When her name was called out as the winner of the CESA Leadership Excellence award at the Hilton hotel in May, Isabelle Roberts was thinking along very different lines to everyone else in the room.
One of the many dictums the new head of Aquinas College, Dr Sarah Moller, is committed to is an open-door policy for every one of the 195 residential students. "You won’t meet anyone if you’re hiding in your room,” she insists.
Joe and Katharina Ryan have renewed their vows with the blessing of the same priest who married them, 55 years after their big day.
Mount Gambier’s Catholic community gathered last month to give thanks for the graces of the past 140 years and to seek blessings for the future. Former Tenison Woods College principal and parishioner PAM RONAN writes about the history of St Paul’s Church.
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Karen de Sousa is more of a crochet than a gardening expert but it is not stopping her from helping to plant up to 32 million trees over the next four years.
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Born and raised in the city, Fr Peter Milburn spent many years as a parish priest in the country – times that he remembered fondly in the lead up to his 60th anniversary celebrations next month.
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Adjusting to a much slower lifestyle was all part of the learning curve when Missionaries of St Francis de Sales priests Fr Manu Kumbidiyamackal Varkey and Fr Shibu Jacob arrived in Adelaide from India in 2013.
A new book looks at families who came to South Australia to start a new life and asks why identity matters. Among them is South Australia Premier Peter Malinauskas.
Obituary - Sr Joan Ryan, who died in March 2025, was a much-loved member of the Sisters of the Good Samaritan
Graham George Spurling, who died in March 2025, had a respect for the dignity of ordinary hardworking people that had its roots in his humble Mile End, Adelaide, upbringing.
The Adelaide Archdiocese has four new international priests, all from southern India and all big cricket fans. In their first weeks here they spoke about their vocation and the move Down Under.
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