Laudato Si Week: 16-25 May 2021

Laudato Si Week: 16-25 May 2021

Pope Francis invites us to celebrate Laudato Si Week, writes Sr Caroline Vaitkunas, a Columban Peace, Ecology and Justice team member. In 2015, Pope Francis released his encyclical letter Laudato Si’: On Care for Our Common Home, which offers a profound vision...
Columban message for Laudato Si’ Week

Columban message for Laudato Si’ Week

      Missionary Society of St Columban 2020 Laudato Si’ Week Message Because all creatures are connected, each must be cherished with love and respect, for all of us as living creatures are dependent on one another. LS 42 24 May 2020 marks the 5th...
Amazonia Synod 10: Change cannot just be cosmetic

Amazonia Synod 10: Change cannot just be cosmetic

This reflection by Fr Jim Mulroney is the tenth in a series of Columban articles published in preparation for the Synod on Amazonia at the Vatican in October 2019. High on a mountain in Australia’s southern island-state of Tasmania, an enthusiastic young guide...
Amazonia Synod’s Implications for the Philippines

Amazonia Synod’s Implications for the Philippines

John B. Din is the Columban Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Co-ordinator in the Philippines. Here he reflects on October’s Synod on the Amazon. The Synod of the Amazon has a particular interest to me not only because I worked for almost 20 years in two of the...
“We all need to nurture the courage to tell the truth”

“We all need to nurture the courage to tell the truth”

Climate activist Dr Lorna Gold has described climate change as “the most important issue facing our planet today”. Addressing student award winners in the 2019 Columban Schools Journalism competition, she said the topic they had written about – ‘The Challenge of...