In the January/February 2020 Editorial of the Far East magazine, Fr Raymond Husband, Regional Director of the Columbans in Ireland, highlights some significant anniversaries this year of Columban missionaries who gave their lives for the Gospel and love of the...
At the Removal Prayer Service for Columban missionary Fr David Wall on Monday 28th October 2019, Fr Pat Raleigh gave the following address. The recent months here in Dalgan, have not been easy with so many deaths, three in the past week alone, Frank Mannion, Colm...
Fr Robert Mosher SSC is a Columban priest based at the Columban Mission Centre in El Paso in the US. People were shopping, here in El Paso, getting ready to send their children back to school and help them get the education that provides a level of economic...
Fr Pat Raleigh delivered the following homily at the funeral Mass for Fr Donal O’Dea at St Columban’s, Dalgan Park, Navan on 29 July 2019. Each one of us gathered here this morning, in this lovely Chapel where Donal was ordained, will bring our own memories of him....
A tribute to the recently deceased Columban missionary, Fr Leo Clarke, which was published in the Columban missionary magazine in South Korea. From my childhood up to when I was a young man our country was dirt poor. I grew up seeking to fill my stomach with...
Fr Bobby Gilmore asks: Are we in an age in which animals are humanised, humans are animalised, and compassion is a crime? “Whoever welcomes you welcomes me, and whoever welcomes him who sent me…And if anyone even gives a cup of cold water to one of these little...
Many people believe in some kind of ‘God’ that which they worship in their own way, which they make the priority of their actions. It can be money, power, wealth, property, prestige, drugs, alcohol, pleasure, possession, domination, violence, abuse, control. These...
Several years ago, on my first visit to Pakistan I made a big social blunder. A Muslim acquaintance arranged to meet me after breakfast, “at about 8 o’clock”. I naturally assumed that he meant eight in the morning, but he was talking about breaking-the-fast which...
Columban missionary Fr Liam O'Callaghan, who lives in Pakistan, writes about the case of Aasia Bibi, a Christian woman falsely accused of blasphemy. On 29 January 2019, almost a decade after being falsely accused of blasphemy, Aasia Bibi was finally free, when the...
Virgenia O. Vidad runs the Pedalling to Live project which was set up by Columban missionary Fr Oliver McCrossan. She relates how the project has helped Felmar, who has cerebral palsy, to continue his education. I started working for children with disabilities...