A YOUNG Perth Catholic will compete in the International Blind Sailing Championships in Japan later this month. Claremont parishioner Kylie Forth will skipper the four-person team in a fleet racing competition that will include 19 teams from six different countries. Ms Forth said she had high hopes for the event after a strong performance in the match racing format last year in Italy....

THREE out of four parishes in metropolitan Perth have a smaller percentage of Catholics than they did ten years ago according to recent census data. Sixty-two parishes in the Perth Archdiocese had less Catholics in 2011 than they did in 2001, while only 20 metropolitan parishes have increased in size. St Joseph Pignatelli Parish in Attadale witnessed the largest increase, rising from 33.9...

Servite Catholic College in Tuart Hill celebrated one of its most important feast days on April 8, that of the Annunciation. Students and staff filled the school hall for the Mass, which was celebrated by Fr Vincent Gilbertraj OSM. the school’s chaplain.

In 1973 the Servite College in Tuart Hill was the first Catholic school in Perth to introduce girls into their school and a Mass to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the event was celebrated on February 18.

The school and parish of St Lawrence in Balcatta hosted a soccer competition on April 7. Sixty players took part in the St Lawrence Parish Cup, which was held at a nearby oval during the afternoon.

The University of Notre Dame Australia has recognised and celebrated its students and staff members for outstanding academic achievement in 2012 at its annual Awards Ceremony held in March.

The visit by Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB to our parish, Holy Spirit, in City Beach, was encouraging, enlightening and a refreshing event. Parishioners were keen to see their new Shepherd for the first time in the flesh.

Seventy-three young Catholics from the Perth Archdiocese will attend World Youth Day in Brazil later this year as part of a Catholic Youth Ministry (CYM) group.

When most of Perth will be tucked warmly in bed on June 20, as temperatures head toward zero, a number of CEO’s from organisations across the state will be braving the elements in an effort to draw attention to the growing number of people enduring the hardships of sleeping out.

For a group of WA’s seminarians, their invitation to attend a special Mass in Osborne Park on April 7 was an opportunity to observe parishioners’ appreciation of “a caring priest in action”, for a pastoral job being well done.