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...

By Bridget Spinks Ron Dullard, director of Catholic Education and Paul Hille, principal of a new two-stream primary school in Cloverdale, launched the new school crest and logo, motto, vision and mission statement at a special function on 26 August. “Founded on Faith” is the new motto for the Cloverdale Notre Dame Catholic Primary School which, once complete, will have the cap...

By Anthony Barich THE University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle campus will launch a Midwifery post-graduate course by 2012 that will be the first of its kind in WA. Prof Selma Alliex, Dean of Nursing at Notre Dame Fremantle. UNDA School of Nursing Dean Prof Selma Alliex told The Record that the university has given the School permission to start the course, and that...

The Slattery Lecture presented by Notre Dame University’s School of Philosophy and Theology in Fremantle will see Fr Justin Taylor SM from the internationally renowned École Biblique in Jerusalem speak at the university on 19 August. Fr Taylor, a New Zealand priest, will speak on the literary novelty of the New Testament. The Gospels treat the everyday world and ordinary people...

By Anthony Barich The Sisters of St John of God never really had a strategic plan to build an enterprise when they built their first hospital in WA at Subiaco out of wood. A St John of God Sister shows a nurse how it’s done. Image courtesy of SJOG Hospital The Sisters, considered the pre-eminent experts in the field of infectious diseases in the pre-antibiotic era, only ev...

On 29 May the University of Notre Dame Australia in Fremantle hosted a historic Law and Order forum, bringing in senior figures who deal with the everyday realities to nut out practical solutions that benefit both the offenders and the wider community The forum caused plenthy of debate. Here, Aboriginal youth Glen Moore, who is starting an Aboriginal political party, talks with lawyer an...