According to Fr Sean McDonagh, a Columban Priest, “Learning about creation tells us who God is in our world today. This is very much in line with this new understanding that all creation is intrinsically valuable to God and we must respect it as such.”
Columban Martyrs – Philippines: In 1943, Father Francis Douglas was taken into custody by the Japanese and severely tortured. His body was never found. Fathers Patrick Kelly, John Lalor, Peter Fallon, Joseph Monaghan & John Heneghan died in Malate during the war in 1945.
The call to wonder at the beauty of creation, and in doing so give praise to God, is at the heart of most of the world’s religions and spiritualities.
In the second episode of “Jubilee for the Earth,” two members of the Columban team for justice, peace, and ecology discuss the urgent need to reimagine how our economy operates and to redefine what human flourishing looks like. In 2019, the United Nations published their “Global Resource Outlook,” which concluded that “90% of biodiversity loss …
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Remembering Fr. Popong, a man of peace and dialogue, who died on August 28, 2001 in Malabang, Mindanao.
Father Sean, from Ireland, is a Columban priest, an ecology theologian. In the video, he talks about the importance of celebrating the Season of Creation, and through this, Christian communities can come together to pray about the environment, understand creation and take action on how best to care for our planet earth.
A faith born in the shadows cast by a single candle in a tightly curtained room of a small farming village in China emerging from the repression of the Cultural Revolution in the early 1980s blossomed on February 4 in the chapel of the Columban Seminary in Manila, as Peter knelt before Bishop Honesto Ongtioco …
