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Encounters at the Exposition, with the Archdiocese of Perth
Personal encounters that filled the Expo and Justice Centre at the 2019 Australian Catholic Youth Festival numbered in the thousands, as young people from all across Australia gathered to visit the stalls and find out all about the myriad organisations that call the Catholic Church home.
Perth Archbishop responds to passing of Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) Laws
The West Australian has this week published the below response from Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB following the passing of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Legislation in Parliament this week.
At closing Mass, festivalgoers told to be courageous
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB delivers his homily to more than 5500 pilgrims during the ACYF19 closing Mass. Photo: Josh Low.
Perth
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has encouraged thousands of young Catholics to
leave the 2019 Australian Catholic Youth Festival ready to open their hearts
and lives to Jesus.
An
open-air Mass at Trinity College in East Perth was the culmination of the
t...
Thousands arrive in Perth for ACYF19
More than 5500 young people have embarked upon Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre from 8 to 10 December for ACYF19. Photo: Iceberg Media.
Thousands of young people from across the country will have arrived in Perth by this evening as the Archdiocese of Perth prepares to host the 2019 Australian Catholic Youth Festival.
When
combined with almost 1800 young Catholics from Western Aus...
Be witnesses to the goodness of God, young Catholics urged
American speaker, evangelist and author Katie Prejean McGrady has told 5500 young Australian Catholics that they are made “not only for something great” in this world, but that they are ultimately made “to worship God for eternity”.
ACYF19 pilgrims told: ‘Rebuild my Church’
Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB "hand-passes" the Australian Catholic Youth Festival 2019 to the young people of the Church in his official welcome and catechesis on Sunday 8 December. Photo: Iceberg Media.
Thousands of young Australian Catholics have been challenged to “go out and rebuild” God’s Church on the opening day of the 2019 Australian Catholic Youth Festival.
The openi...
Archbishop Costelloe welcomes youth on eve of ACYF
The Saturday Vigil Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral had a decidedly larger and younger congregation this evening as hundreds of Australian Catholic Youth Festival delegates joined regular parishioners to pray together
The Church in Perth according to Bishop Sproxton
As you get older, some aspects of the past can take on a rosy glint. It can be a very great temptation to believe that things were decidedly much better when we were younger.
Aboriginal Catholic Ministry: New Director builds on rich history of service to Indigenous community
In the past 35 years, Aboriginal Catholic Ministry (ACM) has graciously inherited the pastoral work that was started by Bishop Rosendo Salvado at the very beginning of the Swan River Colony: demonstrating and sharing the love of Christ to our Indigenous Communities through the compassionate yet practical ministry of social service provision.
Walk this Way – a Camino experience
Travelling by foot on the Camino de Santiago (The Way of Saint James) is not your average walk in the park. As one of the most famous pilgrimages in the world, the Camino de Santiago is a large network of ancient pilgrim routes across Europe that all end in Santiago de Compostela, north-west Spain.
