Three Challenges
Dear friends. This is a time of challenge for our Church. Whether it's debates over school funding or religious liberty or the sacraments of Confession and Matrimony, there's more than a bit of anti-Christian feeling in the air.
BETWEEN IDEAL AND REALITY: WHAT FUTURE FOR MARRIAGE IN AUSTRALIA? Harman Lecture, John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family, Melbourne
The Harman Lecture was established to honour the late Rev. Dr Francis Harman, a charming and wise canonist, ethicist and parish priest who long hoped for a session of the John Paul II Institute in Australia, celebrated its conception, but died in 2000 just before it came to birth.
REMARKS AT HOUSING AND INCLUSIONARY ZONING FORUM – ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL HALL
Welcome to St. Mary's Cathedral Hall. I am very pleased to co-host tonight's community forum and I want to begin by thanking all of you who have chosen to take part.
ADDRESS AT IFTAR DINNER AT THE BEGINNING OF RAMADAN 2017 – St. Mary Mackillop Place, North Sydney
I acknowledge and welcome from the Muslim Community: Your Eminence Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammed, Grand Mufti of Australia;
CARDINAL GEORGE PELL: STATEMENT FROM ARCHBISHOP ANTHONY FISHER OP
The Victorian Office of Public Prosecutions has now delivered its advice on its investigation of historic child abuse allegations against Cardinal George Pell.
MOST REV ANTHONY FISHER OP ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY EASTER MESSAGE 2017
Brexit, impeached presidents in Brazil and South Korea, new presidents in America and the Philippines, an attempted coup in Turkey, civil war in Syria…
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP's message in response to the bombings of two Coptic churches in Egypt
At the beginning of the holiest week in the Church's year, we have been appalled by the bombings of two Coptic Christian churches in Egypt by ISIS, the dozens of deaths and injuries, and the images of blackened and blood-stained sanctuaries.
SANCTA SOPHIA COLLEGE ANNUAL ARCHBISHOP'S ADDRESS – Sancta Sophia College, Camperdown
Thank you Dr Leach and may the force be with you! I'm grateful to you all for hosting me once again at this annual Archbishop's Mass and Dinner.
THE STATE OF OUR DEMOCRACY SYDNEY CATHOLIC BUSINESS NETWORK – HYATT REGENCY HOTEL, SYDNEY
Following Brexit, the election of President Trump, and other seismic shifts in politics around the world, commentators are pondering the strength and future of democracy as we know it.
Address to the Select Committee of the Legislative Council of New South Wales on Human Trafficking
commending the Legislative Council for establishing this Select Committee.
Address of the Archbishop of Sydney, Most Rev. Anthony Fisher OP, to the Select Committee of the Legislative Council of New South Wales on Human Trafficking – Parliament House
Good afternoon Chair and Honourable members, and thank you for the invitation to address you today. Might I begin by commending the Legislative Council for establishing this Select Committee.
BOOK LAUNCH OF CATHOLIC THEOLOGY BY PROF. TRACEY ROWLAND UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME AUSTRALIA, SYDNEY
Thank you for those kind words of introduction Professor Ramsay. Vice Chancellor Celia Hammond, the newly arrived Dean of Philosophy Christian Brugger, my Auxiliary Bishop, Richard Umbers, colleagues and friends.