The Coronavirus pandemic has not only impacted Western Australian students attending formal educational institutions.

Dedicated staff of the Archdiocese of Perth gathered to pray, praise and connect through their common mission in serving the Catholic community of Perth during the annual Agencies Mass on Thursday 2 July at St Mary’s Cathedral.

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has last weekend visited the new Mother Teresa of Kolkata Church at Baldivis Parish. Photo: Jamie O’Brien. Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has last weekend visited the new Mother Teresa of Kolkata Church at Baldivis Parish. The new Church, on Eighty Road Baldivis, was built by Sanpro Constructions, and was completed at the end of April. Furth...

Traditionally celebrated across parishes on the first weekend of July, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Mass is a celebration of the efforts by both the Indigenous community and the Catholic Church to achieve integration and solidarity as brothers and sisters in Christ.

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has today issued an open letter to the Clergy, Religious and Lay Faithful of the Archdiocese of Perth to advise that on 25 June 2020, the Legislative Council of Western Australia referred the Children and Community Services Amendment Bill 2019to a Committee of Inquiry. Archbishop Costelloe’s open letter can be accessed on the Archdiocese of Perth’s website by Clicking Here.

Heritage-listed olive trees at MercyCare’s Wembley Intergenerational Campus have been returned to their original century-old roots, with MercyCare staff and volunteers harvesting some 87 kilograms of olives thanks to the generous knowledge and assistance of volunteers.

Life for the Catholic South-Sudanese in Western Australia has its fair share of struggles, but it is certainly a far cry from what their families back home are experiencing – living in a newly emancipated nation, all too familiar with political instability, extreme poverty, lacking access to basic healthcare and education, just to name a few.

It was 15 years ago this week that then newly completed Chapel of Redemptoris Mater Seminary was Dedicated and opened on 28 June 2005.

Christian hospitality starts when we see the person and not the problem, said Perth Auxillary Bishop Donald Sproxton on Sunday 28 June.

A global research team led by The University of Notre Dame Australia School of Medicine’s Professor Merrilee Needham, is investigating the use of a re-purposed drug (Sirolimus) in the treatment of the rare disease, Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM).