Along with celebrating new members, the occasion featured a recognition of four longstanding Guild members who hosted 110 years of collective service. Photo: Eric Odong/Archdiocese of Perth. The Guild of St Stephen has added 37 more members to its ranks following an investiture service held at Ellenbrook Parish St Helena of the Holy Cross Church. At Sunday Mass on 25 October, 23 altar s...

Bishop Nelson Po during the Midland Private Hospital chapel blessing Mass. Photo: Supplied/SJOG. Perth Auxiliary Bishop Nelson Po has last week Thursday 8 October blessed a new chapel at St John of God Midland Private Hospital, designating it as a space for divine worship, prayer and reflection. The blessing ceremony establishes the chapel as a sacred space within the hosp...

Bishop Nelson and Principal Andrew Watson join with the students to present and accept the donation cheque. Photo: Eric Odong/Archdiocese of Perth. The goal set by Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB of raising $130,000 in 2026 to support the work of agencies supported by LifeLink has received a substantial boost with an $11,353 donation from the Newman Catholic College community. Acc...

The organisers were very encouraged to see more than 80 women attend the ‘Called to Be More’ event. Photo: Eric Odong/Archdiocese of Perth. More than 80 women came together on Saturday 15 August to participate in the inaugural Women’s Discernment Retreat Day - a day of prayer, reflection and conversation about vocation and God’s call in their lives. Called to Be More provided young Catho...

By John Pintabona  On Monday 5 October, Perth Auxiliary Bishop Nelson Po will join the Saint Mary’s Catholic Church community in Leederville to celebrate the feast day of Saint Bartolo Longo, the great Apostle of the Rosary. Born in Latiano, Italy, in 1841, Bartolo Longo experienced a profound conversion before dedicating his life to prayer, Christian education and works of charity....

Through your belief in the love and mercy of God, you continue to give witness to your children, to your grandchildren, of what is possible in marriage and what can be achieved, Bishop Don said at the 2026 Marriage Day Mass held at St Mary’s Cathedral on Saturday 29 August. Photo: Eric Odong/Archdiocese of Perth. Sharing in the journeys of the families we encounter is one of the most joyful...

Perth Auxiliary Bishop Nelson Po officially blesses the new St John of God Midland Private Hospital, Tuesday 25 August 2026. Photo: Supplied/SJOG. Perth Auxiliary Bishop Nelson Po has this week prayed the newly completed St John of God Midland Private Hospital would continue the healing mission of Jesus. Speaking Tuesday 25 August, Bishop Nelson blessed the new hospital following the tra...

Reg Firth, with wife Janny, will be remembered for his faith, humour and the work that continues. Photo: Supplied. The Perth Archdiocesan Catholic community has lost one of its best-known lay leaders with the passing of Reg Firth, who founded the Perth branch of the Disciples of Jesus Covenant Community and served as its senior coordinator from 1993. Reg was also instrumental in the establi...

Bishop Don Sproxton, Ambassador Keith Pitt, Bishop Nelson Po and Archdiocese Chancellor and Executive Director, Daniel Lynch. Photo: Michelle Tan/Archdiocese of Perth. Perth Auxiliary Bishops Don Sproxton and Nelson Po have last week welcomed Australia’s Ambassador to the Holy See, The Hon Keith Pitt, who was in Perth to deliver a lecture at the University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantl...

Let us be generous with ourselves and allow God to work through us, Bishop Nelson said at the National Vocations Awareness Week Mass on Sunday 2 August. Photo: Eric Odong/Archdiocese of Perth. We all have the vocation to live holy and Christian lives, to be always Christ-like. This is the general and common vocation of all of us, of all the baptised, Auxiliary Bishop Nelson Po has said. ...