Tag: Christmas

There are high hopes a successful Catholic-led Christmas festival held in Sydney’s CBD in solidarity with the world’s most vulnerable persecuted Christians will become an annual highlight on the city’s calendar.

The Aboriginal Catholic Ministry (ACM) witnessed four children confirmed into the church prior to Christmas, as the ministry also received donations as a result of Mary MacKillop Place’s inaugural Christmas lights event.

The Gospel readings for these Christmas Masses teach important lessons at Christmas 2025. 

If you’re still eating Christmas leftovers, don’t feel bad. There’s a long tradition of feasting after Christmas Day, says Philippa Martyr.

This is the edited text of Archbishop Anthony Fisher's OP Christmas message for 2025, for the Archdiocese of Sydney.

What if Christianity had never happened? It would have been quite gloomy!

It’s A Wonderful Life is widely considered to be the greatest Christmas movie of all time. Did you know that at the time of its release, it was a complete failure?

Every December, the word charity becomes sanitised. It gets wrapped in good intentions, feel-good stories and the reassuring idea that doing something small is enough.

Christmas brings us back to that moment when God, out of his great love for humanity, chose to send his only son to save us.

Yes, we should try to be perfect – but we need to understand what that means, says Philippa Martyr.

The event of Christmas is something so huge and so profound, not even the most open mind can fully comprehend it. There's always something more to say. Nevertheless, this year I'd like to go in a different direction and talk, instead, about what Christmas isn't.

Bethlehem rejoiced with the festive celebration of lighting of a 65-feet Christmas tree at the edge of Manger Square 6 December – for the first time since December 2022 and the start of Israel-Hamas war 10 months later.