December 2023 marks the 75th anniversary of the publication of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, writes Fr Shay Cullen. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was approved and adopted by the United Nations General Assembly through Resolution 217A at its...
Columban Fr John Smyth died earlier this year. A younger Columban, Fr Kwon Taemoon, recalls the influence the Irish missionary had on him – “he was like a real grandfather to me” - and his long service to the Korean faithful. Fr John Smyth became the parish priest...
Khaing Khaing Mon (Nicole Wong), a teacher and editor at HEC Magazine in Mandalay Archdiocesan Higher Education College pays tribute to Columban missionary Fr Neil Magill. As it is my day-off today, my thoughts wander. I start to miss two old monks. One is a...
Sarah Mac Donald speaks to 101-year-old Sr Bríd Kenny about missionary life in Korea and her memories of co-founders of the Columban Sisters, Fr John Blowick and Mother Mary Patrick. Sr Bríd Kenny from Coolmeen in Co Clare joined the Missionary Sisters of St...
The Environmental Protection Agency should be ashamed of itself for deleting its tweet on red meat. An independent assessment was commissioned by Friends of the Earth in September 2023 on Ireland’s recent ecological record. The experts gave the Irish government a...
Fr Alo Connaughton spoke to Fr Pat Egan about that fateful day in Chile’s history when the military, led by General Augusto Pinochet, seized power in a coup, overthrowing the Popular Unity government of President Salvador Allende. Fr Pat Egan remembers Chile’s 9/11...
Cristian Colombo writes about the completion of the Columban Way in Italy and its recognition by the Italian Tourist Board. It all began with a dream. St Columban’s mother dreamt that the sun descended into the womb of a woman and that this sun in turn escorted...
Society Leader, Fr Tim Mulroy, reflects on his recent visit to Holy Family Parish in Fiji. Even though it was my first time to visit to Fiji, my short stay in Holy Family Parish in Labasa felt like a homecoming! Situated among the sugarcane plantations, I arrived...
Fr John Boles profiles Columban Missionary Fr Tony Coney whose work with disadvantaged children in a poor area of the Peruvian capital, Lima, has transformed many young lives. “For me, life began at 40,” laughs Fr Tony Coney, remembering how he arrived in Lima on...
“Please pray for us” is a familiar request from Li Qiong’s mother when I visit the family every two weeks in their simple apartment in a densely populated area of Wuhan, writes Fr Dan Troy. Their home is located a short walk from the Yangtze River. The request for...