Being surrounded by other young people who were passionate about the Catholic faith has inspired Bateman parishioner Elisha (Ellie) Sanghera to commence the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA).

Perth Auxiliary Bishop Donald Sproxton last week emphasised the importance of being loving servants to others at the Ordination to the Diaconate of two Redemptorist Mater seminarians on Friday 31 March.

As many of you may have seen on the news or read in our daily newspapers, the final hearings of the Catholic Church for the Royal Commission into Institutional Response to Child Sexual Abuse concluded in February, after a day and a half dedicated to the witness given under oath by the five metropolitan Archbishops of Australia, of whom I am one as Archbishop of Perth.

When Jesus was executed in the most brutal fashion on the first Good Friday, his followers, and especially his closest disciples, must have experienced a sense of shocking disillusionment, despair and shame.

About half-way through Lent, I had the very pleasant duty of celebrating the Sunday Mass with the parish in Attadale.

The Archdiocese of Perth has now launched a new mobile app.

When the small rural township of Yarloop in Western Australia was devastated by a bushfire in 2016, a story emerged of a retired organist who lost everything he owned; his home and an irreplaceable organ under restoration.

Eight years after becoming Director of Cathedral Music at St Mary’s Cathedral in Perth, Jacinta Jakovcevic has been honoured with another role: being named a member of the National Liturgical Music Board.

In his final step of the Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults (RCIA), Catechumen Matthew Fry cannot wait to become a Catholic.

Moving to a foreign country is never easy.
The hardships of assimilating into a new culture whilst maintaining your ties to your homeland is no simple task, and for both Bibiana Kwaramba and Isabel Mutoya, the move to Perth was made more difficult as even Mass felt unfamiliar to them.