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The journey to the priesthood continues for seminarian James Thomson, who will be ordained to the diaconate in Adelaide next month.
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Adelaide’s newest Catholic priest, Father Joshua Nash OMI, hopes that in the future he will be able to serve the most vulnerable in the community – possibly in ministries that don’t yet exist.
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From a worm farm to recycling, solar panels and sustainable farming, members of the Victor Harbor-Goolwa parish are responding in innovative ways to Pope Francis’ call to care for our common home.
It is not often you get to work alongside your granddaughter but for long-serving educator Sue McDonald that is one of the added joys of doing relief teaching at St Patrick’s School, Mansfield Park.
On September 2 supporters of Birthline will gather to celebrate the anniversary of an organisation that for 50 years has been providing a phone counselling service for women facing an unexpected pregnancy. But its future is less certain as donations dwindle and the general community seemingly becomes more accepting of abortion.
Serving as a priest since 1957, Monsignor Rob Egar (or Fr Rob as he likes to be known) says he has learned to “roll with the punches” in an ever-changing world and Church.
It was a case of life going full circle when Monsignor John Swann celebrated Mass at St Rose of Lima Church, Kapunda, last month – on the anniversary of the day he was ordained to the priesthood in the very same church 65 years previously.
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