Southern Cross Care has been likened to a light in the darkness by Emeritus Archbishop Barry Hickey during a Mass to celebrate the aged-care organisation’s 50th anniversary.

At the threshold of World Youth Day and the meeting with Pope Francis, Perth pilgrims could not have received better words of encouragement than those recently spoken by Archbishop Costelloe at Our Lady of Mercy Parafia Rzymskokatolicka NMP Matki Miłosierdzia in Warsaw on Friday, 22 July.

A mere six weeks after Pope Francis raised the 22 July memorial of St Mary Magdalene to a feast on the Church’s liturgical calendar, Perth pilgrims on their way to World Youth Day had the privilege of celebrating the feast with a Mass celebrated by Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton.

Moving overseas can provide a great opportunity to explore new sights in different countries, and this was certainly the case for accountant, Mark Currell – who discovered among the intricate features of a Basilica in Amsterdam, a Holy Door similar to the one at his former parish in Whitford.

“Our Christian faith, before it is about anything else, is about a relationship with the Lord,” said Archbishop Costelloe. The Archbishop was speaking at the June 29 launch of the new Parish Religious Education Program, which took place at the Catholic Education Centre in Leederville. “A personal relationship with the Lord but one that takes place within the community of faith,” the A...

More than 130 student leaders gathered recently for the inaugural Catholic School Youth Summit, hosted by Catholic Education Western Australia (CEWA) and the University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle campus.

Seminarian Joseph Laundy has described how he swapped Perth’s familiar Mediterranean climate for the steamy jungles of Borneo during a recent pastoral assignment to Malaysia.

A team from The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Institute for Health Research is investigating the short-term links between head trauma and depression in young football players, in the hope of developing avenues for self-reflection and education about this issue at sporting clubs.

It has been more than three months since the release of Amoris Laetitia yet, in a sign of the document’s significance for the Church, it continues to make headlines.

A recent seminar in Perth, entitled Is She Safe?, which looked at the topic of human trafficking, brought together experts and interested parties to discuss the current situation, as well as examining potential responses and solutions through the witness of people working on such programs in Cambodia, the Philippines and Myanmar.