Giving Life a New Home

Giving Life a New Home

New life in the form of new people bring new ideals of energy, creativity and inspiration writes Columban missionary Fr Bobby Gilmore, as he expresses concern over hostility towards destitute people on the move.  It was summertime and the rivulet had changed its...
Facebook’s Annus Horribilis

Facebook’s Annus Horribilis

Criticism of Facebook intensified in 2021. Fr Seán McDonagh looks at former employee Frances Haugen’s allegations that Facebook put “astronomical profits before people”.  In my book, Robots, Ethics and the Future of Jobs, I described how in 2016, at the time of the US...
Fr Bobby Gilmore asks: ‘Who are the Excluded?’

Fr Bobby Gilmore asks: ‘Who are the Excluded?’

It always seems to me that those who are without power, who have to create their own in a makeshift way, know more about life than those who govern. (John Berger) Albert Artwell, Jamaican artist, lived in my area of Jamaica. He was deeply influenced by his Rastafarian...
Advent/Christmas Carol Service at Dalgan

Advent/Christmas Carol Service at Dalgan

This year’s Advent/Christmas Carol Service in Dalgan was themed ‘Living in the Spirit of Hope’. Fr Pat Raleigh gave the following address to Columban supporters, friends and family who attended the occasion on Friday 14 December 2018. Introduction On behalf of...
Christmas is a Time of Hope writes Fr Shay Cullen

Christmas is a Time of Hope writes Fr Shay Cullen

Christmas is a time of year when we can hope for a real messiah, a moral leader to rise up and inspire us to live good, moral lives of integrity and mutually helping each other and the poor – the great values brought into the world by the birth of Jesus of...