The young people of the Perth Young Christian Student (YCS) group have put their efforts where their values are this winter, tackling homelessness on Perth’s cold and wet streets.

St Norbert College student Sanjita Ghimire has won the prestigious 2018 Fra Angelico Art award for Catholic secondary students. 

Surgeons at St John of God Subiaco Hospital are the first in Australia to have access to a new integrated operating theatre, which is improving patient outcomes.

Southern Cross Care WA, one of Western Australia’s leading aged care groups, has announced it will develop an innovative aged care community in Ballajura, the first of many the organisation will be developing throughout Perth.

Hundreds of parishioners from Holy Cross, Hamilton Hill Parish, celebrated the Feast of Our Lady of the Mount on 12 August, a significant Portuguese celebration.

Pope Francis said Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano's long document calling on him to resign is written in a way that people should be able to draw their own conclusions.

More than 800 people gathered at Our Lady of Mercy Church, Girrawheen Parish, on 21 August to bid their final goodbyes to Christian Brother Geoffrey John (Lucius) Seaman CFC, who died of heart failure 19 August at the age of 88.

Australia is one step closer to getting its next saint with the Vatican advancing the cause for Sydney woman Eileen O’Connor to the title “Servant of God”.

The Catholic dioceses of Wollongong and Parramatta will co-host two days of presentations this week with a priest widely recognised as one of the leading experts in the field of safeguarding of minors.

The award for the most accurate film title of the year goes to Crazy Rich Asians (Warner Bros), a romantic comedy about, well, members of a certain ethnic group who are insanely wealthy. 

A former apostolic nuncio to the United States accused Church officials, including Pope Francis, of failing to act on accusations of abuse of conscience and power by now-Archbishop Theodore McCarrick.

“Whatever its motives and means, direct euthanasia consists in putting an end to the lives of handicapped, sick, or dying persons. It is morally unacceptable."

St Mary Star of the Sea Church, Cottesloe/Mosman Park Parish, has celebrated its newly built Parish Centre with a blessing liturgy on Saturday 11 August.

Numerous parishes across the Archdiocese of Perth paid homage to their respective multi-cultural congregations on World Migrant and Refugee Sunday.

The hopes and concerns of young Catholics in Australia were given voice at an Australian Catholic Youth Council workshop in Sydney on 14 August.

A researcher whose work is funded by St John of God Subiaco Hospital has won a prestigious national Fellowship for her research into cervical cancer screening.

The 14th national ACBC eConference held landmark discussions earlier this month around the future vision and direction for the Catholic Church in Australia.

200 Seminarians from across Australia gathered at Patrician Brothers’ College, Blacktown on Saturday 28 July for an annual inter-seminary soccer competition.

Larger-than-life art installations greeted a record crowd of more than 5000 at The University of Notre Dame’s Open Day in Fremantle’s West End last Sunday on 19 August.

MercyCare is moving ahead with plans to expand its residential aged care facility in Maddington, continuing to live out the mission of the organisation founded more than 170 years ago by the Sisters of Mercy.

Forty-three summers ago (incredibly), Steven Spielberg's Jaws made moviegoers afraid to go in the ocean for fear of getting bitten – or worse – by a great white shark.

"No effort must be spared" to prevent future cases of clerical sexual abuse and "to prevent the possibility of their being covered up," Pope Francis said in a 20 August letter addressed "to the people of God."

A sensory garden, mentoring program, East Kimberley cultural immersion, and innovative professional learning model were among eight initiatives recognised at Catholic Education Western Australia’s (CEWA) annual awards for excellence on 8 August.

The Archdiocese of Perth will once again welcome the relics of Saint Pio of Pietrelcina – better known as Padre Pio – to commemorate the centenary of his permanent stigmata apparition in 1918, and the 50th anniversary of his death in 1968.

Inspiring young people to be witnesses in our world today and helping them to discern God’s call for them was the focus of a vocational pilgrimage run by the Neocatechumenal Way last weekend.

Armadale Parish Priest Fr Joseph Tran has teamed up with two Catholic teachers, Megan Woodall and Mitch Bristow, to form a band called The Acts.

Bunbury Catholic College (Marist Campus) Year 12 student Luke Commins has been awarded first place in a speech completion after beating 18 Catholic students from WA on Monday 20 August.

Inlaid with mother of pearl, cowries, volutes and olive shells, Sacred Heart Church in Beagle Bay Parish in the Diocese of Broome turns 100 this month.

Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has made it clear that the Perth Archdiocese envisions a fairer, more egalitarian society by opening a comprehensive service to promote the acceptance and settlement of refugees, migrants, and asylum seekers.

The Year 5 and 6 students of St Joseph’s School in Moora are embracing a new and effective way of learning thanks to the NAPLAN (National Assessment Program).

The Hon Ken Wyatt AM is a proud Noongar, Yamatji and Wongi man, and was elected in 2010 as the Federal Member for Hasluck, the first Aboriginal Member of the House of Representatives.

A highly regarded Irish priest, who died on Thursday 2 August 2018 at the age of 88, will be greatly remembered for serving the people of the Church unstintingly.

The Archdiocese of Perth community has done its part by joining in solidary with the world’s poor.

If there is one movie this month that will leave you in stunned silence, followed by a roaring applause, this is it.

After holding a few soup kitchen events during the Year of Mercy, Harvey Parish in the Diocese of Bunbury continues its tradition by holding Harvey Community Dinner every Monday evening.

It is true that members of the Catholic Church sin and give scandal, Pope Francis said, but it is up to each Catholic to live the faith as authentically as possible and witness to the world the love of Jesus.

“Remember, Lord, the shortness of my lifeand how frail you have made all human beings.”

“The Good Shepherd walks with us and we together walk in his footsteps.”

The Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was acknowledged by parishes across the Archdiocese of Perth on 15 August.

The next Australian Catholic Youth Festival (ACYF) will be held in the Archdiocese of Perth from Sunday 8 December to Tuesday 10 December 2019.

ACRATH announced last month that it had lost yearly Federal Government funding for $125,000 as per 30 June.

Holiness isn’t just for the priests and religious.

The entire Perth Catholic community and beyond have the opportunity to have their voices heard as part of the 2020 Plenary Council, following the training of more than 180 local representatives from across the Archdiocese of Perth.

Archbishop of Perth Timothy Costelloe SDB will judge a writing competition that encourages young people to express how safe they feel in church.

Father Sean Fernandez commenced his new role as the ninth Dean and Administrator of St Mary’s Cathedral last week.

“Listen with the ears of your heart.”