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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.
Schools
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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Sr Bernadette Marks RSM | Born 2 February 1938 | Died 9 May 2026
Sr Ann Marie Lessue RSJ | Born 2 January 1943 | Died 12 May 2026
Schools
Schools
Saturday 27 June was a momentous occasion for the 100 or so Synod members of the Archdiocese of Adelaide.
Rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar hits the stage in Adelaide this month. KATIE SPAIN heads to a rehearsal to see the hardworking cast and crew at work.
Local
When asked to define ‘inclusive education’, teacher Tara Clark describes is as, young people having agency and helping them feel successful at school.
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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.
People
‘Singing in the choir makes me feel like the universal church truly is one,’ Elena Chua Maexin tells The Southern Cross.
Adelaide singer-songwriter Rachael Leahcar has a voice many are familiar with. Some will recognise her as a past contestant in The Voice Australia, others will have heard her presenting a radio show on Christian radio station Life FM or seen her performing at events for the likes of Nazareth Catholic College. The vision impaired star talks to The Southern Cross about a chance encounter with a young woman who changed the way she moves through life.
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.
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.
News
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.
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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.
Obituaries
Eveleen Anne Kerr. Born 15 December 1941, died 23 April 2026
The celebration of Cultural Diversity Day saw Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College (OLSH), students gather in a kaleidoscope of colour, national languages, traditions and inclusivity. The event, on 20 May, was planned by student leaders with the support of deputy principal Ms Sonia Venour.
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.
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.
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.
Vocations
“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.
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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.
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Margaret A. Clark’s new book In Good Company tells the story of the Sisters of the Little Company of Mary and their long legacy of care in Australia.
For many Australians, playing sport was an important part of their childhood. An opportunity to meet friends, develop new skills and to be active. But for some children, especially those with disabilities, it can be more difficult to get involved. NOAH SACHS reports.
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.
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.
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.
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