Vandals smashed three stained glass windows of the heritage listed St Brigid’s Catholic Church in Northbridge in the early hours of November 26.

Liz Conor and Judith McGuinness have been named the recipients of the Abbot Placid Memorial Scholarship.

As he addressed the crowd gathered for the St Vincent de Paul Society’s Christmas Appeal launch, Sudanese refugee Piok paused and seemed overwhelmed by the occasion. “It has been an amazing journey from being a child soldier to speaking before the Governor and others here,” he reflected. “But it is a great privilege and honour.”

Several students from St Charles’ Seminary in Guildford have recently undertaken a course on the Reformation at the University of Notre Dame. Part of their studies included a detailed study of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer.

The Soh family, founders of Buckets for Jesus, have been happily overwhelmed by the generosity of the Perth community, Catholic and non-Catholic alike, after a colossal amount of goods was donated to their Philippines typhoon appeal.

Pope Francis held a workshop at the Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences at the Vatican on November 2-3 to study the problem of human trafficking at the behest of women religious.

There was a large gathering of Filipinos and Australian friends, civic and family, in Bedford last Saturday evening to raise funds for the survivors of the recent Philippine disasters in the central Philippines.

The 10th annual Embrace the Grace conference will be held in New Norcia from December 11-15. This year’s theme is ‘Called to Freedom’, and participants can expect another life-changing five days, as Juanita Shepherd reports…

Christians are struggling to survive in the Holy Land but their strong supporters, the Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulchre, continue to grow in Perth where the first Australian lieutenancy was founded, 25 years ago.

TANZANIAN priest Fr Melodious Mlowe will spend three weeks in WA from November 27 to build connections between local schools and the unique Ngelela Environmental Secondary School (NESS) he established in the small African country. Fr Melodious will be accompanied by Wise Mgina, the administrator at the Tanzanian school, which was set up with the help of Perth’s Les and Bronwyn Mutton, as...