Cadigan is the chair of Te Runanga o te Hahi Katorika ki Aotearoa (National Catholic Maori Council of New Zealand).

Te Runanga is an advisory council to the New Zealand Catholic Bishops' Conference.

She said Maori now have many opportunities to engage with the Maori part of themselves, "I can start with kohanga and work all the way through", but the Hahi side has not kept pace with that.

Cadigan says it is a time for te iwi Maori within the whanau of Katorika to do something about it.

The church, she says, is going through a period of change, with Pope Francis attempting to move a lot of the decision- making away from the Vatican towards the people.

Te Iwi Maori Katorika held a hui at Whaiora Marae in Otara over the weekend.

The hui was facilitated by Cadigan, Danny Karatea Goddard (an advisor to the New Zealand Catholic Bishops Conference) and historian Peter Lineham from Massey University.

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• Waatea News
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