With the university sector moving to a full demand-driven funding system in 2012, in which public institutions will be able to leverage their status and scale to chase additional enrolments, the federal government will help level the playing field for the University of Notre Dame Australia through extra Commonwealth-supported places. The private Catholic university estimates the additional f...

At the very hour the Beaconsfield parish ended eight years and 56 days of perpetual adoration, St Jerome’s in Spearwood announced it would begin adoring the Blessed Sacrament seven days a week. Adoration promoter and Glendalough parish priest Fr Doug Harris spoke to Spearwood Catholics at the 6pm vigil Mass on Saturday, 26 November, explaining the nature and benefits of adoration – both ...

In an historic moment, the remains of Perth’s first Catholic Bishop, John Brady, will be laid to rest in St Mary’s Cathedral Crypt on 2 August.

“Satan is a defeated enemy, but he is still able to conduct guerilla warfare on humanity”, said Sydney Auxiliary Bishop Julian Porteous, who received national attention for his efforts to highlight the importance of the Rite of Exorcism that was once part of priests’ basic training. Photo: Supplied. By Anthony Barich Australian clergy involved in carrying out exorcism, an ancient m...

Inaugural UNDA Nursing Chair promotes research, clinical nursing links Professor Leanne Monterosso THE University of Notre Dame Australia has unveiled its new School of Nursing and Midwifery, with a special focus on research. Professor Leanne Monterosso, the inaugural Chair of Nursing and a former midwife and neonatal nurse, will initiate and conduct leading edge research programme...

Deacons Marcello Parra, Wilson Donizetti and Antonio Scala were ordained to the Diaconate on Thursday 26 May. Photo: The Record/Peter Rosengren. Perth Archbishop Barry Hickey ordained three new deacons for the Archdiocese of Perth on Thursday evening 26 May before a congregation of approximately 300 people. The three candidates for the transitional diaconate kneel before Archbishop Hicke...

By Anthony Barich THE experiences of disadvantaged people are the key to building a truly inclusive Australian society, not forcing people to rely on charity, St Vincent de Paul Society national council chief executive Dr John Falzon said. St Vincent de Paul Society national council CEO Dr John Falzon talks to media at the Society's 2011 Winter Appeal launch at the Perth Town Hall on 25...

Vatican norms insist on ‘generous’ approval for use of Tridentine rite By John Thavis Archbishop Barry Hickey gives first Holy Communion on the tongue to a young boy kneeling at the ‘second re-opening’ of St Anne’s Church in Belmont on 25 July 2010. Fr Michael Rowe (at left), chaplain of Perth’s traditional Latin Rite Catholics, and his community spent much time renovating the church aft...

THE University of Notre Dame Australia has been granted $165,000 by the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations to investigate how technology tools, including mobile technologies and software programmes can enhance the learning and teaching of mathematical concepts to promote understanding. Developing digital information and communications technology e...

FIRST year Medicine student Amy Rosario is the inaugural recipient of The University of Notre Dame Australia’s (UNDA) Saint Mary MacKillop Award for her outstanding contribution to the advancement of the Catholic mission and the Objects of the University on the Fremantle campus. Amy Rosario, who organised the Mary MacKillop Festival on the day of the saint's canonisation in 2010. ...