Celebrating their anniversaries in 2024 were Fr John Jegorow, third from right, Fr Brian McKenna, third from left, Msgr Brian O’Loughlin, first from right and Fr Peter Bianchini, second from right, seen here on their Ordination day with then Archbishop Launcelot Goody, 31 August 1974. Photo: The Record. Over seven years of seminary holidays, John Jegorow worked as a postie in Bassendean. At...

Sr Roma Banducci and Sr Kerry Willison with Archbishop Emeritus Barry Hickey and Fr Peter Bianchini. Photo: Eric Odong/Archdiocese of Perth. “I just knew that I wanted to help people,” Sr Roma Banducci RSM told The Record in 2006, recalling why she had chosen religious life. Sr Roma last week Thursday 24 September joined Sr Kerry Willison RSM for their anniversary celebrations, bringing ...

Archbishop Costelloe prays during the 70th anniversary Mass for the Mount Lawley Parish on Sunday 20 September. Fr Mariusz Grzech is pictured in the background. Photo: Eric Odong/Archdiocese of Perth. “Anniversaries are an opportunity to look back with gratitude, to look around us with pride at all that has been achieved, and to look forward, full of prayer for hope for the future, Perth Ar...

By John Pintabona  On Monday 5 October, Perth Auxiliary Bishop Nelson Po will join the Saint Mary’s Catholic Church community in Leederville to celebrate the feast day of Saint Bartolo Longo, the great Apostle of the Rosary. Born in Latiano, Italy, in 1841, Bartolo Longo experienced a profound conversion before dedicating his life to prayer, Christian education and works of charity....

The historical significance of Ireland and the Sisters of Mercy was celebrated at Mercy College in Koondoola recently as the College community gathered to commemorate 180 years since the arrival of the Sisters of Mercy in Western Australia and the blessing and opening of two new facilities – the Dublin technologies building and Comfort Café school cafeteria. Girrawheen Parish Priest and Mer...

Merriden Parish Priest Fr Phillip Perreau, Woodvale Parish Priest Fr Stan Bendowski, Auxiliary Bishop Dson Sproxton, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, Fr Andrew Bowron, Central Wheatbelt MP Lachlan Hunter and parishioners Heather Giles and John Jeffreys. Photo: Em Louise Photography. "We are called to be faithful disciples of Jesus, not in some imagined golden age, but in the reality of our...

I will never forget you (Is 49:15) is the theme selected by Pope Leo XIV for the Sixth World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly that will be celebrated on Sunday 26 July. This year’s celebration coincides with the feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, the grandparents of Jesus. It provides an opportunity to bring the Church closer to the elderly and acknowledge their contribution to fa...

The Permanent Deacons following their Ordination to the (Permanent) Diaconate on 29 June 2006 at St Mary’s Cathedral (prior to the renovations), with now Emeritus Archbishop Barry Hickey (centre) and then Office of the Permanent Diaconate Director, Fr Peter Bianchini; Patrick Seatter (now deceased) Greg Lowe, Patrick Moore, Albert Aitkinson, Damian Gorian, Trevor Lyra, Bruce Talbot, Paul Russe...

In the word of God, we don't just encounter words, we encounter Jesus Christ Himself. If we are to be witnesses to Jesus in the world, that can only happen from our own relationship with Jesus; not from our knowledge of Jesus, but from our relationship with the person of Jesus, the Very Rev Fr Vincent Glynn, Vicar General of the Perth Archdiocese said recently. Delivering the homily at the ...

Compassion means allowing another person's suffering to enter our own heart, Bunbury Bishop George Kolodziej SDS has said. Delivering the homily at the 160th Anniversary Regional Mass of the St Vincent de Paul Society WA held at Our Lady of the Bay Catholic Church, Busselton, Bishop George reflected on the compassion of Christ and the vital role that compassion continues to play in the Soci...