Outstanding support for the Archbishop’s 2025 LifeLink Day Initiative was recognised recently with the Archbishop’s 2025 Spirit Award presented to John XXIII College in Mount Claremont (secondary schools award) and Mercy College in Koondoola (primary schools award). LifeLink Chair and Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton, said, while the Award structure formally recognises a secondary and pr...

Dear friends, I thank you for your commitment: it is a very great and generous service that you give to your parish, and I encourage you to persevere faithfully. (Pope Leo XIV audience with French altar servers, 25.08.2025). Fifty years after he was first approached by Fr Pat Ahern to consider becoming an acolyte, John Foss, a parishioner at St Mary’s Catholic Church in Bruce Rock, is still...

A large congregation gathered for the midday Ash Wednesday Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral. Photo: Phil Bayne. “We are ambassadors for Christ; it is as though God were appealing through us, and the appeal that we make in Christ's name is: be reconciled to God." (2 Corinthians 5: 20) The first day of the liturgical season of Lent has been commemorated across the Archdiocese with the faithful ...

New Knights and Dames for the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Photo: Perth Archdiocese/Infinitum. “Today as much as ever, and perhaps more than ever, the world needs people, and the world needs movements, which renounce the weapons of war and take up only the weapons of peace, the weapons of the Gospel.” That was the message at the heart of the homily that Archbishop...

Unite Against Poverty. That is the theme for Caritas Australia’s Project Compassion 2026 appeal that will be officially launched on Sunday 15 February at a Mass held at St Mary’s Cathedral, celebrated by Bishop Don Sproxton, Auxiliary Bishop of Perth. This year’s appeal focusses on four stories from around the world - Tanzania, Bangladesh, Fiji, and a special emergency appeal in Gaza. ...

We celebrate this garden as a sign of hope, cooperation and stewardship; a place where the earth’s gifts are cultivated, where community is strengthened and where all are welcome. That was the primary message shared by The Very Reverend Fr Vincent Glynn, Vicar General of the Perth Archdiocese, who recently blessed and opened the Personal Advocacy Service’s (PAS) Community Garden i...

While it is only in its infancy, the Kirup Camino Catholic pilgrimage is already attracting a strong supporter base among the faithful. Held near the end of 2025 to launch World Mission Month in the Bunbury Diocese, the 2025 Kirup Camino was attended by more than 60 pilgrims – more than double the number of participants of the 2024 event. As part of the 2025 event, more than $1,000 was ...

Bateman Parish St Thomas More Church has recently celebrated the official blessing and opening of a new Columbarium. A significant milestone in the pastoral life of the parish, the columbarium provides a sacred resting place for the ashes of the deceased. Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB led the celebration that included the blessing, opening and a community Mass. Archbishop Co...

The Sisters of Mercy, in the spirit of Catherine McAuley, are called to be in a very particular and unmistakable way living images of God‘s mercy as it is made known to us in the life, teachings and ministry of Jesus, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has said. Speaking at the 180th anniversary Mass of the Sisters of Mercy at St Mary’s Cathedral on Thursday 8 January, Archbishop Costel...

The Catholic Women’s League in Western Australia has recently celebrated two significant anniversaries – 40 years at St Joseph Pignatelli parish in Attadale and 20 years at St Thomas More parish in Margaret River. Both anniversaries were commemorated with a special Mass of celebration. At Attadale, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB was joined by concelebrants Fr Greg Donovan (former CWLWA...