St Martha’s Parish, Strathfield, Memory of St Pius X, 21 August 2026 The religious authorities try to trap Jesus with a loaded question (Mt 22:34-40). “Pick your favourite commandment,” they say innocently, knowing that whichever He picks would start an argument and divide people. If He picked one of the first three commandments they would […]
Archbishop John Wilson has been Archbishop of Southwark, south London and Kent. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2026 He leads one of the most closely watched local churches in the English-speaking world. Archbishop John Wilson has been Archbishop of Southwark, south London and Kent, since 2019, and before that spent seven years as Episcopal Vicar for Evangelisation […]
Jesus the Good Shepherd. Photo: Flickr.com. This is the edited text for the homily for Friday Mass on the 15th Week in Ordinary Time (Year 2) at the Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tennessee, 17 July, 2026. “Put your affairs in order and get ready to die,” the prophet says in his rather unornamented way (Isa 38:1-8,21-22). It’s good […]
Photo: Supplied. A small book arriving in Sydney parishes this week carries a rather large ambition: to help every Catholic in the Archdiocese fall in love again with the Eucharist. The Walk with Christ Parish Companion, prepared by the Sydney Centre for Evangelisation (SCE) is being delivered in hardcopy to parishes from this week. Drawing […]
Liana Moric. Photo: Supplied. There is an unwritten rule about pubs: don’t talk about politics, and most definitely do not talk about religion. Liana Moric had lived by it for years. But when the 25-year-old primary school teacher found herself at a friend’s birthday party, chatting to her own friends about her parish, she wasn’t expecting anyone else to be listening. Someone was. A man […]
Liverpool Mayor Ned Mannoun and Bishop Tony Percy unveiled a plaque bearing a prayer to Our Lady. Photo: Seth McMurray/Verso Media. By Alex Woolnough and Marilyn Rodrigues From candlelit streets in Fairfield to a rain-soaked Croatian celebration and the unveiling of a Marian statue in the heart of Liverpool, Sydney Catholics proudly took their devotion to Our […]
Fr Chris Ryan MGL. Photo: Supplied. This year, for the first time, three priests are undertaking the Areté Centre for Missionary Leadership’s Foundations of Missionary Leadership Program alongside lay participants, in a development that points toward a new model of collaborative formation for parishes. That model is already being supported within the Archdiocese of Sydney, with the Sydney Centre […]
St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, 16 August 2026 A few nights ago, the nation was glued to devices or papers as we all filled out the Census forms. In the ancient world a census required people to go hither and thither to register, like Joseph and Mary at the first Christmas, and it usually resulted in […]
SILVER JUBILEE Jubilarian Group with Mother Anna Grace. Photo: Supplied. Homily for Mass of the 15th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A) and Silver Jubilee of Vows of Srs Marie Karol, Perpetua, Marie Hannah, Miriam, Cecilia Joseph and Anna Christi OP. Dominican Sisters’ of St Cecilia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tennessee, 12 July, 2026. The 17th century […]
Walk with Christ 2025. Photo: Alphonsus Fok. This year Sydney’s annual Walk with Christ Eucharistic procession will be celebrated on the Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, the crowning Sunday of the liturgical year. It places the city’s most popular and most public act of Eucharistic faith at the very summit of the Church’s year […]
Norm Bejanni with his sons Joseph (L) and Elias (R) who are preparing to walk the Camino this year. Photo: Supplied. The phone call came at one o’clock on an ordinary Thursday afternoon. Charbel El Khoury* and his wife were working from home when a voice on the line asked a question that would change […]
Three new priests for the Archdiocese of Sydney at St Mary’s Cathedral. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2026 Priestly ordinations not only reflect the diversity of the global clergy, but also stand as reminders of how everyday persons are called to holiness. This message was the core of Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP’s homily on 8 August for the celebrations of the ordination of three new priests for the Archdiocese of Sydney at St Mary’s Cathedral. […]
Young adults from five south-west Sydney parishes gathered at St Mary Queen of Heaven, Georges Hall, for the inaugural Ignite collaboration, bringing together young Catholics for Mass, fellowship and formation. Photo: Supplied. There was no diocesan launch, no glossy campaign, no strategy document handed down from above. There was a barbecue, a church full of […]
St Luke the Evangelist Parish in Revesby has welcomed a first-class relic of the Ulma family, beatified in 2023 for their heroic Christian witness during the Nazi occupation of Poland. Photo: Supplied An ordinary Polish farming family who risked everything to protect their Jewish neighbours during World War II is now remembered at St Luke’s Parish […]
St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, 9 August 2026 On the recent Feast of the Transfiguration, we recalled that day that Christ allowed His divine glory to radiate from his body (Lk 9:28-36). Shining beside Him were Moses and Elijah, who were discussing Jesus’ forthcoming Passover through death to resurrection glory. Each had his own exotic ending. […]
