A volunteer (left) assists an asylum-seeking family to select recently donated fresh produce. Photo: Supplied. The West Australian Catholic Migrant & Refugee Office (WACMRO) is encouraging schools and parishes to support Asylum Seeker Assist - a Catholic faith formation, outreach and community building response to vulnerable people seeking asylum in Perth. Recently, Holy Family Catho...

The conference will be staged alongside the meeting of the Bishops Commission for Evangelisation, Laity and Ministry and its advisory council. Image: ACMRO. The dynamic role that migrant communities play within a synodal Church will be the focus of the Eighth Australian Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office (ACMRO) National Conference. Held from 25 – 26 August, the conference will be stage...

In the word of God, we don't just encounter words, we encounter Jesus Christ Himself. If we are to be witnesses to Jesus in the world, that can only happen from our own relationship with Jesus; not from our knowledge of Jesus, but from our relationship with the person of Jesus, the Very Rev Fr Vincent Glynn, Vicar General of the Perth Archdiocese said recently. Delivering the homily at the ...

The young musicians worked with a team of high-profile artists to create the music video. Photo: Poppy van Oorde-Grainger. A short documentary and original music video created by a group of Aranmore Catholic College students is set to feature on ABC iView during Refugee Week (14 – 20 June). The multilingual students, from migrant and refugee backgrounds, attend Aranmore's Intensive Engli...

As the Pilgrimage of the Migrant Jubilee Cross continues to make its way around the state, the Catholic Youth Ministry’s Penelope Watt offers the following reflection. On Sunday 19 April, the Catholic Youth Ministry celebrated the arrival of the Migrant Jubilee Cross in Perth with a summit and mass at St Mary’s Cathedral. On Sunday 19 April, the Catholic Youth Ministry celebrated the arr...

The Migrant Jubilee Cross has last weekend Sunday 3 May transitioned from the Perth Archdiocese to the Bunbury Diocese at a Mass celebrated at St Mary’s Cathedral. The Migrant Jubilee Cross is considered a gift from migrant communities to the Church - a place that symbolises welcome and belonging, integration and solidarity. Deacon Greg Lowe said the Migrant Jubilee Cross provided an opp...

Next month, the Wanneroo Parish community will gather in prayer, song, procession and celebration in honour of their patron saint – as they have done for the past 93 years. Shaped by the migrant story of the Church in Western Australia, the annual feast or festa of St Anthony has been celebrated in Wanneroo since the original St Anthony of Padua Church opened in 1932. In the early days, ...

“We have gathered around this Migrant Cross, a sacred sign inviting us to recognise the dignity of every person, and to welcome the stranger as Christ among us,” Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB said recently. Celebrating the Welcome Mass for the Migrant Jubilee Cross, Archbishop Costelloe was joined by concelebrants Fr Paul Hyunh, Fr Thomas Zureich, Fr Yosep Remegius Asnabun, Fr Chrispine ...

Set on a boat-shaped base, the 1.5 meter-wooden cross is made from Australian recycled timber and incorporates the Southern Cross constellation. Photo: Archdiocese of Melbourne. This Easter season, Catholic parishes, parishioners and communities across Western Australia are invited to participate in a special moment in the life of the Church - the Pilgrimage of the Migrant Jubilee Cross tha...

WA Catholic Migrant and Refugee Office Director Deacon Greg told The Record that in partnership with the St Vincent de Paul Society, who also made a significant financial contribution, WACMRO assisted 28 newly arrived families, mainly mothers and children in 2022.