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The best in Catholic news from across the Archdiocese of Perth
Papal menu planners try to keep it simple yet sweet for World Youth Day
Sweet and simple: That’s the menu plan for Pope Francis when he stays at a church-run residence during his visit to Rio de Janeiro for World Youth Day.
Popes put personal stamp on World Youth Day celebrations
Blessed John Paul II rallied young Catholics, Pope Benedict XVI instructed them and Pope Francis is preparing to send them out on mission. When he travels to Rio de Janeiro for World Youth Day, Pope Francis — the former archbishop of Buenos Aires, Argentina — will be continuing a tradition begun by Blessed John Paul in Buenos Aires in 1987, gathering Catholic youths from around the world together for several intense days of faith-building and celebration.
Pope Francis prays for victims, families of Quebec train derailment
Pope Francis offered prayers for the people touched by the tragic July 6 train derailment in Lac-Megantic, Quebec, said the Vatican secretary of state.
Wanneroo celebrates feast day by taking to the streets
The parish of Wanneroo celebrated the feast of its patron, St Anthony of Padua, on Sunday June 16. Even though the actual feast is June 13, the parish generally celebrates as a community on the first Sunday after the feast day.
Mali’s displaced hope to go home, restart their lives
Boubanar Traore wants to go home. He’s not sure how he’ll survive there, however, so for now he sits in a camp for displaced people, hoping that things will change.
North Beach’s favourite son celebrates 50 years
About 300 people gathered to celebrate Fr Ken Keating’s Golden Jubilee of Ordination on June 29 at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church in North Beach. The church that Fr Ken served as parish priest for more than 25 years was filled to capacity with past and present parishioners in attendance.
Tearful Costa Rican woman details miracle credited to Blessed John Paul
After doctors told Floribeth Mora Diaz that a brain aneurysm left her with days to live, she retreated to her Costa Rican home and prayed to Blessed Pope John Paul II. From her bedroom in a small town in Costa Rica’s Cartago province, Mora said she heard his voice. “Rise! … Don’t be afraid.” She got up from her bed, prompting her husband to ask her, “My love, what are you doing here?” As a teary-eyed Mora recalled at a July 5 news conference, she responded to her husband, “I feel better.” That was in May 2011. Doctors could not explain the rapid improvement, and Mora became the second miracle attributed to the Blessed John Paul, who died in 2005.
Pope offers future priests, nuns a how-to guide to a happy vocation
Be joyous, authentic and loving while resisting fly-by-night commitments, catty gossip and sleek cars, Pope Francis told future priests, brothers and nuns.
Perth thanks Paddy for Year of Grace
Archdiocesan staff and clergy gathered on June 28 to thank Paddy Buckley for her work as coordinator of the Year of Grace. Ms Buckley took on the voluntary role at the request of the then-Archbishop Barry Hickey in 2011 and said she had enjoyed it immensely.
Summer camp gives Palestinian children joy in a conflict-filled life
In this tiny South Hebron Hills encampment of tents and cave dwellings, where camels cling to the sandy hillside and hardy goats scrounge for shoots of brush and desert grasses, it is summer camp time for the children. It is the 11th year in which the South Hebron Hills Popular Resistance Committee and the Alternative Information Center, a joint Palestinian-Israeli non-governmental organization promoting cooperation, have run a summer camp for the children of Tuba and four other villages. The European Union funds the program.
