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Father Fred Farrugia isn’t one to turn his back on a creative challenge. In the lead-up to Christmas, the Adelaide Hills parish priest spent months meticulously restoring a nativity set to its former glory.
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For 10 years James Henry has been waiting to finish re-slating the roof of St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral, using slate sourced from the same Welsh mine as the original roof slate.
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The annual Archbishop’s Christmas Card Competition has again attracted hundreds of entries from Catholic students around SA.
Pope Francis has appointed Perth-based priest, Fr George Kolodziej SDS, to be the fifth Bishop of Bunbury.
Free pipe organ concerts in St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral will again feature in the Adelaide Fringe during February and March.
Mount Carmel College’s Mary MacKillop Centre (for students with an intellectual disability) has been recognised internationally for a through a unique climate change project that connected the centre with schools in Austria and Singapore.
Eight Catholic school students are among 33 young South Australians who received Governor of South Australia Commendations this year.
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Mel Monfries was awarded a Meritorious Award by the Department for Correctional Services earlier this year in recognition of her work as chaplain to incarcerated men over the past 20 years. At 78, she has lost none of her passion for helping the underdog.
Couples wanting to discover or rediscover the need for God in their lives will have an opportunity to gather twice this year at World Wide Marriage Encounter weekends.
The love of God expressed through the human heart of Jesus is the theme of Pope Francis’ latest encyclical Dilexit Nos (He Loved Us).
In his 2024 Christmas message, Archbishop Patrick O'Regan has called for a “return to the heart” amidst life's challenges.
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Whether it’s fundraising, organising a golf day, coaching old scholars’ sport or counting the money after Mass, Peter McCarthy is your man.
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When Dianne looks back at her seven-year foster care journey she only has one regret. “I wish I’d done it sooner,” she says.
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The Christian Brothers, a one-man play written by Ron Blair and made famous by Australian actor Peter Carroll, will return to the stage during next year’s Adelaide Fringe.
What began in the mid-1990s as a bus taking young people in the southern suburbs to the local library and community centres to engage them in education has evolved into a new state-of-the-art secondary education campus at Christies Downs.
The hard work never stops at Centacare. As the community services arm of the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide, making a difference to South Australian lives is an all-year round effort.
Up to 33 million pilgrims are expected to visit Rome next year for the Jubilee, a Catholic tradition held every 25 years to provide an opportunity for celebration, spiritual renewal and forgiveness.
No doubt the world is a complex place. Maybe it has always been thus. Yet it seems at the moment to be increasingly the case.
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