Outstanding support for the Archbishop’s 2025 LifeLink Day Initiative was recognised recently with the Archbishop’s 2025 Spirit Award presented to John XXIII College in Mount Claremont (secondary schools award) and Mercy College in Koondoola (primary schools award). LifeLink Chair and Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton, said, while the Award structure formally recognises a secondary and pr...

A welcoming home with support that is tailored to individual needs, can change a life. That belief is central to Identitywa’s commitment to creating purpose-built homes across the Perth metropolitan area for people with disabilities. Working closely with families, investors and the WA Government, Identitywa is developing modern homes that offer access to family networks, local amenities...

Catholic Social Services Australia (CSSA) and the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Catholic Council (NATSICC) have welcomed the joint announcement by the Federal Minister for Social Services and the Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians on the launch of the Our Ways - Strong Ways - Our Voices: National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Plan to End Family, Domestic and S...

Caritas Australia has announced the launch of Project Compassion 2026, its Lenten fundraising and awareness appeal that attracts participation from 1700 schools and 1200 parishes across Australia annually. This year, Caritas Australia is calling on the community to Unite Against Poverty. For six weeks, schools, students, parishes and individuals are encouraged to donate, participate in T...

By Casandra Sarjit  The Welcome Mass, held on Sunday 15 February, marked the start of Orientation Week and formally welcomed new residents and their families into the St Thomas More College community. As a Catholic residential college, the Mass also marked the beginning of the academic year, giving everyone a moment to pause, come together, and begin the year with reflection and pur...

On 24 October 2025, Padbury Catholic Primary School celebrated its 40th anniversary attended by more than 100 guests including past principals, students, staff, parents and members of the broader community. An inspiring community liturgy celebrated by Whitford Parish Priest Fr Cyprian Shikokoti set the tone for the entire day. The day of celebration commenced with a community liturgy. Ph...

Approximately 1500 kilometres off the Australian coast, 2600 kilometres northwest of Perth, in the middle of the Indian Ocean, lies the unique community of Christmas Island, home to some 1700 residents. Equally unique – and inspiring – is the island’s Catholic faith community that, although not within the jurisdiction of the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth, falls under its pastoral care. O...

Seventy years of Catholic faith were celebrated in Brookton near the end of last year with the Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic Church community coming together to commemorate their milestone anniversary. A special Anniversary Mass celebrated by Parish Priest Fr Joseph Kakumanu CRS saw the church filled to capacity for what the parishioners described as “a truly joyful celebration.” Addin...

New Knights and Dames for the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. Photo: Perth Archdiocese/Infinitum. “Today as much as ever, and perhaps more than ever, the world needs people, and the world needs movements, which renounce the weapons of war and take up only the weapons of peace, the weapons of the Gospel.” That was the message at the heart of the homily that Archbishop...

The Year 3 to 12 students celebrated a Mass with The Very Reverend Fr Vincent Glynn, Vicar General of the Perth Archdiocese. Photo: Aranmore/C.Smith. Aranmore Catholic College has celebrated a historic start to the new school year as an amalgamated Pre-Kindergarten to Year 12 Catholic school. At special opening events held last week, all staff and students came together for the first tim...