Schools
Students ace Year 12
Students from Catholic schools exceeded expectations in last year’s SACE results with a 5.3 per cent increase in the number of A grades achieved.
Schools
Students from Catholic schools exceeded expectations in last year’s SACE results with a 5.3 per cent increase in the number of A grades achieved.
Schools
As students across the State begin the 2026 school year, Catholic Education South Australia executive director Dr Neil McGoran previews the year ahead.
News
Preparations are under way for the staging of a breathtaking light and sound show in St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral during the Adelaide Fringe.
Pope Leo XIV will visit Sydney in the spring of 2028 to preside over the International Eucharistic Congress (IEC).
The countdown to the 2026 Synod in the Archdiocese of Adelaide has gathered pace with the release of a report setting out the concepts and thoughts that will help drive the Synod to be held in May and June.
Even the standing room was shoulder to shoulder at the official launch of the redeveloped Andrew Steiner Education Centre in the Adelaide Holocaust Museum.
Pope Leo XIV has invited Catholics to open themselves to listening, fasting and community, urging them to abstain from words of hatred in order to make space for words of hope and peace.
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Trish Jarvis, executive officer of Catholic School Parents SA, gives some practical tips to parents and carers on how to help their children settle in to a new school year.<br />
School is back and for many youngsters it’s a new experience as they settle into Reception or a new school or campus.
After more than 180 editorials over the past 17 years, this will be my last.
Hundreds of people attended the annual Lourdes Day and Anointing of the Sick Mass in St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral on February 14. Holy water was distributed by members of the Order of Malta.
International
Caritas Australia is urging continued global attention and solidarity as Caritas Ukraine faces one of the most challenging months of the war, with repeated missile strikes leaving millions without power, heat and water during subzero temperatures.
National
Australia’s Catholic bishops have urged courage and tenderness in addressing the nation’s cost-of-living crisis.
News
Hutt St Centre has released its policy priorities for the 2026 South Australian election, calling for both major parties and independent candidates to prioritise the transition from homelessness to homefulness for thousands of people living on the State’s streets.
We’ve just said farewell to the Year of Jubilee 2025 and we have begun 2026, mostly untouched and unwritten. There is something sacred about this moment, not unlike the afterglow that lingers when the sun has set, that peculiar light that remains even after its source has disappeared below the horizon.
In a boost to their Year 12 studies this year, two Catholic school students have been awarded John Brewer Memorial Scholarships in recognition of their commitment to their education, faith and community.
It was a very welcome Christmas present for one of South Australia’s best known homelessness services when around 20 members of the Catholic Women’s League (Archdiocese of Adelaide branch) gathered at the Adelaide Diocesan Centre in early December.
Father Janeesh Jose Puthenpurackal CMI might be newest priest in the Adelaide Archdiocese but he is far from new when it comes to Australia.
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