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…
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.
October 2025
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…
October 2025
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…
October 2025
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…
October 2025
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…
October 2025
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…
October 2025
Happy Halloween! The phrase came from the phrase, “Hallow Eve.” “Hallow” is an Old English word that means “holy.” It is just like in the Old English Version of the Lord’s…
October 2025
Columban Fr. Frank Hoare has been on mission in Fiji for over 50 years. On April 4, 2025, his two books, A Missionary Diary and A World of Difference, were launched at the…
October 2025
Mirrihue Alto is a rural town located a little more than three miles from the village of Antuco in the Bio-Bio region of southern Chile. Some of its inhabitants work in…
October 2025
Art and culture and faith – what a broad topic. And it’s a beautiful topic! As Columban missionaries all of us get to leave our homes and go somewhere else to work, to in…
October 2025
Art and religion have been intertwined throughout human history, each influencing and shaping the other in profound ways. At their core, both art and religion strive to…
October 2025
Fr. Cathal Gallagher recalled the incident vividly. “It was in 1998. I was working in a poor parish in Lima. I got a call from a local clinic, run by the Mercy Sisters,…
