Pictured above: Sydney Morning Herald Thursday 5th September 1867
Original copy of address given to Captain Thomas Norie on arrival in Sydney in 1867.
Framed image was left to the Aberdeen Museum, where the ship, Martha Birnie was built.
Picture recently received from…
The Australian Catholic Bishops have called their Social Justice Statement for 2018 - 2019, A place to call home: making a home for everyone in our land.
They have called on Australians to look beyond the immediate challenges of the average household…
Dearest brothers and sisters, religious and lay members of the Order of Preachers.
On the 6th August 2021, we will celebrate the eight hundredth anniversary of Saint Dominic’s dies natalis, recounted by Humbert of Romans in these words: “He said to…
The Holyrood Community welcomed Dominican Sisters of St Cecilia to Camberwell on Saturday 8th September. The congregation has its origins in Nashville, Tennessee.
Three sisters arrived in Melbourne earlier in the year to make a foundation here. Two sisters in the…
In 2018 the Australian Catholic Church marks Child Safeguarding Sunday on 9 September. That Sunday concludes National Child Protection Week.
When the Australian Prime Minister offers the response of the Commonwealth Government in Parliament on 22 October we pray it may…
On 4th September 1867, after a perilous journey of three months on a tiny wooden sailing ship, the ‘Martha Birnie’, eight brave and generous Irish Dominican Sisters disembarked in Sydney. They immediately went to St Patrick’s Church at the Rocks…
There was much energy and enthusiasm at the recent Veritas Dinner in Melbourne when guests responded to the challenge to engage with the Plenary Council process.
The Plenary Council to be held in 2020 invites all Australians to engage in an…
Pope Francis has responded to new reports of clerical sexual abuse and the ecclesial cover-up of abuse. In an impassioned letter addressed to the whole People of God, he calls on the Church to be close to victims in solidarity,…
Today the Catholic Church in Australia celebrates Migrant and Refugee Sunday. Every year, for over 100 years, the Holy Father has chosen a theme to be the focal point for this celebration.
The theme chosen by Pope Francis this year is…