Incense filled the small but dignified chapel of St Charles Seminary  in Guildford on the evening of September 17 as the families and friends of five seminarians witnessed their admission to Candidacy for Holy Orders. Renald Anthony, Grant Gorddard, Stephen Gorddard, CJ Millen and Simeon San moved another step closer towards ordination, a journey which will lead to ordination to the Diac...

It is hard to believe that I am beginning my fourth year here in Rome, writes Mark Baumgarten in his reflection over his time in Rome and future.

For many Western Australians, their first encounter with the image of Our Lady of Lujan was in reports of a special Mass held in Rio during World Youth Day. This statue is very rare in Australia but Western Australian Catholics can visit one at the Mercy Heritage Centre in the CBD.

The 135-kilometre walk to New Norcia is no push-over, but the blisters and tiredness were well worth it for 24 pilgrims of the Camino Salvado…

After 18 years at The Record, the last 13 as Editor, Peter Rosengren is leaving to take up the editorship of The Catholic Weekly in Sydney.

Beginning Experience, a peer ministry that has been offering hope and faith to separated, divorced and widowed people for almost 30 years, is sadly facing its ending here in Perth.

Father Patrick Cunningham, a past editor of The Record, visited St Charles’ Seminary to celebrate Mass and address the students on the early history of the seminary.

The Catholic faith of Supreme Court Justice Robert Mazza is so central to his life he recently found himself calling for divine intervention for his beloved Fremantle Dockers, he told a crowd of over 170 men gathered in Perth on September 12.

The president of Australia’s only liberal arts college will visit Perth next month as he travels around the country as part of the ‘Core Conversation Tour’.

Our Lady of Grace Catholic Primary School is hosting a fundraising evening on September 26 for eight-month-old Bede Darch, who is suffering from an inoperable brain tumour.