By Amer Youhanna A robot equipped with artificial intelligence is seen at the AI Xperience Center in Brussels Feb. 19, 2020. Photo: OSV News/Yves Herman, Reuters. In the previous reflection, I explored Pope Leo XIV's concern that technological progress should never come at the expense of conscience and moral responsibility. The final part of this reflection considers how these same conce...

By Rev Prof Eamon Conway Pope Leo XIV talks at a table with prelates and laypeople on 7 October, 2026, after he opened the weeklong Vatican meeting of presidents of bishops' conferences marking the 10th anniversary of “Amoris Laetitia”. Photo: OSV News/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media. The Assembly addressed Communion for Catholics who are divorced and civilly remarried as one of the sensi...

By Cassandra Sarjit The Mass was an opportunity for the community to come together in faith, give thanks for the friendships and memories made, and reflect on the experiences that have shaped their time at Tommy More. Photo: Supplied/STMC. St Thomas More College, affectionately known as Tommy More, has recently celebrated its Valedictory Mass to honour residents who are moving on from co...

St John of God Health Care Group CEO Bryan Pyne, St John of God Subiaco Hospital A/CEO Vanessa Tran, St John of God Subiaco Hospital Redevelopment Director Daniel Price, Silver Thomas Hanley Director Tony Di Leo and Multiplex Regional Managing Director WA Chris Palandri. Photo: Supplied. St John of God Subiaco Hospital has reached a major redevelopment milestone, with early foundation works...

This year’s pilgrimage began at the Church of St Therese, in Balingup, with two pilgrims’ blessings at 8.30 am and 9 am, to allow for a staggered start with only 50 pilgrims able to fit at one time in the small village church. Photo: Shendelle Mullane. On the Feast Day of St Therese of Lisieux, patron saint for Mission, 100 pilgrims walked the annual 16km Kirup Camino, to celebrate 100 year...

Local Whadjak Noongar youth play the didgeridoo during the Welcome to Country for the Aboriginal Sunday Mass, Sunday 18 October at St Mary’s Cathedral. Photo: Eric Odong/Archdiocese of Perth. “Into every culture that God has entered, people have received a call,” Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton told the congregation at the annual Aboriginal Sunday Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral on Sunday 1...

Archbishop Costelloe described mercy as “the driving force in the life of Catherine McAuley”, whose House of Mercy on Baggot Street in Dublin opened on 24 September 1827, the Feast of Our Lady of Mercy. Photo: Supplied/MercyCare. “Because we are disciples of Jesus, called to walk in his ways, it follows that we, too, through our communion with him, are called and challenged to allow mercy t...

By Rev Prof Eamonn Conway Pope Leo XIV talks at a table with prelates and laypeople on 7 October, 2026, after he opened the weeklong Vatican meeting of presidents of bishops' conferences marking the 10th anniversary of “Amoris Laetitia” Photo: OSV News/Simone Risoluti, Vatican Media. In a special two-part report on the anniversary of Amoris Laetitia, University of Notre Dame Rev Professo...

St Vincent de Paul Society National President Mark Gaetani said increasing the GST would be a regressive measure because it would take a greater share of income from low-income households than from those on higher incomes. Photo: Adobe. The St Vincent de Paul Society is urging the Federal Government to reject calls for an increase to the Goods and Services Tax, warning it would place an unf...

Eighty young Catholics from the Neocatechumenal Way have this month set out across Western Australia’s South West and Great Southern regions to mark the Franciscan Jubilee Year, the 800th anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi. Photo: Supplied/Francesco Piccolo. Eighty young Catholics from the Neocatechumenal Way have recently set out across West...