Archbishop Timothy Costelloe has this week opened the doors of a new Centacare Employment and Training Centre.

An Open Day highlighting the ministries and activities of Our Lady of the Rosary Doubleview Parish was attended by some 300 people last month, reinforcing the dedication of organisers who had been planning the event since February.

Year 11 Mercedes College student, Danikka Calyon, will next month be travelling to New York to attend the 70th United Nations General Assembly as the national youth ambassador for Save the Children Australia.

A Writers Festival, presented by a team of acclaimed and experienced novelists and journalists, will be held in the idyllic setting of New Norcia on 12 September.

An opportunity to improve the care of expectant mothers across Western Australia’s vast Pilbara region has inspired Notre Dame midwifery student, Miriam West, to seek further working experiences in the country.

Students at St Dominic’s Primary School, Innaloo have this year had the opportunity to connect with students living in the Metta Geha Orphanage in Myanmar through a pen pal and gift-giving project.

The St Vincent de Paul Society is this week celebrating National Op Shop Week across its Vinnies shops.

The Archdiocese of Perth was recently delighted to welcome another dignitary from the Ukrainian Catholic Church, with the Rector of the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), Father Bohdan Prach, recently making Perth one of the final stops of his Australian visit.

Caritas Australia has last week reported that is working with its local partner, Caritas in Myanmar (Karuna Mission Social Solidarity [KMSS]), in assisting those who’ve been affected by Cyclone Komen.

We have to keep trying to love, and show our love, to those who matter to us, in ways that will make sense to them rather than simply in ways that will make us feel good, said Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe last weekend, in celebration of the bicentennial anniversary of the birth of St John Bosco on Sunday, 16 August.