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Business leaders’ hearts for homeless

When most of Perth will be tucked warmly in bed on June 20, as temperatures head toward zero, a number of CEO’s from organisations across the state will be braving the elements in an effort to draw attention to the growing number of people enduring the hardships of sleeping out.

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Some of Western Australia’s most prolific CEOs will take to sleeping in the streets this June to raise money and awareness of homelessness.

Seminarians join Fr Gatt celebration

For a group of WA’s seminarians, their invitation to attend a special Mass in Osborne Park on April 7 was an opportunity to observe parishioners’ appreciation of “a caring priest in action”, for a pastoral job being well done.

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Fr Michael Gatt, parish priest of St Kieran’s, Osborne Park celebrating 45 years as a priest.

Academic assesses Twitter’s courtroom impact

The impact of social media can significantly impact decisions made in a courtroom, sometimes preventing an accused from receiving a fair trial, according to research conducted by an academic in the School of Law at The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle Campus.

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An artist's rendering shows the U.S. Supreme Court on March 26 in session for oral arguments in a case challenging California's Proposition 8 in Washington. PHOTO: CNS/Art Lien, Reuters

Concert to aid crisis Pregnancy body’s work

Three young Catholics will perform at a concert on April 27 at the Infant Jesus parish hall in Morley to raise funds for the work of Pregnancy Assistance.

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After the boarding house doors shut

Parents of students at Nagle Catholic College in Geraldton are concerned for the future of their families when the College closes its boarding facilities at the end of 2015. The school announced its decision in February citing a change in rural dynamics and substantial financial losses as the main determinants. Parent of two current boarding students and a 2012 graduate, Allison Whybr...
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Phil and Bev Logue, pictured with their children, are angry about the impending Nagle boarding closure.

Girls at crossroads hold audience in play’s thrall

Students and staff at Santa Maria Catholic College in Attadale staged five enthralling showings last week of the school’s production, Daughters of Venice. The school’s theatre was filled to capacity for each performance from Wednesday night’s opening to Sunday evening’s final show. In total, more than 700 people saw the show over the five nights. Daughters of Venice is set in 18th ...
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Santa Maria students play characters at the cross-road of discerning their God-given vocation in Daughters of Venice. PHOTO: SANTA MARIA

Student wins prestigious Waugh essay prize

An intriguing essay about the country house tradition in wartime England has delivered an Arts graduate from The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle Campus a “rare” and “outstanding” achievement in an international essay competition.

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An essay written by UNDA graduate Ellen O’Brien has won an international competition sponsored by the Evelyn Waugh Society. PHOTO: UNDA

Relics draw faithful to feast of Mercy

Devotions in honour of the feast of Divine Mercy were held at several parishes around Perth on Sunday, April 7. In the city, at St Mary’s Cathedral, almost 300 attended the afternoon Mass at which Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB was the main celebrant.

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Participants come forward to venerate relics of St Faustina Kowalska, founder of the Divine Mercy devotion, in St Mary’s Cathedral last Sunday. The first Sunday after Easter was established by Pope John Paul II as the feast of Divine Mercy after St Kowalska’s canonisation in 2000. PHOTO: Matthew Biddle

Rainbow of love pic wins St Paul’s first prize

St Paul’s Primary School in Mt Lawley entered a City of Stirling photographic competition which is part of an international effort to eliminate racial discrimination – and won it.

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The photo that won the City of Stirling’s competition: students dressed in colours of the rainbow and holding hands for Harmony Day. PHOTO: Joanna Noonan

La Salle’s Pia takes the cake for organ scholarship

Pia Schelfhout was presented with the FJ Larner Organ Scholarship for 2013 at St Mary’s Cathedral on April 5. The Year 12 student at La Salle College in Midland won the prestigious award after submitting an outstanding application and performing well at a subsequent audition.

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Cathedral Music Director Jacinta Jakovcevic, left, with scholarship winner Pia Schelfhout and St Mary’s priest Fr Jean-Noel Marie. PHOTO: Matthew Biddle

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