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Focusing on First Australians

Domestic aid efforts by Caritas Australia have supported indigenous communities in developing themselves on their own terms for the past 40 years, the group leader of the First Australians program has said. Mark Green, who heads the Caritas Australian indigenous program, which recently changed its name to the First Australians program, told The Record the initiative was with the communit...
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Caritas’ new Diocesan Director for the Archdiocese of Perth, Daniel Chan. PHOTO: Sarah Motherwell

The Spirit is strong in this one

Bruno Cordier knows exactly where the money he is about to fundraise is going. The 33-year-old Perth based Frenchman is about to embark on a 3934 km cycle from Sydney to Perth to raise money for obstetric fistula, a terrible condition which causes birthing injuries for women, especially in developing countries. Mr Cordier was inspired by a recent visit to one of Dr Catherine Hamlin’s ...
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Frenchman Bruno Cordier, above, will cycle across Australia in the New Year to raise funds to combat preventable maternal death.

1829 diary find a researcher’s treasure

Rats, fleas, famine and sand are just some of the aspects of Fremantle that spoiled Mary Ann Friend’s experience when she visited the Swan River Colony in 1830, according to her researcher Associate Professor Deborah Gare at the University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle Campus. The location of Mrs Friend’s diary has been a mystery for years. Now the journal, which includes maps and ...
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Fremantle’s South Bay, now the Esplanade, painted in 1829 or 1830 by Mary Friend from where Marine Terrace and Collie Street now intersect.

Pastors pray to St Charles for future priesthood

Western Australia's most senior clerics gathered together at St Charles Seminary in Guildford to celebrate its Patronal Feast on November 5. Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB was joined by Archbishop Emeritus Barry Hickey, Bishop Donald Sproxton, Bishop Gerard Holohan of Bunbury, Bishop Christopher Saunders of Broome, Bishop Justin Bianchini of Geraldton and the Ordinary of the Personal O...
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Mgr Harry Entwistle, the Ordinary of the new Australian Ordinariate for former Anglicans, at left, joined with Bishop Christopher Saunders of Broome, Archbishop Emeritus Barry Hickey, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, Bishop Gerard Holohan of Bunbury, Bishop Donald Sproxton of Perth and Bishop Justin Bianchini of Geraldton for the patronal feast of St Charles Seminary in Guildford on November 4.

Mirrabooka parishioners picnic down by Swan

St Gerard’s, Mirrabooka, has a long his history of parish picnics and on Sunday October 14 the parishioners came together for a moment of communion and friendship on the grounds of St Charles Seminary, Guildford, on the banks of the Swan River. Around two hundred people turned out, enjoying the day’s perfect weather. St Gerard’s provided meat for the BBQ and the parishioners brought sala...
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Parishioners enjoyed the convivial bus ride to their picnic and the Spring weather.

Hands of Healing

Michael Siciliano Bedbound and suffering from chronic back pain, Michael Siciliano was at a loss as to how to reverse more than four decades worth of damage to his spine. After working for more than 45 years in the stainless steel manufacturing industry, the only position Mr Siciliano could bare without experiencing excruciating in both legs was lying flat on his back. “I was havin...
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Perth woman Michaelle Firth, at right, says she was healed of an extreme allergic reaction and also of hayfever.

Parishes ready to offer a human link

Every human person has inherent dignity and worth. That is a Christmas message the Archbishop of Perth wants to send during a time when many people are struggling to make ends meet. Archbishop Costelloe SDB held his first LifeLink Christmas appeal earlier this month and said he hoped to raise more than $575,000 to provide support for people in need within the community. “My Christmas ...
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Parish representatives gather at St Mary’s Cathedral Parish Centre for the launch of this year’s LifeLink Christmas Appeal.

Regalia with record of service to match

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB received a mantle of different kind from former Perth Archbishop Barry Hickey on November 4. In a two-hour-long ceremony at St Joseph’s Church in Subiaco, Archbishop Costelloe was instituted by Archbishop Emeritus Hickey as the new Grand Prior of the Western Australian Lieutenancy of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre. Archbishop Costelloe was join...
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‘Being Catholic in Australia takes great courage’

Being Catholic in Australia requires great courage and great faith in a society that no longer believes in Christian values says Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB. Speaking at a gathering of Knights and Ladies of the Holy Sepulchre recently, the Archbishop of Perth said the challenge of being Catholic would become “ever stronger and ever more demanding” and would require “great faith”. ...
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Archbishop Costelloe at Subiaco Parish on Novembver 4. PHOTO: Robert Hiini

Success school commits to learning of the future

“Don’t forget your iPads kids” may well become a common refrain at the fledgling Hammond Park Catholic Primary School in Success according to plans laid out in the school’s recent newsletter. The school will open its doors for the first time next year, catering for one kindergarten class, but Foundation Principal Chris Cully said HPCPS would be a digitally enabled school from the get-go....
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Foundation site for Hammond Park Catholic Primary School in Success

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