Sydney Underground: where you're in for an-up-to-date ride!






The Australian psyche is seen in action these days. Surprises and little dramas occur in our society and the media is busy.

WYD Festival doesn't stand in the way of our rights. Countless people work hard to welcome the visitors. Others challenge the establishment and raise issues. The granting of extra police powers will be contested in court; a paedophilia case is publicised and the unionists are talking about strike action on the Sydney rail network on Thurday week.
I believe these problems will be resolved. By and large WYD is unstoppable.




Iconic Australian companies on the billboards: Akubra Hats and Arnotts Biscuits.
The company workers can be proud!









Museum Station entrance corner of Liverpool Street near Hyde Park.

XIV Jesus is removed from the cross (Pieta) from the Stations of the Cross.
From the chapel at Lochinvar in the Hunter valley.

The World Youth Day Cross and Icon has reached every diocese in Australia.
Religious Icons hold a special place in Christian heritage. This window, in a Hunter valley institution, is modelled, I read, after a mosaic in the Church of Saint Pudentiana in Rome. European imagery and heraldic themes were adoped by the founders of the church in this land.
This depiction of Our Lady of Mercy was assigned by the Pope to the Mercy nuns a century ago.