Columban Schools Journalism 2020 Winning Video
This is the winning video in the 2020 Columban Schools Journalism Competition in Ireland. It is by Aishling Rochford, a student at Pobalscoil Inbhear...
Columban Schools Journalism 2020 Winning Article
Tacking Our 'Throwaway Culture'
This is the winning article in the 2020 Columban Schools Journalism Competition in Ireland. It is by 16-year-old Trinity McKeever, a...
Columban message for Laudato Si’ Week
Missionary Society of St Columban
2020 Laudato Si’ Week Message
Because all creatures are connected, each must be cherished with love and respect, for all...
The faith of the people remains strong
Churches closed on Sundays! No Sunday Mass! It is a shock. Yes, many people had stopped going to Mass for different reasons, but to...
Miss Ellen’s Weekly Pilgrimage
Fr Bobby Gilmore ministered in Jamaica from 1992-99. In 1999, he returned to Ireland and set up the Migrant Rights Centre Ireland.
He writes...
Why Religion Survives in China
In his blog, Fr Hugh MacMahon of Aitece Ireland ponders the fraught relationship between Communist China and Christianity.
Talking recently with some Chinese in their...
Our Common Home
Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si’ is five years old this month and captures the social, economic and environmental justice in building and protecting Our Common Home. It details a pathway of hope as we face the plant’s environmental crisis. Watch as Columbans practice the words of the encyclical throughout the world. Support the works of […]
Remembering Rufus
‘Remembering Rufus’ is a radio documentary which was commissioned by the Columbans, with support from Misean Cara, and broadcast on Newstalk 106 – 108 fm on 16 November 2013. In Easter week 2013, documentary maker Brian Kenny, working in collaboration with Fr Malachy Smyth, travelled to the Philippines with the intention of telling the story […]
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