Palm Sunday this year was a very busy one for me, serving as the lone priest here in Christ the King Ba in Fiji, writes Fr Pat Colgan. We have three Masses each Sunday, one in the main town church followed by two in village churches. Palm Sunday’s liturgies were...
Christians everywhere will be celebrating Palm Sunday this weekend, a day when the Gospel account tells of Jesus of Nazareth being escorted by his supporters into the city of Jerusalem. They waved branches of palm trees and called him Messiah, a role he never...
For the past two and a half centuries, humans have burned fossil fuels to heat their homes and travel by train, cars, and planes. Burning fossil fuel has caused climate change and a rise in sea levels. If, during the next three decades, the average temperature...
Fr Liam O’Callaghan and members of the Diocesan Ecology Commission worked with 49 participants from various parishes and schools, who attended a Lenten Preparation Programme run by Fr Tomás King and the Joti Educational and Cultural Centre of Hyderabad Diocese in...
The Friends of St Columbanus are hosting an online (ZOOM) Ecumenical Prayer Service for Peace in Europe on Sunday 3rd April 2022 at 6pm (GMT) and 7pm (CET). After more than 80 years of peace, Europe is experiencing fracture and war and this call to reflection and...
Fr Tom O’Reilly provides some important insights and historical context on the Synodal Process. Purpose of the Universal Synod The basic meaning of synodality is ‘journeying together,’ walking together on a path. The Synod logo is basically an image of people ‘on...
Columbans learned how to be missionaries in the countries in which they worked, writes Fr Sean McDonagh, as he recalls Columban efforts to promote interfaith dialogue with Muslims in Mindanao. I was ordained a Columban missionary priest on Easter Sunday 1969 and...
Criticism of Facebook intensified in 2021. Fr Seán McDonagh looks at former employee Frances Haugen’s allegations that Facebook put “astronomical profits before people”. In my book, Robots, Ethics and the Future of Jobs, I described how in 2016, at the time of the...
Winners have been announced in the 2022 Columban Schools Media competition for young people on the subject ‘Anyone Can Make a Difference: 21st Century Changemakers’, run by the Columban Missionary Society in Britain and Ireland. Young people 13-18 years were asked...
As I watch the horror of war in Ukraine I am reminded of Larry and his forebears. Seeing a revolution coming, they gathered their families and escaped to a new life in America. Will those fleeing today be given that opportunity in the countries they end up in. They...