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The best in Catholic news from across the Archdiocese of Perth
Foundation funds unlock Scriptures
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB congratulated and awarded the 2013 BJ Hickey Biblical Foundation Scholarship recipients at a special morning tea hosted by the BJ Hickey Biblical Foundation on December 20, 2013.
Knights to protect Hawes’ masterpiece
The Knights of the Southern Cross has announced it will provide financial support to restore Geraldton’s historic cathedral.
Mission comes full circle for Fr Jean-Noël Marie
Saint Mary’s Cathedral parish priest and Archdiocesan Vocations Director, Fr Jean-Noël Marie, bade farewell to St Mary’s Cathedral parishioners at the 11am Mass on January 5, having been appointed the new Vice-Rector of St Charles’ Seminary.
Lives on the scrap heap
The globalisation of the modern world has been accompanied by the displacement of hundreds of thousands of people, caused by the deregulation of wars. There was once a time when such people were viewed with compassion, but today the refugee is viewed as suspicious and dangerous, as Fr Anthony Paganoni CS writes…
Protecting yourselves from the powers of evil
Recently, our family saw a frightening film involving an exorcism and my 10-year-old son has been disturbed ever since. He wants to know what sorts of things the devil can do and what he can do to feel more protected.
South Perth to celebrate past pastors
St Columba’s, South Perth will soon celebrate the 25th anniversary of the death of one of its past priests, a man who was not alone among his predecessors in being remarkable, writes current parish priest, Monsignor Brian O’Louglin.
Man dies after setting himself on fire in St. Peter’s Square
An unidentified 51-year-old man died Dec. 22, three days after setting himself on fire in St. Peter’s Square. Italian news reports said the man, who had third-degree burns on almost 50 percent of his body, died at Rome’s Sant’Eugenio Hospital.
Archbishop: Rulings to allow same-sex marriage ‘imposed wrong decision’
As 2013 was drawing to a close, same-sex marriage became legal in two more states with rulings in New Mexico and Utah declaring that denying same-sex couples the right to marry denied those couples equal protection under the law.
Church workers help Central Americans search for family missing in Mexico
Santos del Socorro Rojas knew that one day she would find her son, Jorge Alberto Reyes. She just wasn’t sure how.
Amid sadness, refugees in Lebanon hear Christmas message of hope
More than 800 Syrian and Iraqi refugees were bused to the National Shrine of Our Lady of Lebanon for a Christmas Mass in an atmosphere of “great sadness.”
