In the recent survey by the Committee for Family and for Life, thirty five parishes listed “Celebrating the Parish’s Patron Saint’s Feast Day” under activities in the parish which support family life.                             ...

Three new deacons ordained for the Archdiocese of Perth recently were told by Archbishop Barry Hickey that as deacons they must serve - both the Church and its people, "especially the poor."                                 ...

discovery’s Robert Hiini spoke to a Perth academic who’s passionate about helping others to see more in Christian art than a picture...              Our lady of all nations: Robert Juniper's Mary and Jesus are not recognisable as being of any particular nationality. His painting of an egret (third below) i...

Want to recapture the special experience of World Youth Day in Sydney? Whether you were there or not the official DVDs have been released after several delays. After two delays in production and numerous local calls of inquiry to the Perth World Youth Day Office and Catholic Youth Ministry, the official DVDs covering and commemorating World Youth Day (WYD) have been released. The DVDs went on...

By Peter Rosengren Laura Meyers is a retired media studies academic with a love of art, an impish sense of humour - and a desire to be free of almost all human company. The former Edith Cowan University lecturer is not, I hasten to add, someone who dislikes the human race to the point of turning her back on it in disgust at its general unpleasantness; quite the opposite.  ...

Reviewed by Hal G. P. Colebatch Brideshead revisited is the most dishonest film I have seen for a long time. The panning it has received by other critics despite its pretty scenery gives me hope for our culture I will declare my own religious position first: I am not a Catholic and regard myself as a non-denominational Christian. Having said that, let me turn to the overarching fau...

By Catherine Parish There is a new film of Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited to be released very soon.  From the tone of a recent article in The Australian it seemed that we might be in for a revisionist version, unless journalist Jane Cornwell and her interviewee Emma Thompson have missed or misunderstood one or two important things in the book.  For a start, ...

By Robert Hiini Showing solidarity with the poor children of the world and recommitting to their missionary identity, students from 58 schools throughout Perth gathered to celebrate the sixth annual Children’s Mission Mass on October 22. Students from 18 Catholic high schools, 38 Catholic primary schools and 2 public schools descended upon Sacred Heart Parish Thornlie in an even...

By Robert Hiini What’s often touted as the Catholic Church’s biggest turnoff, the Good News about sex and marriage, has once again caught the interest and enthusiasm of young people at the Created and Redeemed seminar that concluded recently at St Thomas the Apostle Parish, Claremont.  Over 60 young adults, most of them in their twenties, turned out for the eight week...

By Robert Hiini Whitfords Parish are getting ready to crack the auctioneers hammer to raise money for ‘ragpickers’ in India – women and children who scour refuse dumps looking for discarded items they can sell.  The auction will take place on November 16 in the parish hall where goods donated by the people of Perth will be auctioned off for the cause. The money...