Skip to main content

Stories from Columban Missions

Fr. Paul and friends
Celebrating 60 Years

When I look back over the past sixty years, or seventy, considering the years in seminaries, I feel deep gratitude. First, I am very conscious of…

Statue symbolizing charity
Friendship, Unity and Christian Charity

This July (2025) the Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians (LAOH) will hold its biennial meeting in Omaha. It could not be a more appropriate city to…

Farm worker in the field
Murder of Landless Farm Worker

Shomo was a poor peasant farm laborer. In May last year, he was working alone clearing the thorn bushes from the side of a village track at the…

Fr. Al and youth from the parish
Kids in Nature

On the first Saturday of January 2025, I took a group of our altar servers to a small town at the foot of Mount San Gorgonio near San Bernardino,…

Statue of St. Peter that stands in St. Peter's Square in Vatican City, in front of St. Peter's Basilica.
Cricket in Rome

Some people say to me: “So, you live in Rome. You’re supposed to be a missionary. That doesn’t sound very missionary.”
It certainly wasn’t…

A flock of doves flying across a blue sky
Pentecost Sunday

The members of the international Catholic community at the Holy Family Catholic Church, Wuhan, China, after processing out of the church, gathered…