One of the striking aspects of spending four months in San Antonio, Texas, is the very Hispanic/Mexican feel of the city as well as the way it…
Columban Fr. Daniel O’Connor is part of a small group of eight in the Hyderabad Diocese, Pakistan, where they manage a health and tuberculosis…
The Christmas/Epiphany cycle offers us generous glimpses into the mystery of the birth and manife
I would like to share with you one of the most delightful Christmas presents that I have ever received. In the mission parish of Katase in…
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be fe
The story begins in the early morning hours of December 9, 1531, when a 57-year-old Indian peasan
Christmas is a festival of children. We see images of a child born in a stable surrounded by animals with Mary and Joseph by the crib. Although…
A couple of years ago, before starting the Christmas Mass, in a chapel in the southern area of th
As Christmas draws near my thoughts go back to 1973 and 1974 when I was in Korea.
The Subanens are an indigenous people whose ancestral habitat is the highlands of northwest Mindanao in the Philippines. When the Columban Fathers…
