Fr Dan Troy writes about Nanfeng, a small corner of China that is forever Columban, where three of our missionaries worked in the parish and are now featured in the parish church’s stained glass windows. Two years ago, as restrictions around Covid-19 were being...
Students aged 13-18 were invited to produce a piece of writing or create an image on the topic ‘Biodiversity Matters’ for the 2024 Columban Schools Media Competition. Their work had to demonstrate an awareness and an understanding of the issue of biodiversity and...
Fr Niall O'Brien’s influence is enduring and still bearing fruit in the places he served, writes his friend Hannah Carter. We were so blessed to meet Fr Niall O'Brien in May of 1997 while he was still in Bacolod. It was my first trip to the Philippines along with...
Fr John Boles speaks to Lydio Mangao Jr about how Columban seminarians are bringing hope to one of Manila’s most notorious slums. “This’ll be a real eye-opener”, Lydio told me, and he wasn’t joking. Lydio Mangao Jr is a Columban seminarian from the Philippines. He...
Our newest Columban missionary priest has already lived many different lives, writes Fr Frank Hoare. Fr Iowane Naio speaks five languages and has lived in five different cultures and will soon add to that. But his roots are in Namau Settlement about 10 km from Ba...
Easter reflection by Fr John McEvoy on Scripture passages Acts 10:34, 37-43; Col 3:1-4; Jn 20:1-9 Some years ago, I visited the Holy Land, and one stand out moment was the Shrine of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Pilgrims from all over the world visit an empty...
Twelve months ago, the Far East magazine had a striking picture of a young man, stripped down and tied to a cross in Fiji, while soldiers in mock cardboard uniforms alternately derided and worshipped him. It came from a Good Friday liturgy I had led. I commented...
As Easter approaches, Fr John McEvoy recalls his years spent in the Gold Mines Parish of Vatukoula which he has “always considered as the happiest years of my missionary life in Fiji”. Back in 1981, as Easter approached, dark clouds of industrial strife also...
Fr Maurice Hogan writes about the development of Patrician studies in recent years and the Columban contribution to this, notably Fr Aidan Larkin’s book, ‘The Spiritual Journey of St Patrick’. The middle of the twentieth century witnessed a revolution in the study...
It is forty-two years since Fr Noel O’Neill began the Emmaus project for those with special needs in South Korea. He provides a snapshot of some of those the project has helped. A phone call from Seoul. It was Pak Hyun Sen wishing me a happy birthday. In the post...