Past Magazine Stories

Since I joined the Columban lay mission program in 2000, I have learned three different languages: English, Filipino (Tagalog) and Spanish.

Growing up in New York City, summers for me were times for relaxing, recreation and fun.

Almost six months ago, I arrived in Yangon, Myanmar, to begin my mission assignment.

From our earliest days, almost a century ago, Columban missionaries have employed people to assist us in a variety of roles to support our mission.

On my first visit to Nagasaki’s Atomic Bomb Museum, the obscenity of the atomic bomb left me angry and disturbed.

Lumen Gentium emphasizes the “universal call to holiness” which applies to all the “people of God”– clergy, religious and lay people, stating that “all…

Founded by Columban Fr. Bernard Wade in 1939, St.

Earlier this year, two Columban Fathers—an Irish farmer by way of decades of mission in Pakistan and an Iowa farmer by way of decades of mission in Korea—and I visited…

“I couldn’t manage without them.” That is a phrase one often hears in a discussion between the parish priests in Fiji, whether indigenous or foreign born.

Columban missionary Fr. Tanvir O’Hanlon invited me to work with the Columbans for the promotion of mission in our local church.

Irma Cantago

During the national convention of the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians (LAOH) in St.