Columban Fr. Jim Mulroney speaks with Fr. Euikyun Carlo Jung who is a Columban missionary from South Korea currently working in Fiji.
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Fr. Thomas Rouse is the Columban leader in New Zealand. He was ordained and was appointed to Fiji in 1976, where he spent most of his missionary…
Columban Fr. Jim Mulroney speaks with Fr. Jason Antiquera, a Columban missionary from the Philippines who is working in Korea.
The Gorgeous Colors of Autumn
My calendar and the gorgeous colors of autumn surrounding me on the grounds of St. Columban tell me that November will soon be here. And what a wonderful month November is for us, a special time to remember gratefully all of those who have given so much of themselves to us. All Saints Day, All Souls Day and Thanksgiving are all about …
Stories from Columban Missions
The Philippines is an archipelagic country where diversity in culture, language, tradition, and customs is visibly felt and seen. Since the…
The Catholic faith came first to the Philippines as part of Spain’s colonial expansion with Magellan’s circumnavigating the globe. As in that and…
The year 2020 was one of the most difficult and stressful years in the history of the last hundred years of the world and the church! In Christmas…
“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of
Since last August, I have been volunteering at a community garden here in Birmingham, Britain, ru
Fr. Cathal Gallagher recalls the incident vividly. “It was in 1998. I was working in a poor parish in Lima. I got a call from a local clinic, run…
There is an old Chinese proverb that says “a man without a smiling face must never open a shop.” This is pretty sound advice. If you can’t smile…
Jonathan Kunau and Hilda Vukikomoala had planned their wedding a year in advance. Since both of them were members of big families, they wanted a…
The marriage ceremony was almost finished. It was time for the civil wedding. The groom’s younger brother had informed me that the witness from…
From the Director
The Cry of the Poor
As I write this, I just got off the phone with Father Bill Morton. You remember Father Bill. He is the Columban priest whose parish in Juarez, Mexico, abuts the U.S. border just west of El Paso.
This morning the problems at the border were featured on the national news, so I thought I would call Fr. Bill and find out what was happening from his vantage point. When I called he happened to be in conversation with a woman who is about to apply for an emergency visa so she can attend her brother’s funeral in Oklahoma. Family ties are strong, and they need to be attended to in times of grief. But so often the government rules and regulations prevent a nimble response. I hope she can travel.