Christmas is really the time to celebrate children’s rights and to renew our commitment and determination to continue taking a stand for them, protecting, rescuing and…
Past Magazine Stories
Below are stories from past issues of Columban Mission magazine. The Columban Fathers publish Columban Mission magazine eight times a year. Subscriptions are available for just $15 per year. Sign up to receive our next issue. Read more about Columban Mission magazine.
December 2024
I like Christmas lights. In many suburbs of Australia where I live there are marvelous displays of Christmas lights. In the northern hemisphere I enjoyed the lights with…
December 2024
As a child growing up in Nebraska, Christmas was always a Winter Wonderland of cold and snow. This was further emphasized through the television Christmas specials such as…
December 2024
A bomb went off during the celebration of Mass on the first Sunday of Advent last year in Marawi in the Philippines. Three people were killed and a number of others…
December 2024
It was the second week of December! That especially busy season before Christmas was upon me. Besides that, the winter heavy grey skies were getting to me. I first came to…
November 2024
Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, I had not been able to visit the border between China and North Korea since 2015. Fortunately, I finally got the opportunity to visit…
November 2024
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
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,…
November 2024
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…
November 2024
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…
November 2024
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,…
November 2024
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…