ST MARY’S BASILICA, SYDNEY, 20 APRIL 2025 “I wonder if I am dreaming?” she asks after falling down a rabbit hole. In Lewis Carroll’s 1865 masterpiece, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the girl finds herself in a bizarre world where nothing makes sense anymore. Rabbits carry pocket watches, playing cards serve as soldiers, Cheshire cats disappear […]
Jesus Christ is alive! Sydney’s Catholics embraced the Sacred Triduum with love and devotion, commemorating the Lord’s arrest and crucifixion for our sake, his death and resurrection. Beginning on Holy Thursday, people gathered at St Mary’s Cathedral and parishes across the city for a Seven Churches pilgrimage. Many made the journey to the Shrine of […]
Easter Sunday 2023. Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2023 Trade wars, military wars and cyber wars. Natural disasters and climate change. Cost of living, recession, political instability. Polarisation, domestic violence and relationship breakdown. We can be short on reasons to hope. Yet as the great Martin Luther King, Jnr pointed out, its only when its dark […]
Archbishop Amel Nona and Bishop Richard Umbers with Seven Churches Visitation pilgrims at St Thomas the Apostle Chaldean Cathedral, Bossley Park on 17 April 2025. Photo: Giovanni Portelli The beginning of the Paschal Triduum saw thousands of Sydney’s faithful participate in Holy Thursday night’s Seven Churches Visitation on 17 April, seizing the opportunity to pray […]
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 17 APRIL 2025 Recently released, The Return recounts the final events in Homer’s epic The Odyssey. Odysseus, played by Ralph Fiennes, washes up naked on the shores of Ithaca after two decades away. He’d been a great success in the Trojan War, being the one who proposed the Trojan Horse and […]
St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, Maundy Thursday, 17 April 2025 “Naked and unashamed”—that’s how the Book of Genesis describes our first parents in the Garden of Eden (Gen 2:25). Yet after the Fall and through the rest of the Bible, nakedness is shameful. Gyms and nude beaches might be all very well in Australia, as in […]
My name is Evelyn Hasana. I’m 24 and I’m from Indonesia. I moved here to Australia when I was 16 for my studies and I’ve been here for seven years now. I was born into a very strong Protestant family and I’ve always felt close to God As a Protestant, whenever I met a Catholic […]
Stations of the Cross in Rookwood. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 Family educators of the Auburn/Lakemba network recently facilitated the fourth annual Stations of the Cross. Held in the Way of the Cross Chapel in Rookwood, the Stations were observed at the peaceful Rookwood Cemetery with the devotion being led by Fr Maurice […]
On 19 April, hundreds of RCIA (Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults) catechumens and candidates will reach the pinnacle of their journey and become fully initiated into the Catholic faith in parishes across the archdiocese at the Easter Vigil. Catechumens who have not been baptised will receive the Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism, confirmation, and the […]
St Brigid’s Church. Photo: Supplied. By Fr Peter McMurrich SM This year St Brigid’s Church in Millers Point celebrates 190 years since its foundation. Located at 14 Kent Street, Millers Point, it is Australia’s oldest surviving place of Catholic worship. In 1834 the colonial government provided the site and completed a simple single-storey building using […]
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