St Patrick's Cathedral Bunbury nearly ready for the roof
As the fifth anniversary nears of the day St Patrick's cathedral broke, the new building is taking shape
View ArticleSt Patrick's cathedral ready for the roof
Bricks are laid, the bell tower is rising on the new St Patrick's cathedral
View ArticleFive years since St Patrick's cathedral demolished
Video of the demolition of St Patrick's cathedral Bunbury
View ArticleReturned Missionary
Pastor Perry returned from Fiji and realized a lot had changed, except the most important thing.
View ArticleSpire and cross now sit atop St Patrick's cathedral Bunbury
Another milestone was reached today in the building of St Patrick's cathedral in Bunbury
View ArticleWindows of new St Patrick's cathedral borrow car technology
Windows which use the same lamination process as car windscreens grace the new catholic cathedral in Bunbury
View ArticleSt Patrick's cathedral stained glass panels go in
St Patrick's cathedral Bunbury is now full of colour and light
View ArticleCentenary Bridgetown church is a custodian of traditional treasures
Stunning brass and gorgeous stained glass make St Paul's a building worth preserving for another 100 years
View ArticleComfort in the new St Patrick's cathedral pews
Modern clean lines and ergonomically comfortable seating.
View ArticleRestoring religious icons takes a steady hand
Dardanup artist Joyce Hatchett has climbed on steps and crawled around the floor as she gives the statue of St Patrick a new lease of life
View ArticleNew Catholic cathedral opens doors
Bunbury's new Catholic cathedral will be opened today, almost six years after its predecessor was destroyed by a tornado.
View ArticleModern cathedral rises from the ashes
A new Catholic church has been built on the site of an old cathedral in Bunbury south of Perth.
View ArticleBunbury cathedral to be unveiled
Bunbury's new Catholic cathedral will be opened today, almost six years after its predecessor was destroyed by a tornado.
View ArticleBig crowd attends cathedral dedication
More than 800 people have attended the dedication service of Bunbury's new Catholic cathedral.
View ArticleThe dedication of St Patrick's cathedral Bunbury
St Patrick's cathedral Bunbury is finished. On the day of consecration, Bishop Gerard Holohan looks back over five years of planning and building
View ArticleRebuilding St Patrick's cathedral
Two and a half years of work complete on the newest cathedral for Australia
View ArticleMonks get taste of Margaret River
The Gyuto Monks of Tibet will wrap up their visit to Western Australia by spending the weekend in Margaret River.
View ArticleSt Patrick's bells sound once more
The new bells of St Patrick's cathedral, Bunbury, will marry tradition and science when they sound across the city for the first time
View ArticleCensus reveals no religion trend
Census figures show a growth in the number of people in southern Western Australia who have no religious affiliations.
View ArticleThe power of mystery and love: St Boniface cathedral
St Boniface Anglican cathedral turns 50 and faces challenges both materially and spiritually
View ArticleChristians celebrate
Thousands of West Australians have attended Easter church services across the state to celebrate the resurrection of Christ.
View ArticleForward in Faith church is finding converts among Aboriginal people
Gospel singing, dancing and speaking in tongues. It doesn't sound like traditional Australian Aboriginal spirituality.
View ArticleRamadan is a time of preparation for leading a good life the rest of the year
Fahad Ashraf is one of thousands in WA who will be fasting and praying for another three weeks in observance with Islam's holiest time.
View ArticleDardanup Shire to vote on mosque plan
The Shire of Dardanup is set to vote tonight on an application for what could be the first mosque built in south-west Western Australia.
View ArticleThe Easter message is the Resurrection not the suffering says Bishop
Though we can be swept up in the pagan traditions of Easter like easter eggs, the holiday has its foundation in the death and resurrection of Jesus. Catholic Bishop of Bunbury Gerard Holohan explains...
View ArticleSatan is a tour guide in the Hellbound fantasy books by Yallingup author
Tim Hawken has written a trilogy that challenges our perception of what happens after death.
View ArticleRadicalisation needs to be tackled on an individual basis, says Muslim academic
Dr Anne Aly sees the roots of religious terrorism stretching back to at least a decade ago in this country.
View ArticleChristmas lights up Bunbury
The best Christmas decorated street in Bunbury isn't the main street, but Dunstan Street in South Bunbury, where the residents turned their neighbourhood into a magnificent illumination.
View ArticlePolice at Christmas: On duty and away from family
Dunsborough Sergeant Bahen has worked 17 of the last 20 festive seasons and says he doesn't really know what it's like to have a normal Christmas anymore. Police are lucky to have one Christmas off in...
View ArticleWA's Education Minister dismayed at federal cut to state's school chaplaincy...
The Federal Government's decision to cut funding for school chaplains puts undue pressure on the WA Education Department, Minister Peter Collier says.
View ArticleRepublishing cartoon offensive to Muslims is justified by the war against...
Bernie Masters, a former South West MLA, re-posted an offensive cartoon on his Facebook page saying it is a call to action against the rise of terrorism.
View ArticleMeditation being used at Perth school and businesses to target stress
Perth schools and businesses are using meditation to calm nerves and boost the mental health of students and staff.
View ArticlePerth Muslim leaders say de-radicalisation strategy should 'not marginalise'...
Perth's Muslim leaders say a national strategy to prevent the radicalisation of students would help divert impressionable young people away from the "criminal indoctrinations" of Islamic State and...
View ArticleBusselton council delays adopting traditional acknowledgment at council meetings
An online petition is calling for a regional Western Australian council to adopt an acknowledgement of traditional landowners at the start of council meetings.
View ArticleChurch admits it failed to protect boys from paedophile priest Raymond Cheek
The Anglican Church was aware of the inappropriate behaviour of a serial paedophile priest as far back as the early 2000s but failed to act, the Diocese of Bunbury admits.
View ArticleSex abuse claims: Class action against former Esperance priest Father Kevin...
Lawyers prepare a class action against the Catholic Diocese of Bunbury on behalf of three people who say they were sexually abused by a high-profile priest in Esperance in the 1960s and '70s.
View ArticleI'm a Muslim, ask me anything: Perth Imam Kamran Tahir tackling Islamophobia...
Australia's youngest imam doesn't see the need for Muslim schools and he'd rather shake a woman's hand than cause offence. He's even happy for cameras to be installed in his Perth mosque and has...
View ArticleDying to Know Day: National initiative Dying to Talk encourages communicating...
A national initiative aimed at encouraging preparedness for death may help those struggling with the topic approach the elephant in the room.
View ArticleFormer Bunbury priest jailed over cartoons featuring child sex abuse
A paedophile former Bunbury priest is sentenced to 12 months behind bars for possessing comic strips featuring children being sexually abused.
View ArticleGardener plugs in to 1960s CIA interrogation technique to get her plants to sing
The work of a CIA polygraph expert in the 1960s has led groups as diverse as an Italian commune and a WA gardener to wire-up their plants to get them to sing.
View ArticleInquest into cult leader Simon Kadwell, Chantelle McDougall and daughter...
Simon Kadwell preached to followers worldwide about a looming judgment day from a quiet WA town. That was 10 years ago, and he and his family have not been seen since. Today an inquest may finally...
View ArticleCult leader Simon Kadwell inquest hears police failed to investigate leads...
An inquest into the disappearance of a cult leader and his family from a small West Australian town is told police failed to fully investigate all of the possible evidence, including reports of the...
View ArticleCult leader Simon Kadwell's followers influenced to take their own lives,...
A self-styled religious cult leader may have influenced two of his followers to suicide before he disappeared with three other people, including a mother and child, from a quiet WA town, an inquest hears.
View ArticleCult leader Simon Kadwell abused ex-girlfriend as she tried to leave, Nannup...
A self-styled cult leader assaulted a girlfriend, one of three he had at the time, when she tried to leave him, an inquest into the disappearance of a family of four in WA is told.
View Article'Doomsday cult' coronial inquest fails to solve mystery surrounding...
A coronial inquest into the disappearance of a self-styled religious cult leader and his family in WA fails to determine whether the group is alive or dead, leaving parents without answers after 11 years.
View ArticlePaedophile priest investigation turns to regional Western Australia to reveal...
A law firm turns its attention to regional Western Australia in a bid to reveal the full extent of prolific paedophile priest Denis McAlinden's abuse of young children.
View Article'WA's tiniest church' gets a makeover after being ploughed into by cars on...
A church dubbed the smallest in Western Australia has been closed since 2012 when a car ploughed through its facade, but the church's community is fighting to restore and reopen it.
View ArticleWhy does a donkey have a cross? It depends who you ask
Scientists, storytellers and Christians have all tried explaining why donkeys around the world have a peculiar marking resembling a cross.
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