Editorial - Don't waste a crisis
What is going to happen this year? What has happened to you already? I hope it was something good. A friend of mine heard this comment, ‘Don’t…
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Why go back?
Staying with them, dying and being buried with them is a proven powerful witness. It denies we are there for some motive of our own.
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NZ link with Bishop Galvin
There is an interesting plaque beside a bell hanging in the grounds which tells a fascinating story of Catholic missionaries in China and their…
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Where women rule
With China's present rapid economic development, what might be the challenges faced by the indigenous peoples of the country?
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Greening Redemption
A few years back I wrote about two hundred years of Catholic attitudes to the environment in Australia. When doing my research it was a privilege…
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Reflection - Keep your eye on the ball
Our capacity for self-delusion is seemingly endless and never more pronounced than when it serves to distract us from the inevitability of death.
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An a.m. with the P.M.
Last Saturday morning 22nd November Kevin Rudd the Australian Prime Minister left the bitumen roads of the city and followed the rocky, dusty…
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This is their clinic
Since 1929 Columban priests have served the people of Our Lady of Remedies parish in Malate, Manila. This was the first Columban parish established…
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Pakistan revisited
The further you go away from the cities you get a sense of little if any progress. Families are really struggling and live from day today. If…
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Mission World
Catholics in Pakistan face up to challenges of living in a Muslim country. Iris George used to hide the chain with a cross around her neck to…
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From the Director - Light and hope begin in darkness
The long cold, wet, dark nights not only made for a more festive atmosphere and keener appetites but they made more sense of Christmas and New…
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Singing for the Lord
After the celebration of the Eucharist at the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Suva, Fiji one Sunday morning, a few of us were exchanging pleasantries…
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The wisdom of children
St Columbans Mission Society ran a competition in the Mission Activity Pack which was sent to schools in October for Mission Month.
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She was my cousin
An aspect of our work with immigrants in Ireland is educating Irish people on migration.
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The Way We Were
Throughout 2009 we will feature stories from the archives of The Far East. A page from the past helps us to remember people and events that were…
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