Caritas Australia started in the early 1960s among lay Catholics who wanted to make a difference on issues of social justice. To tackle the issues of hunger and poverty, they created the Catholic Overseas Relief Committee in 1964.

Personal Advocacy Service (PAS), the Archdiocese’s outreach agency which provides one-to-one friendships and support within many parishes for people with intellectual disabilities, has spent the month of July celebrating its 25th anniversary in the company of past and present families and friends.

School of Physiotherapy Lecturer at the University of Notre Dame’s Fremantle campus Jennifer Persaud has made a significant contribution towards a process which has resulted in the delivery of greater professional rewards and workplace entitlements for Advanced Practitioner Physiotherapists (APP).

Thirty children from St Jerome’s Parish in Munster and Our Lady of Lourdes Parish in Rockingham took part in an alter server’s camp at Lake Leschenaultia in Chidlow from July 14-16.

What if your parish were to set up a stall in the shopping mall offering people information about the Catholic Faith? What if we went out and knocked on people’s doors to explain our faith? What if we really penetrated the social media to proclaim Christ’s Gospel and the Faith?

For John McCarthy, prison chaplaincy isn’t just about taking Christ to those behind bars, as Mark Reidy explains…

A weekly newspaper alone is no longer affecting all those the Church desires to reach, says James Parker in this week’s editorial.

About 700 people attended a special Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral on July 25 in memory of the 298 lives lost in the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 tragedy

ONE OF THE STATE’S most historic musical instruments has been acquired by the Archdiocese of Perth, and will soon make St Anne’s Church in Belmont its new home. Built by the Swan River Colony’s first organ builder, Robert Clifton, between 1895 and 1908, the organ was recently donated to the parish by St Alban’s Anglican Church in Highgate, after it was deemed to be surplus to the parish’...

WHEN Fr Paul Raj was ordained in 1982 in Chennai, India, he never imagined he would spend the majority of his priesthood in Perth. But this year marks 25 years since Fr Raj first arrived in Australia, eventually being incardinated into the Archdiocese of Perth in 1995. Fr Raj told The Record his journey to Perth started when he migrated to Melbourne at the invitation of his brother in...