cause for outrage

Pope admits: Church is to blame for abuse cases

Pope Benedict XVI has admitted that the Catholic Church itself should bear the brunt of the blame for paedophile priests.

Catholics debate defrocking abusive priests

Priest abuse claims in Brazil