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News

St Mary’s principal listening and learning

Heidi Senior was checking out the cycling route from her new home in Prospect to St Mary’s College on the western edge of the Adelaide CBD when she came unstuck trying to navigate the vast aquatic centre emerging on the tip of the parklands.

Local

Calling all pilgrims of hope

St Aloysius Church at Sevenhill was the ultimate destination for 250 pilgrims who joined Archbishop Patrick O’Regan for the first of a series of visits to sacred sites in South Australia as part of the Jubilee year.

News

Kings Birthday honours

A Josephite Sister who has dedicated much of her life to ensuring the legacy of St Mary MacKillop continues and a retired Adelaide priest have been awarded Order of Australia medals (OAM) in the 2025 King’s Birthday honours list.

Schools

Love of teaching inspired by Annie

If she’s not the first Aboriginal Catholic school principal in South Australia, then she’s almost certainly the second or third. Regardless, Emma Fowler who has run St Raphael’s School in Parkside for the past 18 months, comes with someone pretty cool in her corner.