Join the Columban Way Pilgrimage in Britain

Join the Columban Way Pilgrimage in Britain

Columban Missionaries in Britain are celebrating Laudato Si’ Week by following in the footsteps of St Columban and reflecting on ‘the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor’. A pilgrim group of ordained and lay Columban missionaries and co-workers, led by Regional...
Archbishop to Launch Book on St Patrick by Fr Aidan Larkin

Archbishop to Launch Book on St Patrick by Fr Aidan Larkin

We are delighted that the leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Archbishop Eamon Martin of Armagh, will launch, ‘The Spiritual Journey of St Patrick’ by Columban missionary Fr Aidan Larkin in Dalgan on 30th May 2023 at 7pm. Fr Aidan died in 2019. He was working on...
Migrants and Asylum Seekers Arrive with Invisible Wounds

Migrants and Asylum Seekers Arrive with Invisible Wounds

Migrants and asylum seekers arriving in our community come with invisible wounds left by violence and persecution in their home countries, writes Cynthia Gonzalez of the Columban border ministries in the US. Their wounds get cut even deeper by the other traumatising...
Fr Donal Nicholas Bennett

Fr Donal Nicholas Bennett

Donal was born in the Parish of Drumragh, Omagh, Co Tyrone on 28th October 1932. He was educated at St Mary’s, Killyclogher, and CBS Omagh and entered Dalgan in 1954. He was ordained priest on 21st December 1960. Donal was appointed to the Philippines and after...
Columban Pentecost

Columban Pentecost

As the Church prepares for Pentecost on Sunday 28th May 2023, Fr Donal McIlraith considers the Columban Pentecost which has seen between one and two thousand priests, brothers and Lay Missionaries, like Peter, speaking foreign tongues and bringing the good news of the...