Religious values and a gentle sensibility pervade the family-friendly drama Little Boy. Yet, while suitable for a wide audience, director Alejandro Monteverde’s good-hearted, nostalgic parable, set in 1940s coastal California, is not without its occasional aesthetic lapses.

As a child, Margaret Bowen remembers being in the choir, cleaning the silver at church, and always being aware that “Our Lady had her hands on me, the whole time”.

Glossy proceedings follow on a silly premise in the serviceable romantic drama, The Age of Adaline.

“Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence.” So wrote Helen Keller (1880-1968), the deaf-blind activist portrayed in the 1962 movie The Miracle Worker.

At nearly 61 years of age, former sex worker and madam Linda Watson is clearly still an attractive woman: bright, articulate and passionate about her 16-odd years of ministry in helping women transition out of the sex industry in Perth.

Martin Griver Unearthed: The life of a Spanish missionary priest who became a bishop in colonial Western Australia,1814-1886 by Odhran O’Brien

When Sheelah Rudman was seven years old she was told that the polio she contracted would stop her from ever walking again. One could only wonder what that doctor would say today to the 101-year-old as she strolls her neighbourhood delivering the local newspaper.

To celebrate the role of women in the Church, the e-Record will publish a number of articles in each edition throughout the month of May – often referred to as the month of the Virgin Mary – highlighting the active role and witness that a number of women and organisations from across the Archdiocese of Perth provide in spreading the Gospel.

A diagnosis of terminal cancer or other life-limiting illness is a distressing experience for anyone, but more recent advances in Palliative and Supportive Care are putting patients back into the driver’s seat when it comes to deciding how their treatment will unfold and how they will experience the journey ahead of them.

Noble, which will debut on 150 screens nationwide on 8 May, tells the story of an Irish woman with an indomitable spirit.