Our Lady of Fatima procession 2023. Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2023 Since it began in 2023, the annual Our Lady of Fatima procession at St Mary’s Cathedral has become one of the most beautiful expressions of Catholic faith in Sydney. On 10 May, this candlelit gathering will once again bring thousands together in a powerful […]
A Statement from the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Most Rev. Anthony Fisher OP The Church in Sydney and Australia joins with people throughout the world in mourning the passing of the Holy Father, Pope Francis. As priest, bishop and pope, he embodied Christ’s command to care for all people, especially the most vulnerable. He was a […]
Sydney Bishop-Elect Tony Percy Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 Sydney Bishop-Elect Tony Percy hopes his ordination to the episcopate will be a special occasion for the church and confirmation for all present of the nearness of God to his people. Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP will be the principal celebrant at the ordination Mass […]
ST MARY’S BASILICA, SYDNEY, 20 APRIL 2025 “I wonder if I am dreaming?” she asks after falling down a rabbit hole. In Lewis Carroll’s 1865 masterpiece, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, the girl finds herself in a bizarre world where nothing makes sense anymore. Rabbits carry pocket watches, playing cards serve as soldiers, Cheshire cats disappear […]
Jesus Christ is alive! Sydney’s Catholics embraced the Sacred Triduum with love and devotion, commemorating the Lord’s arrest and crucifixion for our sake, his death and resurrection. Beginning on Holy Thursday, people gathered at St Mary’s Cathedral and parishes across the city for a Seven Churches pilgrimage. Many made the journey to the Shrine of […]
Easter Sunday 2023. Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2023 Trade wars, military wars and cyber wars. Natural disasters and climate change. Cost of living, recession, political instability. Polarisation, domestic violence and relationship breakdown. We can be short on reasons to hope. Yet as the great Martin Luther King, Jnr pointed out, its only when its dark […]
Archbishop Amel Nona and Bishop Richard Umbers with Seven Churches Visitation pilgrims at St Thomas the Apostle Chaldean Cathedral, Bossley Park on 17 April 2025. Photo: Giovanni Portelli The beginning of the Paschal Triduum saw thousands of Sydney’s faithful participate in Holy Thursday night’s Seven Churches Visitation on 17 April, seizing the opportunity to pray […]
ST MARY’S CATHEDRAL, SYDNEY, 17 APRIL 2025 Recently released, The Return recounts the final events in Homer’s epic The Odyssey. Odysseus, played by Ralph Fiennes, washes up naked on the shores of Ithaca after two decades away. He’d been a great success in the Trojan War, being the one who proposed the Trojan Horse and […]
St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney, Maundy Thursday, 17 April 2025 “Naked and unashamed”—that’s how the Book of Genesis describes our first parents in the Garden of Eden (Gen 2:25). Yet after the Fall and through the rest of the Bible, nakedness is shameful. Gyms and nude beaches might be all very well in Australia, as in […]
Stations of the Cross in Rookwood. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 Family educators of the Auburn/Lakemba network recently facilitated the fourth annual Stations of the Cross. Held in the Way of the Cross Chapel in Rookwood, the Stations were observed at the peaceful Rookwood Cemetery with the devotion being led by Fr Maurice […]
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