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.

Providing assistance and support to vulnerable and at-risk people in our community, such as the homeless, sick, aged and the poor, was the focus of the City of Joondalup’s 2015 Mayoral Prayer Breakfast at Joondalup Resort’s Lakeview Ballroom on Thursday 5 November.

Springtime is alive and well in the flowerbeds of the Emmaus Community in Queens Park, but it is the blossoming of human life that truly captures the spirit of this haven of restoration.

Catholic schools must be places where the Catholic worldview is not confined to the Religious Education classes but permeates the entire school, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe recently told an audience at John XXIII College in Mt Claremont.

Twenty three couples reaped the benefits of a parenting course designed to tackle issues and challenges common in early childhood when they gathered at Notre Dame University in Fremantle earlier this year.

Residents at Mercy Place Mandurah have come up close and personal with lions and elephants during an African safari, as well as taking a gondola ride through the canals in Venice – all without leaving the comfort of their armchairs.

One personal best is all that stands between, Jessica Lai, a Physiotherapy student at The University of Notre Dame Australia, and a place in Australia’s women’s weightlifting squad for the 2018 Commonwealth Games.