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      • Safeguarding Sunday: supporting healing and hope

        Outlook Contributor
        11/09/2026
        As part of our commitment to Safeguarding, the Diocese recognises that the road to healing is a long one that requires dedicated resourcing and support. Lorena Portocarrero is the Diocese’s Healing and Support Counsellor. She sat with us to describe her work....
      • Expert on Catholic Social Thought, Kim Daniels, to talk in Parramatta

        Antony Lawes
        10/09/2026
        One of the Church’s foremost experts on Catholic Social Thought and its importance in the age of artificial intelligence will deliver a public lecture in Parramatta on 13 October....
      • NAPLAN results show Uplift across CSPD schools

        Outlook Contributor
        10/09/2026
        Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese (CSPD) is seeing encouraging signs of improvement in the latest NAPLAN results, with strong growth across a number of schools and year groups....
      • Vatican insiders explain how Pope Francis had a hand in the rise of his successor

        Anita Sulentic
        10/09/2026
        More than 200 people packed St Patrick’s Cathedral Hall, Parramatta, on 26 August to hear Gerard O’Connell and Elisabetta Piqué, both long-time Vatican journalists, deliver their public lecture, From Francis to Leo: An Insider’s Account of an Historic Papal Transition....
      • Mary, Queen of families: a feast day of faith, unity and joy 

        Alfie Ramirez
        09/09/2026
        The celebration brought together parishioners from across the diverse and vibrant parish community, with the Feast Day Mass followed by a joyful fiesta....
      • Walking with Mary, on an Assumption pilgrimage to Parramatta

        Outlook Contributor
        08/09/2026
        The pilgrimage was much more than travelling from one place to another. From the Shrine, to the prayerful stop at St Michael’s, and finally to St Patrick's Cathedral, every part of the day became an expression of faith and devotion to Our Blessed Mother....
      • News and Events Weekly Update

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        07/09/2026
        News and Events across the Diocese of Parramatta and beyond....
      • Fr Johnson Joseph’s Homily for the 23rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

        Outlook Contributor
        07/09/2026
        Community living is an essential and integral part of our call as Christians. Being created in the image of the Holy Trinity, we possess an inherent desire and ability to live in communion with one another, even though this desire is often eclipsed by the concupiscence of our fallen...
      • Safeguarding: a practical expression of Christian love 

        Mary-Jane Chemuel
        07/09/2026
        In the Diocese of Parramatta, safeguarding underpins all that we do, so that everyone in our parishes, agencies, ministries and church groups can thrive.  ...
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