Fr Christopher Collins SJ will be the guest of the University of Notre Dame Fremantle and Sydney campuses as part of their upcoming Public Lecture Series where he will discuss spirituality, society and daily life.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2016) children are one of the largest groups in Australia experiencing homelessness.

The countdown is on with less than 150 days until doors open on the fourth Australian Catholic Youth Festival 2019 (ACYF19) to be held in Perth, 8 to 10 December.

The role of young people and their place in the development of the future Catholic Church was the focus of a talk last week by Daniel Ang, Director of Parish 2020, a process of parish renewal and revitalisation in the Archdiocese of Sydney.

Catholic leaders have paid tribute to Sister Anne Derwin RSJ, the former congregational leader of the Sisters of Saint Joseph and president of Catholic Religious Australia, who died peacefully on 23 June at the age of 69.

Parish youth leaders and potential youth leaders within the Catholic Archdiocese of Perth gathered for a weekend of training, formation, fellowship and prayer at the latest series of Masterclass from 5 to 7 July at the Advent Park Convention Centre in Kalamunda.

“There are people coming to your parish Masses looking for a spiritual home. They are looking for a people who show personally and communally the Jesus lives in and among them

“Christ is the beating heart of His Church."

The 2020 Plenary Council has this week opened applications for the Discernment and Writing Groups that will play a critical role in helping the Catholic Church move forward in considering the Council’s six National Themes for Discernment.

Perth Auxiliary Bishop Don Sproxton has this week called for churches to embrace the message of the 2019 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sunday.

The Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) – started by the celebrated Frenchman, Saint Eugene De Mazenod, in 1826 – is this year celebrating 125 years of service in Australia on 18 August 2019.

The parishioners of St Joseph’s Church Bassendean have last weekend celebrated the long awaited return and blessing of their parish bell on Sunday, 23 June, before reclaiming their suburb with a Eucharistic procession through the streets.

The Church’s response as a body to the global child abuse crisis was the topic of a presentation by Rev Dr Hans Zollner SJ, a member of the Vatican’s Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, consultor to the Congregation for the Clergy, President of the Centre for Child Protection and Vice Rector of Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has this week joined fellow Australian Bishops in meeting Pope Francis as part of the 2019 Ad Limina visit to the Vatican.

“The Father gives us the Son and the Spirit, for the full truth and love, that we might be led back to Him.”

The winners have been announced for the 2019 Catholic Liturgical Art Competition which, inspired by Aboriginal knowledge and the Catholic faith, encouraged schools and parish communities to produce artwork that combined traditional indigenous methods and Catholic ideology.

Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has last week reminded guests at the Official Launch of the Archbishop’s 2019 LifeLink Day for Primary Schools that Christ’s love and hope can offer courage when we are faced with frightening and overwhelming situations.

For more than 40 years, Archdiocesan disability support agency, Identitywa, has assisted people with disability and their families throughout the Perth metropolitan area.

The Plenary Council 2020 has last Sunday moved into the next phase of its process, following the announcement of the National Themes for Discernment that emerged from a historic process of listening to the voices of more than 222,000 people.

The recently released Poverty, Homelessness and Migrants in Western Australia, by the University of Notre Dame Australia, and commissioned by the Archdiocese of Perth is the first in a series of planned, annual research reports that will inform the provision of the Catholic Church’s social outreach programs in Perth.

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has called for the people of the Archdiocese to open their minds and hearts to the power of the Spirit, during the Perth launch of the second phase of the 2020 Plenary Council.

Founding Senior Director of Flame Ministries International (FMI) and commissioned Catholic evangelist Eddie Russell passed away on 16 May 2019 aged 75.

Loving one another with the love of Jesus was the message delivered by Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB in his address at the 2019 Secondary Schools Forum for LifeLink Day.

The National Association of Deacons’ (NAD) biennial national conference is heading to Perth.  The 2019 Conference will take place from 3 to 6 October, 2019 at The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Fremantle campus.

The Sisters of Life have last week hosted a public forum on assisting those who are struggling with unexpected pregnancy.

The Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem gathered last weekend at St Mary’s Cathedral Perth for the appointment of a new lieutenant to head the Order’s WA chapter.

St Brigid’s Church, Midland Parish, celebrated the feast of the patroness of Australia “Our Lady Help of Christians” with a procession on Sunday morning, 26 May.

Pope Francis has revised and clarified norms and procedures for holding bishops and religious superiors accountable in protecting minors as well as in protecting members of religious orders and seminarians from abuse.

Christian Brother Gerry Faulkner died peacefully at Catherine McAuley Care Centre on Thursday 11 April at the age of 86.

With 25 years of knowledge and experience to his name, Australian journalist Peter Greste shared his life learnings to a full auditorium of the wider community at the Notre Dame Heritage Festival on Friday 17 May.

Belmont Centre for the Traditional Latin Mass Rector Fr Michael Rowe has this week celebrated his Silver Jubilee, marking 25 years since his ordination to the priesthood.

Every year, the Archdiocesan Archives Office – in collaboration with The Centre for Faith Enrichment celebrates the rich culture and traditions of the Catholic faith, and this year was no different.

The Somascan community of Australia have last weekend celebrated the historic priestly ordination of Australia’s first Somascan, Christopher de Sousa.

The number of people sleeping rough in Western Australia is on the increase, according to a new report by the University of Notre Dame Australia (UNDA).

Schools and parish communities are being encouraged to take part in the 2019 Catholic Liturgical Art Competition, inspired by Aboriginal knowledge and the Catholic faith, set to take place in conjunction with the NAIDOC week celebrations in July this year.

The Sisters of Life will this month visit Perth to host a series of events.

A painting of Saint John Paull II, painted by one of Perth’s own priests, will hang in the new Banksia Grove Parish once construction of the church is completed in 2021

Angelic voices of the Lumina choristers reverberated through the building of St Mary’s Cathedral for an evening filled with history and tradition in music, debuting the group’s first concert for 2019 titled Allegri’s Miserere

Online registrations have officially opened for the 2019 Australian Catholic Youth Festival, to be held in Perth from 8 to 10 December 2019

Centacare’s Skills for Education and Employment (SEE) Kadadjiny Bidi students have been working together to publish a book that tells “a little bit about me”