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.
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.
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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.
The 77th annual Marian Procession took place on Sunday 17 May with about 2,000 people taking advantage of the sunshine to walk from Victoria Park to Victoria Square where Archbishop Patrick O'Regan led the liturgy. It was a quite extraordinary turnout with flags and banners showing where people had come from across the Archdiocese. Photographer BEN MACMAHON was on hand to capture the action.
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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