Welcome group for new arrivals. Photo: Supplied. In 2025 two Chaldean Christians landed in Sydney International Airport after escaping persecution in Iraq. They had been torn away from their families and friends. Waiting for them were parishioners from St Vincent’s parish in Ashfield, a group comprised of young and old, PhD students, Order of Australia […]
Pablo Arosemena Lozano and James Tomelty, members of the Neocatechumenal Way will be ordained on 30 June. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2026 Two members of the Neocatechumenal Way, James Tomelty and Pablo Arosemena Lozano, will be ordained as deacons in St Mary’s Cathedral at 7.30pm on Tuesday, 30 June, by Bishop Tony Percy. They have been studying for the priesthood at the Redemptoris Mater […]
Pastors & Principals Day, Waterview Homebush, 16 June 2026 1. Good News in the data—maybe… Last month, nearly 21,000 students in Years 5, 7, 9 and 11 completed our Survey of Religious Attitudes and Practices—a response of over 90%. Nearly 8 out of 10 (78.33%) of them said they believed Jesus is truly God and […]
Delegates rom Australia and New Zealand. Photo: Supplied. A delegation from Australia and New Zealand has been recognised for its leadership in faith-consistent investing after participating in a Vatican conference examining how Catholic institutions can better align their investments with the Gospel and Catholic social teaching. The conference, Faith-Consistent Investing for a Global Church, was held at […]
St John the Baptist Church, Bonnyrigg Heights, 14 June 2026 “When Jesus saw the crowds, He felt sorry for them, because they were harassed and dejected, like sheep without a shepherd.” (Mt 9:36-10:8) The Greek verb that St Matthew uses in our Gospel today is a little stronger than “felt sorry for”. Ẻσπλαγχνίσθη (esplanknisthē) is […]
Four Seasons Hotel, The Rocks, 12 June 2026 I. Demons In 1872 Russia was already teetering on the edge of upheaval. Halfway through his reign, Tsar Alexander II was rapidly expanding Russian territory in Central Asia and Russian influence in the Balkans. Sweeping economic, military and administrative reforms were intended to modernise his country. Symbolising […]
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 11 JUNE 2026 Ours is a faith that speaks often and richly about reconciliation and communion, including our Gospel talk of Christ the Good Shepherd drawing everyone into one flock, the black sheep, the white sheep, and the speckled ones in-between.[1] But that seems out of sorts with today’s Gospel (Mt […]
Bishop Patrick Murphy. Photo: Supplied. May 2026 marked the 40th anniversaries of the installations of the bishops of the then newly established dioceses of Parramatta and Broken Bay. Bishop Bede Heather was installed on 19 May 1986, as bishop of Parramatta and Bishop Patrick Murphy was installed as bishop of Broken Bay on 28 May 1986. Both were auxiliary bishops to Cardinal Edward […]
St Kevin’s Eastwood Parish Corpus Christi procession. Photo: Supplied. The Solemnity of the Most Holy and Blood of Christ (Corpus Christi) marked across Sydney last weekend with Eucharistic processions that brought Christ in the Blessed Sacrament into local streets as a public witness of faith. The largest was the annual procession between St Jerome’s and […]
Relics of St Anthony of Padua at St Mary’s Cathedral. Photo: The Catholic Weekly. Catholics from around Sydney packed into St Mary’s Cathedral on Friday 5 June as the relics of St Anthony of Padua visited Australia, offering the faithful a rare opportunity to pray in the presence of the Franciscan saint. Travelling from Padua, Italy, Fr Bortolino Maistrello OFM Conv from […]
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP giving the homily at the Paschal Eucharist Mass. Photo: Alphonsus Fok. Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP welcomed Pope Leo XIV’s new encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, saying the document offers a timely reminder that human beings can never be reduced in the service of technological efficiency. Released on 25 May, the pope signed the encyclical on the 15 May anniversary of Rerum Novarum, in which […]
The Sydney Archdiocese will host a relic of the recently-canonised St Carlo Acutis with a welcome Mass later this month and a tour of Greater Sydney in October. St Acutis was renowned for using the internet and digital technologies to evangelise the faith, creating websites to catalogue the Eucharistic miracles and Marian apparitions around the world before passing away from leukaemia at the age of 15 in 2006. […]
ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 7 JUNE 2026 A recent survey of nearly 11,000 Christians in Australia found that nine out of ten considered it riskier to profess their faith publicly today than it was five years ago, and almost half admitted to self-censoring their beliefs.[1] The stories behind the report highlight the worsening climate: for instance, […]
Michael Digges meeting Pope Leo XIV. Photo: Supplied. Michael Digges, the executive director of administration and finance for the Archdiocese of Sydney, has announced his retirement at the end of the year. He has worked with Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP since 2011, first in the Parramatta diocese and since 2014 in the Sydney Archdiocese. He spoke with The Catholic Weekly recently about his long experience in church […]
Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral for the launch of Eucharist28. mages by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2026 ADORING THE EUCHARISTIC LORD: “LET US KNEEL BEFORE THE GOD WHO MADE US” (PS 94:6): Pastoral Letter to the Priests, Religious, and People of the Archdiocese of Sydney on the Solemnity of the Most Holy Body and Blood […]
