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.

We owe it to ourselves and to our families to see beyond the churlish efforts of the commercial world that seeks to secularise Christmas, says Bishop Saunders in his 2014 Christmas message.

One of the final wishes of the late Fr Dan Foley was realised when a book capturing the history of the Good Shepherd Parish in Lockridge was recently launched.

Religious leaders from Perth’s Uniting Church, Anglican Church, Muslim, Sikh, Hindu, Jewish, Buddhist and Baha’i communities, led a moving interfaith service at Wesley Church on Wednesday evening to commemorate the victims of the Sydney siege and condemn terrorism.

The Honourable Kim Beazley, who has been serving as Ambassador to the United States since 2009, returned to Notre Dame in Fremantle to deliver an insightful lecture on Australia’s alliance with the United States of America.

Mercy College teacher of 30 years, Mayford Godfrey, has this week retired from full-time teaching. PHOTO: Courtesy of Mayford Godfrey

Two of MercyCare’s longest serving volunteers have received a state-wide award this week, acknowledging their incredible devotion over the past 50 years to the not-for-profit organisation.