Reflection: May/June 2022 Far East magazine

Reflection: May/June 2022 Far East magazine

Giving Honour Every day in our lives we meet people of various ages from different backgrounds. Many of them we don’t know but some of them we get to know and interact with. Sometimes certain people, whether we know then personally or not, have an impact on our life....
Fr Daniel O’Gorman

Fr Daniel O’Gorman

Fr Daniel O’Gorman was born on the 4th March 1932 in Tullaherin, Bennetsbridge, Co Kilkenny. His received his early education in Bennetsbridge NS and St Kieran’s, Kilkenny. He joined the Columbans in Navan in 1950 and was ordained there on 21 December 1956. Korea was...
Compulsive Gambling

Compulsive Gambling

New Year sees many of us resolve to tackle our destructive habits. Kwon Byung-hee [Augustine] recalls Columban missionary Fr Paul White who established a recovery programme for gambling addicts and helped thousands of Koreans turn their lives around. Fr Paul White...
From Bantry to Korea – Fr Donal O’Keeffe

From Bantry to Korea – Fr Donal O’Keeffe

Earlier this year Columban missionary, Fr Donal O’Keeffe, was honoured as ‘Immigrant of the Year’ by the Korean State in recognition of his 40 years of dedication to supporting the marginalised in Korean society. Here he speaks to Fr Malachy Smyth about his missionary...