Welcome to St. Mary's Cathedral Hall. I am very pleased to co-host tonight's community forum and I want to begin by thanking all of you who have chosen to take part.
12
Jul
2017
02
Jul
2017
HOMILY FOR MASS FOR 13TH SUNDAY ORDINARY TIME YEAR A + ANNUAL MARRIAGE MASS – St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
This week past the first results of last year’s controversial census were released. It told us that the typical Australian is a 38-year-old Catholic woman, born in Australia of Anglo-Celtic descent, married with two kids, living in her own three-bedroom home in Sydney.
04
Jun
2017
HOMILY FOR FEAST OF PENTECOST DURING IACB CONFERENCE – VILLA PALAZZOLA CHAPEL, ITALY
On Pentecost three years ago the Holy Father hosted a prayer meeting for peace with the Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople; the President of Israel, Shimon Peres, and the President of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas.
29
May
2017
ADDRESS AT IFTAR DINNER AT THE BEGINNING OF RAMADAN 2017 – St. Mary Mackillop Place, North Sydney
I acknowledge and welcome from the Muslim Community: Your Eminence Dr Ibrahim Abu Mohammed, Grand Mufti of Australia;
24
May
2017
HOMILY FOR SYDNEY CATHOLIC SCHOOLS MASS FOR OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS – ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY
Help of Christians. You might think Christian-helper is a funny sort of surname for Mary.
21
May
2017
HOMILY FOR MASS OF 6TH SUNDAY OF EASTER YEAR A + CENTENARY OF CLOVELLY PARISH – ST. ANTHONY OF PADUA PARISH, CLOVELLY
Like many people’s lives, the 1999 film The Mummy, and its 2001 sequel The Mummy Returns, are part action-adventure, part horror, part comedy and part romance.
17
May
2017
CARDINAL GEORGE PELL: STATEMENT FROM ARCHBISHOP ANTHONY FISHER OP
The Victorian Office of Public Prosecutions has now delivered its advice on its investigation of historic child abuse allegations against Cardinal George Pell.
14
May
2017
HOMILY FOR 5TH SUNDAY OF EASTER YEAR A + MOTHER’S DAY – St. Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney
Elizabeth Joice was 32 years old when an MRI detected aggressive spinal cancer. She decided not to fight it; she’d just enjoy whatever time she had left.
13
May
2017
HOMILY FOR MASS AND PROCESSION FOR CENTENARY OF THE FIRST APPARITIONS OF OUR LADY OF THE ROSARY OF FÁTIMA – ST. MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY
On this day, 13 May, 100 years ago a woman, “brighter than the sun”, wearing a white mantle edged with gold and holding a rosary, appeared to three children.
07
May
2017
HOMILY FOR MASS OF THE 4TH SUNDAY OF EASTER YEAR A SHRINE OF ST MARY OF THE CROSS MACKILLOP, NORTH SYDNEY
When on visitation some years ago in this very parish of North Sydney, I went to the parish primary school. As I entered a tiny-tot, who saw I was unusually dressed, asked what I was.
