

Almost 40 pilgrims from the Neocatechumenal community in Adelaide are preparing to celebrate their faith with young people from around the globe at World Youth Day in Lisbon in August.
When the porch at St Ignatius Church, Norwood, needed to be retiled recently, there was no way 83-year-old Luigi Masciantonio was going to let anyone else do the work.
Young social justice advocates have banded together to form a Vinnies youth conference, with the aim of making a difference to the lives of those doing it tough.
An Indian priest who has spent the past decade serving the growing Syro-Malankara Catholic Community says he leaves Adelaide “full of hope” for the future of the church in the Oceania region.
Sixty-five years to the day after they said ‘I do’, Marcello and Dolores Martini are planning to return to St Patrick’s Church, Grote Street, for a special Mass to commemorate their anniversary.
After a journey spanning five years and two continents, former credit analyst James Thomson was ordained to the priesthood in St Francis Xavier’s Cathedral on May 27.
They come from different backgrounds, have different careers and have lived in different locations, but for Lorraine Thalbourne and Andrew Hall the process of becoming a Catholic four decades ago was very similar.
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