Choir Procession in the Town Hall. Photo: Supplied. A brand new Catholic Christmas Festival will bring together thousands of people this December at Sydney’s iconic Town Hall with two days of major […]
09
Dec
2025
09
Dec
2025
Our youth show the church is full of life
Purpose Fest was held on 2 July 2025 at Rosebank College in Sydney’s Five Dock. Photo: Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 By Julian Vieira “The church is not dead, it is not even tired!” (Benedict XVI). During the Jubilee Year […]
08
Dec
2025
Sydney welcomes World Youth Day cross and icon for first time since 2008
South Korean delegation at the return of the World Youth Day Cross and Icon at St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney in preparation for World Youth Day in Seoul in 2027. […]
08
Dec
2025
Sydney erupts with joy as Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP announces ACYF28 in Sydney
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP announcing that the next ACYF will be held in Tandem with the International Eucharistic Congress in 2028. Photo: ACYF/Archdiocese of Melbourne. Addressing thousands at the conclusion […]
08
Dec
2025
Behind the curtain of the biggest Christmas at the Cathedral to date
Christmas at the Cathedral as seen from Hyde Park. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2024 This year’s Christmas at the Cathedral takes audiences deeper into the spirit of Christmas […]
08
Dec
2025
God’s good baristas
The two newly ordained priests, Fr Giovanni Julio Gonzalez and Fr Jorge Mairena Marquez. Photo: Alphonsus Fok. Two missionaries of the Neocatechumenal Way, Giovanni Julio Gonzalez and Jorge Mairena Marquez, […]
07
Dec
2025
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE SECOND SUNDAY OF ADVENT (YEAR A)
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 7 DECEMBER 2025 During the week before Christmas, as we celebrate with the Christmas at the Cathedral each night in Sydney, the Church sings a series […]
06
Dec
2025
HOMILY FOR THE LOURDES DAY MASS FOR THE ORDER OF MALTA
ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 6 DECEMBER 2025 (MOST REV.) ANTHONY FISHER OP, CHIEF CHAPLAIN OF THE ORDER OF MALTA IN AUSTRALIA A recent McCrindle report offers a fascinating snapshot of […]
05
Dec
2025
HOMILY FOR THE MASS OF ORDINATION TO THE PRIESTHOOD OF REV. GIOVANNI JULIO AND REV. JORGE MAIRENA
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 5 DECEMBER 2025 Coffee: humanity’s love affair with it is remarkable. It’s estimated we consume over two and a quarter billion cups every day or 26,000 […]
05
Dec
2025
Charity founder Moira Kelly shares reasons for hope at the annual Labouré Lecture
About 400 parishioners from the St Catherine Labouré Gymea parish packed Doltone House in Sylvania Waters to listen to Moira Kelly AO in this year’s 4th annual Laboure Lecture, Photo: […]