Parents, students and staff have worked together to establish a thriving vegetable garden at Mandurah Catholic College.

An event of major historical dimensions for Catholics and for Jews. With these simple yet poignant words, President of the Perth Hebrew Congregation, Julian Sher, last week opened the commemoration of the Vatican II document on Christian-Jewish relations, Nostra Aetate (In Our Times).

Master of Business Leadership graduand, Karin Eastwood, says nothing will make her more proud than to share the stage with her son, George, at The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle Campus 2015 December Graduation Ceremony.

An official opening ceremony was last week held for the new St John of God Hospital Midland – just four days before it was set to open its doors to the public.

St Anthony’s Parish in Greenmount was privileged to have the relics of three Saints – its Patron Saint St Anthony of Padua, St John Paul II and St Mary of the Cross MacKillop – installed in its Church by Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB on 7 November 2015.

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe has this month encouraged newly commissioned catechists, saying that keeping our eyes firmly fixed on the Good Shepherd is the only way forward as a community, listening carefully for His word, waiting patiently for His guidance and following in His footsteps.

The Justice, Ecology and Development Office last month joined hundreds of West Australians in welcoming refugees, migrants and visitors to Australia at a family fun day at John MacMillan Park.

Catholic Outreach’s pastoral care programs are gaining momentum in Perth as Director Peter Mc Minn and Outreach Officer Betty Thompson introduce the benefits of the LifeLink-sponsored agency to more parishes within the Archdiocese.

By their own admission, seniors at Mercy Health’s Villa Maria in Lesmurdie love animals and, to prove it, they’re helping to celebrate the 80th anniversary of one of Australia’s oldest dog rescue organisations – the Dogs’ Refuge Home in Shenton Park.

Revealing the changing risks of self-representation in Aboriginal communities of the North West through digital media is the subject of PhD research by William Lempert through The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Nulungu Research Institute.