The Mandorla Centre for Inner Peace has announced the 44 artists selected as finalists in Australia’s most significant religious thematic art prize, the 2016 Mandorla Art Award.
Seniors at Mercy Health’s Mercyville Hostel in Craigie teamed up with local children earlier this year to entice summer showers by making rain sticks which, in many ancient cultures, represent the patter of rain when they are shaken.
The University of Notre Dame Australia is leading a four-year national research project to investigate how Aboriginal organisations in the Kimberley region of Western Australia deliver value in their communities and to the wider public, while still remaining true to their cultural origins.
Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has last weekend addressed the pressing questions of young Catholics at a special event hosted by the St Joseph’s Church Subiaco Youth Group.
Imagine having an intense job that takes you away from your family for almost a year, as you travel around the world on a ship, and can only make contact with them when you reach port.
“The Lord is calling you to be with him in Poland, and He is preparing to send you out on mission.”
As many readers would know, I was born and raised in Melbourne. I come from what might be described as a normal Catholic family and attended a local Catholic primary school and then a Catholic boys’ secondary school, Salesian College, from where I matriculated in 1971.
It is difficult today to find a school in Western Australia that does not integrate digital learning into its curriculum.
Six-hundred students from 74 Catholic Primary Schools came together on Wednesday 8 June, to create a powerful visual display at Lake Monger Reserve to celebrate the official launch of the Archbishop’s 2016 LifeLink Day.
Over the last two decades, I have had the pleasure of serving on boards and committees of a variety of different Catholic educational bodies, including, for the last eight years, and by virtue of my position as Vice Chancellor, on the governing boards of The University of Notre Dame Australia.