Catholic secondary students and Fremantle’s Notre Dame University have been hard at work thinking of ways to help others this Christmas. Students at Kolbe Catholic College in Rockingham kept Society of St Vincent de Paul volunteers busy late last month with a treasure trove of Christmas hampers for needy families in the area. Each year, Kolbe College students and staff support the Soc...

AMID growing concerns over Australia’s aging population, Southern Cross Care (SCC), one of the largest providers of aged care in Western Australia, has opened another respite centre to meet its increasing number of clients. Last week, SCC officially opened the Tony Quinlan Respite Centre in Hilton, the only centre in the area that offers five days of activities as well as overnight and e...

Caritas Australia put its best foot forward last week when it launched its campaign to advocate on behalf of Indigenous communities around the world and in Australia. The film, Walk As One; Con-necting with our world’s Indigenous Peoples, was shown at the Catholic Pastoral Centre in Highgate on the 26th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s visit to Alice Springs on November 29, 1986. Th...

When Maree Tyrrell began to organise the 80th birthday party of Fr Brian Morgan she wanted to do more than just honour the life of an inspiring, humble and still very active priest - she wanted the occasion to be a celebration of the priesthood. Her dreams were fulfilled when over 150 of Fr Brian’s friends, including 13 priests, gathered at the Doubleview Bowling Club on October 27 to gi...

Father David Callaghan knows what it is to speak the truth in new and interesting ways. The Canberra based Missionaries of God’s Love priest will be heading west in January to lecture at the Disciples Summer School (January 6-13) where he will present talks such as ‘Man Up’ and ‘Is my smart phone a brain-eating zombie?’ Fr David will speak directly to the challenges people face today....

Father Leon Anderson is a survivor. The Oblate priest celebrates 40 years of priestly life this year. It is a milestone he nearly did not reach by around 19 years. In August 1993, he survived a near-fatal car accident while returning from celebrating Sunday Mass at St John’s in Erica, an outstation of St Kiernan’s in Moe, Victoria. His car skidded on a wet road and hit a tree. Fr L...

The Ukranian Church of St John the Baptist in Maylands held a Holodomor memorial service this week to remember the millions of people who died during a peacetime famine in 1932. About eight million Ukrainians died of starvation during the man-made famine in Ukrainian SSR between 1932 and 1933. A service was conducted by Fr Wolodymyr Kalinecki to remember the tragedy and was followed b...

Saint Luke’s Woodvale have a lot of diversity to celebrate and when they do, it’s a “riot of colour”, one St Luke’s parishioner told The Record this week. The parish has just held its annual ‘International Fun and Food Nite’, facilitated by the parish’s social committee to coincide with their spiritual patron, St Luke’s Feast Day. “[The event] reflects the rich multiculturalism of the...

Work has stopped on a new church in the Lower Chittering due to a lack of funds. The unfinished, Romanesque church is located in the expanding community of Maryville Downs, about 15 km north of Bullsbrook. Construction of the Divine Mercy Church will not recommence until the parish has sourced all of the funds it needs to complete the project. Parish Priest Fr Paul Fox and parish c...

Misconceptions about the Catholic Church’s global aid charity led Daniel Chan on a journey from ignorance to awareness, one that landed him the organisation’s top job in the state. Mr Chan is Caritas Australia’s new Diocesan Director for the Archdiocese of Perth and the Regional Engagement Coordinator in Western Australia and the Northern Territory. A member of St Vincent’s parish in ...