Columban Missionary Fr Tim Mulroy writes about a ten-week workshop at the Columban Mission Centre in Lima equipping migrant women with baking and cooking skills to help them find work. Could it be said that the reign of God is like a platter of various kinds of...
Becca Long spoke to Columban Missionary Fr Ed O’Connell and Columban co-worker Ellen Teague about Vocation for Justice, the Columban newsletter which has been promoting justice and highlighting injustice for four decades. If you’ve been a faithful reader of Vocation...
On many occasions I have recounted my vocational journey and how reading the novel, The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel, changed my life’s trajectory. However, what I have never related was the specific traits of St Bernadette Soubirous’ personality that awakened...
In the May/June 2026 issue of the Far East magazine, Columban Missionary Fr Tim Mulroy writes about a workshop at the Columban Mission Centre in Lima equipping migrant women with baking and cooking skills to help them find work. ‘Life on a Platter’ is both uplifting...
Fr Leo Gopal is a priest of the Diocese of Myitkyina, in Kachin State, Myanmar, who is currently visiting Dalgan. Fr Pat Colgan spoke to him about his family’s links with the Columbans. Fr Leo Gopal great grandparents were brought from Tamil Nadu, India, to work as...
In our Easter issue of the Far East magazine we are featuring a depiction of the Crucifixion by Fijian artist Peni Vuniceva. The women in the painting are in Fijian attire of Masi cloth and white sulus, while Christ and the menfolk have Fijian features. The young men...
As we continue to make our way through Lent, our days in this part of the world are still dark and our longing for late sunsets and long, bright evenings is increasing. Despite the flowering of the snowdrops and the early daffodils, our gardens are still, for the most...
Fr Maurice Hogan considers new scientific evidence on the Shroud which is believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus. He highlights how the injuries sustained by the body wrapped in the cloth corroborate Gospel accounts of Jesus’ crucifixion. The Shroud of Turin...
Fr Alo Connaughton attended the launch of a new album of Columban Missionary and piano accordion player Fr PJ Kelly’s music. He recalls how the Far East magazine played a role in preserving some of Fr PJ’s traditional tunes and how the new album is bringing his...
As we move into Spring, Columban Missionary Fr Cyril Lovett welcomes the change in seasons by reciting his poem, 'Snowdrops'. Fr Cyril worked for many years in the Philippines and later in Brazil. He was Editor of Far East until 2016.