Fr Padraig Presents Award to Loreto Clonmel Winner

Fr Padraig Presents Award to Loreto Clonmel Winner

Last Friday Fr Padraig O’Donovan visited Loreto Clonmel to make a presentation to Roise Curtin who is one of this year’s winners in the Columban Schools Media Competition. Roise secured third place in the images section. Fr Padraig writes: Thank you to Martina...
The Common Good

The Common Good

Fr Ed O’Connell considers why so many voters in different parts of the world today feel such apathy and argues that we must all discern how to play an active part in society. It certainly has become a small world! I was talking recently, on Zoom, with young adults...
Fr Owen O’Kane Recalled at Dalgan Presentation

Fr Owen O’Kane Recalled at Dalgan Presentation

At a recent event in Dalgan recalling the life and ministry of Columban Fr Owen O’Kane, his niece Kathy O’Kane Delargy recalled how the people of Ballymun described him as having “nothing, he gave it all away”. She was reflecting on the life of the frugal...
Are We Destroying the Oceans?

Are We Destroying the Oceans?

The collapse of our oceans will spell disaster for all life on this planet, warns eco theologian Fr Sean McDonagh. In 2021, Rosamond Naylor an American economist who focuses on global food security and sustainable agriculture calculated that the amount of fish...
Columbans Gather in Peru for General Assembly 2024

Columbans Gather in Peru for General Assembly 2024

The leaders of the various Regions and Mission Units in the Missionary Society of St Columban, along with some elected delegates and designated others, have gathered in Lima, the capital of Peru for a General Assembly.  This is an event held every six years. Delegates...