ABORIGINAL politicians and healthcare experts will gather at the University of Notre Dame Australia at 6pm on 2 May to discuss how to increase the participation of Indigenous people in the health sector. WA Federal and State MPs Ken Wyatt MHR and his nephew Ben Wyatt MLA will join Jenni Collard, Director of the WA Department of Health’s Office of Aboriginal Health and Kevin Cox, Direct...

In the lead-up to National Youth Week, 1-10 April, The Record presents a feature by Vinnies National Youth representative Sarah Crute about how Vinnies camps provide a bright light for disadvantaged kids Water sports at Waroona Dam in 2006 with Chris Hassett as part of one of the Vinnies' camps. Photo: St Vincent de Paul Society EVERY school holiday period around Australia, hundre...

Top Catholic Education leaders see the MySchool 2.0 website as a new dawn for information for parents. They’re less happy with what they see as the media’s simplistic reporting of its usefulness. SINCE unveiling the second version of the MySchool website in early March, Education Minister Peter Garrett has been fielding questions about the future of school funding in Australia.&n...

By Bridget Spinks JESUIT Fr Steve Astill SJ will introduce at least two papal documents to the University of Notre Dame Australia’s (UNDA) theology course at Fremantle, succeeding Mgr Kevin Long as the course coordinator. Fr Steve Astill SJ Fr Astill, also the newly appointed parish priest of East Fremantle’s Immaculate Conception, will introduce Pope Benedict XVI&rs...

By Anthony Barich Photo: Melville Perera Archbishop Barry Hickey ordained Christian Webb to the Diaconate on 20 December at Ballajura Parish Church. Webb, born in 1969, started his studies at St Charles Seminary in Guildford before attending the Pontifical Beda College in Rome, which was established in 1852 to form older men, often convert clergymen, for Catholic priesthood. He t...

Dr Mary Glowrey (far left) undertaking the obstetrics component of her residency programme in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 1911. Photo part of the Glowrey Papers; printed courtesy of the Catholic Women’s League of Victoria and Wagga Wagga. In the 8 December issue of The Record Newspaper (“Mary Glowrey and Pope Benedict fought same battle for culture of life”) we began to highlight some o...

By Anthony Barich ARCHBISHOP Barry Hickey has described East Victoria Park Parish as a “beacon of hope” for the Church, as a Bishop, two priests, one Religious Brother and 10 Religious Sisters have emerged from it. The parish celebrated its 75th anniversary and the 50th anniversary of the current Our Lady Help of Christians Church with a Mass and lunch on 12 December. Bunbury Bishop Gerard H...

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.