For Vietnamese priest Father Huynh Quoc Nhan, taking the bold step of starting a new life in Perth has been both an answer to prayer and a genuine journey of faith: moving from the fast-paced life of the 15th most populous country in the world, to the sunny South-West of Australia.
Father Liam M Mackle OSM will be remembered as a passionate educator and a decisive man dedicated to the development of his students, both academically and spiritually, firstly as school principal at Servite College (Tuart Hill) during the 1970s and secondly, as a Catholic Chaplain at La Trobe (Bundoora) University.
The scholastics of Church history and Francesca McGinnity have one thing in common: they all benefited from studying ‘the classics’, the rich plethora of Graeco-Roman language and culture that formed the historic Western tradition of education.
According to the ‘Old Boys’ (the Aquinas College Alumni) Br Clery is an institution, a brother who has become an icon of a complex set of values that represent aspiration, education, and the increasingly complex role that the Church has played in the formation of young Australian men.
The Emmanuel Centre community celebrated its Christmas party in style on Tuesday 3 December, braving the heat for carol singing and a special Mass celebrated by Subiaco Parish Priest Monsignor Kevin Long, followed by lunch and fellowship at the centre in East Perth.
Catholic Education Western Australia (CEWA) and Irene McCormack Catholic College have congratulated Year 11 student Brenda Joseph (Amito) for her outstanding achievement of being recognised as the 2019 WA Young Person of the Year for her work training multicultural AFL Football umpires.
Permanent Deacon Patrick Moore and his wife Carol, of the Stella Maris Seafarers’ Centre in Fremantle, were two of the delegates representing Australia at the 2019 International Christian Maritime Association (ICMA) conference held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
The Road to Bethlehem was celebrated in the lead up to Christmas 2019 (Thursday 5 December) by the faithful of St Thomas the Apostle Church, Claremont Parish.
The Bishop’s Exchanges at the Australian Catholic Youth Festival (ACYF) invited the generations represented by the Church to come together in conversation with each other, in response to Pope Francis’ Synod of the Youth, Christis Vivit, and the question “What does it mean to you for us to be a Christ centered Church who are taking risks together?”
Arguably one of the most down-to-earth Australian Bishops, Bishop Columba Macbeth-Green, from the Wilcannia-Forbes Diocese in Western NSW, was tasked with equipping the young pilgrims of the Australian Catholic Youth Festival 2019 (ACYF), with strategies that would enable them to take something from ACYF and keep it going once they get home.