The relics of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina, also known as Padre Pio, are coming to St Mary’s Cathedral, Perth, this October.

It was with a great sense of honour and gratitude that Parish Priest of Saint Gerard Majella, Mirrabooka, Fr Giosuè Marini, recently accepted a first class relic of St Gerard during a pilgrimage to Materdomini, a small village within the Campania region of Italy.

A Swan View man who founded a charity in dedication to Our Lady has taken his devotion one step further by making private vows to live in her service.

For Bishop Don Sproxton, attending this year’s World Youth Day (WYD) in Poland provided a great opportunity to visit sites of spiritual significance, to meet young people and to reflect on the messages that Pope Francis – and the Church generally – has for them today.

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe has said that spending time with young people, and observing their small acts of mercy, was one of the most important aspects of his experience at this year’s World Youth Day (WYD) in Krakow, Poland.

There are many things to be both grateful for and proud of in our Archdiocese. Without doubt, one of them is the extraordinary presence of the Church in the provision of health care. The range of services, agencies and institutions which work in this field in the name of the Church, and more importantly the flesh and blood people who are the face of the Church’s presence in health care in our Archdiocese, are celebrated in this edition of The Record Magazine.

World Youth Day will always be bigger than the Olympics. The sheer number of people who make the journey to participate proves the point. Forty thousand young people from the United States alone made their way to Poland.

A new plan with the central message to walk faithfully in the footsteps of the Good Shepherd, has now been released by Archbishop Timothy Costelloe.

Modern day society’s increased focus on health, fitness and wellbeing plays a significant role in the way young people perceive themselves and those by whom they are surrounded.

Residents at MercyCare’s Residential Aged Care facility in Wembley are helping recruit new staff under a plan to give them a more active role in the centre’s operations.