Bishop Richard Umbers led the celebration Mass for St Josemaria Escriva. Photo: Alphonsus Fok. More than a thousand packed St Mary’s Cathedral to celebrate the feast day of the founder of Opus Dei, St Josemaría Escrivá, on 26 June. In his homily the principal celebrant, Bishop Richard Umbers, used the Gospel of the miraculous catch […]
Fr Bijoy giving the talk at Fidelis on Doom scrolling and rest. Photo: Tara Kennedy. Are you spending more time looking at a lit up square than with the Lord? If so, the chances of getting true rest are lowered, St Joachim’s in Lidcombe assistant parish priest Fr Bijoy Joseph says. He addressed a crowd of Sydney’s youth […]
The relics of St Carlo Acutis at St Mary’s Cathedral. Photo: Patrick J Lee. It had been a cold, raining and otherwise miserable Thursday, but nothing could stop thousands of faithful Sydneysiders shuffling into St Mary’s Cathedral to welcome the revered relics of St Carlo Acutis on its three-month tour of Australia. The evening consisted of a Mass concelebrated […]
Fr Brendan Kilcoyne is preparing for his first visit to Sydney. Photo: Linkedin. From rural Ireland, where his humorous and thought-provoking reflections on faith and culture have quietly reached Catholics around the world, Fr Brendan Kilcoyne is preparing for his first visit to Sydney. A diocesan priest of the Archdiocese of Tuam, he will spend […]
Chris Gatto and Justin Speranza. Photo: Tara Kennedy On a Saturday evening in Five Dock in Sydney’s inner west, the All Hallows parish youth group is working hard preparing meals and snacks for the city’s less fortunate. The team led by Chris Gatto and Justin Speranza are making sandwiches and spaghetti bolognese for the St Vincent de Paul Society to distribute. Each sandwich, using donations from local charity Gift of Bread, is carefully wrapped and adorned […]
Thursday of the 12th Week of Ordinary Time (Year 2), St Mary’s Cathedral Sydney, 25 June 2026 In several places in the Gospels, Jesus says being law-abiding is not enough: our heart must be in it, our intentions pure.[i] Avoiding murder is right, but we need more: we must soften our angry hearts and avoid […]
Fr Daniel Mendes and parishioner Antonio Carreira. Photo: Supplied. The Portuguese Catholic community in Sydney marked a special moment of faith and devotion on 10 May when an image of Our Lady of Fatima was welcomed to St Thomas of Canterbury Parish in Lewisham. The image was donated by António Carreira, organist for the parish’s […]
When two parishes become one, the road forward is rarely smooth. But for the communities of Holy Martyrs of St Andrew in Malabar and St Agnes in Matraville, what began as a pastoral effort to help them grow stronger together has become something far more profound: a living example of what the church can be when it chooses […]
John Deacon from Our Lady of Fatima, Kingsgrove. Photo: Supplied. John Deacon went to the 2024 Parish Renewal Conference in Liverpool organised by the Sydney Centre of Evangelisation because he could see what so many Catholics quietly sense. “Parishes need to get some life back into them,” says John, who wears several hats at Our Lady of […]
Bishop Tony Percy, Dr Mary Healy and Bishop Richard Umbers. Photo: Mary Brazell / three two one photography. In one of the largest installments of ‘Scholarship at the Cathedral’, hundreds of Sydneysiders came together on 16 June to witness Dr Mary Healy deliver the program’s latest lecture, as part of her tour of speaking events […]
St Michael’s Church, Lane Cove, 21 June 2026 In the spring of 1905, the hymn-writer Civilla Martin and her Baptist-minister husband Walter befriended the Doolittles, a Christian couple who had known more than their share of suffering. The wife had been bedridden for twenty years, and her severely disabled husband had to make his own […]
Dr Robert Haddad, Charlie Tahan and Fr Greg Morgan. PHOTO: Mat De Sousa. Seeking to equip themselves with the knowledge to defend their faith, more than one hundred young adults gathered from across Sydney’s South west to take part in an open discussion led by a panel of apologetics experts and enthusiasts. St Catherine of Laboure Parish […]
St Anne’s Catholic Church choir and orchestra. Photo: Giovanni Portelli. Following the remarkable success of last year’s Messiah, which drew more than 200 people to St Anne’s Catholic Church in Bondi, the parish’s music ministry is returning with what promises to be an even more compelling and uplifting event: Gloria. The choir has grown to more than […]
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart, Randwick, 17 June 2026 The oldest noble vine in the world still bearing grapes is not in some remote clos in Burgundy but in the tiny village of Maribor in Slovenia.[1] According to the Guinness Book of World Records it has been producing fruit for 450 years. And it […]
South Korean delegation at the return of the World Youth Day Cross and Icon. Photo: Abel Gaspi. Young Catholics across Sydney are being invited to begin preparing for the next World Youth Day, with the Archdiocese of Sydney officially opening expressions of interest for a pilgrimage to Seoul, South Korea, in 2027. The international gathering […]
