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The best in Catholic news from across the Archdiocese of Perth
Francis: ‘Gossip is tool of the devil to divide the Church’
Gossip is “a plague worse than COVID”, Pope Francis said, asserting that while speaking ill of others comes almost naturally, it is a tool of the devil to divide the Church.
Fatima
Fatima (Picturehouse), a fact-based drama from director and co-writer Marco Pontecorvo, recounts what may rank as the most remarkable series of religious events of modern times.
Namely, the 1917 apparitions of the Virgin Mother Mary (Joana Ribeiro) to three shepherd children near the Portuguese city of the title.
Caritas Australia launches Social and Ecological Justice Animators programme
Caritas Australia, the Catholic Church’s international aid and development agency, has launched a new community engagement plan to communicate the good news of our Church’s social and ecological justice work with parishes, schools, and young people (aged 16 to 25).
Father Tim Deeter celebrates his 70th in St Paul’s style
Although a global pandemic found him stranded on the other side of the world to his loved ones in the United States, Father Tim Deeter was joined by his Australian family last month to celebrate his 70th birthday.
Victorian Bishops speak on release of VAD Review Board Report
Catholic Bishops and Adminstrators of Victorian dioceses, including Melbourne, Sale, Bathurst, Sandhurst and the Syro-Malabar Eparchy, have this week released a statement in regards to the Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board Report of Operation January – June 2020.
New Cancer facility to treat up to 1000 patients a year
Plans for a new cancer facility at St John of God Murdoch Hospital have been announced to enhance patient access to comprehensive cancer care in Perth’s southern suburbs.
Doing good and doing it well: Thirty years of Catholic Outreach
Parish Pastoral Care Program Coordinators from across the Archdiocese of Perth gathered at the Catholic Pastoral Centre in Highgate on 15 August, to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Catholic Outreach with a Mass celebrated by Applecross Parish Priest Father Nelson Po, followed by a brunch event.
Francis: ‘Cross is sign of God’s love, not superstitious ornament’
Christ’s cross is a powerful symbol of God’s love for humanity and not just a decoration or trinket, Pope Francis has said.
The Rental
Those chafing under the travel restrictions imposed by the current pandemic may take comfort from The Rental (IFC), the story of an oceanside getaway gone fatally wrong.
MOVIE REVIEW: Radioactive
By Kurt Jensen
Rosamund Pike stars in a scene from the movie "Radioactive". Photo: Amazon Studios/CNS.
The key to any good film biography of a scientist is found in the montages that show the discovery or invention that gained the subject fame.
On that score, Radioactive (Amazon), the story of Marie Curie (Rosamund Pike), the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Prize for physics, does...
