The Emmanuel Centre community celebrated its Christmas party in style on Tuesday 3 December, braving the heat for carol singing and a special Mass celebrated by Subiaco Parish Priest Monsignor Kevin Long, followed by lunch and fellowship at the centre in East Perth.

Catholic Education Western Australia (CEWA) and Irene McCormack Catholic College have congratulated Year 11 student Brenda Joseph (Amito) for her outstanding achievement of being recognised as the 2019 WA Young Person of the Year for her work training multicultural AFL Football umpires.

The first cohort of directly employed medical interns began working at St John of God Health Care this week. The 12 interns will be based at St John of God Midland Public Hospital and will undertake an intensive care rotation at St John of God Subiaco Hospital.

More than 200 people gathered on 25 November last year to attend “a special healing Holy Mass” at Saint Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Maida Vale Parish.

No stranger to the world of journalism, Australian Catholic Press Association (ACPA) Life Member and Editor of the Salesian Bulletin Father Frank Freeman SDB, made it his business to dedicate 10 years of his life (2009 to 2019) to re-visit and re-tell the rich history of ACPA, after a disappointing discovery in the 1990s revealed, that an extensive amount of its archives went missing, thereafter, much of its’ information were not recorded.

The Road to Bethlehem was celebrated in the lead up to Christmas 2019 (Thursday 5 December) by the faithful of St Thomas the Apostle Church, Claremont Parish.

In a recently released book titled Son of Vietnam, Father Kim Son Nguyen describes how his people suffered throughout Vietnam’s era of conflict and how he appreciates the freedom and choices allowed in Australia.

In an interview with The Record to talk about his recent 25th anniversary on December 16 and 50th birthday last September, the Dean of St Mary’s Cathedral revealed that his desire to serve the Church as a priest had been ignited during his childhood years in Singapore.

More than a thousand parishioners have last month attended the annual Misa de Gallo at St Gerard Majella Catholic Church, Mirrabooka Parish from 16 December to 24 December.

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB will next weekend celebrate a special Mass for the victims and survivors of the bushfires griping the nation.