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Fr Will Matthews called to new role with Salesians
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.
Precise rules govern what happens in period between popes
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.
Pope Francis on Easter: Jesus’ resurrection makes Christians pilgrims of hope
“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.”
Clericalism was chief target of Pope Francis’ teaching
Pope Francis’ campaign against clericalism was waged when meeting both ordinary parish priests and “princes of the church,” as cardinals once were known.
Pope Francis’ Pontificate: A Timeline
This is a timeline of the life of Pope Francis. Photo: OSV News graphic/Chelsea Alt.
Francis took pastoral and practical approach against abuse
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.
Francis, ‘the Pope of tenderness,’ had ‘a heart operating’ on God’s frequency
Over the course of his 12 year pontificate, Pope Francis never relented in his ap-peals to world leaders and ordinary citizens to treat migrants humanely.
Pope Francis on Film
As the first pontiff from the Americas, the first Jesuit successor of St Peter and as an innovator in other respects, Pope Francis struck many in the world of visual media as a breath of fresh air.
STATEMENT: Death of Pope Francis
Most Rev Timothy Costelloe SDB DDArchbishop of Perth
21 April 2025
In this unprecedented moment in time following the death of our Holy Father, Pope Francis, I wish to share with you my thoughts on his extraordinary life and ministry.
The Holy Father passed away at Casa Santa Marta at 7:35am local time in Rome on Monday, 21 April 2025. While it does not come as a surprise given th...
