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...

Reaction continues to spread through the US at Catholic university’s decision to honour most pro-abortion public official in the country.   People line up to place carnations at the foot of a statue of Mary in the Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes at the US University of Notre Dame on April 5. Hundreds of anti-abortion advocates protested on the campus against the school&...

Unprecedented division has broken out in the Church in America over the issue of abortion following the decision by the University of Notre Dame in Indiana to invite President Barak Obama to give the annual Commencement Address at the University and to confer an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on him.   Chicago resident and Notre Dame alumnus Jeff Heinz, right, drops his han...

University of Notre Dame Australia lecturer Elsa Cornejo is about to delve into the underworld of human trafficking in the Philippines, learning how victims can be empowered to lift themselves out of their situation. By Anthony Barich Miss Cornejo, 29, was regional director of Caritas in WA for three months before accepting an Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship to undertake a P...

Msgr Kevin Long is congratulated by Archbishop Hickey. Photo: The Record. Pope Benedict XVI has bestowed the title of Monsignor on Perth Vicar General Fr Brian O’Loughlin and St Charles Seminary Rector Fr Kevin Long. Mgr Brian O'Loughlin is congratulated by Archbishop Barry Hickey on being made a Monsignor by Pope Benedict XVI. Photo: Anthony Barich Mgr Kevin Long is congratula...