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...

SYDNEY’S Robert Haddad delivered five talks at St Paul’s Catholic Church in Mount Lawley earlier this month, as part of the parish mission. The mission’s title was ‘I Make All Things New’, and included talks on Mary, Pope Francis, the Eucharist, and the need for a new apologetics. Mr Haddad, who is the head of the New Evangelisation for the Catholic Education Office in Sydney, told th...

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.