Catholic schools are modern missionary territories. That was the message from Jesuit author, priest, film critic and former teacher Fr Richard Leonard SJ when he addressed 260 South Australian Catholic school leaders at the Adelaide Convention Centre recently.
Jesuit Superior General Fr Arturo Sosa, the Venezuelan head of the Society of Jesus, visited Australia to oversee a change of Jesuit leadership in the Asia-Pacific region last month.
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In what was the first public Mass held in the mid north town of Blyth for many years, members of the Sevenhill parish gathered to honour the feast of young Polish Jesuit St Stanislaus Kostka last month.
Jesuit priest Fr Thang Bui recently spent six weeks in the Glenelg parish running an Ignatian spirituality retreat and supporting parish priest Fr John Herd as part of his tertianship.
The lives of two well-known priest/scientists who ministered in South Australia in the mid-1800s will be the topic of conversation at Lefevre Catholic Community in July.
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.
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