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 […]
In an age where young men can struggle to find authentic role models and meaningful community, the Camino of St Joseph offers something different—a call for the ordinary to become extraordinary. More than 1,000 men are expected to walk through the night across seven churches from Como to Cronulla and for them the overnight pilgrimage […]
Sr Miriam James Heidland SOLT will be the guest keynote speaker at the inaugural Women’s Conference. Photo: Supplied. She is one of the most prominent female voices in Catholic media today. As a powerful global voice for evangelisation and discipleship, she has transformed her pain into healing, with a voice that is both dynamic and […]
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 […]
