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.

The Christmas Candle is the only Christmas movie being released this year in Australia, and is based on the novel written by renowned Christian author Max Lucado.

An array of aromas and colour set the tone for the Peranakan Fair at St Norbert’s College in Queens Park on November 24. Hundreds attended throughout the day to sample the delicious cuisine, learn more about the Peranakan culture and support two worthy causes in the process.

A grand admission ceremony on October 8 saw 17 men admitted into one of Western Australia’s oldest Catholic lay organisations, the Order of the Knights of the Southern Cross.

Students at some of Perth’s Catholic schools have brought great generosity out of their local communities, gathering goods for the Society of St Vincent de Paul’s Christmas Appeal and for refugees in war-torn Syria.

After a one-year absence, the Byzantine liturgy has returned to Northam, with plans to celebrate the Divine Liturgy there once a month.