Whenever I pray at the tombs of St Peter and St Paul, my thoughts always go first to how little – if anything – must remain of them. I remember that Peter and Paul were […]
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Easter Message 2003 – ‘Let Us Spark Renewed Faith’
The annual celebration of Easter keeps before us the reality that Christian faith is, first and foremost, a personal relationship with the Risen Christ. Unless this relationship is growing, our faith is weakening. This is […]
Christmas Message 2002
For Christians, Christmas celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ, the Son of God, as a human person. They remember that Jesus came to bring ‘peace on earth!’
Bishop Quinn
The Most Reverend Peter Quinn Peter Quinn was born in Highgate Hill, Perth on February 17, 1928 to Jeremiah and Aileen Quinn who met in Kalgoorlie where both their families had moved for the Gold […]
Bishop McKeon
The Most Rev Myles McKeon Myles McKeon was born in Drummin, County Mayo, Ireland on April 3rd, 1919 to John and Bridget McKeon. Upon completing his schooling, Myles was accepted into All Hallows College in […]
Bishop Goody
The Most Rev Lancelot Goody Fifty years after the foundation of the Anglican Diocese of Bunbury a Catholic Diocese, centred on the same town, came into existence in 1954 and on 12th November of that […]
St Patrick’s Cathedral Donors 1921
“Many would like to know how they, a very poor community, managed to collect so much money and raise up such costly and imposing structures to the glory of God. Sincere faith in our God-created Church […]
Blessing and Opening of St. Patrick’s Church Bunbury
Archdeacon Smyth’s Wonderful Work What was undoubtedly the culmination of a great endeavour in Church work was witnessed last Sunday by the people of the antique and pretty seaside town of Bunbury, when his Grace […]
The History of St Patrick’s Cathedral
The foundation stone of St Patrick’s was laid in 1919. Its doors were opened to the local community just two years later. Some of the older parishioners still recall how local limestone rocks were carried […]
In the beginning
In 1845, after being consecrated Bishop of Perth in Rome, the controversial Dr Brady recruited a number of missionaries from France, England, Italy and Ireland to assist in his new See. Among these were three priests (Frs Thevaux, Thierse and Bouchet) and two brothers (Brs Theodore and Vincent) of the French Order of the Missionaries of the Immaculate Heart of Mary. It was intended that they should establish the Vicariate of King George Sound, Albany, and establish a mission to some of the two million natives Bishop Brady had claimed lived within the new diocese.