Fr Bobby Gilmore recalls a visit to see his parents in the 1980s when he met a neighbour and the conversation forced him to think about the conundrum of where is home? You know… There is an instant when one is about to leave home in which an image of where one is...
A phone call this morning from Han Weiwei led to further discussions about our planned meeting later in the week at his side of Wuhan. One year ago, his daily phone calls became a familiar part of the 11 weeks of lockdown. The return to normal life in the city has...
I had just arrived in the Philippines shortly after ordination. It was 1973 and something unprecedented was happening back home in Ireland. Limerick had made it to the All-Ireland hurling final! Desperate to find out news of how the match went I got my shortwave...
This time last year, Columban missionary Fr Pat Colgan wrote an article entitled, 'How to be People of the Eucharist, when there is no Eucharist?' It was during Fiji’s first lockdown when Mass was not celebrated with a public congregation for three months and a...
Columban Fr John Boles reflects on the travels of a missionary in times of Covid. Overseas missionary work brings many surprises, but a 12-day obligatory quarantine period in a secure facility near London Airport was a ‘first’ for me. Travelling back to Britain...
Continuous denial of racism in the face of history and its daily effects in black and minority lives is dehumanising not just to those robbed of selfhood but also in those who are unable to make an honest admission that racism blights all lives, writes Fr Bobby...
Columban Fr Joseph Houston pays tribute to Fr Leslie McNamara, former president of St Munchin’s College in Limerick, who as an AITECE teacher, taught English in China for a number of years. When she heard the news of Leslie McNamara’s death, a former student of...
There is great hope and enthusiasm among the youth celebrating Earth Day on 22nd April for the restoration of the earth, writes Fr Shay Cullen They see the environmental destruction in all aspects of our lives - the air we breathe, the destruction of forests, the...
Columban missionary Fr Michael Cuddigan belongs to the Chinese Mission Unit in Hong Kong. He was ordained on Easter Sunday 11th April 1971 in the college chapel in Dalgan. Here are some of his thoughts on 50 years of missionary priesthood. This is indeed a very...
This article by Victory Isijola of St Louis Secondary School, Dundalk, Co Louth, came third in the 2021 Columban Schools Media competition. It is illustrated by the image which was awarded third place in the competition and was created by Caragh Cochrane, St Louis...