COVID-19 linked to the destruction of the natural world

COVID-19 linked to the destruction of the natural world

In an article published in the June/July 2020 issue of the Comboni mission magazine ‘Worldwide’, Fr Sean McDonagh writes about the issue of Covid-19 and biodiversity. The article is titled ‘The Cost of Our Misbehaviour’ and examines the way humans have destroyed much...
Miss Ellen’s Weekly Pilgrimage

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 about the significant contribution immigrant remittances make to two economies.     A crisis of papers unfixed, two three...
Why Religion Survives in China

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 late-thirties, I should not have been surprised to hear that they had no record of their baptism,...
Forming Columban Seminarians in Fiji

Forming Columban Seminarians in Fiji

Columban missionary Fr Frank Hoare writes about Columban Formation and being a ‘Father’. “I discovered a deeper meaning in the Our Father when I became a father myself,” said the Anglican vicar to me. I had just invited him to attend my first Mass after ordination. I...