Fr Benjamin Saliba with Pope Leo XIV and Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP at the Vatican. Photo: Vatican Media. Fr Ben Saliba, master of ceremonies for Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP, was stunned when his boss invited him to accompany him to the Vatican to meet Pope Leo XVI during the recent Jubilee of Youth. Archbishop Fisher […]
Archbishop W. Shawn McKnight of Kansas City, Kan., displays his pallium at the Pontifical North American College in Rome after receiving it from Pope Leo XIV during a Mass for the feast of Sts. Peter and Paul in St. Peter’s Basilica June 29, 2025. The pallium is a woolen band worn by metropolitan archbishops to […]
Mateo and Katerina with their children. Photo: Supplied. When Katerina Poljak encouraged her husband Mateo to join the Camino of St Joseph pilgrimage last year, she could never have imagined the profound transformation that would follow. What began as a wife’s gentle nudge toward deeper faith became a complete spiritual awakening that has revolutionised their […]
Vlado with his companions team he established in his parish. Photo: Supplied. For decades, Vlado Kevric thrived in the corporate world, managing teams of over 100 people across insurance branches and call centres. Success was measured in targets met, KPIs exceeded, and bottom lines improved. But something was missing. “It was always a job or […]
BASILICA OF SANTA MARIA SOPRA MINERVA, ROME, 4 AUGUST 2025 Male and female, tall and short, young and old, clerical and lay, alive or dead at the moment: sainthood comes in many different kinds. In the history of our faith, the path to heroic virtue is not one-size-fits-all. Take John Vianney, whose memorial the Church […]
Armed with their ideas and a vision for the future church in Sydney, families are ready to seize this rare opportunity to help steer the future of their faith at the upcoming Synod consultations, beginning on 30 August. Mother of four Phillipa Manley sees the synod consultations as a way of shaping her faith—which is […]
Tomasz delivers an introduction to a fortnightly course based on St John Paul II’s Love and Responsibility at St Joseph’s Catholic church, Moorebank. Photo: Supplied. Every Catholic revert has a story to tell, and for Tomasz Juszczak it was St John Paul II’s Theology of the Body that sparked his journey back to the church. […]
Domus Australia, Rome, 1 August 2025 I. Winter for the Church Yesterday it was announced that Pope Leo will soon declare St John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church. 173 years ago Newman gave the clergy of Westminster his ‘Second Spring’ sermon.[1] Unlike the natural world, where Winter inevitably rolls into Spring, he thought […]
Vatican Obelisk St Peter’s Square. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. This is the edited text of the Homily during the Mass of the Apostles Peter and Paul Youth Pilgrimage for the Jubilee of Hope 2025 at the Altar of the Chair, St Peter’s Basilica, Rome, 28 July 2025. You’ll have noticed the granite obelisk, reaching 41 metres […]
For parishes without existing councils, these workshops offer an ideal starting point. For those with established councils, the sessions provide concrete direction and strengthening of existing efforts. Photo: Supplied. In an era dubbed by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP as a “second spring”, where Sydney parishes are witnessing a remarkable resurgence of faith, with increasing RCIA […]
SFORZA CHAPEL, BASILICA OF SANTA MARIA MAGGIORE, 30 JULY 2025 Many years ago I saw a very beautiful image of The Virgin at Prayer in the Dominican church of St Clemente near the Colosseum—a wonderful church we will be visiting in the coming days. When I got back home, I discovered the same painting in […]
Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2024 The Sutherland Shire will witness something extraordinary on 5 September as a thousand Catholic men walk on the Camino of St Joseph, an overnight pilgrimage through one of Sydney’s most beautiful regions. The camino will offer participants a unique blend of spiritual nourishment and natural beauty on their […]
As Catholics across Sydney prepare to share their practical ideas for the church’s growth at three upcoming Synod consultations—beginning on 30 August in Menai—parish communities are already actively exploring ways to reinvigorate the church for the years ahead. His Grace, Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP, has convoked a diocesan Synod for Sydney between 30 April and 3 […]
ALTAR OF THE CHAIR, ST PETER’S BASILICA, ROME, 28 JULY 2025 You’ll have noticed the granite obelisk, reaching 41 metres up to the skies, in the middle of St Peter’s Square. It was already a thousand years old when Moses saw it in Heliopolis. Caesar Augustus transplanted it to Alexandria around the time of Christ’s […]
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP giving his homily for the Solemn Mass of the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time and Dempsey Medal awards. Photo: Patrick J Lee. This is the edited text for the homily for the Solemn Mass of the 14th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year C) + Dempsey medal. The first Hobbit film was […]
