Despite living in a society that cherishes youth above all else, Dr Chris McGowan is optimistic about getting older.

A celebration of the Second Rite of Reconciliation will next month offer people the opportunity to re-engage with this sacrament and reflect on the benefits of reconciliation and forgiveness in the Jubilee Year of Mercy.

Newly arrived Syrian family, the Al Gharbis, are a perfect example of the rich cultural diversity that exists in the Perth Catholic community.

If Pope Francis were to suddenly walk into this room, what questions on the Jubilee Year of Mercy would you ask him?

As graduating students all over Australia worry about what their future holds next year, Year 12 Student Lachlan Smart already has his plan in action.

Two academics from The University of Notre Dame Australia’s School of Law, Fremantle, are part of a team that secured a Telethon – Perth Children’s Hospital Research Fund grant for approximately $250,000 to study the health impacts of energy drinks on adolescents.

St Mary’s Cathedral has this week been filled to capacity by hundreds of people who came to venerate the relics of Italian Saint Pio of Pietrelcina – also known as Padre Pio.

The parables of mercy present in the Gospel of Luke, whose feast coincided with this year’s Archdiocese of Perth Parish Secretaries’ Retreat, provided a perfect framework for a day in which the role of the parish secretary and the meaning of mercy took centre stage.

Born in a village north of the capital Juba, Mr Lako was taken at the age of ten – along with many other boys – by the South Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), under the guise of providing them with an education.

God will be proclaimed to the world through acts of love, not powerful arguments, Vicar General Father Peter Whitely has told attendees at the recent Eucharist for Catechists at St Michael the Archangel Chapel in Leederville.