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Shortly before 9am near St Mary’s on Adelaide’s South Rd on Saturday 11 July, it began to rain. A light drizzle at first and then incessantly.
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Shortly before 9am near St Mary’s on Adelaide’s South Rd on Saturday 11 July, it began to rain. A light drizzle at first and then incessantly.
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Josephite education in Australia began through Mary MacKillop and the Sisters of St Joseph. An August celebration marks the date but Mary’s teachings are alive and well across SA today.
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Taylor has been principal at the Reception to Year 9 St Joseph’s School for the past couple of years and it is apparent she is the ideal person from whom to find out just how Josephite education works 160 years on from its origins.
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There will be very few people still alive who can bear first-hand witness to the devastation caused by the world’s most infamous nuclear explosion but a former grape grower from Loxton is one of them.
When asked to define ‘inclusive education’, teacher Tara Clark describes is as, young people having agency and helping them feel successful at school.
When secondary school teacher Emma Beukema spends time in the great outdoors, walking her dog or exploring Mount Barker’s Laratinga Wetlands, it’s more than just physical exercise. As Science Learning area leader at St Mary’s College, Emma thinks deeply about the benefits of time spent in nature to our mental health and wellbeing.
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The Archdiocese of Adelaide has been handed a first-class endorsement of its improved safeguarding practices with an independent assessment finding it is successfully implementing and embedding a widespread culture of safeguarding.
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The Catholic Women’s League South Australia (CWL SA) recently made a ‘significant’ donation to a little known but hugely important accommodation charity. Annie’s story shows why Cottages 4 Country Care truly matters.
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One Wednesday lunchtime a few weeks ago a 78-year-old man walked into reception at the Catholic Diocesan Centre on Wakefield Street.
My dear sisters and brothers in Christ, each year, one of the interesting tasks that befalls to the organising committee of the Marian Procession is to find an image of the Blessed Virgin. Look at the image that our talented Chancery Office team have created for today, its world-wide debut.
Finally, after months in the planning, 100 members of the Synod got together on Saturday 30 May for the first of two plenary sessions to discuss the future direction of the Archdiocese of Adelaide.
The tiny, porcelain statue that was blessed by Archbishop Patrick O'Regan on Monday 25 May will sit in the entrance to the South Road tunnel at Clovelly Park. It has a long and fascinating history.
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A young Murray Bridge community advocate has been making some quite extraordinary efforts to help shine a light on domestic violence by putting his feet on the ground and running, and running, and running.
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About 100 lay women and men, clergy and religious, will attend the first plenary session of the Archdiocese of Adelaide 2026 Synod on Saturday 30 May. After much listening, discussion and communal discernment on the Synod’s five core themes, the time to make decisions that will last long into the future, has come. RICHARD EVANS put three questions to some of the lay people who will contribute on the day and at the second, and concluding, Synod session on 27 June.
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Mary, Catherine and Elizabeth were the stars of an early morning ceremony to launch South Australia’s biggest ever infrastructure project in southern Adelaide on Monday this week.
About 400 school principals, teachers, other staff and volunteers from more than 100 schools filled the ballroom at Adelaide’s Hilton hotel late last month for South Australia’s annual Catholic education awards bash.
The 77th annual Marian Procession took place on Sunday 17 May with about 2,000 people taking advantage of the sunshine to walk from Victoria Park to Victoria Square where Archbishop Patrick O'Regan led the liturgy. It was a quite extraordinary turnout with flags and banners showing where people had come from across the Archdiocese. Photographer BEN MACMAHON was on hand to capture the action.
“Sometimes discerning when to let go, and giving yourself grace, is part of vocation too,” COYYA’s Julian Nguyen, a talented musician, tells TIM COYLE.
Adelaide comedian Jackson Grant is accustomed to being judged. For the past six years, he stood under harsh stage lights in pubs and festival tents, hoping to make a room full of strangers laugh.
Schools
Sacred Heart College and St Mary’s College were just two of the many schools across Adelaide to celebrate the Stations of the Cross this Easter. The participating pupils gave everything to make their occasions a resounding success.
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There can’t be that many people in South Australia who have hung out with King Charles but Damien Judd is most certainly one of them. His royal connection, it transpires, is just one of many (true and cracking) tales the new principal of Gleeson College in Adelaide’s north-east has to tell.
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The bluestone Flinders Street Baptist Church on the corner of Divett Place has been in situ since 1863. It’s a beautiful, Gothic style, building but even when the jacaranda tree outside is not obscuring it in late spring, it fits into its surrounds and can easily be missed.
PETER JAMES SWANN. Born 9 June 1938, died 2 April 2026.
Is this Adelaide’s best kept secret? asks KATIE SPAIN
Qwayne Guevara, who will host a Synod formation session in Adelaide on the topic of Communion and Co-Responsibility in a Fragmented World on Wednesday 6 May, is quite brilliant on organisation.
There’s something instantly comforting upon entering Impressa Café in Unley Shopping Centre.
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