When secondary school teacher Emma Beukema spends time in the great outdoors, walking her dog or exploring Mount Barker’s Laratinga Wetlands, it’s more than just physical exercise. As Science Learning area leader at St Mary’s College, Emma thinks deeply about the benefits of time spent in nature to our mental health and wellbeing.
Twenty years ago Adelaide’s Olivia Lukaszewicz was a top flight professional tennis player but is now firmly ensconced as a Schoenstatt Sister of Mary. RICHARD EVANS reports.
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Peace Poles have been installed at Dominican colleges and the Sophia Ecumenical, Feminist, Spirituality centre at Cumberland Park as part of the commemoration of the 80th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Japanese cities Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.
In 2012, then 28-year-old Bernadette Toohey, packed her bags and uprooted her life from the western suburbs of Adelaide to join the Australian-founded group of consecrated women, the Missionaries of God’s Love, in Sydney.
Raising awareness about domestic and family violence is never easy but when Christian Brothers College (CBC) and St Mary’s College recently joined forces to host a basketball fundraising event to do exactly that, the result was a touching display of camaraderie.
Voices are singing in harmony, the dance moves are in sync and an array of instruments are in tune as the countdown begins for the annual Catholic Schools Music Festival being held later this month.
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