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...

UNDA marks the 20th anniversary of Pope John Paul II’s key document for Catholic universities Sister Moira Debono and Mr Paul Morrissey, two of the four theologians who marked Ex Corde Ecclesia’s 20th anniversary together with students at UNDA’s Sydney campus last week. PHOTO: Courtesy UNDA The four resident theologians at the University of Notre Dame Australia&r...

Approved by both the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) and the leaders of all Religious orders and institutes across Australia, the Towards Healing policy was updated in 2000 and again in January this year. Image: Sourced. The Towards Healing (TH) policy that has governed the handling of allegations of abuse against Church personnel in almost all of the Church in Australia si...

By Anthony Barich A STAR-studded Law and Order forum at the University of Notre Dame Australia will counter the “superficial”, media-driven debate on crime in Western Australia, its organiser says. University of Notre Dame politics lecturer Martin Drum is interviewed by the ABC. Photo: Courtesy UNDA Hosted by ABC Radio’s Geoff Hutchison, the 29 May forum at UND...

After two years of eager anticipation, St Anne’s Church in Belmont has been opened and blessed as a centre for celebration of the Mass in Latin according to Pope Benedict XVI’s 2007 motu proprio Summorum Pontificum. Fr Rowe celebrated the Mass with visiting Dominican Fr Christopher Dowd from Adelaide as Deacon, Perth Canon lawyer Fr Brian Limbourn as Sub-Deacon and Fr Steve Casey from Karra...

By Anthony Barich National reporter University of Notre Dame Australia students confronted environmental, health and economic concerns for people in a Malawi village during a 23 November-6 December immersion trip, said participant Lana Robinson. Children of the Kadikira parish playing soccer. Photo: Courtesy UNDA Miss Robinson, an Arts and Commerce student at UNDA’s Freman...

By Anthony Barich National Reporter The University of Notre Dame Australia’s School of Nursing in Fremantle has become the first university in WA to introduce a Palliative Care Major at undergraduate level. Selma Alliex While Curtin University has a weekly two hour palliative care lecture as part of its Nursing and Midwifery course and Edith Cowan University has post-gradu...

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 ...