"Houses of Horror" is how one visitor described the centers where children are held illegally behind bars or in cages.
June/July 2017
Since first coming to Japan as a missionary 60 years ago I have had a cultural curiosity! It is still with me. It makes missionary life interesting.
"Abba, call me that," my host father responded when I asked him how I should call him. Abba is the Hindi (Indian) word for father.
I met the Columban Fathers for the first time in my hometown, Seoul, during the summer of 1953. Korea was at war then.
Pope Francis continually reminds us that the Church is missionary and is called to reach out to the poor, to sinners, to unbelievers and to those who live on the margins…
My only contact with the Columbans before going to the seminary in Suva, Fiji, was when Columban Fr.
The Ai Jia Development Center was founded by the Hsinchu Catholic diocese in Taiwan to help and support mentally challenged adult students.
Audy was a bright-eyed, smiling three-month-old baby who arrived at church for her baptism in the arms of her proud father, Jason.
Sociologists claim that one of the major problems in much of the world is that nowadays people only listen to, read of and converse with people who think the same as them…
I first encountered Tien in Tokyo. He had traveled there from Australia, while I had come from Ireland.