Thirteen Year 11 students at Kolbe Catholic College in Rockingham travelled to Melbourne on December 4 to attend the inaugural Australian Catholic Youth Festival (ACYF).

PERTH Catholics responded eagerly to the Holy Father’s request to complete a questionnaire on the Church and the family recently, with more than 600 online responses being submitted in just a few weeks. Director of Catholic Marriage and Fertility Services Derek Boylen told The Record he was pleased with the response. “It is heartening to see that over 600 people logged onto the online...

ON THE SAME day the High Court overturned the ACT’s same-sex marriage legislation, the WA Greens Party introduced its own gay marriage bill in State Parliament. Upper house MP Lynn MacLaren introduced a private member’s bill on December 12, the final sitting day for 2013 for WA’s Legislative Council. The bill aims to amend the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1998 to prov...

HUNDREDS of motorbikes covered in tinsel and Christmas decorations converged on Mandurah on December 14 as part of the annual Motorcycle Charity Ride. About 600 motorcyclists, many of whom were part of the Christian Motorcyclists Association, took part in the ride from the Ravenswood Hotel to the Mandurah town centre, in front of hundreds of eager spectators. The riders carried food, ...

THE PARISH of St Patrick’s in Fremantle will say goodbye to Fr John Sebastian Ramesh OMI on December 22 as he leaves Perth to take up a new role in Victoria. Fr John Sebastian has been assisting at the parish for about four years, and has also been the chaplain to the University of Notre Dame in Fremantle during that period. His new position will be as the assistant priest at St John ...

A raging fire threatened to cause damage to a new Catholic primary school on December 10, the school’s last day of classes for the year.

A local charity is in the Philippines, distributing goods donated by the people of Perth. They say it’s a great start, but it’s only the beginning.

St Mary’s Cathedral was teeming with life last Monday night as the Catholic community of Perth celebrated 100 years as an Archdiocese.

When the curtain was drawn on the final night of Women on the Fringe in September last year, writer, director and Wanneroo parishioner Gerald Searle knew his work was not finished, but he didn’t expect that a DVD production of the play would ever be screened on West Television WTV (Channel 44) to a potential audience of over 35,000.

Euthanasia is being wrongly viewed as a way of escaping the problem of suffering and the fear of ageing, according to Perth’s Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton.