Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is the most important traditional festival celebrated by the Chinese. In this Year of the Snake, more than 200 celebrated the lunar New Year at Holy Family Church in Como on February 10.

A recipient of one of the Western Australian State Government’s Young People Who Care Awards in 2012 has enrolled at Notre Dame’s Fremantle Campus to further her studies in assisting people overcome health problems and personal trauma.

Celia Hammond says she wants the University of Notre Dame Australia to be “more daring” as she begins her second five-year term as Vice Chancellor.

Daniel Mullaney’s is perhaps one voice which could outshine that of St Mary Cathedral’s Dodd Organ, painstakingly restored in 2009. Both voices, well-known to Cathedral parishioners and Archdiocesan personnel alike, can be heard on the CD Daniel sings at St Mary’s Cathedral launched last Christmas.

The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Vice Chancellor Emeritus, Dr Peter Tannock, has been awarded the Rev Theodore M Hesburgh CSC Award at the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities’ (ACCU) annual meeting in Washington DC recently.

More than 120 Year 7 students from Ursula Frayne Catholic College visited Perth’s Mercy Heritage Centre last week. The students were led through a variety of activities and given a tour of the historic convent building by Sister Joan Smith RSM.

Almost 200 people were admitted as the Elect for Initiation or as Candidates to enter the Catholic Church on February 19 at St Mary’s Cathedral.

Bishop Donald Sproxton gives a reflection on the RCIA night in which there hasn’t been a greater number of people seeking baptism and full admission into the Catholic Church in Perth on one evening.

For post-abortion grief helpers like Jenny Shier, the job is one day at a time …

In less than ten days, Deacon Victor Lujano will be ordained to the priesthood at St Mary’s Cathedral in Perth.