Outgoing Press Secretary for Archbishop Hickey Hugh Ryan said that working for Archbishop Hickey has been the highlight of his career.

The Sisters of Mercy have been the wind beneath the wings of all the pomp and ceremony of hundreds of Bishops’ consecrations and priests’ and deacons’ ordinations at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception over most of the past 144 years. Anthony Barich reports. Sr Ursula Frayne. Photo: Institute of Sisters of Mercy Australia & Papua New Guinea. The day after Sister Ursula Frayne ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: An article by well-known Australian journalist Geraldine Willesee appeared in several Australian newspapers over the weekend of 23-24 February 2013 reporting her experience of sexual abuse by the late Fr Brian Harris when she was a 14-year-old student in Perth in the early 1960s. At the time the below article on Fr Harris was published, The Record was unaware of any allegation...

The University of Notre Dame Australia is set to restructure its teaching of philosophy and ethics.     Associate Prof Sandra Lynch with Bishop Anthony Fisher OP.   By Anthony Barich National Reporter The University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA) is set to adjust its curriculum around the country to improve the teaching of ethics and philosop...

EDITOR’S NOTE: An article by well-known Australian journalist Geraldine Willesee appeared in several Australian newspapers over the weekend of 23-24 February 2013 reporting her experience of sexual abuse by the late Fr Brian Harris when she was a 14-year-old student in Perth in the early 1960s. At the time the below article on Fr Harris was published, The Record was unaware of any allegation...

The leadership may have failed her but one pro-life Notre Dame student, Michelle Romeu, still loves the place. s a student at the University of Notre Dame, I can safely say that the past few months have been pretty crazy. On campus we read the articles. We watched the YouTube videos. We drove past the protesters at our gates and we watched three different planes fly over with ban...

Catholic social service, health bodies say budget misses the mark. By Anthony Barich Australia’s major Catholic social and health care bodies have criticised the Federal Government’s budget as neglecting single parents and the unemployed. The St Vincent de Paul Society has expressed “grave concerns” about the Budget leaving sole parents and the unemployed &...

Notre Dame’s obsessive pursuit of prestige could send it down to Davey Jones locker. By Omar O'Shaugnessy  The University of Notre Dame is one of the oldest and most prestigious Catholic universities in the US. Even non-Americans have heard of the Fighting Irish, its legendary football team which inspired a famous film featuring a young Ronald Reagan. The team&rsqu...

Rejection of Notre Dame honour by US’s leading layperson a slap in the face for beleaguered university.                                        In an April 27 letter to Holy Cross Fathe...

By Bridget Chamberlain Monsignor Michael Keating, Sheelagh Dixon, Sr Kerry Willison, Ron Dullard, Bishop Donald Sproxton, Debra Sayce, Sr Catherine Brophy, Diana Alteri and Emma Nofal at the graduation ceremony. Photo: The Record. The inaugural graduates of the CEOWA Certificate of Liturgy program were commissioned and blessed at a ceremony in March. Sr Catherine Brophy from the Wood...