By Marilyn Rodrigues -February 1, 2020 | Reading Time: 4 minutes Catholics from across Sydney gathered to welcome the relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux and her parents Sts Zélie and Louis Martin to St Mary’s Cathedral on 1 February. At the expected arrival time of 4.30pm two WN Bull hearses pulled up to the cathedral steps which were lined […]
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By Peter Rosengren -August 3, 2019 On a cold, bright late Winter morning today Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP filed into St Mary’s Cathedral in Sydney accompanied by 138 priests; by the time he processed out, that number had grown to 145. As Sydneysiders strolled through Hyde Park’s leafy, picturesque grounds just across the road, and with
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By Catherine Sheehan – May 8, 2019 From the time he was a little boy, Fr Epeli Qimaqima would ask God on a regular basis what He wanted him to do with his life. He never received an answer but he kept asking anyway. Then one day, when he had grown into a young man, God finally
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SUMNER HOUSE – HOUSE OF DISCERNMENT FOR MEN A hundred and eighty three years to the day after the first Catholic priest was ordained in Australia, a house of vocational discernment named in his honour was officially opened and blessed in Sydney. Sumner House in Lidcombe, a residential home for young men discerning their vocation,
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There are great signs of hope amid turbulent times in the Church, according to the rector of Sydney’s seminary Father Danny Meagher. Father Meagher has welcomed 12 newcomers to the Good Shepherd Seminary, bringing the total number of men in formation for the priesthood there to 54. Coinciding with an unprecedented Vatican summit on child protection
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