With the ban on social media for children under 16 coming into force next month, Catholic Voice journalist VERONIKA COX looks at the wider impact of our online habits.
New lectionary
In the early days of the COVID pandemic, along with parishes throughout the world, the Archdiocese of Adelaide suspended the practice of receiving communion from the chalice and offered a dispensation from the obligation to attend Mass on Sundays and holy days of obligation for the safety and protection of the people.
The increasing number of households decorating their front yards with all things ghoulish and the hordes of children dressing up and roaming the streets in search of lollies on Halloween is literally quite frightening.
Opinion
On Sunday October 19 the Catholic Church will celebrate a moment of profound significance: the canonisation of Peter To Rot from Papua New Guinea.
Opinion
A few years back – well about 20 actually – I worked for the SA Government on a project called Make the Move.
Opinion
The Archdiocese of Adelaide has taken important steps in recent years to strengthen its safeguarding services and ensure a culture of integrity and accountability.
In the many interviews I have conducted for The Southern Cross, I have always been amazed by how many of the interviewees have told me that they were involved in the Young Christian Workers (YCW) movement in their younger days.
Recently on a visit to a parish, I had an interesting conversation with one of the parishioners. It centred around one phrase, ‘how can I be perfect, in an imperfect world?’. Good question.
In recent years I made a series of major decisions that were accompanied with pain, disappointment and suffering. For a while I got caught in a cycle of revisiting the decisions and trying to identify where I went wrong. My friends say that I made courageous choices. Yet, amidst the consequences, I am tempted to be hard on myself.
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