Blogs and Articles
Blogs and articles written by Columban missionaries covering the broad range of Columban mission.
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10th November 2011
Threats to the Amazon
by Fr Sean McDonaghI recently spent a week in Iquitos on the Peruvian Amazon attending the Second Franciscan Seminar on the Amazon. The theme of this year´s seminar was “Defending the territory and the waters of the Amazon.” The day before the seminar began, I had the privilege of spending four hours with Jose Alvarez Alonso, who is a researcher at the Institute for Investigation (Research) into the Peruvian Amazon and is based in Iquitos.
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8th November 2011
Women in the Church – Thoughts from a Laywoman
by Ellen TeagueA talk given by Ellen Teague on 3 November 2011 at the Sacred Heart Church in Bilton, Rugby, as part of their series of talks ‘Living Faith and the Future of the Church’.
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21st October 2011
Westminster Archdiocese to “build peace with the 2012 Games”.
by Ellen TeagueDays before the United Nations in New York passed a resolution on Monday supporting an Olympic truce for next year’s London 2012 Games, Westminster Archdiocese launched its own peace initiative for parishes linked to the Games. Columban Justice and Peace was represented by Ellen Teague, who ran a Columban stall.
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19th October 2011
Anti-mining priest murdered in the Philippines
by Fr Frank NallyThe Columban Solidarity Desk laments the killing of an Italian missionary priest in Mindanao on 17 October.
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17th October 2011
We Can’t Live on the Internet – a Reflection for World Food Day
by Ellen TeagueThe following talk was given by Ellen Teague during the evensong service for World Food Day – 16 October – in the Chapel of Hertford College, Oxford University at the invitation of the chaplain, Revd Gareth Hughes.
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2nd September 2011
September Appeal
by Fr Tom O’ReillyThe Columban Director in Britain – Fr Tom O’Reilly – has written to Columban benefactors
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18th August 2011
HEROES? I DON’T THINK SO! ‘A response to ‘The Real Heroes’ by Fr Pat O’Beirne
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18th August 2011
THE REAL HEROES. by Fr Eamonn O’Brien
by Eamonn O'BrienTHE REAL HEROES.
Fr Eamonn O’Brien, Director of Cultural Exchange with China, writes about the labourers underpinning China’s growth and development.
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23rd June 2011
Food – Taking back responsibility
by Ellen Teague“Eleanor’s courgette has grown so much this past week, and she’s checking it all the time”. My friend’s young daughter was in the children’s programme at the National Justice and Peace Network of England and Wales Conference last weekend in Derbyshire – ‘Our Daily Bread – Food security, People and Planet’.
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23rd June 2011
No patents on life
by Ellen TeagueI was married in 1980. Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador was martyred in 1980. Solidarity challenged the Soviet-backed government of Poland in 1980. The Iran-Iraq war broke out in 1980. Yet, perhaps more momentous than any of these was a landmark case in 1980 in the U.S. Supreme Court where a judge ruled that, for the first time, forms of life could be patented. A scientist, Ananda Chakrabarty, was permitted to patent a bacterium that he had genetically engineered to digest oil spills.
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