Columbans in Chile Grapple with Refugee Crisis

Columbans in Chile Grapple with Refugee Crisis

During October 2021, several Venezuelan women living in Casa Betania, a House of Hospitality for female migrants in the Columban parish of San Columbano, in Santiago, Chile, offered to tell their stories to Columban missionary Fr Dan Harding. Their identities have...
Fr Patrick (Paddy) Dooher

Fr Patrick (Paddy) Dooher

Fr Patrick (Paddy) Dooher was born on 21 January 1943 in Donaghedy, Co Tyrone and was educated in Loughash PS and St Columb’s, Derry. He joined the Columbans in Dalgan Park, Navan in 1960 and was ordained there on 21 December 1966. Paddy then did postgraduate studies...
Peru Covid Update from Fr Ed O’Connell

Peru Covid Update from Fr Ed O’Connell

Fr Ed O’Connell reports on a Columban celebration at communal kitchens serving the vulnerable in Peru. At long last we have a president, primary school teacher Pedro Castillo, with an MA in Educational Psychology. He took over on 28 July, coming to power on the 200th...
Update from Fr Ed on Peru’s desperate Covid situation

Update from Fr Ed on Peru’s desperate Covid situation

The total number of cases of Covid-19 on 31st May was 1,961,087 (49.9% in Lima Department and Province of Callao); authorities recently updated the figures by 184,507 deaths, writes Fr Ed O’Connell. The number of cases in Lima are now equal to outside Lima and...
Meet a Columban – Fr John Hegerty SSC

Meet a Columban – Fr John Hegerty SSC

In this episode of ‘Meet a Columban’, Fr Jim Mulroney speaks to Fr John Hegerty SSC who has been in Peru since 1971. Born in 1941 in Redesdale, central Victoria in Australia, he grew up on his parents’ 1,700 acre sheep and cattle and rotational cropping holding,...