The Spirit of the Arts Concert kicked off on Monday, 13 September, with more than 1500 students from 52 WA Catholic schools taking to the stage in RAC Arena for a night of song, dance and drama.

The all new week-long festival brought together the traditional Performing Arts Festival concert and Carnevalé events and included lunchtime concerts in the CBD, a greater visual presence, and a new venue for the centrepiece concert.

WA Catholic Migrants and Refugees Office Director Deacon Greg Lowe has this week called on the cultural communities across the Archdiocese of Perth to come together for the annual Cultural Diversity Mass on Sunday 24 October.

With just over 10 days to go till the First Assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia, President and Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB is inviting Catholics across Australia to pray with and pray for Council Members during the upcoming first general assembly.

The Saint Mary’s Cathedral choir welcomed six new choristers into the cathedral choir on Sunday, 19 September. Cathedral choirs are charged with a specific mission, added St Mary’s Cathedral Director of Music Jacinta Jakovcevic, on the occasion.

More than 100 guests spent the afternoon of Sunday, 19 September at Saint Mary’s Cathedral Perth, listening to an array of classical sacred music, led by Director of Cathedral Music Jacinta Jakovcevic, as part of an annual tribute to Our Lady on her birthday.

Some of the country’s leading Catholic thinkers have been engaged to support the members of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia when they gather for the First General Assembly early next month.

The eRecord has taken out the award for Best Online Publication at this year’s Australasian Catholic Press Awards. The awards were held on Wednesday 15 September via ZOOM after the annual ACPA Conference was cancelled for the second year due to COVID-19 state lockdowns. The eRecord has taken out the award for Best Online Publication at this year’s Australasian Catholic Press Awards. Imag...

The Australian Salvatorian family together with the Perth Catholic community, gathered at Saint Mary’s Cathedral for a thanksgiving Mass, to mark several significant events for the Order. The beatification of their founder Blessed Francis Jordan, his 103rd death anniversary, 140 years since their foundation, and the 60th anniversary since the Salvatorian Fathers started their pastoral work in Australia.

Students from nearly a dozen Catholic schools around the state gathered at Aquinas College on Friday, 3 September, for the 2021 WA Earthcare Youth Eco-Summit. The delegates met in discussion groups throughout the day, attending 12 sessions, covering topics such as Our Carbon Footprint and Managing Waste to Our School Strategies – What are we Brewing, interspersed with special online presentations on topics such as Pope Francis’ Laudato Si and the Climate Clever App, developed for Australian schools.

Mt La Verna Retirement Village have been blessed with a new cross of San Damiano, written by WA icongrapher Marice Sariola.