Perth Christians are refusing to accept the signs of the times this Lent, pushing back with prayers, fasting, and signage of their own.

Safe Motherhood Project co-ordinator Provaty Rozario (centre); Deputy Opposition Leader Roger Cook (right); and Fr Geoff Aldous (back) with students from St Vincent’s. PHOTO: Robert Hiini

A wonderful reason for a walk, praying the Rosary and singing Marian hymns in the annual procession honouring Mary at Lake Monger. PHOTO: Matthew Biddle

Almost 450 Catholics from around Perth gathered for the annual torchlight procession around Lake Monger on Friday night in honour of Our Lady of Lourdes.

Mr Cordier, who had been cycling from Sydney to Perth in an effort to raise money to aid Doctor Catherine Hamlin and her work at the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital in Ethiopia, which treats women with childbirth injuries, cycled into South Beach in Fremantle on Valentine’s Day.

The extensive graffiti damage to St John’s Pro-Cathedral carried out earlier this month has been removed during work to strip the outside walls.

The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Board of Governors has reappointed Professor Celia Hammond for a further five years as the university’s Vice Chancellor.

The Director of Catholic Education in Western Australia, Dr Timothy McDonald, has welcomed the recent announcement by Education Minister Peter Collier regarding $25 million of capital loans at a reduced interest rate available to non-government schools in 2013.

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.