What is our contribution as Christians to the bigger Society? Perhaps there’s a lot to tell but nowhere to start! It was a blessing to listen to one of the older local…
November 2024
November 2024
Alicia and her husband were good, practicing Catholics, in a working-class residential area of Chile’s capital city, Santiago, where the Columbans administered a parish,…
On the day I left for Chile from Korea, I really didn’t feel that I was going to Chile, even at the airport. Chile was too far from Korea, and it was a country I had seen…
I think that for most of my life I have agreed with the water rat in The Wind in the Willows. “Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so…
On May 20, 2023, the Diocese of Karachi reached 75 years. Established on May 24, 1948, the Inaugural Mass of the Jubilee Year was celebrated on Pentecost Sunday, May 28,…
The South American country, Colombia, suffered a devasting bloody civil war for decades. The country experienced communities vs. communities, neighbor vs. neighbor,…
It’s the closest I will ever get to feeling like a father! As I approach the end of seven years as a Columban formator in Suva, Fiji, I look back with affection to the…
“Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God has forgiven you.” Ephesians 4:32 Forgiveness is a profound act that resonates…