Climate injustice impacts the innocent poor much harder than the guilty rich and the problem is social, environmental and political, writes Fr Shay Cullen. When I hike into the hills and mountains of Zambales with the Aeta indigenous farmers, their children and...
Fr Frank Hoare, a Columban missionary in Fiji, reflects on his decision to become a missionary priest when he was seventeen and has no regrets about his choice. I was standing by the bed of a Hindu ascetic dying of cancer in a monastery in North India. He shared...
I have participated in interreligious dialogue, especially Christian-Muslim relations, for many years, in Pakistan and in Australia writes Columban missionary, Fr Patrick McInerney. I have visited gurdwaras, mosques, synagogues and temples. I have attended,...
COP27 takes place in Sharm El-Sheikh in Egypt in November 2022. Will it confront the current global climate crisis asks Columban missionary Fr Sean McDonagh. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) began its work in 1988. Its object was to provide the...
There is one thing above others that humans can never escape and that is the burden of debt, writes Columban missionary Fr Shay Cullen. Almost everyone, except the millionaires, have a burden of debt. They, too, can be in debt. Everyone seems to owe someone. There...
Columban Fr Patrick Cunningham is a member of the Catholic Nonviolence Initiative and the Catholic Solidarity Movement for Peace on the Korean peninsula. He believes that the ongoing threat of nuclear war means the only choice is between nonviolence and...
The ongoing debate over the British Government's decision to deport those seeking asylum in Britain to Rwanda has thrown up all kinds of reasons to justify such a policy, not all rational, well thought out or legal, writes Fr Bobby Gilmore. For the first time in...
Mr Zawng is interviewed by a Columban who wishes to remain anonymous and asked what he learnt from being a member of the Catholic Student Action Myitkyina (CSAM) back in 2019. “Wa Jau ngai hpe hkan ya rit.” (Father come and follow me. This is a short way to the...
The Covid pandemic has caused great harm, warns Columban missionary Fr Shay Cullen. The rich became richer while the poor became poorer. During the pandemic, an additional 4.27 million Filipinos fell into extreme poverty. People like Maria Mahirap, one of the...
Our recently retired Columban colleague, Scott Wright, who is a Pax Christi USA Ambassador of Peace, has written this wonderful reflection on nonviolence. Fifty years ago, in June 1972, I returned my draft card to my local draft board in Lincoln, Nebraska. They...