Year 12 students Felix Kimber and Alyssa Booth with the calendar.

Schools

Calendar of kindness

To embrace the 40 days of Lent, students at Saint Ignatius’ College Senior School have been undertaking a daily ‘compassionate gesture’ as outlined in an aptly named Calendar of Kindness.

Features

Fleming family grateful for their guardian angel and miracle baby

Eighteen months after the death of their four-week-old twin daughter Isla, Nicole and Shannon Fleming are determined her short life will continue to have purpose.

Vocations

Drawn to priesthood by Jesuit mission

For Father Kieran Gill, his calling to the priesthood was more like a “subtle wave of grace” than a “St Paul on the road to Damascus” moment.

National

Time to listen to Aboriginal voices

Human rights lawyer Father Frank Brennan has urged Australians to put their faith in current Indigenous members of Parliament to find the right words for a referendum on constitutional recognition for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

Schools

Gift of the gab

Two students from SA Catholic schools have talked their way into the national final of the Rostrum Voice of Youth competition being held later this month.