On the first Saturday of January 2025, I took a group of our altar servers to a small town at the foot of Mount San Gorgonio near San Bernardino, California. The mountain…
Past Magazine Stories
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June/July 2025
Some people say to me: “So, you live in Rome. You’re supposed to be a missionary. That doesn’t sound very missionary.”
It certainly wasn’t said to St. Peter when he…
June/July 2025
The members of the international Catholic community at the Holy Family Catholic Church, Wuhan, China, after processing out of the church, gathered in the church courtyard…
June/July 2025
I have had an interest in politics since my days in the Young Christian Workers (YCW), way back in the sixties. Many YCW members in the fifties and sixties, formed in a “…
June/July 2025
Where does my own commitment to justice and peace come from? Growing up in London, I was sensitized by my parents, inspired by their Catholic faith, showing compassion to…
June/July 2025
Justice is one of the four cardinal virtues, and there are many ways in which it is practiced. “Social” justice became important in our understanding beginning with the…
May 2025
Abi Yendole was the faith in Action volunteer for 2024 with the Columban missionaries in Britain. Her weeks were filled with engagements in the areas of JPIC and IRD.…
May 2025
Nurturing life-giving relationships between people of different faiths and backgrounds has been identified as one of the Region of Britain’s mission priorities over the…
May 2025
Marion Carroll grew up in a very different Ireland, where the arrival of the Far East magazine every month was a highlight, providing a glimpse into the world and peoples…
May 2025
John P. O’Brien was born in Donamon, Co. Roscommon, Ireland, on December 1, 1918. He wrote the following letter to Fr. John Blowick, Director of the Columban Fathers, on…
May 2025
On May 13, 1947, four Missionary Sisters of St. Columban left Ireland for our first foundation in Burma (now Myanmar), a country that was once known as the rice bowl of…
May 2025
As Columban missionaries, we try to live out the Gospel message through witnessing the love of God to others, especially in responding to our mission priorities of…