Mike and Alicia Hernon. Photo Credit: supplied/Messy Family Project Mike and Alicia Hernon have spent more than a decade accompanying families through the messiness of marriage and family life, finding in it not failure but a path to holiness. Now the founders of the Messy Family Project, and hosts of one of the United States’ most popular […]
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 25 MARCH 2026 Every now and then, a single sentence captures an historical moment. We think: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” “I have a dream.” “We shall fight on the beaches.” But the sentence or two that truly changed everything—dividing all time into before and […]
Danielle Cronin at the SCS Commissioning Mass in 2025. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 Rapid social and cultural change is reshaping the landscape of education everywhere, and Catholic school systems are set to lead it. Locally, Sydney Catholic Schools laid out that ambition in Magis 2033, a decade-long roadmap launched early in 2026 […]
Participants gather at Garrison Park Reserve for the Run 4 St Joseph fun run on 22 March. Photo: Mathew De Sousa As storm clouds cleared over Sydney’s west, crowds gathered at Garrison Park Reserve for a fun run that raised more than $13,000 for the restoration of St Joseph’s church in Moorebank. The Run 4 St […]
Fr Chris Ryan MGL. Photo: Supplied. Participation at St Declan’s parish in Penshurst is growing rapidly as its outreach programs expand to meet rising demand for support across Sydney’s south. A key part of the work is carried out in partnership with the St Vincent de Paul Society, with more than 130 parishioners registered to assist through the local conference […]
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP delivered the homily at Mass for the Day of the Unborn Child. Photo: Alphonsus Fok. “The Lord weeps with us, and we with him, for all those innocents lost each year, each month, and each day in our world. Each day in our city.” A hush fell over St Mary’s Cathedral […]
Men praying at the St Joseph Lenten retreat. Photo: Mathew De Sousa. For a young dietitian who spends his days talking to patients, a day of complete silence might seem the last thing he would choose. But Vincent Voccaro, 27, was among 120 men who did exactly that last weekend. “Finding Silence with St Joseph: […]
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 […]
