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...

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.