Willetton electrician Brian McDonald has just begun a two-year stint of volunteering in Mt Hagen, Papua New Guinea, with the Catholic volunteering agency, Palms Australia. Photo: Palms Australia. By The Record Brian McDonald is no flash in the pan when it comes to helping people. The 53-year-old Willetton man has volunteered to spend the next two years in the remote highlands of Pa...

Janaki with her students as she teaches them how to sew. Janaki started her business through a loan from the Children and Youth Empowerment Program and now has 11 sewing machines for her classes. Photo: Richard Wainwright. In Nepal, Caritas Australia and its partners are assisting the country’s youth to start their own businesses. Janaki is a young entrepreneur who has turned her life...

Br Noel Hickey, Fay Tranter, Tom Tranter, Sr Eileen Casey, Sr Maureen McCarthy. Photo: Supplied. Former Director of Personal Advocacy Service Leonie Reid gives The eRecord a first-hand account of working with founding member Tom Tranter, who passed away last 2017. In the mid-late 1980’s, I was a Parent Representative on the Catholic Education Commission of WA, and had put myself forwa...

His family remember him fondly as a man of great faith, love, hard work, integrity and humility. Photo: Supplied. By Leonie Reid Born in Beaconsfield in 1938, Tom Tranter spent most of his early life in the Wheatbelt towns of Kellerberrin and Tammin. He attended Kellerberrin Convent and Tammin Primary School before going to board at St Ildephonsus College, New Norcia at the age of...

Archbishop Costelloe emphasised that mercy is ‘not simply a nice idea’, but an important task, challenge and invitation. Photo: Josh Low. By Josh Low Turning away from self and being the face of the Father’s mercy was the message of Archbishop of Perth Timothy Costelloe SDB at the launch for schools of Project Compassion for 2018. Several hundred staff and students from Catholic school...

The Archbishop said that our willingness to engage in fasting, prayer and almsgiving will show how seriously we take this period of Lent in the lead up to Easter. Photo: Jamie O’Brien. By Josh Low Fasting, praying and giving alms in order to reach out to God was the focus of Archbishop of Perth, Timothy Costelloe SDB’s homily for Ash Wednesday this week. Some 150 people were presen...

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe has this week asked the lay faithful to set aside the first four days of Lent as days of fasting and reparation in sorrow for child sexual abuse. Photo: Joshua Low. By Jamie O’Brien Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has this week asked the lay faithful to set aside the first four days of Lent as days of fasting and reparation in sorrow for child sex...

Mgr Michael Keating incenses the altar during his final Mass as Dean of St Mary’s Cathedral, Sunday 28 January 2018. Photo: Ron Tan. By Jamie O’Brien Hundreds of parishioners of St Mary’s Cathedral and Catholics from across Perth have last weekend marked the end of an era with the retirement of Monsignor Michael Keating as Dean. Mgr Keating celebrated his final Mass at 11am on Sund...

Mgr Corcoran said that in all his time as a priest, parish life and living among a community of people has been something very special to him. Photo: The Record. By Josh Low After celebrating the 50th anniversary of his ordination to the Priesthood in June last year, Monsignor Tim Corcoran has last week officially stepped down as Parish Priest of Thornlie and retired from an administrativ...

88-year-old Bill Adair was among dozens of residents at Mercy Place Mandurah who celebrated their love and loyalty to Australia on 26 January 2018. Photo: Supplied. Dozens of residents at Mercy Place Mandurah have celebrated their love and loyalty to the country they have called home for, in some cases, more than seven decades by taking part in the celebrations organised as part of Austr...