Past Magazine Stories

"When I left Peru to go to the Philippines, I wondered what I'd find there," observed Marisol Rojas, a former Columban Lay Missionary.

As we celebrate the Columban Mission Society's centennial, Columban lay missionary Haiti Muller refl ects on her journey in the prison ministry where she gets inspiration…

In mid-January 2018, I spent a few days with our Columban missionaries in the parish of Badin, Pakistan, before attending a meeting of our Columban missionaries living and…

Pat Visanti was born and raised a Methodist on the island of Rotuma. Rotuma is both an island and a nation.

Life begins at forty! That's what Fr. Tony Coney was about to discover as his plane touched down in Lima.

In the old world of European empires the mission of the church traveled with the expansive energy as it did previously in the age of trade routes and great migrations by…

When I was growing up, I really didn't like reciting the Holy Rosary.

Why visit the prisoners? It seems that it would be a fearful activity to engage in. Columban Sister Joan Sawyer bravely looked that fear in the face and visited prisoners…

In 2012, while I was working in a parish among the aboriginal people called Atayal in the mountains of Taiwan, we organized a pilgrimage to the northern Philippines (where…

What was the first thing you did when you entered the church today? I assume you dipped your finger in the holy water and made the sign of the cross.

I live and work in a mountainous area of Taiwan with aboriginal people.

This year, as Columban missionaries look back on one hundred years of mission, we recall with gratitude our accomplishments in various distant lands.