A former convent in Annandale is now a presbytery, parish office and gathering place for the amalgamated parish of St Brendan Annandale and St Michael the Archangel Stanmore and, for the people who worked for it, the clearest sign yet of what happens when two communities decide to become one. The building tells the story. Once an […]
The new Healing and Support Service offers ongoing care to people who have experienced harm within a church context, as well as to family members and others indirectly affected. Photo: Supplied/GIOVANNI PORTELLI 2023 The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney and the Diocese of Parramatta have joined together to collaborate and provide a healing and support service […]
Called and gifted participants for 2025 Autumn intake. Photo: Supplied. Applications for the Archdiocese’s next Called and Gifted intake close this week. Every baptised Catholic has been given a gift by the Holy Spirit and it was never meant for them alone. That conviction has shaped nearly three decades of work for Sherry Weddell, co-founder of the Catherine […]
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Fr Matthew Timonera OFM Cap, Sr Mary Immanuel and seminarian Harrison Brady shared their vocation stories with young adults at St Joseph’s Catholic Parish, Moorebank. Photo: Supplied. After six years of formation with the Capuchin Friars, the then-Brother Matthew Timonera sat with his provincial minister, holding a letter that would change the course of his vocation. Written during one of […]
Portrait of Pope Pius V by Palma il Giovane, 1504-1572 AD, Painting, Rome, Italy. Photo: Picryl.com. This is the edited text of the Homily for the Mass on 16th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year A). Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tn., 19 July, 2026. Born in 1504, he was named Antonio Ghislieri in […]
Learning about the Ukrainian Eastern Catholic Church. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2026 Year 6 students from five western Sydney Catholic schools have explored the traditions, spirituality and history of three Eastern Catholic churches during a pilgrimage through Lidcombe and Auburn. Students from St Joseph the Worker Primary School, Auburn South; St John’s Catholic Primary School, […]
PPC session at Our Lady of Fatima Kingsgrove. Photo: Supplied. Nearly 100 parish pastoral council members from across the Archdiocese of Sydney have spent recent weeks wrestling with a question that kept surfacing in every room: what are we doing for our young people? The three workshops, held at Kingsgrove, Leichhardt and Mount Pritchard so that parishes from the […]
Varun (top left) Tania (top right) Christine Solomon (bottom centre). Photo: Supplied. For the growing number of Sydneysiders knocking on the door of the Catholic church, the RCIA coordinator is the first human face they meet and can also be the reason they stay. That conviction was at the heart of an online gathering hosted via Zoom on Wednesday […]
Seminary of the Good Shepherd, Homebush, 2 September 2026 On 30 June 1865 the Sydney Morning Herald reported that “By far the largest and most disastrous conflagration which has ever occurred in Sydney happened last night and resulted in the total destruction of St Mary’s Cathedral. This noble edifice, which was… the finest example of […]
The 2026 gathering will be held at St Mary’s Cathedral Hall on Saturday 19 September, from 7.30am to 4pm. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 There is a fair chance the socks you buy your father this Sunday will be at the bottom of a drawer by Christmas. Michael Jaksic has a suggestion that might […]
There is a photograph of David Stevens from years ago that he barely recognises as being him. Bearded, a bit wild about the edges, a man who could hold his own at a party and often did. “I used to be a massive drinker,” he says. “Oh God, I could drink. I’d go out and […]
The Catholic Weekly managing editor Marilyn Rodrigues accepts the award for Best Column on behalf of Archdiocese of Sydney chancellor Monica Doumit at the 2026 Australasian Catholic Press Association Awards. PHOTO: Jeremy Yuen/Australasian Catholic Press Association The Catholic Weekly has won Best Column at the 2026 Australasian Catholic Press Association Awards for a selection of work by former […]
Msgr Anthony Figueiredo with Pope Leo XIV. Photo: Supplied. A major relic of St Carlo Acutis is travelling from bustling cities to country towns on a four-month mission intended to draw Australians closer to Christ in the Eucharist. Australia is the 25th nation to receive the first-class major pilgrim relic, which contains a section of the saint’s […]
St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, 30 August 2026 In 1973, the American writer Ursula Le Guin published a short work of philosophical fiction, The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas. Set in an imaginary city where all enjoy peace and prosperity, the story opens with a summer festival including a horse-race for the young. Though limited […]
