Welcome to Issue 36 of The Record Magazine.
Our thanks to our sponsors Australian Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund for their ongoing support. This issue features a special report on Monsignor John Hawes, whose cause for canonisation is being put forward by the Diocese of Geraldton. Exclusive to this issue is our report that the Archdiocese of Perth is set to build a program of discernment for the formation of Permanent Deacons.

Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton greets the parish community of Port Kennedy, Sunday 24 April, which also saw the installation of new Parish Priest, Fr Giovanni Raffaele. Photo: Jamie O’Brien. The theme of keeping the flame alive in our hearts was reflected in last Sunday’s Gospel, said Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton, in his homily for Divine Mercy Sunday. Speaking at Port Kennedy Pari...

Parishes across Perth celebrated the various liturgies of Easter in a variety of ways this year, including the Vigil at Lynwood Langford St Jude’s Church, A contemplative Way of the Cross at Wanneroo and a Tableau style Stations of the Cross led by youth at Armadale Parish. Lynwood Langford Parishioners from St Jude’s Church Lynwood Langford parish came together for the Easter Vigil. ...

In a special interview during his recent visit to Perth and Western Australia, Ukrainian Catholic Church in Australia Bishop Mykola Bychok speaks with The Record Editor Jamie O’Brien about his own experience growing up in Ukraine, becoming a bishop during a pandemic, as well as the current crises facing Ukraine.

A couple poses on a bench outside destroyed apartments in the southern port city of Mariupol, Ukraine, April 18, 2022, during the Russian war. Photo: CNS/Alexander Ermochenko, Reuters. The Archdiocese of Perth West Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office (WACMRO) have set up a Ukrainian Refugee Local Appeal to aid war affected families upon their arrival in Australia during the comin...

Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton with the Parish Renewal Team earlier this year. In his 2022 Easter Message, Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton says that the experience of Jesus, in facing his death and eventually succumbing and dying, touches on the deepest of questions we all must face. Photo: Michelle Tan. People of faith believe that “we must rise with Christ in His death.” This hopeful m...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG679qK7ZCA Nothing about our faith makes sense if Jesus is not at the centre, says Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB in his 2022 Easter Message. Referring to the words of St Paul in Romans 8, verse 38, Archbishop Costelloe said that it is Jesus who can give us the courage to face all our challenges, because He draws us into communion with Him. “...

The Walking in the Spirit pilgrimage has been prepared to encourage individuals, families, parishes, schools and other ministries to keep the Plenary Council in their prayers. Image: Supplied. Catholics across the country are being invited to participate in a new prayer pilgrimage as the Church journeys towards the Second Assembly of the Fifth Plenary Council of Australia. The Walking in...

By Carol Glatz Catholic News Service Pope Francis greets the crowd after celebrating Palm Sunday Mass in St Peter's Square at the Vatican 10 April 2022. Photo: CNS/Paul Haring. Jesus obeyed the most challenging of commandments: to love one's enemies; and he invites humanity to do the same by breaking a vicious cycle of evil, sorrow and hatred with love and forgiveness, Pope Francis said ...

ACBC President Mark Coleridge has said the task of the Church is to ask how to adapt to a changing environment in which a more counter-cultural Church cannot claim the privileges it once took for granted. Photo: Archdiocese of Brisbane. By The Southern Cross As the number of sporting events and other activities on Good Friday increases, Australian Catholic Bishops Conference, President a...