In ordaining 30-year-old Felipe Fernandez from Redemptoris Mater Seminary to the priesthood, Friday 2 June, Perth Auxiliary Bishop Sproxton said that the priesthood asks of those who are called to go on a pilgrimage with God.

Sunday 30 April marked Good Shepherd Sunday, where 13 men made enquiries at St Charles Seminary as part of the annual Vocations Open Day.

Among the sisters celebrating their anniversaries was WA Sister Dora Maguire, a former teacher and representative for Good Grief, an organisation that works with children and young people who were struggling with experiences of change, loss and grief.

In celebrating the ordination of five men to the priesthood, Perth Salesian Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has said the Lord is asking them to let go of everything holding them back from giving themselves fully and finally to God; to surrender themselves to God and allow God to remake them, to reshape them, into something, or rather someone, new.

Perth man Sheldon Burke has last month commenced the last part of his journey to the priesthood, following his ordination to the Diaconate at Thornlie Parish Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Saturday 10 December by Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB.

Here is a collection of notable quotes from Pope Benedict XVI from homilies, documents, messages and speeches from 2005 to 2013, the years he served as pope. They are grouped according to subject.

The Hobart Archdiocese has last week celebrated the ordination to the diaconate of Perth born Br John Joseph LEB from the Little Eucharistic Brothers of Divine Will.
His day of ordination belonged to the Church, the newly ordained deacon emphasised in his address after Mass, thanking the many who had been involved in his journey from its very beginning in Perth, Western Australia.

The doors of St Charles Seminary were opened in 1942, following the purchase of block of land known as Garden Hill in Guildford.

The Seminary has this month celebrated it’s 80th anniversary, with past and present students, rectors, and special guests coming together to mark the occasion.

29-year-old Nathan Barrie has been ordained a Deacon at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Bunbury with a Mass celebrated by Bishop Gerard Holohan and clergy from both the Bunbury Diocese and Archdiocese of Perth.

In celebration of Good Shepherd Sunday on 8 May, also known as Vocations Sunday, Archdiocesan Vocations Director, Fr Israel Quirit, says it doesn’t matter how many times we have missed intersections or made some wrong turns, God adapts to our mistakes, changing our routes and encouraging us to “make a U-turn if necessary and when safe to do so” in order to get back on track again.