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Focus on fragile creation
As South Australian Catholics celebrate the Season of Creation this month, a priority for prayers and action will be the devastating impact of the algal bloom outbreak.
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As South Australian Catholics celebrate the Season of Creation this month, a priority for prayers and action will be the devastating impact of the algal bloom outbreak.
People
Whether they know you or not, sometimes it can be just two or three minutes before a patient begins to share their deepest feelings and emotions. That’s the experience of chaplain Nadee Fernando since she began serving in hospitals in February.
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St Catherine’s School, Stirling, recently welcomed a special visitor, the Speaker of the House of Representatives Milton Dick, as part of the Australian Parliament House Flag Roadshow.
A vital program providing artificial limbs to victims of the Gaza conflict, run by Caritas Jerusalem, was damaged in the bombing of an adjacent residential building last week.
The Southern Cross received three awards at the 2025 Australasian Catholic Press Association (ACPA)awards ceremony held at the Pavilion on Northbourne in Canberra on September 4.
Peter Sawley was attending the St Paul of the Cross Church in Blackwood recently when he realised his name was being talked about in public.
About 40 men, spanning a wide range of ages, gathered at Mary MacKillop Plaza adjacent St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral on the first Saturday in August for a very public birthday celebration.
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The Australian bishops’ 2025 Social Justice Statement, Signs of Hope on the Edge, was brought to life at an event hosted by the Adelaide Archdiocese and Centacare Catholic Community Services last month.
Sixty-six years ago, Benny Kierns, his wife Sheila, and their two young children boarded a ship and left Scotland for Australia. The trip on The Strathmore took about four weeks and they landed in Adelaide where they had friends.
In the many interviews I have conducted for The Southern Cross, I have always been amazed by how many of the interviewees have told me that they were involved in the Young Christian Workers (YCW) movement in their younger days.
Mary MacKillop College Year 9 student Alana Daly has been selected as a finalist in a global photography competition run by UK-based charity, the Down’s Syndrome Association.
People
An orphan for the first four years of his life and raised as an only child, Brother Greg McCrystal was overjoyed to be joined by members of his three families when he celebrated his 70th anniversary as a Marist in Melbourne last month.
International
A party of 53 Australian pilgrims, made up of 35 from Adelaide, two from Port Pirie and 16 from Sydney, has returned from Italy after having the experience of a lifetime at the Jubilee of Youth.
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When six young men recently made their first vows as Passionists in Vietnam, it was an opportunity for Adelaide priest Fr Jeff Foale CP to reflect on the community he helped establish 20 years ago.
More than 3000 people participated in the Walk a Mile in My Boots event on August 8, walking in solidarity with the more than 7000 people experiencing homelessness in South Australia.
Julian Tenison Woods was an “incredibly complex man” and made an immense contribution to science, education and more, says Fr Roderick O’Brien in his new book about the legendary priest.
Seventy-five years after a landmark pastoral letter On Immigration was issued by Catholic bishops, Australians are again being urged to offer generosity to those seeking to make Australia their new home.
The National Centre for Evangelisation (NCE) is sponsoring up to 10 Australian Catholics to train as sports chaplains in the hope of increasing awareness of sports chaplaincy among Catholics and drawing upon their experience for future networks and evangelisation.
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