Matt Talbot: Columban Benefactor

Matt Talbot: Columban Benefactor

On the centenary of the death of Venerable Matt Talbot, Fr Seán Coyle recalls this popular patron of those struggling with alcoholism who may become the first person connected with the Columbans to be canonised. Venerable Matt Talbot died one hundred years ago on 7th...
May/June 2025 Issue of the Far East Magazine

May/June 2025 Issue of the Far East Magazine

The May/June 2025 issue of the Far East is now available both in print and digital editions. There is a range of stories from our mission projects including a piece by Fr Dan Troy about Columban efforts to establish ecology spaces at retreat houses, pastoral centres...
Rinneadh Feoil den Bhriathar / The Word became Flesh

Rinneadh Feoil den Bhriathar / The Word became Flesh

Bhí mé sa bhaile i mBaile Átha Cliath faoi Nollaig 2001, mé ag obair sa Bhreatain ag an am. Chonaic mé clár teilifíse faoi bhanaltraí ó Na Filipíní ag obair in in Éirinn ar RTÉ a chuaigh i bhfeidhm go mór orm. Cuireadh agallamh ar bhanaltra óg ó Mindanao – oileán i...
Ag Guí ar Son na Marbh

Ag Guí ar Son na Marbh

Fr Sean Coyle/Seán Mac Cumhaill writes about finding his great-uncle Lawrence Dowd’s grave in Flanders 84 years after he was killed in the Great War. He highlights the nightly ceremony at the Menin Gate to remember the more than 50,000 men, 5,000 of them Irish,...
‘Murder in the Missions’ launched in Dalgan

‘Murder in the Missions’ launched in Dalgan

A new book telling the story of two Columban missionaries whose lives were radically changed by their ministry on the Filipino island of Mindanao has been praised as “timely”. At the launch of Murder in the Missions: A True Story in Dalgan on Sunday, the pioneering...