Students from St Jude’s Langford have last month prepared and performed a different style of the Stations of the Cross which was then premiered online for all classes to watch.

Archbishop Costelloe marked the beginning of Holy Week with two important celebrations, inviting the congregation to commit to an active search for communion with Christ.

The Palm Sunday Mass was livestreamed to YouTube and Facebook supported by captions and AUSLAN interpretation, with more than 500 viewers tuning in.

A couple poses on a bench outside destroyed apartments in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, April 18, 2022, during the Russian war. Photo: CNS/Alexander Ermochenko, Reuters. The Archdiocese of Perth West Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office (WACMRO) have set up a Ukrainian Refugee Local Appeal to aid war affected families upon their arrival in Australia during the comin...

Known as one of the greatest priest-architects in Australia, Msgr Hawes spent some 24 years in Western Australia, designing and building numerous Churches and buildings across the mid-West.

And now…he could become Western Australia’s first saint.

A native of Brooklyn New York, new Australian Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Charles Balvo has said the task of any Apostolic Nuncio is to be the eyes, ears and hands of the Holy Father,

“An extension of the Holy Father’s Ministry, because the Holy Father has his concern for the Church, all aspects of its life.”

Archbishop Balvo presented his credentials to the Governor-General of Australia on Friday 1 April.

Christ’s victory over death “is not an illusion” and the world needs “the crucified and risen Lord so that we can believe in the victory of love and hope for reconciliation, Pope Francis has said before delivering his Easter Blessing.

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe has last week on Good Friday, 15 April, invited the congregation to remember the image of Mary at the foot of the cross.

“Which invites us to remember, and to pray for, all those mothers who are grieving the loss of their sons and daughters, of their husbands, and of their brothers and sisters, in the dreadful conflict which is engulfing Ukraine,” Archbishop Costelloe said.

Australian Catholic Bishops Conference President and Brisbane Archbishop Mark Coleridge has said no one political party fully embodies Catholic social teaching, offering an election statement to encourage Catholics and people of good will to reflect on the good they can do for their community by using their vote for the good of all.

Speaking about the women finding Christ alive, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe said that what this meant for those first disciples was that their faith, so shattered by the horror of the death of Jesus, was not just reborn but “exploded into something new and completely life-changing”

Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton with the Parish Renewal Team earlier this year. In his 2022 Easter Message, Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton says that the experience of Jesus, in facing his death and eventually succumbing and dying, touches on the deepest of questions we all must face. Photo: Michelle Tan. People of faith believe that “we must rise with Christ in His death.” This hopeful m...