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New Church for Banksia Grove
Banksia Grove Parish will next week celebrate the official opening and dedication of its new Church, Thursday 26 January following several years of planning and construction.
The opening will take place at 10am at 6 Kurrajong Blvd, Banksia Grove and will be followed by a shared reception.
Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB with Banksia Grove Parish Priest Fr Vinh Dong (third from r...
The Record Magazine Issue 38 – December 2022
Welcome to Issue 38 of The Record Magazine. Firstly, we feature a special interview with Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB and America Magazine journalist, Gerard O’Connell, who tells of Archbishop Costelloe’s words to Pope Francis, “The church in Australia is alive!”
POPE EMERITUS BENEDICT XVI REMEMBRANCE MASS: Feast of Epiphany an opportunity to proclaim Christ to the whole world, recalls Archbishop Costelloe
More than 800 people gathered at St Mary’s Cathedral, Sunday 8 January for the 11am Mass on the Feast of the Epiphany, following the death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI on Saturday 31 December, aged 95, nearly 10 years after leaving the papacy to retire to what he said would be a life of prayer and study.
Statement on the death of Cardinal George Pell
Cardinal Pell’s impact on the life of the Church in Australia and around the world will continue to be felt for many years.
Death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI
Statement on the Death of Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI. By the Most Rev Timothy Costelloe SDB Archbishop of Perth
Church in Australia mourns death of Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI will long be remembered fondly in Australia as the Pontiff who led young people from around the globe in prayer at World Youth Day in Sydney in 2008.
Crosses remind students of their time at Notre Dame
Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has last week Tuesday 13 December told graduands from the University of Notre Dame that every good gift which fills our lives is a gift from God, and that the greatest gift of all, the gift of life, is the one gift which makes everything else possible.
Modern Slavery featured in Perth Christmas Concert
The symposium included a discussion of how businesses and Catholic organisations must assess and address the risks of modern slavery in their supply chains and operations to comply with the Modern Slavery Act 2018.
Archbishop Costelloe 2022 Christmas Message: God wants to be so close to us, that he becomes one of us
In his 2022 Christmas Message, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB says that Christmas is a time when we remember that God has come so near to us in the person of Jesus, born not in luxury and splendour but in the most humble of circumstances.
“As we welcome him once again, at the end of a very challenging year for many, we know that he comes, as he always does, to heal our wounds and warm our hearts.”
Adults at risk a key priority with adoption of new national safeguarding standards
The release of NCSS Edition 2 comes just one week before the five-year anniversary of the Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse’s final report.
