Local
The nature of grief has a tendency to cloud cemeteries in sadness but they also provide a place for peace and reflection, especially on All Souls Day. On 2 November, All Souls Mass took place at Enfield Memorial Park, Payneham Mausoleum and Cemetery, and Centennial Park. <br /> <br /> KATIE SPAIN joined the religious at West Terrace Cemetery’s Smyth Chapel to commemorate those who have passed.
News
The Ukrainian community celebrates the 75th anniversary of Ukrainian language and dance in South Australia this month and everyone is invited.
Local
Unfavourable weather failed to dampen the Vietnamese community’s jubilation when 1000 parishioners attended the 2026 Community Gathering Day in Pooraka on 25 October.
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When my grandfather died in August, he was holding my hand. In the other, he had a notebook. His gentle, sloping scrawl filled the pages with handwriting as familiar to me as my own.
October continues to be an important month for the Catholic Women’s League. The CWLSA has a State Conference every two years, the next of which will be held at St John the Baptist Parish Hall on Anzac Highway at Plympton on 31 October.
When students from St Paul’s College, Gilles Plains, accompanied Catholic Mission on a trip to South Australia’s outback, they experienced more than just spectacular landscape. What they found was a deeper understanding of First Nations cultures and communities, a strengthened connection to Country and reflections on their role in building a more just, respectful and reconciled Australia. They shared their experiences with The Southern Cross.
News
St Ignatius College in Adelaide’s eastern foothills turned into a loud and vibrant hub of music, community and encounter for dozens of young people in late July courtesy of the Catholic Office for Youth and Young Adults (COYYA) and its annual Power Up campaign.
News
A couple of months ago, a friend mentioned that she feels more involved in Mass when she is scheduled as a reader. “After all,” she said, “there are so few things for lay people to ‘do’ at Mass.” More than one music minister over the years has told me that they wouldn’t know what to do with themselves at Mass if they weren’t leading music.
News
What begins with a conversation can change a life.
A symbolic cross that has travelled around much of Australia over for almost a year is set to arrive in Adelaide later this month where it will be celebrated by Archbishop Patrick O’Regan at a special Mass.
A little over 14 months since the Adelaide Diocesan Synod first came into the public spotlight, Archbishop Patrick O’Regan put pen to paper to ensure its findings and agreements, now become ‘particular’ law.
Love is in the air this month, especially on Sunday 20 September when the Archdiocese celebrates milestone wedding anniversaries across parish communities. In the lead-up to the recognition of their life-long commitment, these loved-up locals shared their stories with Katie Spain.
“I still can’t believe the number of people who want to talk about the conclave,” Cardinal John Dew said before taking to the lectern at the annual Australian Catholic Press Association (ACPA) conference in Christchurch in late August.
Blessing and opening a sparkling new school building was just a short hop for Archbishop Patrick O’Regan in the Adelaide CBD on Thursday afternoon last month.
Any vexillologists heading towards St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral from the eastern end of Wakefield St over the past few weeks may well, should they have looked up, have noticed something a little different and of great interest.
People
Retirement for many people can mean days of idling and enjoying a slower pace of life. Fr Michael Trainor, who stepped down from his role as the Lockley’s parish priest this month, is not one of them he told Richard Evans.
News
A little over 14 months since the Adelaide Diocesan Synod first came into the public spotlight, Archbishop Patrick O’Regan last night put pen to paper to ensure its findings and agreements, now become 'particular' law.
Local
About 40 people curious to find out more about the life of the Catholic clergy came along to an inaugural vocations evening in the Adelaide CBD in early August.
It is somewhat astonishing to discover from this autobiography that JD Vance, the vice president of the United State of America, and arguably the second most powerful man in the world, has been a politician for just three and a half years
Nothing evokes awe and curiosity like the wonders of space. Mary MacKillop College Year 8 students experienced exactly that when they participated in the Fleet Space LaunchBox Program, developed by Adelaide-based Fleet Space Technologies.
South Australia is set to shimmer with a kaleidoscope of colour this month as the annual SALA (South Australian Living Artists) festival hits galleries and venues including cafes, restaurants, schools and libraries across the state.
It was the middle of winter but the sun shone on Kaurna Country when Ngani Pari-Arra Cultural Centre hosted its NAIDOC Week event on 9 July. The space in Stepney is dedicated to truth-telling, connection and healing. All three were on show as Centacare’s Uncle in Residence, Les Wanganeen, addressed the crowd.
News
Hundreds of people have already flocked to St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral to see, and spend some time with, the relic of the 21st century’s ‘Saint of the internet age’.
Opinion
Recently I came across the following quote: “The novelist and moral philosopher Iris Murdoch, in her work on moral philosophy The Sovereignty of Good, writes, ‘Prayer is properly not petition, but simply an attention to God which is a form of love’.”
News
Things have got a little hairy at Blackfriars Priory School.
A podcast about a group of Catholic education leaders on a pilgrimage through Ireland recently won three major international awards. Katie Spain chats to James Meston, the Adelaide man behind the emotive four-part mini-series.
There are colleagues and then there is Rosie McMutrie, the designer who worked diligently behind the scenes here at The Southern Cross for decades.
I once read a parish newsletter announcing an upcoming holy day of obligation. The notice itself was unremarkable, but one phrase caught my attention. We were invited to celebrate a holy day "of privilege and obligation".
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