Events
Hope, peace and joy to all
Thousands of South Australians will celebrate the birth of Jesus at Christmas Mass services throughout the State next week. Find your nearest church in our Christmas Mass guide.
Events
Thousands of South Australians will celebrate the birth of Jesus at Christmas Mass services throughout the State next week. Find your nearest church in our Christmas Mass guide.
Opinion
Our justice system is based on the premise that a person is innocent until proven guilty. But what happens when a person is found guilty and then proven innocent? This is the conundrum facing Archbishop Philip Wilson and the Catholic Church in Australia following the overturning of the conviction against the former Adelaide Archbishop.
News
Adelaide’s three newest Catholic priests may be on a mission from God but they had no hesitation taking time out from their orientation program to pay homage to the hallowed turf of Adelaide Oval.
The Adelaide Archdiocese Child Protection Unit has developed a new statement of commitment to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people.
The provision of the NSW Crimes Act under which former Adelaide Archbishop Philip Wilson was originally convicted but then acquitted has been slammed by a leading Jesuit priest and human rights lawyer.
More than 21,000 voices have contributed to the first phase of the Catholic Church’s three-year Plenary Council process which will culminate in two large gatherings, the first to be held in Adelaide in October 2020.
The root causes of poverty affecting thousands of South Australians are the focus of a study currently underway in the northern suburbs of Adelaide.
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Features
Adelaide-raised scientist Professor Waltraud (Trudy) Kriven has spent most of her adult life in the United States, making a name for herself in the field of high tech ceramics. But she says her success would not have been possible without the invaluable life lessons from her parents and the Josephite Sisters.
Opinion
Reflect how much we need the annual feast of Christmas. It comes and acts like a recharging of the soul.
News
More than 1000 young Catholics from around Australia are getting ready to converge on Adelaide next month to take part in World Youth Day celebrations.
The first Catholic early care and learning centre in SA is opening in January, signalling the beginning of a new era of service provision for the Catholic Church in South Australia.
The Missionary Sisters of Service (MSS) have launched an initiative that will see their important work in remote and regional South Australia continue beyond the life of the Sisters.
Adelaide and Port Pirie dioceses have now officially joined the National Redress Scheme for survivors of child sexual abuse.
Archbishop Peter A. Comensoli has welcomed the Morrison Government’s release of the Religious Freedom Review and its response, which he says will be a focal point for the ongoing debate about religious liberty in Australia.
Opinion
The daughter of an agnostic poet, educated by Presbyterians, a hard-bitten secular journalist, SAMELA HARRIS asks how on earth did she end up in a world of gentle Roman Catholic Sisters working to make a museum for a saint?
Features
In his 25 years as a doctor in the Emergency Department, Calvary Wakefield’s Sharad Pandit has seen just about every type of injury and illness come through the front doors – and this Christmas he expects it will be no different.
Schools
The next chapter of learning at Sacred Heart College will begin in 2019 with the commencement of co-educational schooling from Years 7 to 9.
The lead-up to Christmas has been vastly different this year for a group of young South Australians who have spent the past few weeks helping to build houses in Cambodia.
For Sarah Heard, Christmas Day is a time to give thanks for all she has and support those less fortunate.
One of the biggest fears of migrants coming to a country like Australia is that their children’s faith will be lost.
The South Australian branch of Worldwide Marriage Encounter will celebrate its 40th anniversary in February.
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