Speaking for the annual end of year Mass for Caritas Australia, Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe reminded those present that the Church should always be the first healer of wounds and warmer of hearts to all those we meet.

The Poverty In Australia 2022 report by the Australian Council of Social Service and UNSW Sydney, shows that 16.6 per cent of Australian children (or 761,000 kids) lived in poverty in the 2019/2020 financial year.

This was just one of the facts surrounding Child Poverty presented by Centrecare Inc Director and Valuing Children Initiative Co-Founder, Adj. Prof. Tony Pietropiccolo AM who was recently a keynote speaker at the Anti-Poverty Week 2022 Symposium.

The 2022 Social Justice Statement also points out that “family and domestic violence is a painful and complex reality for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities”. Image: ACBC. This month, Friday 25 November, marks the United Nations (UN) International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV) is an annual int...

Issue 37 of The Record Magazine features Archbishop Costelloe’s Plenary Council Pastoral Letter, published 27 July, as well as the Concluding Statement.

Cardinal Mario Grech, Secretary-General of the Synod of Bishops, is pictured at the Vatican, 7 October 2019. Photo: CNS/IPA/Sipa USA via Reuters. The National Centre for Pastoral Research is inviting groups of seven to 10 people to express their interest in participating in the next round of consultation for the global Synod of Bishops on Synodality. The Document for the Continental Stag...

The proportion of church attenders born overseas has risen over time according to results from the 2021 National Church Life Survey (NCLS). Photo: Michelle Tan. Young adult church attenders are most likely of any age group to report they are fully confident their local church can achieve what it has set out to do, according to results from the 2021 National Church Life Survey (NCLS). Th...

Fifty years ago, Mercy Sisters from St Brigid’s West Perth had the foresight to establish Mercy College Koondoola, with the College now claiming the benefits of that initiative and the carrying out of that mission ever since.

Armadale Parish Priest Father Mark Baumgarten will next month host a live music event titled, “An Afternoon of Songs (and a few stories)”.

Perth youth and clergy during the 2016 World Youth Day festivities in Poland. Photo: Supplied. Catholic Youth Ministry Perth is inviting Perth Catholic youth to join them in celebrating the Feast of Christ the King, Sunday 20 November. The celebration will also culminate with the launch of the 2023 World Youth Day and will commence with a Youth Rally and procession from Langley Park to S...

Australian Cardinal George Pell speaks during Phoenix Diocese's White Mass annual banquet 18 November, 2021. Photo: CNS/Jeff Grant, The Catholic Sun. On the 7th of April 2020, seven High Court Justices with over 160 years combined judicial experience unanimously found His Eminence, Cardinal Pell, innocent of the charges laid against him. He had been in goal, including solitary confineme...