Outgoing Trustee of St John of God Health Care, Mr Don Good, was recently bestowed with the Benemerenti Medal by his Holiness Pope Francis for his service to the health care ministry in Australia over four decades.

Two prominent Catholic Perth agencies supporting people with disabilities united for an Advent Celebration Mass and Christmas Afternoon Tea on 4 December.

There could not have been a better selection of stars making up the team performing the musical of Victor Hugo’s Les Misérables currently showing at The Crown Theatre in Perth than 16 graduates from Perth’s very own WA Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA).

Western Australian-based MercyCare CEO Chris Hall has recently been named one of Australia’s most influential figures in the nation’s not-for-profit sector.

MercyCare recently celebrated the contribution of migrants to the local community as part of International Migrants Day on Thursday, 18 December 2014.

St John of God Health Care last month surpassed the 10,000 mark – with 10,000 babies born during 2014 at its hospitals for the first time.

The University of Notre Dame Australia has conferred the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Laws honoris causa on Dr Carolyn Woo at a graduation ceremony on Wednesday, 17 December 2014.

Christmas seems to draw out of us our real humanity. It invites us again to be our best selves. If it was so one hundred years ago on the battlefields of Europe, it can still concretely happen for us today here in our own beautiful corner of the world, writes Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB.

The Gospel is the Good News of Jesus Christ. In fact, I have heard it put more beautifully and powerfully as the Good News which is Jesus Christ, says Bishop Justin Bianchini in his 2014 Christmas message.

Bishop Holohan says we must share the Christmas peace we enjoy with the world in his 2014 Christmas message.