St Luke’s Woodvale has come a long way since the first members of the parish met for their first official Mass in the staff room of Woodvale Senior Highschool, on February 28, 1987. Last Sunday, a packed St Luke’s Church, which opened in April 1995, played host to a vibrant celebration of the St Luke church and school community. Parish Priest Fr Francesco Mascarenhas was joined in celebra...

The Year of Grace is principally an invitation to encounter Christ anew and it is one that hordes of Catholics throughout Australia are taking up, national Year of Grace Project Officer Father Peter Brock said when he visited Perth last week. More than four months after the year began at Pentecost, YOG initiatives have taken flight throughout the country. Fr Brock says that every dioc...

Fr Robert McCulloch doesn’t look shocked. Given the kind of news he is receiving down the phone line from Hyderabad, in Pakistan’s southern province of Sindh, one might have expected he would be. It’s September 17 in Rome and outside thousands of perspiring tourists are strolling past Propaganda Fide, the global headquarters of the Catholic Church’s missionary work. With their water bottl...

Casa Ricci Social Services (CRSS), the aid agency founded by Spanish Jesuit Fr Luis Ruiz, received a shock in August when its partner Aids Care China (ACC) abruptly ended their arrangement to care for HIV-AIDS affected children. The work of the Catholic and Macau-based charity among China’s lepers and HIV-AIDs patients has twice been featured in The Record when Record journalists were se...

By Cindy Wooden VATICAN CITY (CNS) - A three-judge panel of Vatican jurists found Paolo Gabriele, the papal butler, guilty of aggravated theft and sentenced him to 18 months in gaol for his role in leaking private papal correspondence and other confidential documents. The verdict was read on October 6 by Giuseppe Dalla Torre, president of the three-judge panel, just two hours after th...

Same-sex “marriage” is not an extension of marriage rights but a dismantling of an institution on which the well-being of societies depend, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB wrote last week before leaving to attend the New Evangelisation synod in Rome. The Archbishop wrote exclusively for The Record in the wake of last month's defeat of same-sex marriage proposals in both the Australian and T...

The Archdiocese of Perth received 148 men for service as acolytes at St Mary’s Cathedral on September 25. The men were instituted by Bishop Donald Sproxton after four weeks of training, conducted on Tuesday nights by the Archdiocesan Centre for Liturgy. The number is one of the largest on record and bests that of two years ago when 117 men were received into the role. The office of...

A newly restored St Vincent de Paul statue has taken up residence at the Catholic parish of Kwinana bear the saint’s name. The statue’s restoration was recently completed by Archdiocesan conservation specialist Monica Podesta and transported from The Faith Centre in Perth to Kwinana, around 40km south of the central business district. The near life-size statue took five men to lift it...

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St Jerome's Parish welcomed the installation of a new parish priest last Saturday night, while at the same time, giving an emphatic vote of thanks to their outgoing pastor. Archbishop of Perth, Timothy Costelloe SDB commended Fr Mathew Velliyamkandathil CRS to God and to the congregation as a man fit to share in his own pastoral ministry of trying to be a good shepherd to the people. ...