Past Magazine Stories

I am Irma Lara Cantago, a Columban lay missionary for many years. A high school teacher by profession, I was teaching for 15 years and at the same time involved in the…

"Were not our hearts burning within us while he was talking to us on the road?" (Lk 24:32)

Learning a new language is really difficult. One has to become a child again and enter an entirely new culture.

As he ends his tenure as Columban Superior General, Fr. Kevin O'Neill, shares that the 2018 centennial was an opportunity to look to the past with gratitude and "to…

I have just completed three months of pastoral work. Every Saturday I went to the Hope Center in Myitkyina. It is where HIV/AIDS patients are cared for, and I met patients…

Bartimaeus, a beggar, was sitting on the roadside, outside Jericho, blind, begging, isolated, speechless, mute. When he heard that Jesus of Nazareth was passing by He…

Recently I have been fascinated by the news of two black holes circling each other and heading towards a massive explosion.

People around the globe report increasing levels of stress. Our lives are so busy that day-to-day we feel hurried and harried.

On February 20, 2016, the strongest tropical storm to hit the South Pacific region converged on the nation of Fiji. With winds reaching 185 mph, tropical cyclone Winston…

As we Columbans enter into our second century of mission to the world, I would not have imagined myself returning to the United States to do home mission.

In recent years, Chile has received hundreds of thousands of desperate migrants from other parts of Latin America. Fr. Daniel (Dan) Harding tells the story of some of…

I wonder what the first Easter was like. How did the disciples feel about losing their teacher and friend and then realizing the truth of His resurrection? What was the…