‘Thank you’ from Columban special needs school in Peru

‘Thank you’ from Columban special needs school in Peru

Dear Friends and Benefactors, Over recent months I have been receiving donations from and through you for small projects I have been funding in Lima, Peru. I’ve been spending the majority of this money on improvement schemes within our school for special needs...
Fr Seamus O’Connor

Fr Seamus O’Connor

Seamus O’Connor was born in Tullamore on the 25 February1926. He was educated in St Brigid’s NS and St Finian’s, Mullingar and joined the Columbans in Navan in 1944. He was ordained on 21 December 1950 and was part of the first Columban group assigned to Fiji. He...
“Rise Up and Walk!”

“Rise Up and Walk!”

Columban missionary Fr John Boles, SSC draws on the Gospel account of a miracle in Luke 5.23 to show how the generosity of Columban benefactors is having an impact on the lives of the disabled in Peru. In the Gospel we hear how Jesus performed a miracle by saying to...
Now is the time for a stronger role for women in the Church

Now is the time for a stronger role for women in the Church

In the fourteenth of our series of articles on the Amazon Synod, Sr Birgit Weiler, MMS looks at the debate about women’s role in the Church which emerged during the synod. Sr Birgit Weiler is a German Medical Mission Sister and theologian, who has worked with...