ARCHBISHOP Timothy Costelloe SDB officially launched LifeLink Day 2013 on May 28 at Corpus Christi College in Bateman. LifeLink is an Archdiocesan organisation that supports social service agencies established or funded by the Church. Students, teachers and schools are encouraged to organise fundraising events on LifeLink Day each year to help support the work of LifeLink in WA. This ...

Local student, Kiyshirah Ah-Thew will take over the top job at Majella Catholic Primary School, Balga, on June 6. Kiyshirah will act as “principal” as part of a national program being coordinated by Principals Australia Institute – Student Principal for a Day.

Perth teacher Richard Charlwood will be ordained to the minor orders of Lector and Sub-deacon in the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church at Maylands on June 23.

A new e-learning hospital specially designed for students enrolled in The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Diploma of Nursing program was launched at the Broome Campus on May 13.

POPE FRANCIS will be “flexible, accessible and approachable” as the leader of the Catholic Church, according to George von Waidkuns-Velazquez, a former student of the Pope’s. George von Waidkuns-Velazquez spent almost two years at the Collegio Maximo San Jose in San Miguel, a Jesuit seminary in Argentina, in the 1980s where he was taught pastoral theology and humanities by Jorge Bergogli...

Hollywood didn’t abandon Christianity, Christianity abandoned Hollywood, visiting US family-friendly media advocate Dr Ted Baehr told audiences in Perth last week.

If you were to compare your faith to a car, is it bringing you closer towards God? Or is it unused, stalled or steering off course? This was the main idea for the Jumpstart – Reignite, Re-energise Retreat organised by the Santa Clara Parish in Bentley with assistance from the Catholic Youth Ministry of Perth.

The Knights of the Southern Cross are preparing for World Youth Day in Brazil by holding their inaugural KSC Perth Archdiocesan Youth Soccer Cup on June 29. Organisers are encouraging parishes and groups throughout Western Australia to get their teams ready to play at Mercedes College, Perth.

Twice, fire nearly destroyed the life of Robert Falzon, yet it is exactly what is needed to rejuvenate the Church today, he told over 80 men gathered in Perth on May 16.

More than 600 people gathered at Bove Farm, south of Busselton on Sunday, May 5, for the annual Busselton May Rosary Celebration. The event is held in honour of Our Lady at the Queen of the Holy Rosary Shrine located on the property and has been celebrated every year since 1980.