Anthony Fisher OP

  • Archbishop Mark Colerdige

    Archbishop Coleridge elected president of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference

    The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference has today elected Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane as president of the Conference. Archbishop Coleridge was ordained Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne in 2002 and later became Archbishop of Canberra-Goulburn. Since 2012, he has served as Archbishop of Brisbane. “With few illusions about myself or...
  • Alessandro ‘sets out into the deep’

    By Jordan Grantham, Catholic Outlook, March 2017 Alessandro Cowley finished his Bachelor of Laws at the University of Sydney in November 2016. He is a parishioner at St Anthony of Padua Parish, Toongabbie, and the 2011 Dux of Parramatta Marist High School. Alessandro has the opportunity for great material...
  • WSU Catholic chaplaincy back in action

    By Jordan Grantham, Catholic Outlook, March 2017 The Polish Dominicans are back for a new year of university chaplaincy at Western Sydney University (WSU). Fr Andrew Fornal OP, Fr Pawel Barszczewski OP and Fr Piotr Kruk OP are the three friars of the university chaplaincy. This year the chaplaincy...
  • Final Print Edition of ‘Catholic Outlook’

    By Jane Favotto, Catholic Outlook, March 2017 In February 1998, Bishop Kevin Manning launched Catholic Outlook, a monthly newspaper for Catholics in the Diocese of Parramatta. Writing in the first issue, Bishop Manning said: “It gives me great joy to write my first letter to you in Catholic Outlook,...
  • Holy Spirit Seminary a seeding ground for authentic disciples

    On 18 February 2017, Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv blessed and officially opened the Seminary of the Holy Spirit Residence and James Dixon House at Harris Park in Western Sydney. The new accommodation will be home for 16 seminarians for the Diocese of Parramatta and two seminarians for the...
  • One Year to Go to Australia’s biggest Catholic Youth Festival

    One year from today, Friday 9 December 2016, thousands of young people will gather for the final Mass of the Australian Catholic Youth Festival to be held in Sydney from 7 to 9 December 2017. The three-day festival is a youthful and energetic celebration hosted by the Australian Catholic...