CSPD

  • Encountering Jesus: Transformative Days for Catholic Educators

    More than 5000 school leaders, teachers and staff from Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese (CSPD) participated in two professional learning days reflecting on the ministry of Catholic Education in Western Sydney and the new CSPD Religious Education Curriculum Encountering Jesus....
  • Student leaders tackle the future of AI

    More than 100 Year 12 student leaders from across the Diocese of Parramatta gathered at West HQ, Rooty Hill, recently for a special LIFTED Student Leaders Forum, where they explored the impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on our world and the role young people play in helping shape a...
  • Young minds, big impact: tackling pollution with purpose and prayer 

    At St John XXIII Catholic College in Stanhope Gardens, students are turning their hopes for the environment into real action. With the help of creative problem-solving called ‘design thinking’, they’ve worked together to come up with real ways to help the environment, using what they’ve learned to care for our...
  • So you want to be a teacher…

    To understand what’s behind this renewed interest in a career as a teacher, we spent some time with the newest intake of Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese (CSPD) Teacher Scholarship students....
  • New Principals Lead with Hope and Action

    As the Catholic Church enters its Jubilee Year, which Pope Francis describes as an opportunity to “contribute greatly to restoring a climate of hope and trust", five new principals have taken up their leadership roles in schools across the Parramatta Diocese....
  • Parramatta Catholic Schools Unite for Caritas’ The Big Water Walk for Lent

    More than 180 students from 10 Catholic schools across the Diocese of Parramatta stepped into solidarity this Lent by taking part in Caritas Australia’s The Big Water Walk, a powerful initiative raising awareness and funds for communities in need of clean water. ...
  • New educators welcomed at 2025 Commissioning Mass

    Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv, Bishop of Parramatta, and Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese (CSPD) have officially welcomed more than 100 teachers, new school principals, and leaders into their new roles at the 2025 Commissioning Mass held at St Patrick's Catholic Church Blacktown.  ...
  • Students step up for Project Compassion

    Moved by the hardships faced by vulnerable communities worldwide, hundreds of Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese (CSPD) students and staff pledged to raise funds and awareness after attending Caritas Australia's 2025 Project Compassion launch....
  • Archbishop Rino Fisichella. Image: Wikimedia Commons

    Latest RE Curriculum receives Vatican commendation

    The latest Religious Education Curriculum released by Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese (CSPD) in partnership with Bishop of Parramatta, Bishop Vincent Long OFM Conv in August 2024 has received express commendation from Archbishop Rino Fisichella of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Evangelization, by letter to Bishop Vincent dated 21 January 2025....