St Mary’s celebrates 150 years with a garden party

The garden party held at St Mary’s Campus, All Saints College, on Sunday, 10 September, to mark the sesquicentenary of the arrival of the Dominican Sisters in Maitland, was not the first such occasion to take place in the beautiful grounds, and hopefully it will not be the last.

Richard Gaillardetz is reimagining the church

Joseph Professor of Catholic Systematic Theology at Boston College, Dr Richard Gaillardetz, made a flying visit to the diocese on Friday and despite his lecture notes not accompanying him, managed to provoke and challenge an appreciative audience.

Happy 100th birthday San Clemente High School!

“Would you like a cup of tea or coffee?”

“Your memory is a poet, let it have its say”

I challenge you to read Patti Miller’s newly published Writing True Stories and not want to drop everything and write!

An opportunity to foster strengths in overseas communities

Mim Buchhorn, an experienced environmental engineer, worked on water management projects in the Newcastle and Hunter regions before embarking on her volunteering journey with Palms Australia in Hatubuilico, Timor Leste (2011-2013). She took the view that “There is nothing quite like sending a person rather than a whole pile of chairs or computers….”

Educating in the Dominican way: preach it we must!

We live in a society in which truth is under threat from ‘alternative facts’ in the ‘post truth world’.

However, if you were to visit the diocesan schools embodying the Dominican tradition and celebrating significant anniversaries this year, I believe your faith in the possibility of truth would be restored.