Tag: Fairfield
Lockdowns sparked a mental health crisis
Reading Time: 4 minutesJuliette Kirkwood began work as a Community Care Worker in CatholicCare’s parish program a year and a half ago, but grew up in South-Western Sydney like many Christians of Middle Eastern heritage. She saw the area transform and evolve from a largely Anglo-Saxon population to the diverse region it is today, beginning […]
Don’t forget Fairfield
Reading Time: 6 minutes“At 9am the helicopters started hovering. They’d hover for the next hour, hour and a half, spotting people. “It was the very first time I thought, ‘Here I am celebrating Mass and I’m fearing being arrested.’ This would happen in Communist China, not in a country where we’re free.” As NSW reopens […]
Faith in focus for Fairfield under pandemic scrutiny
Fairfield parishioners are turning to the church for spiritual support as they become a focus of lockdown restrictions.
Fairfield’s loss is Sydney’s gain in seminary rector
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP has announced the appointment of Fairfield parish priest Fr Michael de Stoop as the next rector of the Seminary of...
Virus is ‘not God’s punishment’
'Sometimes bad things happen to good people', as Archbishop Fisher promises support for all affected by pandemic.