The 2018–2019 Social Justice Statement of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, titled “A Place To Call Home: Making a home for everyone in our land”. Image: Sourced. By Theresia Titus The Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ACBC) has this week called for Australians to consider those who are at risk of homelessness and housing insecurity in their just launched Social Justice S...

Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President and Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge. Photo: ACBC. Catholic leaders have last week announced they accept 98 per cent of the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. The consensus reached is that the Catholic Church has learnt from its mistakes, is ever-changing, and vows that its deplorab...

Archbishop Costelloe officially launches the second safeguarding handbook for teenagers aged 12 to 16 during the 2018 Child Protection Breakfast held at Duxton Hotel on Tuesday 4 September. Photo: Josh Low. By Amanda Murthy The Archdiocese of Perth Safeguarding Office launched its second handbook, this time dedicated to teenagers aged 12 to 16, during the 2018 Child Protection Breakfast h...

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has addressed the people of the Archdiocese of Perth in a pastoral letter in the immediate aftermath of the ACBC and CRA’s formal response to the recommendations of the Royal Commission. Photo: Ron Tan. By Matthew Lau “Anyone who is an obstacle to bring down one of these little ones who have faith in me would be better drowned in the depths of the sea with...

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe’s comments follow the tabling of a report by the Joint Select Committee on End of Life Choices, titled “My Life, My Choice” on 23 August. Photo: Josh Low. By Josh Low “Whatever its motives and means, direct euthanasia consists in putting an end to the lives of handicapped, sick, or dying persons. It is morally unacceptable. “Thus an act or omission which, of it...

The Perth diocesan team at their annual planning meeting: Hayley, Tyana, Gabby, Marya and Emily. Photo: Emily Hardbottle. By Amanda Murthy The young people of the Perth Young Christian Student (YCS) group have put their efforts where their values are this winter, tackling homelessness on Perth’s cold and wet streets. YCS Perth coordinator Emily Hardbottle said the Ursula Frayne Catholi...

Year 11 student at St Norbert College Sanjita Ghimire was recently presented with the Fra Angelico Award for her artwork ‘Youth is a State of Mind’.  St Norbert College student Sanjita Ghimire has won the prestigious 2018 Fra Angelico Art award for Catholic secondary students. The Year 11 student’s artwork, titled ‘Youth is a State of Mind’, was among 169 entries submitted by students aro...

SCC Planning Committee, seen in the photo, are set to develop an aged care community in Ballajura that will link key community elements on both the north and south of Paradise Quays, combining the very best in contemporary aged care and lifestyle features. Photo: Supplied. Southern Cross Care WA, one of Western Australia’s leading aged care groups, has announced it will develop an innovative...

Dr Stuart Salfinger stands in Australia’s first integrated operating theatre in SJG Subiaco Hospital in WA. Photo: Supplied. Surgeons at St John of God Subiaco Hospital are the first in Australia to have access to a new integrated operating theatre, which is improving patient outcomes. Professor Shirley Bowen, Chief Executive of SJG Subiaco Hospital, said the investment in theatre technol...

Aerial view of Cottesloe and Mosman Park Parish complex. Photo: Neal Pritchard Photography. By Theresia Titus St Mary Star of the Sea Church, Cottesloe/Mosman Park Parish, has celebrated its newly built Parish Centre with a blessing liturgy on Saturday 11 August. Archbishop Emeritus Barry Hickey presided at the blessing liturgy, with assistance from Parish Priest Fr James D’Souza. “...