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After the boarding house doors shut

Parents of students at Nagle Catholic College in Geraldton are concerned for the future of their families when the College closes its boarding facilities at the end of 2015. The school announced its decision in February citing a change in rural dynamics and substantial financial losses as the main determinants. Parent of two current boarding students and a 2012 graduate, Allison Whybr...
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Phil and Bev Logue, pictured with their children, are angry about the impending Nagle boarding closure.

Girls at crossroads hold audience in play’s thrall

Students and staff at Santa Maria Catholic College in Attadale staged five enthralling showings last week of the school’s production, Daughters of Venice. The school’s theatre was filled to capacity for each performance from Wednesday night’s opening to Sunday evening’s final show. In total, more than 700 people saw the show over the five nights. Daughters of Venice is set in 18th ...
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Santa Maria students play characters at the cross-road of discerning their God-given vocation in Daughters of Venice. PHOTO: SANTA MARIA

Student wins prestigious Waugh essay prize

An intriguing essay about the country house tradition in wartime England has delivered an Arts graduate from The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle Campus a “rare” and “outstanding” achievement in an international essay competition.

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An essay written by UNDA graduate Ellen O’Brien has won an international competition sponsored by the Evelyn Waugh Society. PHOTO: UNDA

Relics draw faithful to feast of Mercy

Devotions in honour of the feast of Divine Mercy were held at several parishes around Perth on Sunday, April 7. In the city, at St Mary’s Cathedral, almost 300 attended the afternoon Mass at which Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB was the main celebrant.

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Participants come forward to venerate relics of St Faustina Kowalska, founder of the Divine Mercy devotion, in St Mary’s Cathedral last Sunday. The first Sunday after Easter was established by Pope John Paul II as the feast of Divine Mercy after St Kowalska’s canonisation in 2000. PHOTO: Matthew Biddle

Rainbow of love pic wins St Paul’s first prize

St Paul’s Primary School in Mt Lawley entered a City of Stirling photographic competition which is part of an international effort to eliminate racial discrimination – and won it.

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The photo that won the City of Stirling’s competition: students dressed in colours of the rainbow and holding hands for Harmony Day. PHOTO: Joanna Noonan

La Salle’s Pia takes the cake for organ scholarship

Pia Schelfhout was presented with the FJ Larner Organ Scholarship for 2013 at St Mary’s Cathedral on April 5. The Year 12 student at La Salle College in Midland won the prestigious award after submitting an outstanding application and performing well at a subsequent audition.

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Cathedral Music Director Jacinta Jakovcevic, left, with scholarship winner Pia Schelfhout and St Mary’s priest Fr Jean-Noel Marie. PHOTO: Matthew Biddle

Beach’s the canvas for young sculptors

Remarkable creations in beach sand including St Peter’s Basilica, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI’s coat of arms, the Miraculous Medal, the Annunciation and St Michael the Archangel were highlights of a Catholic sand scuplture competition last month.

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The Singles for Christ team celebrate their win in the Catholic Youth Ministry Sand Sculpture competition. PHOTO: Michael Connelly, CYM

New voices for media cycle

A group of young Catholics in Melbourne is strengthening the image of the Church in Australia by representing it in an informed, educated and orthodox way.

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CVA founders Chris Bergin, second from left, Kathleen Bergin, Penny Badwal, Robert Dugdale, Madeleine Dugdale, and Therese Nichols with Fr Nicholas Pearce at the organisation’s launch on April 4. PHOTO: Fiona Basile, Kairos

Relics draw faithful to feast of Mercy

Devotions in honour of the feast of Divine Mercy were held at several parishes around Perth on Sunday, April 7. In the city, at St Mary’s Cathedral, almost 300 attended the afternoon Mass at which Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB was the main celebrant. During his homily, the Archbishop said that, as recipients of God’s mercy, all need to show the same mercy towards others. “We are...
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Participants come forward to venerate relics of St Faustina Kowalska, founder of the Divine Mercy devotion, in St Mary’s Cathedral last Sunday. The first Sunday after Easter was established by Pope John Paul II as the feast of Divine Mercy after St Kowalska’s canonisation in 2000.

Good Friday footy hard to Swallow

The Australian Football League (AFL) has been praised for continuing not to schedule matches on Good Friday, despite mounting pressure from clubs and other sporting codes.

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Andrew Swallow of the Kangaroos says that Good Friday ahould be a day without football. PHOTO: Getty Images

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