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New membership of bishops’ commissions announced

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has been announced as the new Chairman for the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Education Commission.

Celebrating World Communications Day on Sunday 17 May 2015

To celebrate World Communications Day this Sunday, 17 May, the e-Record looks at the speech by Archbishop Claudio Celli, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, who spoke at the recent Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Communications Congress.

Archbishop Claudio Celli, President of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, who spoke at the recent Australian Catholic Bishops Conference Communications Congress on the theme "What is your voice?". PHOTO: Fiona Basile

Handbook published to guide Catholic employers and employees

Archdiocese of Perth Chief Operations Officer Dr Terry Wilson is the editor of a new handbook for Catholic employers and employees, published by the Australian Catholic Council for Employment Relations (ACCER).

Archdiocese of Perth Chief Operations Officer Dr Terry Wilson, Editor, Bishop Les Tomlinson, Australian Catholic Bishops' Delegate for Employment Relations, and Tony Farley, Member of ACCER.

Fresh quake rattles confidence of people, relief workers in Nepal

The second major earthquake in less than three weeks spread renewed fears and dented the confidence of people, said church and charity workers.

Many Nepal residents of shaken apartment building in Lalitpur gather in a nearby banquet hall May 13 out of fear their building will collapse. The second major earthquake in less than three weeks in Nepal has spread renewed fears and dented the confidence of people, church and charity workers have said. PHOTO: CNS/Anto Akkara

Volunteers celebrated at Mercy Health’s MercyVille

A picture paints a thousand words, so they say, and Mercyville volunteer Diane Price understands this adage more than most.

Heathridge resident Diane Price,has been volunteering her time at Craigie-based Mercy Health residential home, Mercyville, for more than two years. PHOTO: Mercy Health

MOVIE REVIEW – The Age of Adaline

Glossy proceedings follow on a silly premise in the serviceable romantic drama, The Age of Adaline.

Michiel Huisman and Blake Lively star in a scene from the movie "The Age of Adaline." PHOTO: CNS/Lionsgate

Past students, priests and community gather for Newman College’s 50th anniversary

Newman College Churchlands held its final celebration last week as part of its 2015 Golden Jubilee Year, with a Thanksgiving Mass and Twilight Soiree.

Palliative care nurse advocates right to die with dignity

A St John of God Murdoch Hospital nurse has spent three months in India using and sharing her experience to care for those without access to quality health care.

Don Bosco lecture forms part of Religion and Life lesson

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB delivered a lecture last month on the life of St John Bosco to Year 12 students from St Joseph’s College, Albany.

PART 3 – Celebrating the active role and witness of women in spreading the Gospel

This week, the e-Record publishes the third and final part of editor Jamie O’Brien’s analysis of the work of women in the Church.

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