Bishop Daniel Meagher blesses the new facility and leads a prayer in the outdoor Healing Garden at the Mater Hospital’s official opening of the new Ritchie Family Centre for Supportive and Palliative Care and Duncan Family Day Surgery Centre in early March 2026. PHOTO: Supplied A $42 million state-of-the-art palliative care facility and updates day surgery centre has been opened at St Vincent’s Mater Hospital in Wollstonecraft. […]
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 22 MARCH 2026 Last month Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker and New York Times columnist Ross Douthat came together for a debate on Do We Need God?[1] It was a fascinating exchange between two serious thinkers. Pinker argued that we don’t need God since science has delivered so much progress in medicine, […]
A former Muslim who found Christ at Hillsong and spent more than a decade in a Pentecostal church, Adlina Schneider is now preparing to be confirmed Catholic – and pouring her gift for music into the choir at St Joseph’s Parish, Enfield. There is a moment, Adlina Schneider says, when her fingers find the piano […]
ST PETER CHANEL & ST JOSEPH CHURCH, BERALA, 20 MARCH 2026 Roald Dahl’s book Matilda sold half a million copies in six months, won the Children’s Book Award, and inspired a BBC audiobook, a Danny DeVito movie and a West End and Broadway musical.[1] It tells the tale of Matilda Wormwood, a clever and generous […]
The new St Carlo Acutis Eucharistic chapel at Our Lady of the Rosary parish, Fairfield, is open daily for prayer and adoration. Photo: Facebook/Henry Iglinski. Our Lady of the Rosary parish in Fairfield has opened a new Eucharistic chapel dedicated to Blessed Carlo Acutis, offering a dedicated space for silent prayer in one of Sydney’s […]
St Mary’s Cathedral. Photo: Alphonsus Fok. Homily for Mass for on the 3rd Sunday in Lent Year A + opening of the Catholic Institute of Sydney academic year at St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, 8 March 2026. It’s the most ordinary of errands. A woman from a hot dusty town makes her way to the well, […]
Lent is, at its heart, a season of seeking. On 28 February and 14 March, more than 1,200 women answered that call, filling Cathedral Hall at St Mary’s with prayer, presence, and a longing for something more. Under the theme “Seek His Face,” drawn from Psalm 27, women from across New South Wales came together for […]
St Mary’s Cathedral. Photo: Alphonsus Fok. For 170 years, St Mary’s Cathedral has stood at the heart of Sydney’s Catholic community, witness to generations of faith, grief, and joy. Now it needs that community to stand with it. A high-profile gala dinner, In Lumine Fidei, on 9 May, to be held at the Sofitel Wentworth in Sydney, has been announced […]
Jacinta Collins, Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP, Scott Ryan and Nicholas Moore. Photo: CSNSW/Giovanni Portelli. Former Senate president Scott Ryan has formally begun his role as executive director of the National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC), following a commissioning Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney. Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP presided at the Mass in the cathedral […]
Guests at the annual Iftar Dinner at Cathedral House. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2026 Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP has urged faith leaders to unite in hope for a world free of tension and violence, and to persevere in faith, hope and love during a period of global instability. The Archbishop of Sydney was […]
Bishop Toney Percy will be offering a formation session on the second day of the Summit. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 Ask Campbell Evans what keeps him up at night, and the answer comes quickly: the thousands of young Catholics across Sydney who are quietly showing up, leading youth groups, running small groups, […]
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 15 MARCH 2026 In late 2011, economist Steve Hanke and astrophysicist, Richard Conn Henry, produced a new calendar for the modern world. Like the French Revolutionaries of the eighteenth century, their intention was to jettison the Gregorian calendar with its movable feasts and leap years, replacing it with a more ‘rational’ […]
Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral for the launch of Eucharist28. mages by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2026 This is the edited text of the Homily for the Second Sunday of Lent and the launch of the National Year of Prayer for Eucharist28, given by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP at St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, on 1 […]
Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral for the launch of Eucharist28. mages by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2026 Just days after Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP launched the Year of Prayer in preparation for Eucharist28, the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney began a series of formation sessions aimed at deepening understanding of Eucharistic adoration across the archdiocese. The […]
New Statue of St Francis at St Dominic’s in Flemington. Photo: Supplied. Pope Leo XIV has declared 2026, the 800th anniversary of the death of St Francis of Assisi, a jubilee year to help Christians around the world follow in the saint’s footsteps. Plenary indulgences are being granted through the usual provisions – sacramental reconciliation, receiving the Eucharist, and praying for the intentions of […]
