Prague. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. Visitors to Prague are often surprised to discover that, apart from the obvious tourist highlights—Charles Bridge, the cathedral, the castle—a further, seemingly pedestrian location is also worth a few photos: the fabled metro system. The descent to each platform via escalator is so precipitous that, upon first experiencing the swift and […]
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP with Executive Director of Sydney Catholic Schools Danielle Cronin. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 This is the edited text for the Homily for the Sydney Catholic Schools Commissioning Mass for Beginning Teachers, Principals and the New Executive Director, Thursday of the 1st week of Lent, St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, […]
Thousands gather outside NSW Parliament House to protest against an extreme bill to allow the NSW Health Minister to force Catholic hospitals to provide abortions and remove conscientious objection rights from health care practitioners. Photo: Alphonsus Fok Thousands gathered outside NSW Parliament House on Wednesday evening to protest against an extreme bill that would – among […]
Women partaking in the Emmaus program. Photo: Supplied. On 15 March, the Archdiocese of Sydney’s Catholic Women’s Network (CWN) officially launched The Emmaus program, an innovative spiritual accompaniment initiative that pairs Catholic women mentors with mentees. This launch marks the first year of the program’s full-scale implementation, following a successful pilot in 2024. Helena Roumanus, […]
The float bearers to carry the statue of St Joseph in procession during a parish celebration of the saint’s feast at St Joseph’s Moorebank on 17 March. Photo: Maria Saur. Over a decade ago, as Katarina Poljak was struggling at a major crossroads in her life, a priest advised her to entrust her desire for […]
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, 18 MARCH 2025 عَلَيْ As-salamu alaykum, Peace up upon you. Welcome to St Mary’s Cathedral House for our 14th annual Iftar dinner, honouring especially the Muslim community, but bringing together people of many faiths. I’m glad to be with you in person this year, after Covid forced me to Zoom in last […]
Executive Director, Danielle Cronin. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 Sydney Catholic Schools gathered at St Mary’s Cathedral for the 2025 Commissioning Mass On Thursday, 13 March. This significant event celebrated the commissioning of beginning teachers, school leaders, and our new Executive Director, Danielle Cronin. The annual Mass is a time of reflection, renewal, […]
Bishop Terence Brady celebrated the archdiocesan St Patrick’s Day Mass on the 17 March Solemnity at St Mary’s Cathedral. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 Sydney celebrated St Patrick’s Day by filling city streets with a parade, the Domain with an all-day music festival, St Mary’s Cathedral for Mass and even Surry Hill’s parish […]
St Patrick’s dinner dance 2025. Photo: Patrick J Lee. St Peter’s Surry Hills brought together Catholics from around the archdiocese and beyond for a night of joyful celebration of St Patrick’s Day, reclaiming the Catholic origins of the annual feast. Parishioner Colm McCaughan said the whole parish had been involved in the preparations for the […]
Living in Christ: The Moral Life and its Challenges Presented by Fr Paschal M. Corby OFM Conv This short course on the moral life offers a vision of the human person as created for blessedness. It is grounded in our creation in the image and likeness of God, and completed by our filial adoption in […]
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