More than 5500 young people have embarked upon Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre from 8 to 10 December for ACYF19. Photo: Iceberg Media. Thousands of young people from across the country will have arrived in Perth by this evening as the Archdiocese of Perth prepares to host the 2019 Australian Catholic Youth Festival. When combined with almost 1800 young Catholics from Western Aus...

American speaker, evangelist and author Katie Prejean McGrady has told 5500 young Australian Catholics that they are made “not only for something great” in this world, but that they are ultimately made “to worship God for eternity”.

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB "hand-passes" the Australian Catholic Youth Festival 2019 to the young people of the Church in his official welcome and catechesis on Sunday 8 December. Photo: Iceberg Media. Thousands of young Australian Catholics have been challenged to “go out and rebuild” God’s Church on the opening day of the 2019 Australian Catholic Youth Festival. The openi...

The Saturday Vigil Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral had a decidedly larger and younger congregation this evening as hundreds of Australian Catholic Youth Festival delegates joined regular parishioners to pray together

As you get older, some aspects of the past can take on a rosy glint. It can be a very great temptation to believe that things were decidedly much better when we were younger.

For most students, school may act as a medium for them to explore their interests, learning how to socialise, function in society and be a place to make their own mistakes, all while learning and growing academically.

In the past 35 years, Aboriginal Catholic Ministry (ACM) has graciously inherited the pastoral work that was started by Bishop Rosendo Salvado at the very beginning of the Swan River Colony: demonstrating and sharing the love of Christ to our Indigenous Communities through the compassionate yet practical ministry of social service provision.

The Eastern rite Church, which follows the Byzantine Hierarchical Liturgy, was originally dedicated to Saint Andrew, the parish and community are now under the patronage of Our Lady of the Annunciation.

Travelling by foot on the Camino de Santiago (The Way of Saint James) is not your average walk in the park. As one of the most famous pilgrimages in the world, the Camino de Santiago is a large network of ancient pilgrim routes across Europe that all end in Santiago de Compostela, north-west Spain.

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe pictured at St Pius X Primary School to present the Archbishop's Spirit Award on 15 November 2019. Photo: Ron Tan. By Most Rev Timothy Costelloe SDB, Archbishop of Perth As we celebrate Christmas 2019, we look back on a year that has brought many challenges for us all. Some of those challenges are deeply personal and private to each one of us; others, I am su...