Editor’s Note: In November 2015, Julia Corcoran spent a week with Columban lay missionaries from Chile and the Philippines who are working in Britain.
Past Magazine Stories
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June/July 2016
The Ladies Ancient Order of Hibernians is a Sisterhood of Irish and Irish-American, Catholic Women.
May 2016
Welcome to Peru, Land of the Incas (Land of the Kings). Many would say that you’ve never really been to this resplendent country until you’ve set foot in the majestic and…
May 2016
My name is Teakare Betero, age 28, and I have been with the Columbans for five years now. At the moment I am studying at the Pacific Regional Seminary.
May 2016
In 2007 my father talked to me about the possibility of going overseas as a lay missionary.
May 2016
I came to live in Fujisawa after getting married 58 years ago. I have been fortunate with my health.
May 2016
We rejoice in the great gift of life. But as we grow older this gift is overshadowed by experiences of illness, pain, and loss.
May 2016
It has been nine years since I started working as a personal counsellor in a Boy’s Secondary School in Dublin, Ireland, and also nine years since I started working in The…
May 2016
Shusaku Endo, a Japanese novelist, died in 1996–almost 20 years ago. In Japan he is still featured regularly in television programs, magazine articles and exhibitions.
May 2016
Editor’s Note: On Monday, November, 23, 2015, Columban Fr. YoungIn Kim celebrated the Feast Day of St. Columban in Cuzco, Peru.
May 2016
My first experience of engaging in pastoral ministry in Japan was at a residential center, run by the Daughters of Charity of St.
