The house at 195 Lord Street in East Perth has been catching the eye of passing motorists for 30 years. Photo: Eric Odong. The house at 195 Lord Street in East Perth has been catching the eye of passing motorists for 30 years. The Record described it a decade ago as a deliberately homely place, chosen so that nobody walking through the front door would feel they had arrived at a clinic. ...

Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton has encouraged young artists of the Archdiocese to experience the joy of working together and performing together as they share expressions of themselves, their world, and Jesus with their audiences. Students from Iona Presentation College, Mosman Park perform at the Opening Mass for Catholic Education’s Spirit of the Arts Festival. Photo: Eric Odong. ...

Nursing students from The University of Notre Dame Australia are gaining invaluable hands-on experience and a deeper understanding of rural healthcare through the University’s Remote Community Placement Program in the Kimberley. The program, funded by Majarlin Kimberley Centre for Remote Health, is delivered in partnership with healthcare providers and communities across the Kimberley regio...

Through CHOP, Notre Dame has established itself as a global leader in the study of Abrahamic philosophical traditions and their ongoing relevance to today’s society. Photo: UNDA. The University of Notre Dame Australia's Centre for the History of Philosophy (CHOP), in partnership with The Great Synagogue Sydney, and the Perth Hebrew Congregation recently welcomed internationally recognised s...

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, ...