Archbishop Costelloe prays during the 70th anniversary Mass for the Mount Lawley Parish on Sunday 20 September. Fr Mariusz Grzech is pictured in the background. Photo: Eric Odong/Archdiocese of Perth. “Anniversaries are an opportunity to look back with gratitude, to look around us with pride at all that has been achieved, and to look forward, full of prayer for hope for the future, Perth Ar...

Located some 1500km west of Perth, Christmas Island is pastorally cared for by the Archdiocese of Perth and has a population of nearly 1500 people, with some eight per cent being Catholic.

Catholic students from across the country have joined together in a video performance of the national song ‘Faith in the Future’, to celebrate 200 years of Catholic education in Australia, which marks the anniversary of the first official Catholic school opened in Parramatta in October 1820.