Columban Fr. Daniel O’Connor is part of a small group of eight in the Hyderabad Diocese, Pakistan, where they manage a health and tuberculosis…
The Christmas/Epiphany cycle offers us generous glimpses into the mystery of the birth and manife
I would like to share with you one of the most delightful Christmas presents that I have ever received. In the mission parish of Katase in…
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be fe
The story begins in the early morning hours of December 9, 1531, when a 57-year-old Indian peasan
Christmas is a festival of children. We see images of a child born in a stable surrounded by animals with Mary and Joseph by the crib. Although…
A couple of years ago, before starting the Christmas Mass, in a chapel in the southern area of th
As Christmas draws near my thoughts go back to 1973 and 1974 when I was in Korea.
The Subanens are an indigenous people whose ancestral habitat is the highlands of northwest Mindanao in the Philippines. When the Columban Fathers…
At Christmastime we are drawn to reflect on our place of belonging, our "home." This sense of bei