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Meet a Columban

Fr. Jim Mulroney interviews fellow Columban priests, sisters and lay missionaries. His guests give their perspective on how they became missionaries, and the countries and missions where they live and work. The videos were produced by the St. Columbans Mission Society in Australia.

Columban Fr. Jim Mulroney speaks with Fr. Dominic Nolan SSC who has spent most of his missionary life in the Philippines working in parish ministry, ecology work and bible study programs.

Columban Fr. Jim Mulroney speaks with Fr. Peter O'Neill SSC who is the Columban Leader in Australia and is also the Peace, Ecology and Justice coordinator for Australia.

Columban Fr. Jim Mulroney speaks with Fr. John Hegerty SSC who has been in Peru since 1971. Born in 1941 in Redesdale, central Victoria, he grew up on his parents’ 1,700 acre sheep and cattle and rotational cropping holding, called Summer Hill. He joined the Columbans at the age of 23.

Columban Fr. Jim Mulroney speaks with John Din from the Philippines who has been a Columban lay missionary for 29 years and now works in the area of ecology in his homeland.

Columban Fr. Jim Mulroney speaks with Fr. Colin McLean SSC who began his missionary career in the Philippines. He has a passion for drama and was appointed to Brazil in 1984 where he has continued to live and work.

Columban Fr. Jim Mulroney speaks with Irish Columban Fr. Liam O'Callaghan, who has spent most of his missionary life in Pakistan.

Columban Fr. Jim Mulroney speaks with Irish Columban Sister Kathleen Melia who worked as a missionary in the Philippines since 1976, specifically with Subaanen tribal people.

Columban Fr. Jim Mulroney speaks with Fijian Columban Fr. Pat Visanti who has been working in Pakistan since his ordination in 2017.

Columban Fr. Jim Mulroney speaks with Jao Resari, a  Columban Lay Missionary since 2005. She works with Agape Center for HIV and AIDS in Taiwan and uses her talent as an artist to promote message of solidarity with people living with HIV and AIDS.

Columban Fr. Jim Mulroney speaks with Columban Fr. Vincent Busch who has been a missionary in the Philippines since 1974. He currently works with the Subanen people of Mindanao, Philippines.