Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims and residents as he leads the Angelus prayer in Piazza della Libertà in Castel Gandolfo, near Rome, Italy, on 12 July 2026. Photo: OSV News/Elisabetta Trevisan, Vatican News. Pope Leo XIV has called on Catholics not to lose hope as conflict continues to spread across parts of the world, warning that the "winds of war" are once again “sowing violence, terror and ...

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 ...

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, ...

I will never forget you (Is 49:15) is the theme selected by Pope Leo XIV for the Sixth World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly that will be celebrated on Sunday 26 July. This year’s celebration coincides with the feast of Saints Joachim and Anne, the grandparents of Jesus. It provides an opportunity to bring the Church closer to the elderly and acknowledge their contribution to fa...

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 prays for respect for human life as his July 2026 prayer intention in this screenshot from a "Pray with the Pope" video released by the Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network on 2 July. Photo: OSV News/Pope's Worldwide Prayer Network. By Deborah Castellano Lubov Pope Leo XIV has urged Catholics across the globe to join him this July in praying for respect for human life. In his ...

The week opens with a Vocations Mass on Sunday 2 August, celebrated by Auxiliary Bishop Nelson Po at St Mary’s Cathedral at 11am. Image: Supplied. Catholics across the Archdiocese of Perth are invited to pray for vocations and reflect on God's call in their own lives during National Vocations Awareness Week, celebrated across Australia from 2 to 9 August 2026. The Perth Vocations Office ...

The Permanent Deacons following their Ordination to the (Permanent) Diaconate on 29 June 2006 at St Mary’s Cathedral (prior to the renovations), with now Emeritus Archbishop Barry Hickey (centre) and then Office of the Permanent Diaconate Director, Fr Peter Bianchini; Patrick Seatter (now deceased) Greg Lowe, Patrick Moore, Albert Aitkinson, Damian Gorian, Trevor Lyra, Bruce Talbot, Paul Russe...