Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB issued a statement on Monday after Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced a Royal Commission into institutions run by church and state. In response to media enquiries this afternoon, Archbishop Timothy Costelloe, the Catholic Archbishop of Perth, has indicated that he welcomes the statement by the Prime Minister announcing the establishment of a Royal Com...

Hyperboles and hypotheses may put some people’s mind to the test but, for the students of Our Lady of Grace primary school in North Beach, no pronunciation or puzzle is too problematic. Two teams of seven students in Years 5 and 6 from the school participated in this year’s Tournament of Minds (TOM) national final. Our Lady of Grace language literature team beat seven other schools in...

Thousands flocked to visit the relics of St Francis Xavier on display at St Mary’s Cathedral in Perth’s CBD but, for the youth of Santa Clara parish in Bentley, seeing the relics had a deeper meaning. The parish is something of a living testament to the missionary work of St Francis, with the majority of parishioners hailing from diverse parts of Asia including Malaysia, Indonesia, the P...

The government’s recent move to lock-down refugee family reunions was “irony indeed” given Australia’s recent appointment to the UN Security Council, a Perth academic and researcher said this week. G M Joseph said recent changes to the Split Family Provisions meant even the wife and children of a man who had already been granted asylum in Australia would have to prove persecution, suppre...

The WA Indonesian Catholic Community celebrated its 20th Anniversary last week with the theme ‘The Wondrous Journey With Christ.’ For the past two decades it has been a great journey for the Indonesian community; they have overcome language barrier, brought migrants to the Church and evangelised their community. The celebrations began with a Thanksgiving mass at St Mary’s Cathedral. ...

The Catholic men’s group known as menALIVE will kick off a Catholic Man Breakfast Series with Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB on November 15. The breakfast will be an opportunity to “get under the hood” of some of the most interesting and successful Catholic men in Perth, Perth co-ordinator, Kim Metcalf told The Record last week. Archbishop Costelloe was menALIVE’s first choice as th...

A new era of Catholic Education begun last week when Tim McDonald was commissioned as the director of Catholic Education in Western Australia. Mr McDonald’s wife, children and father looked on as he was commissioned by Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB at St Michael’s Chapel in Leederville in the presence of the Catholic Education community. Dozens of principals were commissioned...

It was a beautiful night for the inaugural new event of ‘Shrine Time’ held by the WA Schoenstatt Movement on Sunday, October 28. Fr Clayton Mitchell, the youth music ministry of Sacred Heart Parish, Thornlie and around 25 young adults came to a Holy Hour of Eucharistic Adoration; Benediction; reflection and praise and worship at Mt Richon. Youth and young adults came from Armadale; Ca...

The Society of Catholic Teachers Australia held its annual conference in Perth recently, to coincide with the start of the Year of Faith, featuring internationally renowned Deacon Harold Burke-Sivers as its keynote speaker. The ‘Dynamic Deacon’ TV personality from the USA arrived in Perth for five days of conferences, a men’s retreat, preaching and a youth event. Deacon Harold’s dynam...

The University of Notre Dame hosted the opening ceremony for the Tournament of Minds, a problem-solving program for teams of both primary and secondary aged school children. Over 500 students gathered at the Fremantle campus and listened to the opening address given by Professor Celia Hammond, the University’s Vice Chancellor. “As someone who is passionate about education, about the s...