St Joachim’s Catholic Church celebrated 100 years of faith and community. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2026 St Joachim’s Catholic Church, Lidcombe, celebrated 100 years of faith and community on 26 July, marking both the parish’s centenary and the feast day of its patron with a day of prayer, thanksgiving and festivities. The celebrations began with […]
Deacons Lukasz Golab, Peter Van Khuơng Tran. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2026 Three men preparing to be ordained priests for the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney on 8 August at St Mary’s Cathedral have reflected on the faith, formation and moments of grace that led them to answer God’s call. For Deacons Lukasz Golab, Peter Van […]
Jubilarian Group with Mother Anna Grace. Photo: Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Congregation. The principal of St Peter Chanel Catholic Primary School in Sydney has celebrated 25 years of religious profession as a Dominican Sister of St Cecilia, with Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP telling jubilarians their lives are “living proof of what the divine Sower […]
Families gather in the parish hall for enjoy a day of celebration. Photo: Supplied. All Saints Parish in Liverpool put its grandparents and elderly parishioners front and centre this past weekend, marking World Day for Grandparents and the Elderly with a full program of celebration, music and connection. Parish priest Fr Paul Monkerud said the day gave the parish […]
For Catholics it’s a unique experience: Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP carries the Blessed Sacrament through the streets of Sydney. Photo: Giovanni Portelli Should those who advocate freedom of speech and oppose cancel culture defend freedom of artistic expression, no matter how offensive? Support for freedom of speech does not mean that every form of expression is […]
Fr Eduardo Orilla is running this year’s City2Surf to raise funds for a perpetual Eucharistic adoration chapel at St Patrick’s parish, Kogarah. Photo: Supplied. When thousands of runners set off from Hyde Park for this year’s City2Surf on 9 August, Fr Eduardo Orilla will be running with a purpose that stretches far beyond the finish line […]
Cathedral of the Incarnation, Nashville Tn., July 25, 2026 A comedy about several young singles sharing accommodation, coffee, a couch, and their twenties. Sounds like the Nashville Dominican Sisters’ novitiate, but I have in mind the sitcom Friends, that ran for 236 episodes. In its final season, its six actors were drawing even bigger crowds […]
Nearly 400 faithful from parishes across Australia packed the Liverpool Catholic Club on 18 July for the Parish Renewal Conference, a day that organisers hope will be remembered less as a one-off event and more as the moment a new wave of evangelisation took hold in the Archdiocese of Sydney. Organised by the Parish Renewal […]
Dominican Sisters of St Ceclia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tn., July 24, 2026 T. S. Eliot once observed that “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.”[1] His point was not to encourage plagiarism and artistic theft, but rather […]
Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tn., July 23, 2026 Jesus famously told stories: parables were in fact His preferred form of discourse (Mt 13:34-35; Mk 4:33-34; Lk 8:9-10). The word παραβολή (parabolē) is found nearly fifty times in the synoptic Gospels. Παρα (para), of course, means alongside as in parallel, and bolē […]
Jesus teaches, that the end to which God plants His Vine the Son, grafts us onto that vine, prunes us in our seasons, and sustains us with the grace that flows through His trunk, is that we might bear fruit. Photo: Magda Ehlers/Pexels.com. This is the edited text for the Homily for the Pontifical Mass […]
Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tn., July 22, 2026 Forty years ago, I went out for the day with a former law professor of mine in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. I suggested we visit the convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart that is a real architectural gem. […]
Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tn., July 21, 2026 Forty years ago, I went out for the day with a former law professor of mine in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. I suggested we visit the convent of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart that is a real architectural gem. […]
Bishop Richard Umbers celebrating Mass. PHOTOS: St Luke’s Parish, Revesby. About 400 parishioners and visitors gathered at St Luke’s Parish, Revesby, on 19 July to celebrate the feast of St Charbel, marking the third consecutive year the parish has honoured the beloved Lebanese saint with a major community celebration. Bishop Richard Umbers celebrated the 10am Mass before festivities continued […]
Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia Retreat, Motherhouse Nashville Tn., July 20 2026 It’s one of the most iconic lines in cinematic history. In the 1992 courtroom drama, A Few Good Men, Jack Nicholson plays the decorated base-commander Nathan Jessup as he is cross-examined by the callow Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, portrayed by Tom Cruise. Relentlessly questioned […]
