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The best in Catholic news from across the Archdiocese of Perth
Early Catholic community grows in fits and starts
From the most humble of beginnings, the small and more than occasionally fractured community of Swan River Catholics struggled to grow, suffering along with other non-Catholic colonials from the isolation of their new home. It was a stagnation, however, which would not last, writes Hal Colebatch.
Muslim leader says pope is model of what religious leader should be
Pope Francis, like Islam’s Sufi mystic theologians and poets, “is trying to do good for the sake of the Good One, motivated by love and compassion,” said the president of the Islamic Affairs Council of Maryland.
Pope sends official to Lampedusa where migrants’ boat sank
As efforts to recover the bodies of migrants who drowned off Italy’s southern coast continued, Pope Francis again asked people to pray for the victims and he sent his almoner to Lampedusa to pray over the 194 corpses recovered as of Oct. 6 and to visit the survivors.
Courage prevails as Perth’s first cathedral is built
Construction of Perth’s first cathedral began on 27 December 1843. It was originally a chapel, school house and dwelling. The chapel was designated a cathedral on 6 May 1845, on the elevation of Bishop Brady to the episcopate.
The rise of New Norcia and monastic life
The first monks to reach Western Australia were, to the best of our knowledge, the Benedictine members of the first missionary party that came with Perth’s first Catholic bishop, John Brady.
Bickering Bishops at the Swan River
In the middle of the 19th century, the Roman Catholic community of Perth erupted in bitter and violent division as two zealous but ultimately flawed bishops fought it out for control of the diocese. It was a battle fought not only in the congregation but in the colony’s fledgling courts and eventually on its streets as instructions from Rome – each time, nine months in the coming – were mischievously ignored or only selectively received. How had Bishop Brady’s optimistic if impractical vision for a mission in Western Australia gone so badly awry, and who was to blame? Historian and Adelaide-based Dominican Father, Dr Christopher Dowd OP, explains.
In Mexico, Catholics turn parishes into aid stations after hurricanes
Caritas chapters across Mexico have collected everything from canned goods to clothing for the victims of Hurricanes Ingrid and Manuel, which battered both coasts, cost more than 100 lives and left thousands homeless, incommunicado and possibly even buried beneath mudslides.
Dialogue for peace is religious obligation, pope tells leaders
Peace is so difficult to find because men and women struggle to stop focusing on their own interests long enough to listen to and learn from others, Pope Francis said.
Croatian priest killed during 1947 anti-church violence beatified
A young priest who was murdered by communist partisans during a wave of anti-church violence in 1947 was beatified as a martyr in Croatia.
Pope establishes advisory panel as permanent Council of Cardinals
Pope Francis made his international advisory panel on church governance a permanent council of cardinals, thereby emphasizing the importance and open-endedness of its work among his pontificate’s various efforts at reform.
