Columban missionary Fr Alo Connaughton speaks to Fr Miguel Garaibazal, a colleague at Saengtham College in Bangkok, about his role with a team that visits nine prisons in Thailand. Prison visitation is one of your own many pastoral roles. Could you summarise what...
Ever since the story of Adam and Eve, likely written by a man, some men have tended to blame women for male misfortunes, weaknesses and their tendency to violent behaviour, writes Fr Shay Cullen. Overwhelming research has shown that most violent acts - physical,...
As we prepare for Christmas, Columban missionary Fr Jim Mulroney reminds us to heed Pope Francis’s words: purchasing is always a moral act and not simply an economic transaction. “Ask about the labour, not the label,” Australian troubadour, Dermot Dorgan, says in...
Ellen Teague, along with other Columban representatives, travelled to Glasgow to participate in events focused on COP26. In this blog, she asks where the movement goes from here. Have you ever experienced fried Macaroni Cheese or had two weeks of conversations...
While suffering with Covid-19, people around Columban lay missionary, Mereani Nailevu, helped him move from fear to seeing the culture of care surrounding him. “Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help...
There is no more urgent time than now for world leaders and political decision-makers at COP26 to listen to their consciences and millions of people crying out for an end to the damage, pain and hurt that climate change and global warming are causing, writes Fr...
Ahead of Remembrance Sunday, Fr Bobby Gilmore recalls the toll World War I took on his granduncle who was gassed while serving with the US military. They were young and vibrant full of awe they waved him off to war to end all wars. One a young wife the other a...
Adapted from an obituary of Philip Noel Dunne by Columban Fr Pat O’Donoghue which was published in the Irish Times on 21 May 2021. Philip Noel Dunne died of COVID-19 at his Colorado home in the United States in December last year, but his death means far more than...
These are days of darkness and light for many in the Catholic Church, writes Columban missionary Fr Shay Cullen. The horrific exposes of clerical sexual abuse against children around the world - in the United States, Ireland, Australia, Poland, Germany, Austria and...
Celebrating lockdown Mass in Hindi provided Fr Frank Hoare with an insight into music's ability to cross boundaries of culture and connect people. Fiji’s Archbishop Peter Loy Chong, like many others, realised the importance of social media when Covid19 caused all...