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Young people across Sydney are ‘on fire’ with the Holy Spirit, sparking soaring attendance rates at Catholic youth events, and growing calls for youth ministry and formation in schools. Following their hugely successful Purpose Conference in December last year, the Sydney Catholic Youth (SCY) team has seen record expressions of interest for them to attend […]

Nearly 750 faithful men set out on a 22km trek through the night in an expression of Catholic masculinity and solidarity on 26 April.  From just 45 men in 2021, the annual Camino Walk for St Joseph has grown into the biggest Catholic men’s event in Australia.  Men from all over Sydney mobilised at St […]

Carl Pavia’s Italian background growing up in Hurstville saw him also growing up in the Catholic faith.  “We went to Mass with Mum most weekends on Sunday. That was my faith— going to Mass, attending school and doing the sacraments,” he recalls.  But like many lapsed Catholics, his faith journey took a common turn when […]

Parishioners of St Peter Chanel and St Joseph the Worker in Berala process through school grounds before a Mass to mark the feasts of their patron saints. Photo credit: George Al-Akiki Parishioners at St Peter Chanel and St Joseph the Worker in Berala honoured their patron saints with Mass and a special feast day procession […]

Fr Lewi Barakat made a pastoral visit to Mark Wahlberg. Photo: Supplied Hollywood star Mark Wahlberg has again urged his 30 million Instagram followers to “stay prayed up”, this time surprising Aussie Catholics by appearing alongside a local priest. Since first appearing in St Mary’s Cathedral forecourt in late February, the Catholic Oscar-nominated actor has […]

Image by freepik. Clergy are leading the way in their awareness and knowledge about keeping children safe in church and related environments according to new research led by Australian Catholic University. Clergy who participated in the study from seven different countries scored highest across a range of safeguarding measures compared with other groups in the […]

Bishop Peter Ingham. Photo: Courtesy of the Diocese of Wollongong Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP and Wollongong Bishop Brian Mascord have each paid tribute to Bishop Peter Ingham for his decades of faithful service to the church including as a bishop in Sydney and Wollongong following his death on 26 April. Peter William Ingham, the fourth […]

It was a festival of faith at the Australian Catholic University in Strathfield as 350 Catholics attended the young adult Fidelis event to farewell the visiting Sisters of Life. Music, fraternity and fast food filled the faithful youth of Sydney on 24 April as they waited to hear from the sisters on the final night […]

Fr Toan Nguyen’s passport may soon be running out of pages, thanks to his work for God. The parish priest at St Brendan’s Catholic Church in Bankstown recently returned from his missionary trip to Vietnam, where he helps disabled orphans from the province of Bà Rịa–Vũng Tàu. He makes the trip annually (and sometimes more […]

Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2023 More than a century after Our Lady asked three Portuguese shepherd children to “pray the rosary every day in honour of Our Lady of the rosary, in order to obtain peace for the world,” thousands of Sydney’s faithful are expected to gather at St Mary’s Cathedral to live out her […]