Competition: Who are Society’s Changemakers?

Competition: Who are Society’s Changemakers?

There is just two weeks to the deadline of this year’s Columban Schools Media Competition. The theme is: ‘Anyone can make a difference: 21st Century Changemakers’ and students are invited to enter an article or an image by 11 February 2022. Young people aged 13-18...
Columbans Join Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

Columbans Join Week of Prayer for Christian Unity

The Missionary Society of St Columban is joining the global celebration of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. The theme for 2022 is: “We saw the star in the East, and we came to worship Him.” The scriptural base for the theme comes from the Gospel account of the...
New Year’s Message from Fr Raymond Husband

New Year’s Message from Fr Raymond Husband

In the January/February issue of the Far East magazine, the regional director of the Columbans in Ireland, Fr Raymond Husband, writes in the Editorial: Over the next two years we will hear a lot about synodality in our churches, parishes and in the Catholic media. The...
Behind the Glitter

Behind the Glitter

As we prepare for Christmas, Columban missionary Fr Jim Mulroney reminds us to heed Pope Francis’s words: purchasing is always a moral act and not simply an economic transaction. “Ask about the labour, not the label,” Australian troubadour, Dermot Dorgan, says in his...