August 2020
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Plenary Council 2021: Archbishop Costelloe appoints new local Strategy and Engagement Group
26 Aug 2020
Plenary Council President and Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has convened a new strategic engagement group for the Archdiocese of Perth. The newly formed Strategy and Engagement Group have been invited to contribute their thoughts on developing local strategies for further engaging the Archdiocesan community with the next stage of the Plenary Council, scheduled for 2021.
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Discernment both a call and a challenge given to us by the Holy Spirit,’ says Archbishop Costelloe
26 Aug 2020
How can we be a constructive part of a renewed Church and not initiators of a new church which would, in the end, be our own creation rather than God’s?
This is the question presented by Plenary Council President and Perth Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB in his paper on the theme of Discernment.
The key, continued Archbishop Costelloe, rests in a careful consideration of what fidelity to the Lord and the Lord’s will for the Church really looks like.
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Catholic leaders publish report on Church governance
26 Aug 2020
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Catholic Religious Australia have now published an important and substantial document on the review of diocesan and parish governance and management in Australia.
The review was recommended by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Development of the report, The Light from the Southern Cross: Promoting Co-Responsible Governance in the Catholic Church in Australia was overseen by the Church’s Implementation Advisory Group (IAG).
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2020 Social Justice Statement: ‘Issue of mental health is a matter of justice’ says Bishop Sproxton
26 Aug 2020
Making mental health an issue of justice and not just a medical concern was the highlight of the speech spoken by the Auxiliary Bishop of Perth Donald Sproxton at the Perth launch of the Social Justice Statement 2020-21 titled "To Live Life to the Full", released on 6 August by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC).
Held on Thursday 20 August at Newman Siena Centre and organised by Archdiocesan Justice, Ecology and Development Office (JEDO), the event began with a “welcome to country” by Aunty Marie Taylor.
Speaking about the statement, which explores the theme of mental health in Australia, Bishop Sproxton believes the subject is "vitally important and increasingly is put before us as one of the great challenges for our society".
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‘Look in the same direction as Mary and Jesus for true love’, Cathedral priest acclaims on Feast of the Assumption
19 Aug 2020
Perth Catholics congregated in parishes across the Archdiocese to celebrate the Solemnity of the Assumption of Mary on Saturday 15 August 2020, honouring the life of Immaculate Mother of God, who, having completed the course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.
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OBITUARY: Fr Don Hughes OMI to be remembered as a valued priest, educator and formator
19 Aug 2020
Father Donald Oswin Hughes OMI, former Rector of St Charles’ Seminary and founding Rector of Mazenod College, died on 20 July 2020 at the age of 87.
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Forced marriage the focus for new toolkit
19 Aug 2020
The Australian Catholic Religious Against Trafficking in Humans (ACRATH) will release a suite of new and revised forced marriage resources during a launch via ZOOM next week, Thursday 27 August.
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SPECIAL REPORT: ‘Sins are not confessed to the priest, but to God’, Archbishop Costelloe tells Parliamentary Committee
12 Aug 2020
Archbishop Timothy Costelloe SDB has once again been called upon to defend the faith - this time before a State Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry on 6 August in response to the Children and Community Services Amendment Bill 2019.
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OBITUARY: Fr Anton Hesse enters into the great mystery of eternal life
12 Aug 2020
The Perth Catholic community has paid tribute to the life and ministry of Father Anton Gordon Hesse, who died aged 90 on 26 July 2020 at Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital.
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Kora Centre the key to Bayswater families in need
12 Aug 2020
Though at first glance the grass is long and the grounds are quiet, as Sister Chitra leads the way through to the big shaded play area at the back of the Kora Centre, the sounds of little children happily talking and laughing as they eat a hot, nutritious meal can be heard and four smiling faces beam up at us from around the table.
