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.

Catholics are cohabiting before marriage and going years without confession, according to new research published. The Pastoral Research Office, an office of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference, included the information in its November newsletter.

When most people will be celebrating the joyous family festivities associated with Christmas, Osborne Park priest Fr Michael Gatt and his team of dedicated volunteers will be offering a listening ear to those whose sense of loneliness and isolation is magnified at this time of year.

Vandals smashed three stained glass windows of the heritage listed St Brigid’s Catholic Church in Northbridge in the early hours of November 26.

Liz Conor and Judith McGuinness have been named the recipients of the Abbot Placid Memorial Scholarship.

As he addressed the crowd gathered for the St Vincent de Paul Society’s Christmas Appeal launch, Sudanese refugee Piok paused and seemed overwhelmed by the occasion. “It has been an amazing journey from being a child soldier to speaking before the Governor and others here,” he reflected. “But it is a great privilege and honour.”

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.