Manicures and massages are on the menu for clients at MercyCare’s McAuley House in Wembley, thanks to a new volunteer beauty service.

The University of Notre Dame Australia and Fiona Wood Foundation last week launched an Australia-first postgraduate program to ensure health care practitioners are well-equipped to provide scarless healing in mind and body of the nation’s 200,000 yearly burn victims.

The Archdiocese of Perth has last week officially launched the biographies of Archbishop Patrick Clune CSsr, written by Fr Christopher Dowd, and Bishop Martin Griver, written by Odhran O’Brien.

Lifelink Day is all about responding in a practical, down-to-earth way to people who are suffering, said Archbishop Costelloe this week, as he spoke to students, teachers and special guests at the launch of the 2015 Lifelink Day.

In the first week of a special promotion by the e-Record to celebrate the role of women in the Church across the Archdiocese of Perth, University of Notre Dame Australia Vice-Chancellor Professor Celia Hammond spoke to journalist Marco Ceccarelli about her dedication to a learning environment that facilitates both the acquisition of knowledge and the development of the human person.

Twelve parishes from the Perth Archdiocese have just completed their leg of a 100-day, round-the-clock Eucharistic Adoration vigil, providing Catholics from nine cities with the opportunity to unite in a nationwide prayer initiative.

A series of thought-provoking lectures and interactive walking tours will take guests on a journey through the long and complex experiences of war in Fremantle since 1829 as part of the City’s 2015 Fremantle Heritage Festival program at The University of Notre Dame Australia from 8 to 17 May.

An internationally acclaimed course designed to deepen participants’ personal relationship with Christ is being held in Western Australia for the first time.

For St Teresa of Avila, a life of contemplative prayer was not something that could be acquired by merit, like passing an examination, for instance. For her, such a life, whether of the ordinary lay person or a committed religious, was rooted in the imitation of Christ and was primarily aimed at the service of the Lord.

It is beyond question that we have to do much more in favour of women, said Pope Francis recently, as he began the first of two talks during his general audience on the Difference and complementarity between men and women.