Perspective: Resisting Cruelty, Restoring Kinship - The Southern Cross

Perspective: Resisting Cruelty, Restoring Kinship - The Southern Cross

SAN DIEGO — “Unprecedented” may be the most overused word in English today—yet it rarely helps us understand what’s truly happening. Something could be unprecedented because it is wonderful, like an unusually large harvest, or discovery, or cure.  That’s not what we mean today. So, what makes this moment so unprecedented?  One answer is that our country has never been in such a purposefully cruel and damaging state of chaos in the memory of most…

Last Irish-born Josephite in SA - The Southern Cross

Sr Maryanne Welsh rsj Born July 26 1928; Died April 24 2025 Sr Maryanne Welsh, who has died aged 96, was one of hundreds of brave and adventurous young girls who left Ireland to come to Australia to become a Sister of St Joseph. The Letter under the Pillow, written by Clare Ahern rsj, is a story of exceptional Irish women who left home and country to join the Congregation of the Sisters of St Joseph founded by St Mary MacKillop and Fr Julian Ten…