Fr Peter Hughes: Living his Best Life

Fr Peter Hughes: Living his Best Life

An interview with 80-year-old Columban missionary, Fr Peter Hughes, co-ordinator of indigenous and human rights for REPAM, a Catholic Church network that promotes the right and dignity of people living in the Amazon by Mike Finnerty of the Mayo News. Imagine becoming...
Columban message for Laudato Si’ Week

Columban message for Laudato Si’ Week

      Missionary Society of St Columban 2020 Laudato Si’ Week Message Because all creatures are connected, each must be cherished with love and respect, for all of us as living creatures are dependent on one another. LS 42 24 May 2020 marks the 5th...
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...
Columbans Pray in Solidarity with Pan Amazonian Synod

Amazonia Synod 10: Change cannot just be cosmetic

This reflection by Fr Jim Mulroney is the tenth in a series of Columban articles published in preparation for the Synod on Amazonia at the Vatican in October 2019. High on a mountain in Australia’s southern island-state of Tasmania, an enthusiastic young guide...