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 […]
Sydney pilgrims bound for the Jubilee of Youth take one last photo before boarding their flight to Rome via Poland on 20 July. Photo: Moments with Jazz Photography. Teary farewells quickly turned into hopeful excitement as more than 40 pilgrims from Sydney’s South West set out for the International airport ahead of their flight to […]
BASILICA OF SANTA CROCE, FLORENCE, 23 JULY 2025 This Tempio dell’Itale Glorie (Temple of Italian Glories) boasts tombs and monuments of including the humanist-architect of Sta Maria Novella Alberti, the philosopher-poet Dante, the artist-engineer Leonardo Da Vinci, the astronomer Galileo, the political theorist Machiavelli, Ghiberti of the bronze doors, Marconi inventor of radio, and Rossini […]
St Charbel Statue at St Luke’s Parish in Revesby. Photo: Patrick Tadros. Modern life is abuzz with 24/7 distractions. Perhaps the 19th century Maronite hermit, St Charbel, has the answer to cutting ourselves loose from them, Bishop Daniel Meagher told hundreds gathered at Revesby parish on 20 July. He said that the saint’s life was […]
Marun and two of his sons. Photo: Supplied. No other event in the Catholic calendar offers a more profound opportunity for fathers and sons to walk together in faith than the St Joseph Camino pilgrimage. This overnight journey held on 5 and 6 September has become more than just a physical trek; it embodies the […]
METROPOLITAN DUOMO OF THE NATIVITY OF ST MARY, MILAN, 22 JULY 2025 We don’t know for sure which parts of the Mary-Mag Myth are really hers, but she got a reputation early as a bad girl, even if one who turned good. We know she was one of the female groupies who stalked Jesus from […]
Members of the Chinese Catholic Pastoral Community with Tania Rimac from the Parish Renewal Team for a leadership renewal conference. Photo: Supplied. Members of the Chinese Catholic Pastoral Community gathered at St Joseph’s Retreat Centre in Baulkham Hills for a leadership renewal conference, a day shaped by reflection, formation, and a deep sense of mission […]
Fr Laurie Foote OP speaking with Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP at the latest Grace and Truth night. Photo: Alphonsus Fok. St Mary’s Cathedral hall was transformed into a classroom in the evening on 18 July, as Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP led the audience through a reflection on the person of Jesus Christ in the latest […]
(L-R) Sean Rahilly, Dr Renee Kohler-Ryan, Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP, Mary Anne Carroll OAM and Michael Digges. These four Sydney laypeople were among the last Catholics worldwide to receive papal honours from Pope Francis which recognised their contribution to the growth of the faith in Sydney. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 One worked to […]
