With almost 10,000 people in Western Australia identifying as homeless at the last census, the lack of affordable and emergency housing in this Sstate is becoming an issue we can no longer ignore.

Centre for Liturgy Director Sr Kerry Willison explains some of the finer points on Lent.

2016 promises to be an exciting time for young adults as they prepare to gather in Krakow, Poland with Pope Francis and millions of other young people from around the world in July for the 15th World Youth Day.

The evolving methods of communication are an important concept for the Church today.

The work of Campus Ministry (Fremantle and Broome) and Chaplaincy (Sydney) is at the heart of the community of The University of Notre Dame Australia.

As he dwells on an extraordinary life of achievements, graces and favour, but also of hardship, tribulation and suffering, it is difficult for Minh Le to speak about his past without shedding a tear or two.

Perched on a hill in the riverside suburb of Maylands, the icon-filled church of St John the Baptist serves as a reflection of the community it represents: Ukrainian Greek Catholics who have been here in WA since the 1940s, and whose story is one of hope triumphing over hardship, and of identity discovered through traditions and faith.

The Australian release of the movie Spotlight, which details the uncovering of the sexual abuse of minors in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, and in the United States of America more generally, tragically has many parallels for the Catholic Church in Australia.

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.

The group – which takes its name from Armadale’s church of St Francis Xavier – began in 1995 with the goal of providing outreach to parishioners and others in the community who needed help, normally in the form of food or additional support when they were struggling.