The Soh family, founders of Buckets for Jesus, have been happily overwhelmed by the generosity of the Perth community, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, after a colossal amount of goods was donated to their Philippines typhoon appeal.

Christians are struggling to survive in the Holy Land but their strong supporters, the Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulchre, continue to grow in Perth where the first Australian lieutenancy was founded, 25 years ago.

Why, in spite of its huge resources, do so many people not come to know the living Christ in the Catholic Church? That was the question posed by Cardinal Edwin O’Brien of New York, Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, when he preached at St Joseph’s Church in Subiaco last Saturday morning.

Vietnamese asylum seekers detained in Northam will face immediate and indefinite imprisonment if the Australian Government rejects their claims for asylum, a visiting Vietnamese bishop said in Perth this week.

At a conference in Rome last year, the BBC’s veteran Vatican correspondent David Willey asked a question which has surely crossed the minds of many secular as well as religious journalists, the world over.

Due to unforseen circumstances, The Dawson Society for Philosophy and Culture has had to reschedule its next Speakers Forum featuring WA Senator-elect Joe Bullock to the following day.

Two Perth men studying for the priesthood in Rome have been ordained Deacons at St Peter’s Basilica, with one of the men going on to serve for Pope Francis at the Mass for Our Lady of Fatima, last Sunday.

It will likely remain a mystery whether the skilled tailors and embroiderers responsible for a set of vestments brought out of archdiocesan archives last week could have ever imagined they would end up at what was then the very end of the earth.

Incense filled the small but dignified chapel of St Charles Seminary  in Guildford on the evening of September 17 as the families and friends of five seminarians witnessed their admission to Candidacy for Holy Orders. Renald Anthony, Grant Gorddard, Stephen Gorddard, CJ Millen and Simeon San moved another step closer towards ordination, a journey which will lead to ordination to the Diac...

After 18 years at The Record, the last 13 as Editor, Peter Rosengren is leaving to take up the editorship of The Catholic Weekly in Sydney.