Fr Patrick McMullan, a member of the regional council in Korea, writes about the need for ecological conversion as a rediscovery and deepening of the Hebrew insight that God creates, not just saves, the entire world. It seems normal now, but when I first came to...
In the middle of the half acre plot in which the rectory of Savannah Lar Mar Catholic parish is situated, a mango tree has pride of place, writes Fr Bobby Gilmore. Not only is the tree admired for its expanse and the shade it offers in the dead tropical heat of...
When I see the newly arrived children - all victims of human right violations and sexual abuse - healing and recovering in our Preda Foundation home and striving to be “good,” to be a “better person", somehow thinking they are “bad,” I and the Preda staff...
The year 2020 was synonymous with Covid-19. The virus was first recognised in Wuhan in China in late 2019. It was highly infectious and spread quickly in China, before moving on to Europe, the United States, Latin America and Africa. In December 2020 in the US, the...
Columban Father John Boles celebrated Christmas Mass in ‘Paradise’ last year. It was not the future paradise we all aspire to but something from the past - a 4,000-year-old temple in Peru. People often boast about having celebrated Mass in churches that are...
Columban Fr Dylan Tabaco tells Fr John Boles how he thought he knew all about walking, until he came to Peru and met someone who’d walked across half a continent. The Covid-19 pandemic may have brought hardship and tragedy to countless numbers throughout the world,...
The empowerment of women and girls is a most urgent need in today’s world where discrimination, violence and exploitation of women and girls, especially in the developing world, is tearing the heart out of society and family life causing human suffering, exclusion,...
Columban missionary Fr Eamonn O’Brien appeals for financial support for a new monastery of Augustinian nuns which opened in China in recent years and which is also running a home for the elderly. I have been visiting China since 1979 and working there for twenty...
To mark the 70th anniversary of the death of Columban martyr Fr Tony Collier, we publish here the sworn account of his catechist Gabriel Kim of the last days of Fr Tony. The account outlines the circumstances of his death. Gabriel Kim himself was shot while tied to...
Vida Hequilan, Coordinator of Lay Missionary Central Leadership Team in Hong Kong, writes about 30 years of Columban Lay Mission. This year marks the 30th anniversary of the Columban Lay Missionaries (CLM). Looking back on the past three decades has made me realize...