JANE Andersen was on her lunch break when she was told she had triple negative breast cancer. One week before her diagnosis, the Catholic mother-of-three found a lump on her breast while in the shower and scheduled appointments to detect if it was cancerous. “I went to get the results on a lunch break and got the bad news,” Mrs ... Read More »
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Former Anglican who became a Catholic now ‘speaking up’ with the Uniting Church
SUE Hutchinson has an intense passion for social justice and she traces it back to her days of “bouncing around” in the back of a station wagon with her mother at the wheel. Once a week her mother Anne Muller would be a volunteer driver for people with Down syndrome. “I remember … she used to take our funny, old ... Read More »
Remembering Roberta, the teacher who loved pink
EVERYTHING Roberta McShane owned was hot pink, even her car. On April 4 last year, the Catholic school teacher asked her mum, Dot McShane, to bring the car to the hospital for one last spin around the block. “That was the first time she said to me, ‘It’s time for me to go mum but I want to get the ... Read More »