Catholics from across Perth are collecting signatures on a petition asking Members of the Western Australian Parliament to keep the Lord's Prayer at the start of each sitting day, joining a growing number of West Australians who have made their views known to a parliamentary committee now weighing in on the question. The proposal to drop the prayer came from Bassendean MP Dave Kelly, a form...

Laws for the protection of life need to be passed because every single life is important, Perth Archbishop Emeritus Barry Hickey said recently. Addressing the estimated 1800 people gathered on the forecourt steps of Western Australia's Parliament House on Wednesday 6 May for the annual Perth Rally for Life, Archbishop Hickey prayed that “the goodness, expectations and hopes in our hearts wi...