Cloverdale parishioner Sheelah Alice Rudman died peacefully in her sleep on 10 March 2020 at the age of 105.
As recently as December 2019, John Barich was driving an hour round trip to take his youngest grandson to school twice a week, then continue on to his National Civic Council office to maintain the late Bob Santamaria’s work of promoting Judeo-Christian values in Australia’s political life.
Perth boy Father Tim Foster died peacefully at Gordon Lodge on 3 January 2020, aged 88, after some 60 years spent in faithful service to the Church, ministering to the needs of the Catholic community across Perth’s Archdiocese.
Father Liam M Mackle OSM will be remembered as a passionate educator and a decisive man dedicated to the development of his students, both academically and spiritually, firstly as school principal at Servite College (Tuart Hill) during the 1970s and secondly, as a Catholic Chaplain at La Trobe (Bundoora) University.
Somewhere near Epsilon Eridani in the southern constellation of Eridanus, Vaemar-Riit and his Kzin brethren stood to attention as their creator, iconic West Australian author, poet, lawyer and public personality, Hal Colebatch, was laid to rest aged 74.
Fr Anthony was passed away peacefully at Little Sisters of the Poor Glendalough on 11 September 2019 and his funeral Mass was celebrated on 16 September at the New Norcia Abbey Church.
Father Peter Toohey SCC has left an indelible presence on the lives of those he encountered during his decades of mission work and chaplaincies.
Beloved member of the Institute of the Sisters of Mercy of Australia and Papua New Guinea, Sister Mary Berry RSM, died on 28 June 2019.
It can be hard to imagine a senior Australian politician in the days of his youth, rallying teachers in support of the anti-nuclear campaign, or volunteering to work as a teacher in Papua New Guinea during the 1970s – yet passions and political views are shaped over a lifetime and the formative impact of these experiences made the late John Kobelke a respected community leader, honoured by both sides of parliament.
The former West Australian government minister and Labor MP died in hospital on Sunday 23 June 2019, aged just 69, after complications associated with an illness.
Catholic leaders have paid tribute to Sister Anne Derwin RSJ, the former congregational leader of the Sisters of Saint Joseph and president of Catholic Religious Australia, who died peacefully on 23 June at the age of 69.