CREATING a Catholic culture where youth ministry is valued is the biggest challenge facing Acts2 College of Mission and Evangelisation (Acts2CoME), according to principal Jane Borg. The vocational training college has been in operation for almost a decade, and offers its students a variety of qualifications in youth ministry work. Although youth ministry has grown in recent times, Mrs...

The dream of trying to see Pope Francis up close ended at a police barricade for 74-year-old Odaleia Bastos. Bastos, like many residents of Rio’s Laranjeiras neighborhood, had hoped to see the pope as he entered the Guanabara Palace, the governor’s official residence, for his first official event in the city. Instead, she and hundreds of well-wishers were met with police security forces and riot police.

Pilgrims arrive on July 23 for the opening ceremony of World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro. Thousands endured rain and wind on Copacabana beach as they gathered for the event's kickoff and opening Mass. [gdl_gallery title="wydomass" width="130" height="100" ]

A liturgy incorporating Anglican patrimony will soon be trialled in Perth at the Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross Parish of St Ninian and St Chad’s in Maylands.

Director of Nursing at St John of God Midland Public and Private Hospitals Jeffrey Williams was recently named as an Adjunct Associate Professor for the School of Nursing and Midwifery at The University of Notre Dame Australia.

Learning the basics of fitness testing and how to successfully undertake an intravenous saline flush were just some of the activities that were part of the A Day in the Life (ADITL): Indigenous Program at The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle campus in June.

YOUNG MEN interested in experiencing the life of the De La Salle brothers are being invited to attend the ‘Challenge Program’ to be held in the remote town of Balgo in September. The order’s director of vocations Br Tony Cummins will lead the program which is aimed at giving participants a chance to take part in every aspect of the brothers’ life. Attendees will live and work with the...

THE REAL home of a bronze crucifix that was found in a watering can at a Maddington petrol station four months ago remains a mystery. A staff member found the religious item one evening in March, as she went to fill the empty watering can. The worker, who didn’t want to be identified, said she believed the crucifix was deliberately placed in the watering can. “It didn’t just fall o...

MONSIGNOR Michael Keating says he was privileged to meet Pope Francis at a general audience in Rome last month. Overseas on a pilgrimage, Mgr Keating stopped in Italy for eight days where he attended the Pope’s June 19 audience. At the conclusion of the audience, the Holy Father made his way around the people designated to meet him personally, chatting for a few minutes with each, inc...

With economic hard times as an excuse not to hire young people, the world risks tossing them aside and endangers its own future, Pope Francis said.