Opinion
At a few minutes to midnight on Christmas Eve, the world feels briefly suspended. The shops have closed, the traffic has thinned, and even the tetchy restlessness of city life in late December seems to fall away.
National
A national gathering that drew about 6000 young people from Australia and Oceania earlier this month has been hailed as a time of listening, deepening of faith and friendship.
News
A presentation on the sensitive topic of what happens to us when we approach death drew about 30 people to the Cathedral Hall in Adelaide in early December.
When school resumes at Kildare College early next year there will be a buzz in the air as South Australia’s only college in the Brigidine tradition celebrates 60 years of educating and empowering young women.
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.
Almost two months after being evicted from a site in a corner of an Adelaide CBD carpark, a volunteer organisation that has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to charities across South Australia has found a new home.
Two members of South Australia’s Catholic community have been recognised in the South Australian National Football League Community Volunteers Awards.
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Three Josephite Sisters from South Australia, Josephine Dubiel, Brigette Sipa and Catherine Mead, have been elected to the congregational leadership team.
Among the millions of pilgrims visiting Rome for the Jubilee Year were nine knights and dames from the Adelaide branch of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.
As the newly formed Holy Family parish continues to find ways of bringing together its three Mass centre communities, 65 members went on a Jubilee pilgrimage by bus to St Aloysius Church at Sevenhill.
Fr Toan (Peter) Nguyen OP: Born August 16 1957, died October 18 2025
Local
Members of Catholic Women’s League (CWL) branches from across South Australia met recently at Port Pirie Sport and Community Club for a Catholic Women’s League of South Australia State Council meeting.
Schools
An end of year concert with a difference took place in Adelaide’s western suburbs last month when Nazareth Catholic College secondary students combined music, prayer and reflection in a joyful performance for primary students.
Schools
More than 100 teams of aspirational young inventors from Catholic schools across Australia gathered in Adelaide last month to turn their ideas into world beating solutions.
A groundbreaking national study into Catholic clergy health and wellbeing has revealed that an overwhelming majority of priests value their work and have positive relationships with their parish communities.
A thriving community garden at Gilles Plains is proving to be much more than a place to grow plants and produce.
Archbishop Patrick O’Regan has written an open letter to the Jewish community, on behalf of the Catholic Archdiocese of Adelaide, extending his deepest sorrow and heartfelt solidarity in the wake of the tragic shooting in Bondi yesterday evening.
A popemobile which has been transformed into a mobile emergency health clinic for children is one of a wave of new initiatives to help the inhabitants of war-torn Gaza.
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