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The best in Catholic news from across the Archdiocese of Perth
I can be your hero baby
From acting and singing to production, and with a conversion along the way, Mexican-born Eduardo Verástegui has affected the lives and faith of many, writes Elisabeth Doherty, Communications Director of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference.
Project Compassion delivers
When Salma fell pregnant, she felt frightened and unsure. Thanks to Pronoti, a rural midwife from the Safe Motherhood Project, Salma’s fears dissolved and she gave birth to a healthy baby girl called Maya.
A contest for power versus human lives
Bread and circuses. As a state election looms the advertising has intensified temporarily in line with all other previous elections and much of it seems to be not very clever or original.
To put it bluntly, our major political leaders and their parties display a distinct lack of imagination matched only in extent by their political cunning.
Is this because electoral strategists themse...
City-country issues are complex
The decision to close Nagle Catholic College’s boarding hostel was not taken lightly, writes Dr Timothy McDonald …
Between popes, a time of speculation and suspense
The period immediately following a pontificate is one of excited speculation, more or less loose, about the identity of the next pope.
Cardinals’ Catch-22: eager for conclave, but need time to choose well
By Carol Glatz
Cardinal-electors are caught in a Catch-22. They are eager to give the world a new pope; however, they need time to pick the right leader, said South Africa's cardinal.
"There might be a need for a long delay" as the cardinals try to gauge how much they do or don't know enough about each other, Cardinal Wilfrid Napier told Catholic News Service March 1, the first day of...
Sede Vacante Photo Gallery
These Photo’s show the events of Pope Emeritus Benedict’s resignation from the Holy See on Feb 28 and the beginning of Sede Vacante where the Holy See is considered to be vacant.
Dulcet sounds of Daniel and the Dodd recorded
Daniel Mullaney’s is perhaps one voice which could outshine that of St Mary Cathedral’s Dodd Organ, painstakingly restored in 2009. Both voices, well-known to Cathedral parishioners and Archdiocesan personnel alike, can be heard on the CD Daniel sings at St Mary’s Cathedral launched last Christmas.
Key university driver honoured
The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Vice Chancellor Emeritus, Dr Peter Tannock, has been awarded the Rev Theodore M Hesburgh CSC Award at the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities’ (ACCU) annual meeting in Washington DC recently.
Elect have companions on the journey
Bishop Donald Sproxton gives a reflection on the RCIA night in which there hasn’t been a greater number of people seeking baptism and full admission into the Catholic Church in Perth on one evening.
