About 300 people gathered to celebrate Fr Ken Keating’s Golden Jubilee of Ordination on June 29 at Our Lady of Grace Catholic Church in North Beach. The church that Fr Ken served as parish priest for more than 25 years was filled to capacity with past and present parishioners in attendance.

Archdiocesan staff and clergy gathered on June 28 to thank Paddy Buckley for her work as coordinator of the Year of Grace. Ms Buckley took on the voluntary role at the request of the then-Archbishop Barry Hickey in 2011 and said she had enjoyed it immensely.

He has one of the most recognisable faces in WA. Starting off in journalism helping his dad as a casual at The Sunday Times at the age of 15, Peter Kennedy finished secondary school at Aquinas College and then studied at UWA. Failing to secure a cadetship, he turned to teaching but an unexpected break at The West Australian catapulted him into political journalism. Now a retired ABC journalist and winner of the Clarion Award who lectures at Notre Dame University, he continues to write and is researching a book about the premiers he has known. Peter opens up to The Record and tells us about his faith, what he thinks about Gregory Peck and how technology aids reporters …

Quality education is built around partnerships. At least, that was much of the thinking that underpinned the recent open day held at Kolbe Catholic College on June 28.

Take one dance teacher, three residents of an aged care facility with nearly three centuries of life between them, a complement of student dancers, a little inspiration and the result is a moving tale of life’s highs and lows.

Modern-day Ethiopia was the primary inspiration for JRR Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Perth Catholic Michael Muhling asserts in his book The Real Middle-Earth: Discovering the Origin of The Lord of the Rings.

To shouts of ‘Ole Ole’, a famous soccer crowd chant, 16 teams from the Archdiocese of Perth kicked off at Mercedes College on Saturday to compete for the Knights of the Southern Cross Cup. The first-time event, sponsored by the Malaysian Singaporean Catholic Community Australia (MSCCA), was coordinated by the Knights of the Southern Cross Cathedral Branch with the help of Mercedes Girls College to raise funds for the youth.

A ground breaking initiative linking expectant Timorese mothers with healthcare providers through mobile technology was partly inspired by University of Notre Dame lecturers who focused on social issues as they taught. The Liga Inan, or ‘Mobile Mums’, project aims to help improve the likelihood of healthy births and reduce infant mortality rates in the Southeast Asian country.

Good Shepherd Kelmscott parishioner Helen Crosby went on a pilgrimage to Rome in 1985; the precursor to World Youth Day (WYD) and talks about her journey in lead up to WYD 2013 in Brazil.

There were two reasons for Mass being celebrated at Holy Spirit church in City Beach on Friday June 21: one, to celebrate the feast day of the founder of Opus Dei, St Josemaria Escriva; the second, to celebrate the arrival of Opus Dei in Australia 50 years ago.