Once upon a time, the object of learning was the love of wisdom but today’s outcome focused education has become a kind of high pressure drudgery, writes leading Perth educator Dr Andrew Kania.

I have been confused for quite some time as to exactly what scandal is and whether it is a sin. For example, we say that a person was scandalised. Is there sin in any of this?

Willetton parishioner Dr Robert Williams has battled mental illness since his teenage years, and is passionate about sharing his story with other sufferers to show them it is possible to live a happy, healthy life, as Mark Reidy explains…

Jennifer has been with Personal Advocacy Service (PAS) in Greenmount for four years and I have come to know her more recently. We have bonded really well over the last 12 months and enjoy many of the same things, writes Elizabeth Bishop.

EXCELLENT apologetics were the key factor in the conversion of former Anglican Michael Daniel almost 25 years ago. The 45-year-old school teacher spoke to The Record recently about his conversion to Catholicism, which occurred over the space of several years. Mr Daniel, a native of Melbourne whose family has migrated to WA, was raised in an Anglican family and says his first experienc...

IT WAS BOXING DAY 2002. Justin Langer walks out onto the Melbourne Cricket Ground to face the first ball of the Ashes Test match against England in front of more than 63,000 spectators. It’s an exciting, heart-pumping atmosphere, but something happens that will forever be etched in the West Australian’s mind. “In cricket you mark a centre line to know where your middle stump is, so I mar...

The topic of liturgical music is one that evokes much passion and interest among Catholics, as shown by the numerous letters The Record received earlier this year regarding the topic. But debates over what is and is not appropriate at Mass are not new, as Matthew Biddle explains.

Underlying the fiercest battles of ideas in contemporary life are competing notions of who and what we are. French Jesuit Henri de Lubac (1896-1991) tackled these head on, writes Dr Andrew Kania, and so must we.

I have always thought that it is not easy to go straight to heaven when we die but, based on the Summa Theologica of St Thomas Aquinas, that the Anointing of the Sick removes all our temporal punishment and, in any case, there is a plenary indulgence at death for those who prayed. Is this true?

Many of us pursue physical health and weight loss to the point of obsession, yet we can’t make the time to look after our spiritual health.