A task that falls to me as we come to the end of the year is to select an image for the Christmas card I send to family and friends.

The new website for The Record is now live.

An interview with Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has last weekend featured on Shalom World TV.

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 sure, reflect our concerns for the society in which we live and the Church to which we belong.

A six year inquiry by the Royal Commission (2012 to 2017) into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse revealed that the Catholic Church was in fact the biggest contributor to sexual abuse in the country, at the time.

History is the recorded story of humanity and its accomplishments, the invaluable lessons of the past, passed down to us through the efforts of scholars, teachers, leaders and of course, through the dedicated and detailed work of the thousands of monks, friars, priests and bishops of the Catholic Church, who, throughout the centuries, have born witness to the many events that have shaped our modern world.

The Plenary Council 2020 is now nearly six months into the second phase of preparation.

What is the role of higher education and why is the presence of a Catholic University so important in our world and Church?

The St Vincent de Paul Society National Council has commenced the roll out of the second round of the Drought Community Support Initiative after accepting the Federal Government’s invitation in early October.

The annual 2019 Catholic School Youth Summit brought together 131 primary student leader representatives from 32 Catholic schools across Perth to share in a day of reflection, interactive learning and network opportunities, with the aim to foster Catholic leadership in line with the Gospel teachings of Christ.