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The best in Catholic news from across the Archdiocese of Perth
MercyCare celebrates Seniors Week; shines spotlight on volunteer program
Local not-for-profit organization, MercyCare, is shining a spotlight on a volunteer program supporting elderly readers ahead of state-wide Seniors Week celebrations.
Movie Review: Believe Me based on deception; truth comes out in the end
Just as the title, Believe Me, was fading from the screen, there was a momentary after-image of just three letters from Believe: LIE. It was an indication of what was to come, a story that was based on deception – until the end, when all the edifying plot developments emerged.
Singing priest brings X factor to youth festival
By Rebecca DiGirolamo
Father Rob Galea’s living example of how to be ‘cool and Catholic’ will take centre stage before thousands of young people at next month’s Australian Catholic Youth Festival.
The assistant parish priest from Bendigo is a guest speaker at the festival in Adelaide next month, as well as being involved in leading workshops and performing.
Fr Galea said he was hop...
Care to reduce pregnancy stress key to optimal child development
Improving access to care for expectant mothers experiencing a stressful pregnancy is one of many outcomes from a recent Western Australian study published in the international research journal, Child Development.
The study, conducted by researchers at The University of Notre Dame Australia and the Telethon Kids Institute, found that mothers who experienced more stressful events during th...
2015 LIFELINK CHRISTMAS APPEAL SPECIAL – Respite support makes all the difference for Sadie’s family
As part of the launch of the 2015 Archbishop’s Christmas LifeLink Appeal, Identitywa CEO Marina Re spoke about the work of the disability care provider, telling the story of five-year-old Sadie and her family and how the support they have gained from Identitywa has changed their lives.
Below is the words of Sadie’s mother Lynley, and her experience of receiving the life-giving support th...
Good Samaritan Sister Pauline Coll enters eternal life
Sister Pauline Marcella Coll was born on 16 January 1939 in Maryborough, Queensland. She was the youngest child of John and Evelyn (née Smith) Coll.
Born to older parents, Sr Coll knew and admired her parents as they aged. She described her father as a gentle, strong man, well-educated and with a strong instinct for justice, and saw her mother as an extrovert, very sensitive, and as some...
Sick with Worry report: People’s desire to participate shines through
The St Vincent de Paul Society National Council has marked Anti-Poverty Week 2015 with the launch of the ‘Sick with Worry…’ report, containing stories from the front-line of inequality and 14 recommendations for urgent action by the Federal Government to help enable people to achieve their dreams of a life without poverty.
Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office welcomes Government visa grants to resettle the first of 12,000 refugees
National Director of the Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office, Fr Maurizio Pettenà CS, has this week welcomed news the Australian Government has given visas to the first of the 12,000 Syrian and Iraqi refugees to be resettled in Australia.
On Tuesday, at the Australian Embassy in Amman, Jordan, Immigration Minister Peter Dutton personally gave out the first refugee visas to fou...
Perth Catholic agencies collaborate to present Laudato Si’ seminar series
Lay faithful across the Archdiocese now have the opportunity to explore Pope Francis’s latest encyclical Laudato Si’ – On Care for Our Common Home – through an exciting series of events.
The first of these events was last weekend launched at the Redemptorist Monastery Church in North Perth.
Perth agencies work together towards reconciliation and healing
Conversations about the shared journey towards reconciliation and healing took centre stage at a recent colloquium co-ordinated by several agencies and organisations from the Archdiocese of Perth and government bodies.
The evening colloquium, entitled Coming Home Together, took place at the Redemptorist Retreat House in North Perth last Wednesday, 21 October and was attended by more than...
