Local
No sleep in Seattle for Adelaide entrepreneur
Early in May, Roxane Foulser-Piggott and her business partner Tega Nukie will board a plane from Adelaide for a much anticipated business trip to America’s west coast.
Local
Early in May, Roxane Foulser-Piggott and her business partner Tega Nukie will board a plane from Adelaide for a much anticipated business trip to America’s west coast.
International
Caritas Australia CEO Kirsten has warned that as new conflicts dominate global attention, the war in Ukraine risks becoming a forgotten crisis.
Schools
South Australia’s next generation of STEM leaders was recognised last Friday as the Playford Trust awarded its 2026 university scholarships at Flinders University. Four students from Catholic colleges were among the high achievers.
Brian Bonaventure Shinnick: Born 14 July 1935, Died 20 March 2026.
While baptisms are up significantly across the Archdiocese of Adelaide this year, every story remains personal. Vicki Thomas talks about the challenges and hopes that will lead, finally, to her baptism this Easter.
Australians have been urged to take up the invitation of Pope Leo XIV to pray for peace on April 11.
At the heart of Easter is a moment of recognition. Mary Magdalene stands weeping in a garden, certain she is alone with her grief, certain the story is over. A man speaks her name, just her name, and everything changes. She turns, and she sees.
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Gary Felton easily won the Dean Travers Cup for the best score at the 50th and final Clergy-Laity golf day and dinner, in March. His winning score of 44 Stableford points was seven more than the next best.
As Laudato Si’ Week approaches, the garden at the Church of the Nativity in Aberfoyle Park boasts a simple yet powerful expression - ‘care for our common home’.
Pope Leo XIV spoke bluntly about war, migration and same-sex blessings during a 20-minute in-flight press conference on his return home from Africa.
The countdown is on for an inaugural campus principal as part of a well-known college’s vast expansion in Adelaide’s north.
Schools
More than 250 students and their families and friends have come together for the second successive year at an Adelaide school to show that in a currently fractured world, differences can be a great strength.
Local
It may only be late March but already a record 73 South Australian business and community leaders have signed up for an annual winter battle against homelessness.
Local
Worshippers at a milestone celebration last week for Adelaide’s Croatian community were treated to a bi-lingual celebration of Mass by the youngest – and patently very popular - Catholic priest in Australia.
An $11 million state-of the-art performing arts and learning facility which was unveiled in South Australia this week is expected to become a significant milestone in the school’s ongoing commitment to contemporary Catholic education.
Centacare executive director Leanne Haddad says Easter can bring a sense of hope and renewal for people experiencing hardship and marginalisation. The challenges are many and varied she says.
What does it really mean to look out for one another? The Integrity & Safeguarding Department at the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide is here to help with a few thoughts.
Ahead of the 2026 South Australia state election on March next week, a leading charity for the homeless is calling on the incoming government to take decisive action on five urgent issues affecting the dignity and wellbeing of thousands of people across the state.
News
More than 1000 students at a South Australian Catholic school noted for its outstanding fundraising efforts turned out for the launch of a global anti-poverty campaign on Shrove Tuesday.
Synod
Age is no barrier when it comes to having a say on the future of the local Church, as students at St Bernadette’s School in St Mary’s discovered when they participated in a pre-Dialogue Week session recently.
Opinion
Each year, as the season of Lent begins, I find myself thinking of an old story told about the desert fathers, those hardy, sun-scorched pilgrims who fled the cities of the ancient world to find God in the silence of Egypt and Syria.
Joachim Pham Quang Vinh CP was ordained by Archbishop Patrick O’Regan on December 13 at the Vietnamese Catholic Community, Pooraka.
The annual blessing of one of Australia’s oldest operating wineries took place in the Clare Valley on February 20.
Twenty years ago Adelaide’s Olivia Lukaszewicz was a top flight professional tennis player but is now firmly ensconced as a Schoenstatt Sister of Mary. RICHARD EVANS reports.
Yorke Peninsula parishioner Archibald Julian Woods (known as Julian) was posthumously recognised with an Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in this year’s Australia Day honours.
Opinion
It can be said of human nature that we tend to hurt the ones we love. Also, it is easy to take for granted the very things we need the most, like air and water.
Opinion
Since transferring from the Pastoral Services Team to the Safeguarding Operations office for a brief sojourn, many of my friends and work colleagues have commented that this is a big change.
People
The life of a consecrated woman has changed dramatically since Ruth Egar rsm was professed in 1955. The Mercy Sister spoke with JENNY BRINKWORTH about her vocation, including her pioneering pastoral work in the wake of Vatican II.
Pancakes and spring rolls were on the menu as Blackfriars Priory School students came together to mark two significant celebrations.
International Women’s Day on March 8 will have special significance for Our Lady of the Sacred Heart (OLSH) College as it celebrates 75 years of empowering girls to grow in confidence and step into the world as courageous leaders.
A charity soccer tournament held last month has raised more than $5000 for Birthline Pregnancy Support.
The Barossa Valley Catholic community gave a warm welcome to its newest member last month.
Obituaries
Sr Patricia Morrison RSJ - Born November 6 1929; Died January 9 2026
News
Around 80 people are expected to attend a special Mass in Adelaide’s eastern suburbs on Sunday March 1 to celebrate not just the start of the lunar new year but also a special anniversary.
News
Ten years after the Sri Lankan Catholic Association was formally established, the community has welcomed its first chaplain and held its second successful weekend retreat.
After more than 180 editorials over the past 17 years, this will be my last.
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.
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