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 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 ...

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 ...

World Youth Day will be held from August 3 - 8, 2027. Image: WYD2027. Pilgrimage coordinators from dioceses, eparchies and Catholic organisations across Australia met recently in preparation for World Youth Day Seoul 2027. Since April, the National World Youth Day Coordinators Network, facilitated by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference’s National Centre for Evangelisation (NCE), h...

By Courtney Mares Pope Leo XIV has a message for American teens gathered this summer at the Steubenville Youth Conferences: True joy is not found "spending hours in front of a screen or endlessly scrolling on social media." In a video message released on 20 June for the 50th anniversary of the conferences hosted by Franciscan University of Steubenville, Ohio, Pope Leo told young people h...

Catholic social service leaders from across Western Australia gathered at the Duxton Hotel on Thursday 11 June for the 2026 St Mary of the Cross MacKillop Oration, where Catholic Social Services Australia CEO Dr Jerry Nockles delivered a stirring oration titled “Looking Through Difference to see Dignity.” A former Royal Australian Navy officer who served several postings in Western Australi...

Archbishop Costelloe challenged young people across the Archdiocese of Perth to become instruments of peace. Photo: Eric Odong/Archdiocese of Perth. Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has challenged young people across the Archdiocese to become “instruments of peace” and people of practical compassion. Speaking to Catholic secondary school students from across Perth at the 2026 Secon...

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe’s LifeLink Day for Catholic Schools Initiative will hold extra significance in 2026 with commemorative prayer cards provided to every Catholic school student, teacher and member of staff across the Perth Archdiocese. Gifted to the Perth Catholic school community by Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB and Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton, a total of 85,000 prayer...

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, ...

Speaking at the 2026 Clergy Conference, held Tuesday 14 April to Thursday 16 April at Newman College Amphitheatre, Archbishop Costelloe headlined the conference with his speech entitled, ‘Do you love me?’. Photo: Eric Odong/Archdiocese of Perth. As Christian disciples, and therefore and in a particular way as ordained ministers in God‘s Church, we have to know about Jesus, about who He was ...