By virtue of our baptism, we are all called to share Christ’s love and mercy with a sad and confused world, individually and as parish communities. This workshop series will dive deeper into the natural and supernatural skills that will give you confidence to take up this call so that we may strengthen our parishes […]
By virtue of our baptism, we are all called to share Christ’s love and mercy with a sad and confused world, individually and as parish communities. This workshop series will dive deeper into the natural and supernatural skills that will give you confidence to take up this call so that we may strengthen our parishes […]
All Saints Catholic Parish hosted Australia’s biggest morning Tea. Photo: Alex Woolnough Parishioners and dignitaries flocked to All Saints Catholic Parish in Liverpool to help raise crucial funds for cancer research as part of the Cancer Council’s Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea. On a chilly Friday morning, around 200 attendees gathered in the Parish Hall at […]
Jubilate Deo choir singing for the Jubilate Deo Mass. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 The outlook for an inspiring choral experience on the feast of St Anthony of Padua at St Mary’s Cathedral last week was hardly auspicious. It was, after all, Friday the 13th. Uniformed school children filled the pews—all of them—right […]
ST ANTHONY OF PADUA CATHOLIC CHURCH, AUSTRAL, 15 JUNE 2025 Some years ago, a friend of mine was discussing the Holy Trinity with his Jehovah’s Witness sister and others who were strongly opposed to this Catholic doctrine. His interlocuters insisted that Catholics don’t really believe in the Trinity, because whenever someone asks about it, they […]
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, MEMORIAL OF ST ANTHONY OF PADUA, 13 JUNE 2025 Human beings have been described as ‘rational animals’, ‘joking animals’, ‘linguistic animals’ and ‘religious animals’. But we are also ‘musical animals’, with compositions more diverse and complex than any bird, cricket or whale. We use music to express, entertain, educate, connect, heal. […]
Jesus ascending to heaven. Photo: Wikimedia Commons. This is the edited text for the Homily for Mass of the Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord, Year C St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, 1 June 2025. There are many stories from the Middle Ages about court jesters teaching their masters a thing or two. In one, […]
The Mifsud Family. Photo: Suplied. There was a time when mother of nine, Yvonne Muller’s would bring her youngest, Tione, then aged one, to the Walk with Christ Procession to join a modest crowd of maybe 500 Catholics to walk to the cathedral. It wasn’t just a seemingly lonely experience but a fearful one. “The […]
THE BASILICA OF THE NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION, WASHINGTON D.C. FEAST OF ST BONIFACE, JUNE 5, 2025 Unparalleled in wisdom about our origins, lives and destinies, about the perennial battle between good and evil, and about the possibility of redemption… I am speaking, of course, not of the Bible or the Summa but […]
Catholics across the Archdiocese of Sydney are being called to take an active role in shaping the future of their church through the upcoming Sydney Synod 2026. A new video featuring Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP, Auxiliary Bishop Daniel Meagher, and voices from diverse communities within the archdiocese, offers a clear and heartfelt invitation to participate […]
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP at the Paschal Eucharist Mass. Photo: Alphonsus Fok. This is the edited text of the Homily for the Paschal Eucharist, Sixth Sunday of Easter (Year C), St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, 25 May 2025. In 1963, at the height of the Cold War, US President John F Kennedy gave his “Peace Speech” […]
Hundreds of teenagers walking in solemn silence. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2024 In a sea of remarkable scenes at the annual Walk with Christ procession, it could be one of the rarest. Hundreds of teenagers walking in solemn silence, without devices, without chatter—just reverent prayer and reflection. It’s a powerful display of devotion […]
Michael Digges meeting Pope Leo XIV. Photo: Supplied, A morning at a Wednesday papal audience turned into an “unforgettable” moment for the Archdiocese of Sydney’s Michael Digges who was pleasantly surprised by an opportunity to exchange a few words with Pope Leo XIV and even more stunned to find that the 2028 Eucharistic Congress in […]
Speaking to a packed audience at the Four Seasons Hotel on 30 May, Archbishop Fisher highlighted several encouraging trends that point to a resurgence in faith engagement, particularly among young people and those previously disconnected from religious practice. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 In a compelling address to the Sydney Catholic Business Network, Archbishop […]
Fr Tai’s ordination was held on 31 May and presided over by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP at St Mary’s Cathedral. Photo: Alphonsus Fok After a long journey beginning as a young boy living in a minor seminary in Vietnam, Fr Tai Pham is the first priest to be ordained for the Archdiocese of Sydney in […]
