Past Magazine Stories

On Saturday July 23, 2022, Columban seminarians and their formator held two Come and See programs together in Fiji. The day long face-to-face program was conducted at the…

After a two-year hiatus due to COVID, face-to-face Art Recollection was back in 2022! The first communities that got to pray and reflect on their faith life through visual…

A Late Vocation

It has always struck me that the Fijian translation of Good Friday is simply and literally, “Day of Death.” No massaging, no theological euphemisms, just saying is “as it…

My vocational road to missionary priesthood had many invitations, but one of the most important invitations to mission occurred near the end of my first year in the…

During my sixth year in the Columban seminary in Sydney, Australia, my classmates and I were asked where we would like to work after ordination.

Columban Fr. David Arms has a gift for languages. He used his Ph.D.

“I won’t be buying green bananas again!” was Fr. Bernard’s greeting as I approached his hospital bed. He had phoned me earlier that day, requesting that I come to visit…

Jefferson lived in the transit lounge of the international airport in Santiago for the whole of January wondering if he would be deported.

The theme of the upcoming 16th Synod of Bishops in October 2023 is, “For a Synodal Church: Communion, Participation, and Mission.” Reflecting on the theme of participation…

On August 15, 2022, on the Feast of the Assumption, the Catholic Student Action Myitkyina opened its Student Learning Resources Center (SLRC), which is located in the…

“A land lost in the mists of time” might reasonably describe Sanday, an eerily beautiful speck of land set in the Atlantic at the northern edge of Scotland’s Orkney…