Tag: Balmain

Fr Peter Smith of St Augustine’s Church in Balmain has a vision for the parish as a visible, and audible, praying community in the heart of the Inner West. Despite some opposition, he says the reaction to his proposed expansion of the church’s bell tower has been mostly positive.

After 155 years of benefiting from the presence of Good Samaritan Sisters, the people of St Augustine parish in Balmain sadly wished the last...