I Protest, Therefore I am

I Protest, Therefore I am

Are rising levels of inequality, exclusion and the denial of participation a reason to protest asks Columban Fr Bobby Gilmore. History is made by successive shocks, of confronting and overcoming successive challenges. Societies progress, and in the end, having...
Europe’s Ghost: the Immigrant, the Other

Europe’s Ghost: the Immigrant, the Other

We are who we are because of migration. Migration has created the world we are part of today, writes Columban Missionary Fr Bobby Gilmore. The immigrant has become a contemporary passion in Europe, the vacant point around which ideals clash. Easily available as a...
The Chill by Fr Bobby Gilmore

The Chill by Fr Bobby Gilmore

Fr Bobby Gilmore wrote this last year as he watched the swallows gather on the roof in the sun as they prepared to leave. The Chill As if awakening to the tinkle of alarm clock On cue they arrived from a seeming elsewhere Lining up on the apex of the roof In single...
Nowhere to Go

Nowhere to Go

Watching the collision of hope and horror in Ukraine played out on television screens, people fleeing with their whole belongings in suitcases and plastic bags, I am reminded of stories of settlers from various parts of Philippines flocking into Mindanao after the...