Emergency vehicles at the scene of a shooting incident at Bondi Beach in Sydney, Sunday 14 December 2025. Two gunmen targeted Jewish beachgoers at an event celebrating the first day of Hanukkah, leaving 15 dead, including a gunman, and more than 40 wounded. Photo: OSV News/Izhar Khan, Reuters. By Jamie O’Brien On the golden sands of Bondi Beach last Sunday evening, an act of unspeakable ...

A Mass will be celebrated at St Mary’s Cathedral, Perth on Thursday, 8 January to mark 180 years since the arrival of the first Sisters of Mercy in Australia and to give thanks for the tens of thousands of women and men who have been inspired by Catherine McAuley’s expression of Mercy in the years that have followed. Some 15 years after Catherine McAuley established the Sisters of Mercy...

Directors through time - Bernard Toutounji, Anne Collignon and Phillip Collignon. Photo: Supplied/Aid to the Church in Need Australia. Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) Australia and New Zealand has this month marked a significant milestone, celebrating 60 years of service to persecuted and suffering Christians around the world. What began at a kitchen table in Sydney in 1965 has grown int...

Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton with youth from the Archdiocese of Perth. Photo: ACYF/Archdiocese of Melbourne. In a concluding Mass for the 2025 Australian Catholic Youth Festival that saw the Melbourne Youth Orchestra and the Choir of Trinity College Melbourne accompany the liturgy with a glorious and specially composed fanfare and musical setting, courtesy of local composer Mary Fins...

What distinguishes David from many previous biblical adaptations is its theological restraint and reverence. Image: Supplied/Angel Studios. Reviewed by Jamie O’Brien Few biblical figures loom as large in the Christian imagination as King David: shepherd, psalmist, sinner and saint. In David, the upcoming animated musical directed by Phil Cunningham and Brent Dawes, audiences are invit...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CkQpWFR6tg By Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ, In the Book of Daniel, we meet three young men — Ananiah, Azariah, and Mishael — whose story is one of remarkable courage and faith. Faced with the command of a mighty king to bow before a false god, they refused, choosing instead to entrust themselves entirely to the...

Archbishop Costelloe SDB with Outgoing CEWA Commissioner, Eva Skira. Photo: Matt Biocich/Supplied. The Catholic bishops of Western Australia have appointed four new Commissioners to the Catholic Education Commission of Western Australia (CECWA):• Dr Marina Hogan PhD, MBA, BA (Hons)• Mr Geoff Mills MEd (Leadership & Management), MEd (RE), BEd, Dip.Teach., Dip. RE• Mr Justin Scanlan GAICD...

By the Most Rev Bishop Don Sproxton, Auxiliary Bishop of Perth Dear Sisters and Brothers in Christ, In the Book of Job, we encounter a man of deep faith who, in the face of immense suffering, never loses his trust in God. Job’s story is not one of simple endurance, but of courage — a courage born from faith that refuses to give way to despair. Even when everything he had was stripped...

Newton, one of Australia’s most celebrated portraitists, is known for his remarkable ability to reveal the essence of his subjects through light, tone, and expression. Photo: Supplied. By Jamie O'Brien A new portrait of Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, painted by renowned Australian artist Paul Newton, has been unveiled — a work that not only captures the Archbishop’s likeness bu...