CHA has warned AI technologies can offer significant benefits but can also carry novel risks that could cause significant harm. Image: Adobe Stock. Catholic Health Australia has urged practitioners to exercise careful management in the use of Artificial Intelligence technologies that it says can offer significant benefits but can also carry novel risks that could cause significant harm. ...

Couples across the Archdiocese of Perth are warmly invited to participate in the annual Marriage Day Mass on Saturday 29 August 2026. Image: Supplied. Each year, the Archdiocese of Perth celebrates the sacred vocation of marriage with the annual Marriage Day Mass that brings together couples from across the Archdiocese to give thanks for the blessings of married life and to renew their comm...

Founded in Western Australia in 1922 during a period of widespread sectarian discrimination, the Knights originally emerged to support Catholics facing exclusion from employment and public life. Photo: Iceberg Media/Knights of the Southern Cross. Centenary books can sometimes feel dutiful. However, the recent Knights of the Southern Cross in Western Australia 1922-2022 is a serious work of...

Clergy from across Perth came together at St John’s Pro-Cathedral for the Retired Clergy Mass & Lunch, Tuesday 7 July. Photo: Jamie O’Brien. Some 40 retired clergy from across the Archdiocese came together last week at St John's Pro-Cathedral on Tuesday 7 July for the annual Retired Clergy Mass, followed by lunch at The Westin. Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB celebrated the Ma...

What do you think God is asking of us, the Church in Australia, at this time? Archbishop Costelloe asked the members of the DPC. Photo: Phil Bayne. What does it mean to be a Christ-centred church in the Archdiocese of Perth? That was the fundamental question posed to the recently commissioned Diocesan Pastoral Council (DPC) for the Archdiocese of Perth who gathered on Saturday 4 July to ...

St Mary's Cathedral is the star of a four-concert series running from August to November. Image: Supplied. There is something about the sound of a pipe organ filling a great cathedral that no recording quite captures. Often called the king of instruments, the organ can whisper like a flute one moment and shake the floor the next, and few buildings in Perth show it off as well as St Mary'...

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB, ninth from left, with Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton, Vicar General, the Very Rev Fr Vincent Glynn and Chief, Mission Enhancement, Dr Debra Sayce, second from right, with Members of the Diocesan Pastoral Council, who will serve a three-year term include from left, Lourdes Has, Catherine Rice, Tara Peters, Richard Miles, Wayne Bull, George Sekulla, Michael Piu, ...

Amy said she was looking forward to helping students can flourish throughout their educational journey. Photo: St Thomas More College. St Thomas More College (Tommy More) is pleased to announce Amy Price has been appointed as Deputy Head of College. Amy joins Tommy More from Geraldton Grammar where she held the position of Deputy Principal. She brings significant experience in student...

The relics of Carlo Acutis on display in 2024. Photo: Archdiocese of Perth. The relic of St Carlo Acutis, the Church's first millennial saint will draw pilgrims to St Mary's Cathedral from 31 July to 5 August, as the relic's national mission reaches Perth. The relic is a section of St Carlo's pericardium, the membrane that encloses and protects the heart, measuring six centimetres by tw...

Pope Leo XIV has appointed Monsignor Stuart Hall as Bishop to the Military Ordinariate of Australia. He is currently Dean of St Patrick’s Cathedral in Melbourne. Ordained a priest in 1987, Bishop-elect Hall served for 22 years as a Navy chaplain in naval establishments throughout Australia and aboard fleet units, deploying on operational service, including to Timor-Leste and the Middle East...