Economic Justice

The environmental impacts of war

Nov 08, 2022
The International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict is marked on 6th November 2022.
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Christmas Message 2021 - Columban Fr Peter O'Neill

Dec 14, 2021
Columban Leader Australia, Fr Peter O'Neill shares his Christmas message to Columban benefactors, family and friends. He prays for all to be blessed with peace and joy this Christmas.
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Protecting the biodiversity of Mother Earth

Nov 11, 2021
The impacts of climate change and the loss of the variety of plant and animal life and living systems is occurring at unequal rates around the globe, and small Island nations are amongst the hardest hit.
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Religions at the Service of Fraternity in our world

Nov 09, 2021
Columban Fr Warren Kinne reflects on the eighth chapter of the Encyclical Letter, Fratelli Tutti of the Holy Father Francis, on fraternity and social friendship.
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Paths of Renewed Encounter

Oct 11, 2021
Columban Fr Warren Kinne reflects on the seventh chapter of the Encyclical Letter, Fratelli Tutti of the Holy Father Francis, on fraternity and social friendship.
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Dialogue and Friendship in Society

Sep 13, 2021
Columban Fr Warren Kinne offers some reflection on the sixth chapter of the Encyclical Letter, Fratelli Tutti of the Holy Father Francis on fraternity and social friendship.
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Renewing God’s Household in Chile

Sep 01, 2021
We Columbans, along with the people of our parishes and our Church leaders, fully support the inclusion of mechanisms to create a more equitable, inclusive and just society for everyone, especially for the most vulnerable
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A better kind of politics

Aug 10, 2021
Columban Fr Warren Kinne offers some reflection on the fifth chapter of the Encyclical Letter, Fratelli Tutti of the Holy Father Francis on fraternity and social friendship.
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Constant flame of love

Aug 04, 2021
Today, we can see this constant flame of love in the Columban commitment to Justice, Peace, and Integrity of Creation. Identified as a formal ministry in 1976, we Columbans have included work for structural change as an integral part of our missionary endeavour for more than 40 years.
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Migration - A heart open to the whole world

Jul 12, 2021
Columban Fr Warren Kinne offers some reflection on the fourth chapter of the Encyclical Letter, Fratelli Tutti of the Holy Father Francis on fraternity and social friendship.
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Sea Sunday - Apostleship of the Sea - July 11

Jul 11, 2021
Sea Sunday is the annual day in which many Christian congregations pray for seafarers and their families and thank them for their vital work
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Envisaging and Engendering an Open World

Jun 15, 2021
Columban Fr Warren Kinne offers some reflection on the third chapter of the Encyclical Letter, Fratelli Tutti of the Holy Father Francis on fraternity and social friendship.
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A man on a mission

May 05, 2021
How Irish Columban Fr Tony Coney’s concern for disadvantaged children transformed many young lives in a poor area of Lima, Peru.
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Dark Clouds Over a Closed World

Apr 12, 2021
Columban Fr Warren Kinne offers some reflection on the first chapter of the Encyclical Letter, Fratelli Tutti of the Holy Father Francis on fraternity and social friendship.
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Fratelli Tutti - A vision that is all-encompassing

Mar 10, 2021
Columban Fr Warren Kinne comments on the Encyclical Letter, Fratelli Tutti of the Holy Father Francis on fraternity and social friendship.
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Justice delayed is justice denied

Sep 22, 2020
Over a period of seven weeks, the workers worked on six different farms. When they were not paid their salaries, they asked their employer who was the contractor for their wages.
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A home away from home

Sep 22, 2020
On my visits to Warrnambool I sat with the Timorese workers to answer any questions they had about the Pacific Labour Scheme and their work rights and to give them information on Australian laws.
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A little bit of everything

May 11, 2020
Former editor of The Far East magazine, Fr Gary Walker, shares some challenges of life in the Columban house in Brisbane.
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Threads Of Hope - Remembering the workers of Rana Plaza

Apr 24, 2020
On 24 April 2013, an eight-story commercial building called Rana Plaza collapsed near the capital, Dhaka in Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring approximately 2500. The victims were all mainly garment workers.
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An alternative vision for social structure post COVID-19

Apr 20, 2020
COVID-19 has exposed structural social and economic weakness. A common good framework would have rejected policies fostering job insecurity in the ‘gig economy’ as a modern form of slavery
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