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...
Fr Bobby Gilmore reflects on Mission in Fragmentation

Fr Bobby Gilmore reflects on Mission in Fragmentation

“I have come that you may have life and have it in abundance” John 10.10 In the old world of European empires the mission of the Church travelled with the expansive energy of empire as it did previously in the age of trade routes and great migrations by land and sea....