St Joseph's, Newtown

28/04/2024

Mass time update: Tuesday - Friday 9am
Saturday vigil: 5pm
Sunday: 9am.
You are all welcome.

06/12/2023

Here are our Christmas Mass times.

27/11/2023

Today is a very dark day for New South Wales, as the law allowing euthanasia and assisted su***de comes into effect and a new class of people is created: those whose lives are considered too great a burden on themselves and society to carry. These laws also force religiously-run aged care facilities, even those operated by nuns who have dedicated their lives to the care of the sick and dying, to host euthanasia on their premises.

We not only mourn the loss of life that this law will facilitate, but we renew our commitment to advocating for laws and policies that uphold the equal dignity of every human person, and doing our best to providing everyone – but particularly particularly the old, infirm and dying – true compassion and care at the end of their lives.

Our Lady, Health of the Sick, pray for us.
Servant of God, Eileen O’Connor, pray for us.

21/11/2023

Archbishop Anthony has written a letter reflecting on the recent Synod.

Friends, I would like to share with you my Pastoral Letter, "Walking Together in Communion: Participation and Mission: Reflections on the Synod on Synodality".

In it, I share some of my key hopes, reflections and observations, having returned from the month-long first assembly of the recent Synod of Bishops in Rome.

I thank everyone of you in our Archdiocese for your contributions as clergy, religious or lay faithful. I ask for your prayers for the Synod going forward, that we may be one in the faith of our ancestors, in the hope the Spirit gives and in the love of the Father and the Son that creates and redeems us.

You can read my full Pastoral Letter here: https://www.sydneycatholic.org/addresses-and-statements/2023/walking-together-in-communion-participation-and-mission-reflections-on-the-synod-on-synodality/

20/10/2023

https://www.ncregister.com/cna/archbishop-if-a-synod-proposal-is-at-odds-with-the-gospel-that-s-not-of-the-holy-spirit

‘We’ve got to be careful about blaming everything — all our opinions, our interests, lobbies, and factions — putting all that on the Holy Spirit,’ Archbishop Fisher said.

01/09/2023

Crusading journalist Cliff Baxter, convert to the Roman Catholic faith and longstanding staff writer for The Catholic Weekly, died in the ...

16/06/2023

After more than a decade, the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross will experience a major change in its leadership ...

27/05/2023

17/04/2023

While it was Fr Stephen Hill who introduced his parents to the Catholic Church, it was they who made the decision to enter it.

30/03/2023

https://www.catholicweekly.com.au/newtown-parish-hosts-a-dogs-breakfast/

Paw-rishioners of St Joseph’s Newtown were treated to a “dog’s breakfast” on 4 February, and they woofed it down. More than 30 canines of ...

19/03/2023

Happy feast day!