When governments extol the billions they pour into childcare, one wonders what exactly is being accomplished – not necessarily the welfare of children who do far better with loving parents than working strangers …

Homeschooling is on the rise, even in the face of occasional, negative assumptions. Perth Catholic families tell Matthew Biddle why they have taken the reins of their children’s education.

I am a recent convert and have bought a missal for weekday Masses but I sometimes have difficulty knowing which Mass is being said. For example, what does it mean when it says eighth week of Ordinary Time, or year one?

If Mariette Ulrich’s husband ever comes home with a fish offering them anything they want, she’ll tell him to throw it back …

A family torn apart by the aftermath of war, but for Fr John Cooper OFM Cap, the love of two women changed everything …

St Francis of Assisi may very well have been ruled completely out of order and relegated as far as possible into obscurity by a diocesan committee if had been born in Australia in the 20th century.

There is a movement gathering momentum throughout western society determined to draw attention and deliver hope to the increasing number of children facing the world without the loving guidance of a father. The devastating effects of fatherlessness are powerfully captured in a multi-award winning film to be presented in Perth on June 29. Absent, produced by US Director Justin Hunt, is a ...

The US United Steelworkers Union, with headquarters based in the heart of the US rustbelt in Pittsburgh, is estimated to have approximately 860,000 members across a range of manufacturing industries in Canada and the US, making it the single largest trade union in North America. On October 27, 2009 the Union announced it had reached an agreement with the Mondragon International SA. Editor Peter Rosengren comments on this in his Editorial …

Perth priest Fr Chris Webb has to have one of the more remarkable stories of any Catholic priest in the country. His is a story of high-living, criminal charges that could have led to jail and a life-changing conversion that led him to the Catholic priesthood, reports Mark Reidy

There are some subjects that are so sensitive, so important, they should never be joked about under any circumstances at all …