Top Catholic Education leaders see the MySchool 2.0 website as a new dawn for information for parents. They’re less happy with what they see as the media’s simplistic reporting of its usefulness. SINCE unveiling the second version of the MySchool website in early March, Education Minister Peter Garrett has been fielding questions about the future of school funding in Australia.&n...

By Bridget Spinks JESUIT Fr Steve Astill SJ will introduce at least two papal documents to the University of Notre Dame Australia’s (UNDA) theology course at Fremantle, succeeding Mgr Kevin Long as the course coordinator. Fr Steve Astill SJ Fr Astill, also the newly appointed parish priest of East Fremantle’s Immaculate Conception, will introduce Pope Benedict XVI&rs...

By Anthony Barich Photo: Melville Perera Archbishop Barry Hickey ordained Christian Webb to the Diaconate on 20 December at Ballajura Parish Church. Webb, born in 1969, started his studies at St Charles Seminary in Guildford before attending the Pontifical Beda College in Rome, which was established in 1852 to form older men, often convert clergymen, for Catholic priesthood. He t...

Dr Mary Glowrey (far left) undertaking the obstetrics component of her residency programme in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1911. Photo part of the Glowrey Papers; printed courtesy of the Catholic Women’s League of Victoria and Wagga Wagga. In the 8 December issue of The Record Newspaper (“Mary Glowrey and Pope Benedict fought same battle for culture of life”) we began to highlight some o...

By Anthony Barich ARCHBISHOP Barry Hickey has described East Victoria Park Parish as a “beacon of hope” for the Church, as a Bishop, two priests, one Religious Brother and 10 Religious Sisters have emerged from it. The parish celebrated its 75th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the current Our Lady Help of Christians Church with a Mass and lunch on 12 December. Bunbury Bishop Gerard H...

By Anthony Barich FREMANTLE’S University of Notre Dame Australia Student Association president Amy Rosario has redefined the body’s role in the context of what it means to be a Catholic university.   Amy Rosario Amy, who coordinated the large-scale Mary MacKillop Festival in Fremantle on 17 October, the day of the saint’s canonisation in Rome, told The Recor...

Sr Dr Mary Glowrey treats the poor in a small rural village outside Guntur in Andhra Pradesh, India c 1924, working as a Sister of the Society of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. The former ear, nose and throat specalist left her successful Melbourne clinic to join the Religious Order after having started the Catholic Women’s League. As a student, she also fought for the culture of life on a global le...

A Mercy religious sister who would have celebrated her Diamond Jubilee next year passed away peacefully on 17 October 17 at Catherine McAuley Nursing Home, Wembley after a long illness.

Pontifical North American College seminarians Keith D. Romke of the Diocese of Rockford, Ill., Mark R. Payton of the Archdiocese of Perth, Australia, and George K. Nixon of the Diocese of Providence, R.I., are seen after being ordained deacons in St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican Oct. 7. Thirty seminarians from the U.S. national seminary were ordained deacons. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) (Oct. 7...

By Anthony Barich Fr Daniel Foley’s greatest joy in his 80 years of life and 55 of priesthood is the formation of people – and many who grew out of the Young Christian Workers movement still practicing their faith today have him to thank. Fr Foley - the second cousin of the late Perth Archbishop William Foley - who celebrated his 80th birthday at Lockridge on 26 August, clearly remembers legen...