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Twenty-three year old Perth woman Lauren Menegola is running out of time and you might be the person to help her. Not long after her 21st Birthday, Lauren was diagnosed with a very aggressive type of leukaemia, myeloid leukaemia, and with her rare tissue type, doctors have been looking for a donor ever since. A search of 20 million registered bone marrow donors throughout the world ha...

In the early 1980s, Leonie Reid and husband Pat noticed there was something different about their youngest daughter Stephanie. Socially awkward, frustrated and prone to unintentionally disrupting the play of her peers, a proper diagnosis would be many years in coming. All three would later learn that Stephanie had Aspergers Syndrome - a form of autism characterised by an inability to unde...

Monsignor Michael Keating has spent the past 50 years of his priesthood trying to live out the spirit of the Second Vatican Council. Mgr Keating, Dean of St Mary’s Cathedral, made the comment at the 11am Mass on December 16 which doubled as a celebration of the 50th anniversary of his ordination as a priest. The Cathedral was full to overflowing with family, friends, and well wishers incl...

A local Catholic historian has received national recognition for his elucidating research on Perth’s first Bishop, John Brady. The Australian Catholic Historical Society has awarded Perth man Odhran O’Brien the James MacGinley Award for arguing that the popular view of Brady as a quarrelsome administrator was less complex than it ought to be. In his award-winning essay, Mr O’Brien wr...

If each person has been created with a space in their heart that only God can fill, then it is the role of ordained ministers to help people realise that longing, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB said at an ordination to the diaconate last Friday. Archbishop Costelloe ordained St Charles seminarian Brennan Sia at St Mary MacKillop Church, Ballajura on December 7 in front of a congregatio...

When Portuguese missionaries arrived in what is now modern-day Kerala, India, they came face-to-face with an ancient community of Christians dating back to the ministry of the Apostle Thomas. They encountered a Church with a Syriac liturgy, Persian bishops, its own unique form of administration and religious practices which, while Christian, also reflected the Indian cultures amidst which th...

A great deal of natural curiosity surrounding the Anglican ordinariate has been answered with the publication of A little Catechism on the Personal Ordinariates for former Anglicans authored by Melbourne Bishop Peter Elliott, a former Anglican. Not only does the small tome answer the question of what the ordinariate is and can do, but also questions about who is able to join, whether ordinar...

Work has stopped on a new church in the Lower Chittering due to a lack of funds. The unfinished, Romanesque church is located in the expanding community of Maryville Downs, about 15 km north of Bullsbrook. Construction of the Divine Mercy Church will not recommence until the parish has sourced all of the funds it needs to complete the project. Parish Priest Fr Paul Fox and parish c...

ABC broadcaster and abuse survivor Eoin Cameron has urged people who were abused to come forward and give evidence at the Royal Commission into child sex abuse. Speaking on the ABC’s 7.30 WA program, Mr Cameron said memories of the abuse he experienced at the hands of a Marist brother in South Australia around 40 years ago were ever present in his life. “People will say, oh, get over ...