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The best in Catholic news from across the Archdiocese of Perth
Royal Commission inquiry determined to better protect people with disability
By Eric Martin
The story of Western Australia’s most vulnerable and their quality of life is the tale about to unfold with the launch of the Royal Commission to inquire into violence, abuse, neglect, and exploitation of people with disability.
On 5 April 2019, Australian Prime Minister, the Hon Scott Morrison MP, and Minister for Families and Social Services, the Hon Paul Fletcher MP, annou...
NATIONAL – Australian Catholic community supports Sri Lankan aid
An Australian appeal has been established to support the Catholic community in Sri Lanka, still reeling from the Easter Sunday bombings that killed 253 people and wounded hundreds.
Aid to the Church in Need – whose mission is to support the Christian faithful wherever they are persecuted, oppressed or in pastoral need – established the appeal on Friday 26 April.
National Director of Aid to ...
NATIONAL: Australian Bishops call for politics that promote peace, common good
Australia’s Catholic bishops have this week called for respect and understanding in the federal election campaign, reminding Australians they all have a part to play in combating “crude tribalism” and promoting peaceful public debate.
Melbourne Archdiocese backs significance of young people attending ACYF 2019
The Archdiocese of Melbourne have plans to send around 2500 of their young people to the Australian Catholic Youth Festival (ACYF) that is scheduled to take place in Perth from 8 to 10 December this year.
PROJECT COMPASSION 2019: Nguyet grows in leaps and bounds
Nguyet is a teenager living with a disability in a small town in Vietnam. Her early years were subdued and solitary.
PROJECT COMPASSION 2019: Baskoro shares reflections on his Australian Caritas journey
Yohanes Baskoro has been caught up in a whirlwind tour of Australia as part of the Caritas Project Compassion launch serie
NATIONAL: $10k top reward incentive for ‘Solace’ 2019 ACU Prize for Poetry
Off the back of receiving a record number of 540 poems last year, entries are now open for one of Australia’s richest poetry prize.
NATIONAL: Small drop in latest Mass attendance figures
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) President Archbishop Mark Coleridge said it would be “naïve” to ignore the role the child sexual abuse crisis has played in a slight drop in recent Mass attendance figures.
PROJECT COMPASSION 2019: Midwife training saves and supports Salma and her baby
Salma was just 18 years old, pregnant and fearful for her life and that of her unborn child, when she featured in Project Compassion 2013.
EXCLUSIVE: Pope Francis to Young People of the Church: Your faith is needed in the Church
By Amanda Murthy
“Dear young people, keep running the race before you, attracted by the face of Christ, whom we love so much, whom we adore in the Holy Eucharist and acknowledge in the flesh of our suffering brothers and sisters.
“The Church needs your momentum, your intuitions, your faith. We need them!”
Those were the words of Pope Francis, who extended a hope-filled message dedicated t...