Throughout August and September, the Parish Renewal Team within the Sydney Centre for Evangelisation held workshops to help parish pastoral councils in their vital work supporting Sydney parishes. With the theme: ‘Foundations for Effective Parish Pastoral Councils’, The Catholic Weekly attended the second of three workshop nights, held on 11 September. The 13 parishes from […]
The funeral Mass held in Our Lady of Fatima Church where Monsignor Kerry Bayada was farewelled. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 Monsignor Kerry Bayada was farewelled on Tuesday, 16 September in a touching service held in the parish he served faithfully for 30 years. Tens of mourners paid their respects to the late […]
IMAGE: Freepik Labor is favoured to win Saturday’s by-election for the NSW State seat of Kiama. But the crowded field of 13 candidates, its turbulent recent history, and changing demographics make the result unpredictable. The Labor government of Chris Minns is two seats short of a majority and has to rely on crossbenchers to pass […]
Pope Leo XIV greets pilgrims from the popemobile after celebrating the canonization Mass of Sts. Carlo Acutis and Pier Giorgio Frassati in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sept. 7, 2025. (CNS photo/Lola Gomez) By Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS). The greatest risk in life is to waste it by not seeking […]
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 31 AUGUST 2025 “Selfie museums” are a curious invention of our age. Carefully staged spaces, filled with colour, mirrors, artworks, monumental or scenic backdrops, they are designed for a singular purpose: to take an attention-grabbing photo of yourself. Unlike traditional galleries that invite us to contemplate something other than ourselves, selfie […]
Archbishop Christopher Prowse, pictured earlier this year. Photo: Paul Osborne ACBC. In 1950, Catholic bishops issued On Immigration, a landmark pastoral letter urging the community to offer generosity to those seeking to make Australia their new home. Seventy-five years on, Australia’s Catholic bishops have issued Under the Southern Cross: A Journey of Faith and Unity. […]
This is “Christ’s Appearance to Mary Magdalene After the Resurrection” by the Russian painter Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov. Because Mary’s heart has been turned toward Christ through conversion and repentance, she becomes one of his most fervent, faithful disciples. (CNS photo/Wikimedia Commons) This is the edited text for the Homily of the Mass for the Feast […]
Bede Alexander, founder of Fit for the Kingdom. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 For Bede Alexander, the 23-year-old founder of “Fit for the Kingdom,” the Camino of St Joseph is both the rarest and most perfect of Catholic men’s events that unite mind, soul and body. “Fit for the Kingdom” is an apostolate […]
St Peter Chanel Primary School celebrated 100 years of education. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 St Peter Chanel Primary School in Regents Park recently celebrated (8 August) its centenary with a gala dinner for parents, friends and supporters at The Renaissance Lidcombe. About 700 people attended chief executive officer of Catholic Schools NSW […]
Bishop Tony shared both his vocational journey and his passion for making St John Paul II’s Theology of the Body (TOB) accessible to all. Photo: Supplied. On Saturday 9 August, many gathered in St Mary’s Cathedral’s Chapter Hall in Sydney for the Love, Sex & the Body: Unlearning the Lies event—an afternoon of honest and engaging […]
Five Dock was transported to Italy on 17 August as the street turned out for celebrations of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. Photo: GIOVANNI PORTELLI 2025 If the Sydney suburb of Five Dock were miraculously transported to Italy on 15 August, it would be deserted; its shops shuttered, scraps of paper and empty water […]
SEMINARY OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD, HOMEBUSH, 15 AUGUST 2025 The Church has just been celebrating the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea which ran from May to July 325. Arius of Alexandria had drawn a big following with his teaching that only God the Father was eternal, that the Son was created, and so […]
Pope Francis has invited the whole church to reflect on the path of synodality, which is both the way of life and the fundamental action of the church. “It is precisely this path of synodality which God expects of the church of the third millennium,” he says. On 12 March Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP announced […]
Farewell Mass for the Marist Fathers who have looked after St Patrick’s Church Hill for 157 years. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 St Patrick’s Church Hill is everyone’s second parish, Bishop Daniel Meagher told people at a farewell Mass for the Marist fathers who have looked after the church for 157 years. Originally […]
The Virgin in Prayer by Sassoferrato. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. This is the edited text for the homily for the Votive Mass of the Blessed Virgin Mary-Youth Pilgrimage for the Jubilee of Hope 2025. Many years ago I saw a very beautiful image of The Virgin at Prayer in the Dominican church of St Clemente near […]
