Columban Missionaries urge ambitious action at COP26

Columban Missionaries urge ambitious action at COP26

The leadership of the Columban Missionaries is urging governments gathering for COP26 in Glasgow to agree and commit to ambitious policies and processes that protect our common home. We take seriously the warning by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres who spoke of...
World Mission Sunday 24th October

World Mission Sunday 24th October

World Mission Sunday, the Pope’s annual appeal for spiritual and financial support for the work of overseas mission and missionaries, is celebrated on Sunday 24th October. This year’s theme is: ‘We Cannot Remain Silent – We cannot but speak about what we have seen and...
Days of Light and Darkness in the Catholic Church

Days of Light and Darkness in the Catholic Church

These are days of darkness and light for many in the Catholic Church, writes Columban missionary Fr Shay Cullen. The horrific exposes of clerical sexual abuse against children around the world – in the United States, Ireland, Australia, Poland, Germany, Austria...
Walking to Save the Planet

Walking to Save the Planet

Ahead of COP26 Columban Fr John Boles joins a group of young Christian activists walking for climate justice. The ripening corn sparkled in the sunlight as we set off. Birds chattered in the bushes around the fields. Two copses of trees perfectly framed the tower of a...
Acts of the Apostles:  Vision for a Synodal Church

Acts of the Apostles: Vision for a Synodal Church

Where is the Spirit leading the Church? That is the underlying question in the Acts of the Apostles according to Fr Tom O’Reilly, who suggests it is also the basic question of the synodal process today. The Vatican does not postpone major events without very good...