Lent is about many things but at its heart are prayer, fasting and almsgiving … It’s a time for seeking the Lord’s help to see and judge things as he does, say Archbishop Timothy Costelloe in his Lenten Pastoral Message

‘I want to assure our Catholic community that the Church is strong and will be guided by the Holy Spirit through the days and weeks ahead, just as she has been for the last two thousand years.’, says Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB in his response to Pope Benedicts XVI’s resignation on Feb 11 in Rome.

‘Pope Benedict has reached out to our Jewish brothers and sisters in a way that has built new avenues of understanding and reconciliation,’ says Bishop Don Sproxton in his response to Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation on Feb 11 in the Vatican.

Twenty-six youth leaders took part in a youth ministry training day on February 9 that was aimed at preparing them for leadership roles in their parishes, communities and movements in 2013.

Research shows that well-functioning, healthy families have skills and patterns of relating that appear again and again. The Archdiocese of Perth’s Catholic Marriage and Fertility Services agency is collaborating with Relationships Australia to offer families the six-week Building Stronger Families program on Wednesday evenings.

Catholics at St Anne’s Centre for the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite in Belmont received a special blessing of the throat on the feast of St Blaise.

The archdiocese-owned Eagle’s Nest Retreat Centre in Gidgegannup continues to go from strength to strength, with a recent upgrade in the size of its dining area and a steady increase in the number of Catholic schools using the site.

Love, suspense, humour and a unique setting characterised the latest performance by Shakespeare WA, Much Ado About Nothing, at the Kings Park Botanic Gardens in 2013.

Saint Mary’s Cathedral music director Jacinta Jakovcevic says even she is surprised at the opportunity the F J Larner Organ Scholarship represents for serious young pianists and organists.

An evening of talks will offer interested parties the opportunity to get to know the life and legacy of Perth’s controversial first Catholic bishop a little better.