State cricket coach and Perth Catholic Justin Langer has put his hand up to be the coach of the newly-formed Vatican cricket team, the St Peter’s Cricket Club. Langer, who is contracted as coach of the WA side until the completion of the 2015/16 season, told The Record he would relish the opportunity to coach the team, that will likely consist of priests and seminarians studying in Rome.

Why, in spite of its huge resources, do so many people not come to know the living Christ in the Catholic Church? That was the question posed by Cardinal Edwin O’Brien of New York, Grand Master of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre, when he preached at St Joseph’s Church in Subiaco last Saturday morning.

Perth Catholics are being encouraged to take part in the Church’s global questionnaire on the challenges facing the family today.

Caritas Australia and its emergency response partners will deliver more than 4,000 temporary shelters to families in the poorest villages of Ormoc in the Philippines, where up to 90 per cent of homes were decimated by Typhoon Haiyan.

Filipino Catholics in Perth are worried for their families affected by the destructive typhoon Haiyan, which tore through the Philippines last weekend.

Western Australians came out in force on November 8 in support of the plight of 300 Vietnamese Catholic asylum seekers detained in the Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre just outside Northam.

Perth-based Catholic groups have rallied to help Filipinos devastated by Typhoon Haiyan. An estimated four million people have been affected by the typhoon which struck the county’s eastern islands on November 8, with deaths estimated at upwards of 10,000.

Brad Barbuto hadn’t been back to Bali since the bombings of 2005, but this time was different, beginning on the sandy beaches close to the Tuka Bali Orphanage where Mr Barbuto often lent a supporting hand.

A healthy future for Midland and surrounding communities is yet another step closer, with a traditional construction ‘topping out’ ceremony held to mark the St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals reaching their full height recently.

Two of the Australian Catholic Church’s most influential figures discussed the significance of faith based education within the context of a Catholic university environment with staff from the University of Notre Dame Australia recently.