Grace Abounds
In this new offering of the Sydney Centre for Evangelisation, we share exclusive and extended content from our conversations with international speakers, contributors, and collaborators. These are the insights and reflections that go beyond what's shared in published interviews or on the main stage, moments of witness that speak more deeply to the Word and the evangelising mission we share in Christ. Expect occasional episodes featuring full-length interviews, powerful testimonies that didn't make the final edit, and rich, unfiltered moments that deserve to be heard. This isn't a regular series, but an occasional opportunity to listen deeper, when there's more to share, and more to hear for Catholics in Sydney and beyond.
Episodes
On All Saints Day last year, Pope Leo XIV declared Saint John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church and co-patron of Catholic education - an English convert whose search for truth still speaks to us today. My guest. Bishop James Conley of Lincoln has carried a devotion to Newman for decades. He joins Darren Ally to talk about Newman's mind, his heart, and the struggles he bore quietly.
He leads one of the most closely watched local Churches in the English-speaking world.
Archbishop John Wilson has been Archbishop of Southwark, south London and Kent, since 2019. In 2023 he launched Called to Bear Fruit, a synodal renewal process to equip parishes to evangelise, form dis...
In this Jubilee Year of St Francis of Assisi, Franciscan scholar Br William Short OFM reveals the saint behind the statue, a man who turned away from the sweet life of Assisi, wept over a lost darkness in his final years, and left behind an early biography no one knew existed until it surfaced in a Paris auction house a decade ago.
Br William Short OFM is one of the world's foremost scholars of Francis of Assisi and a longtime prof...
In this episode of Grace Abounds, we sit down with Sr Susanna Edmunds OP, a former biomedical engineering student who traded the lab for the convent after meeting Christ in the Eucharist with new eyes. Now Dean of Studies at the Seminary of the Good Shepherd, Sr Susanna joins us to share why the Eucharist is not a spiritual refuelling stop but the very engine of transformation and why the road to Eucharist28 runs not through grand ...
Some people explain the Bible. Dr Mary Healy makes it come alive.
One of the most beloved Scripture teachers in the Catholic world today, Dr Healy is a professor of Sacred Scripture, a bestselling author, and an international speaker, with acclaimed commentaries on Mark, Hebrews and Genesis to her name. She was also among the first women ever appointed by Pope Francis to the Pontifical Biblical Commission.
But what sets her apart i...
Marcel LeJeune built one of the world's largest Catholic campus ministries from scratch. Now he coaches parishes. On 18 July, he brings that hard-won wisdom to the Parish Renewal Conference.
When Marcel LeJeune arrived at St Mary's Catholic Centre at Texas A&M University in 2006, he inherited a ministry with two priests, a part-time deacon, a leaking roof, and no budget to speak of. By the time he left 11 years later, there wer...
They have spent more than a decade sitting with the messiness of marriage and family life and finding in it not failure, but the very path to holiness. Now Mike and Alicia Hernon, founders of the Messy Family Project and hosts of one of America's most beloved Catholic family podcasts, are coming to Sydney in May, bringing with them a message that Catholic parents across Australia desperately need to hear: you are not failing, and y...
As Sydney welcomes the return of Dr Christopher West, the world's most passionate and influential voice on St John Paul II's Theology of the Body, the prominent Catholic author, speaker and theologian spoke to The Catholic Weekly, about his 2026 tour. Dr West, whose work has reached hundreds of thousands around the globe is, once again, bringing his deep knowledge of St John Paul II's teachings to Sydney audiences in a series of ap...
Daniel Ang is the Director of the Sydney Centre for Evangelisation, in the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, where he leads strategic efforts to renew parish life and advance the churches evangelising mission. He lead the development and now manages the implementation of Go Make Disciples, the archdiocese's mission plan. Ang appeared at the Alpha Catholic conference in October, 2025, delivering an engaging, thought provoking key note...
With her deep knowledge of human behaviour and armed with a passion for bringing people to Christ, Sister Elena Marie Piteo's journey is a powerful testament to the integration of psychology and faith as a tool for evangelisation. A Dominican Sister of St Cecilia with a PhD in psychology and a passion for helping others flourish in faith. Sr Elena's work at Aquinas College, sees her combine her passion for the integration of contem...
Since being named Bishop of Christchurch in 2022, Bishop Michael Gielen has a proven track record of success in inspiring and nurturing parish renewal leadership within his archdiocese. It was this message of hope and practical evangelisation, that Bishop Michael brought to the 'Way of Hope' Alpha conference in late October, 2025. It all began as a young priest, leading communities through the devastation of the 2011 earthquakes. B...
Sr Miriam James Heidland's faith journey from a successful college athlete with a party-girl lifestyle to a deeply religious life as a nun, has seen her become a world-wide media symbol of hope for anyone seeking a deeper relationship with Christ. Through her podcasts, You Tube channel and bestselling books, Sr Miriam's honest conversations about her troubled past, her path to faith, spirituality, and personal growth, resonates wit...
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