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All Saints Catholic Parish hosted Australia’s biggest morning Tea. Photo: Alex Woolnough Parishioners and dignitaries flocked to All Saints Catholic Parish in Liverpool to help raise crucial funds for cancer research as part of the Cancer Council’s Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea.   On a chilly Friday morning, around 200 attendees gathered in the Parish Hall at […]

Jubilate Deo choir singing for the Jubilate Deo Mass. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 The outlook for an inspiring choral experience on the feast of St Anthony of Padua at St Mary’s Cathedral last week was hardly auspicious. It was, after all, Friday the 13th.  Uniformed school children filled the pews—all of them—right […]

The Mifsud Family. Photo: Suplied. There was a time when mother of nine, Yvonne Muller’s would bring her youngest, Tione, then aged one, to the Walk with Christ Procession to join a modest crowd of maybe 500 Catholics to walk to the cathedral.  It wasn’t just a seemingly lonely experience but a fearful one.   “The […]

Catholics across the Archdiocese of Sydney are being called to take an active role in shaping the future of their church through the upcoming Sydney Synod 2026.  A new video featuring Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP, Auxiliary Bishop Daniel Meagher, and voices from diverse communities within the archdiocese, offers a clear and heartfelt invitation to participate […]

Hundreds of teenagers walking in solemn silence. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2024 In a sea of remarkable scenes at the annual Walk with Christ procession, it could be one of the rarest. Hundreds of teenagers walking in solemn silence, without devices, without chatter—just reverent prayer and reflection. It’s a powerful display of devotion […]

Michael Digges meeting Pope Leo XIV. Photo: Supplied, A morning at a Wednesday papal audience turned into an “unforgettable” moment for the Archdiocese of Sydney’s Michael Digges who was pleasantly surprised by an opportunity to exchange a few words with Pope Leo XIV and even more stunned to find that the 2028 Eucharistic Congress in […]

Speaking to a packed audience at the Four Seasons Hotel on 30 May, Archbishop Fisher highlighted several encouraging trends that point to a resurgence in faith engagement, particularly among young people and those previously disconnected from religious practice. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 In a compelling address to the Sydney Catholic Business Network, Archbishop […]

Fr Tai’s ordination was held on 31 May and presided over by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP at St Mary’s Cathedral. Photo: Alphonsus Fok After a long journey beginning as a young boy living in a minor seminary in Vietnam, Fr Tai Pham is the first priest to be ordained for the Archdiocese of Sydney in […]

The Eileen O’Connor Centre has now opened in Coogee. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 The Eileen O’Connor Centre has opened in Coogee in Sydney’s east honouring the life’s work and legacy of the co-founder of the Our Lady’s Nurses for the Poor.   Also named the Brown Nurses due to their trademark brown cloaks […]

Streetscape view of St Brigid’s Church-School. Photo: Supplied. The weekend of 24-25 May brought to a close a series of special events to celebrate the 190th anniversary of St Brigid’s Church-School, Millers Point, the oldest surviving place of Catholic worship in Australia.  St Brigid’s is within the territorial parish boundaries of St Patrick’s, Church Hill.  […]

Music at the Walk with Christ serves a crucial purpose. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2024 If an army marches to a beat, then the 20,000 strong Walk with Christ brigade will march to the divine tempo set by the talented performers at the Corpus Christi festival event before the 22 June procession begins. […]

It was a day of celebration for the new Catholics of Sydney, as they were welcomed into the fullness of the faith by Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP at a solemn Mass in St Mary’s Cathedral on 25 May. This special milestone saw more than 200 neophytes and 100 of their families, godparents, sponsors and RCIA […]

Fr Paul Monkerud formally unveiled the parish’s new mission and vision on 25 May, Photo: Patrick J Lee. It was an historic and joyful occasion for All Saints Parish in Liverpool, as parish priest Fr Paul Monkerud formally unveiled its new mission and vision on 25 May, marking what parishioners describe as a transformative moment […]

Associate Professor Philip Kariatlis of St Andrew’s Greek Orthodox Theological College. Photo: Alphonsus Fok. In a world of military conflict and social polarisation, the Nicene Creed and ecumenical dialogue can provide everyone with the ability to, “walk together even if we do not stand together at the Eucharistic table,” according to Associate Professor Philip Kariatlis […]

Giovanni Julio and Jorge Luis Mairena as they prepare for their diaconate ordination. Photo: Alphonsus Fok A soggy Wednesday, 21 May, saw the worst traffic jams and public transport chaos in years in Sydney. But that didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of the faithful who attended the ordination to the diaconate of two men from the […]

Archbishop Fisher OP hosts student leaders in Cathedral House. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025. Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP has held a school leaders’ lunch in Cathedral House, giving students the opportunity to speak and ask questions about Catholicism. Each year, the archbishop hosts lunch for a number of prefects, house captains, and school […]

Best-selling author and literary scholar Joseph Pearce. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 Best-selling author and literary scholar Joseph Pearce looks for beauty in places as diverse as the works of Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky to ripples on a Monte Carlo biscuit in a Sydney school office. He has known plenty of ugliness in […]

NSW Premier Chris Minns popped in early, collecting a coffee from the van just as it opened at 7am. Images by Giovanni Portelli Photography © 2025 CatholicCare has held the grand opening of its third BariStars mobile café, located alongside St Mary’s Cathedral.  BariStars is a social enterprise offering people with disabilities valuable life and career […]

It’s this unification of joy, faith, strength and pride through the streets of Sydney’s CBD, that has a profound impact on its participants every year. Photo: Alphonsus Fok. Every year, there’s a point on the Walk with Christ Eucharistic Procession that never fails to leave Fr Josh Miechel’s speechless. “As we turn that last corner […]