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. […]
St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, 8 August 2028 In the Hebrew of the Old Testament the way to say very was simply to repeat the word. So, the greatest song is “the Song of Songs”, complete futility is “vanity of vanities” and the most sacred place is “the Holy of Holies”.[1] יוֹם Yom is day and […]
: Elizabeth Brooks is commissioned as principal of Santa Sabina College during the school’s Feast of St Dominic celebrations. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2026 Santa Sabina College has formally commissioned Elizabeth Brooks as its new principal during the school’s annual Feast of St Dominic celebrations, marking a new chapter in the leadership of […]
Ask the women from all over Sydney who filled St Jerome’s church, Punchbowl on 1 August what they had been taught about their own bodies, and the answer came back the same from teenagers, mothers and grandmothers alike. Almost nothing. “When I was a young lady getting married, I never knew any of this,” said Joanne Webb, a mother of four. “It was something you […]
Three evening workshops across the Archdiocese of Sydney this August will help parish pastoral councils make the most of what they have and reach the people who aren’t yet in the pews. Parish pastoral councils meet on weeknights after work, often in a parish hall carrying a responsibility that shapes the life of a whole community. They are among the quietest and most consequential […]
Members Tony Agostino and Frank Rando were awarded life memberships on the day recognition of their years of dedicated service to the association. Photo: Patrick J Lee. Long before multiculturalism formed part of Australia’s identity, Italian Catholic migrants in Sydney were finding ways to preserve the faith and traditions they had brought with them. One of them was Giuseppina Palise from Salina in Italy’s Aeolian […]
A man praying the rosary during the St Joseph Camino 2025. Photo: GIOVANNI PORTELLI 2025 Two schoolmates will shoulder the statue of St Joseph across Sydney next month. Their friendship is the reason they are walking. Cam McAuley was the new boy at Redfield College, Dural, when he met Michael Badaoui in Year 5. Twenty years on, there’s not much […]
Georgio and Luigi. Photo: Callum Hussein Around 100 men of different ages and backgrounds gathered at St Michael the Archangel, Belfield, in Sydney as a new Catholic men’s association seeks to respond to what its founders see as a growing hunger for friendship, purpose and faith. The Italian Knights of the Sacred Heart Australia joined with Catholic men’s group […]
Two Sydney Catholics received a papal award in St Mary’s Cathedral House on 29 July for service to the church. Photo: Alphonsus Fok Two Sydney Catholics received a papal award in St Mary’s Cathedral House on 29 July for service to the church. Michael King supports retired priests as the Priest’s Retirement Care Coordinator under the Priests’ Retirement Foundation, […]
