Embleton Parish Priest Fr Patrick Toohey. Photo: Bob Warchomij Embleton Parish has last Friday 25 April hosted a special ANZAC day service which included a remembrance ceremony for the Ukrainian soldiers and the Armenian genocide. Parish Priest Fr Patrick Toohey lead the service, followed by speeches from the City of Bayswater Mayor, Filomena Piffaretti, Salvation Army Lieutenant Pete Br...

Rich in secrecy and suspense – and endowed with the potential to alter history – the conclave process by which popes have been elected since the 13th century has obvious dramatic appeal. So it’s no surprise that conclaves have occasionally been portrayed on screen. Some depictions have involved real-life elections, others fictional ones – and the accuracy of the details on display has varied greatly.

Some eight staff from Holy Cross College Ellenbrook have this Easter been welcomed into the Catholic Church.

Ordained to the priesthood by the now Perth Archbishop Emeritus Barry Hickey in 2005, Fr Matthews began his priestly Salesian life undertaking a number of roles in Salesian schools in the eastern states.

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The instructions are found in St John Paul II’s 1996 Apostolic Constitution, Univer-si Dominici Gregis, which was revised by Pope Benedict XVI in 2007 and again just before he resigned in 2013.

“Together with the risen Jesus,” Pope Francis wrote his final message to the world on Easter Sunday 20 April, those who trust in God “become pilgrims of hope, witnesses of the victory of love and of the disarmed power of life.”

Pope Francis’ campaign against clericalism was waged when meeting both ordinary parish priests and “princes of the church,” as cardinals once were known.

This is a timeline of the life of Pope Francis. Photo: OSV News graphic/Chelsea Alt.

Pope Francis listened to survivors carefully with great empathy, and he regularly met with them privately, Father Zollner said. He tried to be a model for all Catholics and especially those in authority, he added.