In celebration of the 175 anniversary of the Mercy Sisters arrival in Western Australia,
Sr Joan Smith RMS gave the following account of their incredible journey at a Mass on 8 January.

70 years of marriage is a celebration not to be missed. Ray, June and their proud family spent January 6 eating prawns, sipping their favorite “Whisky on Ice” while reminiscing on the couple’s incredible lifelong marriage.

Given the year the world has endured with the pandemic, Catholic Mission’s 2020 Christmas Reflection event titled ‘the slave is my sister, the slave is my brother’ drew on the darker yet hope-giving side of the Christmas narrative, focussing on the experience of those who are marginalised, oppressed and vulnerable in the world today.

Australia’s financial crime watchdog agency said it over-estimated by the equivalent of more than US$1.5 billion the amount of money transferred from the Vatican to Australia between 2014 and 2020.

This follow-up to the 2017 outing for the DC Comics superhero (Gal Gadot), helmed by returning director Patty Jenkins, is an entertaining, old-fashioned popcorn movie that conveys good messages about self-sacrifice, helping one’s neighbor and the twin evils of greed and selfishness.

Aged care provider Southern Cross Care won the category for Community Organisation Not for Profit for their work in providing care to the 51 residents, and in judges comments for “treating their residents like family.”

There’s still time to apply to study at Notre Dame in Semester 1, 2021, and a recent Federal Government funding decision is set to give Notre Dame’s domestic students support towards the cost of their undergraduate degree. Photo: Supplied. In our rapidly changing world, ethics in leadership is more important than ever across all sectors – so choose a university that teaches you to think and...

Archdiocesan agency Identitywa recognised staff’s achievements and hard work amid a challenging year, in their annual Employee Recognition Awards for 2020. Board Chair Graeme Mander and Chief Executive Officer Marina Re extended their gratitude “for the commitment and dedication of the nominees”.

Sydney’s Auxiliary Bishop Terence Brady recognised the great courage and unfailing service to others, endured by Eileen O’Connor despite living with great personal suffering herself, at a special mass held on 10 January 2021, to mark the centenary of her death, as she remains on the path to becoming Australia’s second saint.

A middle school music teacher who yearns to be a jazz pianist gets his big break when he’s invited to join a highly regarded quartet. But just before his first performance with them, an accident leaves his body in a coma and sends his spirit into the afterlife. His efforts to avoid going to heaven and return to his earthly existence bring him instead to the realm where the personalities of future babies are formed. There, he’s assigned to mentor a soul who has stubbornly refused to be born for centuries. By John Mulderig