An Autumn Day in Dalgan with Dr John Feehan takes place on Saturday 21st October 2023. It opens in the Conference Hall, St Columban’s, Dalgan at 9.30am and continues until 4.00pm. The theme is 'Exploring What Lies Beneath'. Autumn is a time not only of leaf fall,...
Columban missionary Fr Ed O’Connell, who is celebrating the golden jubilee of his ordination, was one of four speakers who addressed a webinar on mission and missionaries hosted by the international Catholic weekly, The Tablet. Titled, ‘Hearts on Fire, Feet on the...
Irish author and award-winning investigative journalist Mick Clifford who is currently working as a special correspondent with the Irish Examiner studied Engineering with Columban missionary Fr Dan Troy at UCC. They both graduated in 1988. After working for three...
Rev Iowane Naio from Fiji Islands and Rev Francis Xavier La Aung Nbwi from Myanmar were ordained to the diaconate last Saturday in the Columban International Theologate House in Cubao, Quezon City in the Philippines. Francis Xavier is the first Kachin permanent...
The Columban Missionaries in Ireland and Britain announce the launch of their latest Schools Media Competition 2023-2024 which has the title: ‘Biodiversity Matters’. The launch is taking place during the first week of the Season of Creation when Christian...
The Missionary Society of St Columban’s Annual Report for 2022-23 has just been published. Society Leader, Fr Tim Mulroy writes: As I leafed through this Annual Report and reflected on Columban mission during this past year, I was struck by the multiple cords of...
The theme for 2023 Season of Creation is: Let Justice and Peace Flow. The Prophet Amos cries out: “But let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never-failing stream!” (Amos 5: 24) The Genesis text tells us that human sin destroys our relationship with...
Now that Covid is fading into the background, interest in teaching in China has revived. Enquiries are coming in about the Volunteer Teachers for China, a Columban-sponsored programme also known as AITECE, with requests for updates on a number of concerns. Is it...
The annual Columbanus Cultural and Heritage Summer Festival is due to take place on Saturday 2nd September 2023 in Clonard, Co Meath. This is the third year of the festival which is aimed at empowering local communities to take responsibility for the promotion,...
Fr Pat Raleigh reports on the celebration of jubilees in Dalgan on 15th August 2023 which marked 70, 60 and 50 years of Columban outreach and missionary priesthood, while in the Philippines two Columbans celebrated their silver jubilees. Celebrations of Jubilees...