You are a sign of God's care for His people Bishop Don told the congregation at the 2026 Eucharistic Celebration with Church Personnel on Friday 7 August at St Mary’s Cathedral. Photo: Eric Odong/Archdiocese of Perth. All of you, in one way or another, are touching the suffering of others, the needs of others, Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton has told the personnel and volunteers of the ...

Social cohesion grows when individuals allow their attitudes and actions to be shaped by love and humility, "Living the Gospel in Times of Social Division" suggests. Living the Gospel in these times is not a private devotion. It is a public witness that human dignity is not negotiable, that truth matters and that peace is more than the absence of conflict - it is the fruit of justice, recon...

By Courtney Mares Preparations are in full swing for World Youth Day 2027 in Seoul, South Korea, where Pope Leo XIV is expected to join young Catholics from around the world for the second World Youth Day ever held in Asia. The 3 to 8 August 2027 gathering comes more than three decades after the first World Youth Day in Asia, which drew 4 - 5 million people to Manila with St John Pau...

Let us be generous with ourselves and allow God to work through us, Bishop Nelson said at the National Vocations Awareness Week Mass on Sunday 2 August. Photo: Eric Odong/Archdiocese of Perth. We all have the vocation to live holy and Christian lives, to be always Christ-like. This is the general and common vocation of all of us, of all the baptised, Auxiliary Bishop Nelson Po has said. ...

By OSV News Pope Leo XIV is inviting Catholics to pray "for evangelisation in the city" as his August prayer intention, asking the Lord to accompany millions searching for meaning amid the noise and haste of urban life. In his monthly Pray with the Pope video, Pope Leo expressed his hope that urban environments may provide "fertile ground" for proclaiming the Gospel. The Chicago-born ...

Fr Arulraj leads the Mass at St Cecilia’s Church in Floreat. Photo: Eric Odong. The Parish of Floreat-Wembley has welcomed Fr Arulraj Mulaguri Chinniah as its new parish priest, with his installation Mass on 12 July highlighting both the importance of pastoral leadership and the mission entrusted to every Christian to proclaim the Gospel. Presiding over the Mass, Auxiliary Bishop Don Spr...

Laws for the protection of life need to be passed because every single life is important, Perth Archbishop Emeritus Barry Hickey said recently. Addressing the estimated 1800 people gathered on the forecourt steps of Western Australia's Parliament House on Wednesday 6 May for the annual Perth Rally for Life, Archbishop Hickey prayed that “the goodness, expectations and hopes in our hearts wi...

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...

Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton has reminded volunteers across the Archdiocese that their commitment to helping others is deeply connected to their identity as disciples of Jesus Christ. Celebrating the Volunteer Thanksgiving Mass on Saturday 23 May at St Mary's Cathedral, Bishop Sproxton said the quiet, generous, faithful service of volunteers strengthens communities and reveals the pr...

By Josephine Peterson Pope Leo XIV has celebrated Pentecost by highlighting the role of the Holy Spirit in his repeated calls for peace in recent months, saying the spirit also guides the Church to truth amid a world marked by war, division and ideological fragmentation. Pope Leo XIV presides over the Holy Mass on the Solemnity of Pentecost in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, on 24 ...