Ecology Spaces: Laudato Si’ in China

Ecology Spaces: Laudato Si’ in China

Fr Dan Troy writes about Columban efforts to establish ecology spaces at retreat houses, pastoral centres and convents in China. Ecology workshops given in China in recent years by the Irish geologist and botanist, Dr John Feehan, placed an emphasis on combining...
A Return to China

A Return to China

Last June Columban missionary Fr Kevin O’Neill returned to the Chinese city of Wuhan where he lived 11 years ago. He writes about some of the changes of the intervening years and the special Columban connection with this part of China. My last visit to China was five...
New Church Nears Completion in China

New Church Nears Completion in China

With a population of 200,000 people, Tianmen seems an appropriate place for the construction of a new church as the name literally means ‘Gate of Heaven’, writes Columban missionary Fr Dan Troy. As Fr Joseph Wang pointed to the bell towers of the new...