Past Magazine Stories

Unfortunately, their situations are not uncommon in Korea. Many migrant workers enter relationships only to find themselves abandoned and left to raise their children…

The photo shown here, enlarged to life-size, stood beside the altar when our deceased Holy Father Pope Francis celebrated a Mass for peace on his visit to Japan in 2019.…

Playfulness is something we expect to see in a child. Yet, it truly is a source for healthy living and relating for all of us, offering joy and creativity to every aspect…

Many times, I have recounted my vocational journey and how reading the novel, The Song of Bernadette by Franz Werfel, changed my life’s trajectory. However, what I never…

I often see poor children in Pakistan who ride to school on old motorcycles with their fathers in the mornings.

The last four years I was in Korea, I was blessed to be able to live in a community of Columbans—three Sisters, a lay missionary, and myself, the priest. We lived in a…

I began my active participation in the Laudato Siʹ Movement last year (2024) when I attended the Laudato SiʹAnimator’s Course. Since then, I have continued to join online…

Bishop Susitino Sionepoe SM was installed as the new Archbishop of Nouméa in New Caledonia, in the French Pacific on Saturday, April 12, 2025. Archbishop Sionepoe is a…

It is some four years since I last visited Saliadrau. When I left, some asked me to get them a statue of Our Lady of Fatima. This past summer when in Ireland, the Fatima…

What happens when the pulpit disappears, and all you’re left with is silence, canvas, and the Word? During Holy Week 2022 — still marked by the COVID-19 pandemic — I…

Columban Fr. Bill Brunner keeps his eyes open for seashells, which are plentiful in the Ocean State, Rhode Island, where he lives. The Columban Fathers have their own…

In Pakistan, I work at three shelters, referred to as “hostels,” which provide food, lodging and education to over 100 girls aged seven to twenty who come from difficult…