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April 11, 2021

What will it take for a post-racist world?: Columban Competition: Third place UK essay

Continuing our review of the Columban school’s competition, this week we publish the third place essay, by Cara Treacy, 16, from the Sacred Heart of Mary Girl’s School, Upminster, East London. One day, there may be a world where people can learn and look at racism as something that happened generations ago, as something that... Read More
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March 28, 2021

Let’s create a world without racism: Columban Competition: Winning UK essay

The winning entry for Britain in the Columban Schools Competition, ‘End Racism’, was submitted by 15-year-old Kashaf Zahid, a pupil at Gumley House Convent School in Isleworth, West London. Here is her article, with comments below.  My sister was sitting on the seat in front of mine, in a double decker bus. The bus is... Read More
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February 12, 2021

Solidarity, not competition, must rule vaccine rollout, priest says

The only ethical and practical response to the coronavirus pandemic is solidarity, not competition – including when it comes to the vaccines, said a priest working on the Vatican Covid-19 Commission. The need to develop and widely distribute vaccines for the coronavirus is the perfect example of how prioritising solidarity serves the common good, a lesson Catholic... Read More
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October 11, 2020

Photography competition highlights sixth form students’ experiences of lockdown

A photography competition set up for sixth form and further education students to reflect on their environment and surroundings has revealed how students in Yorkshire and the North of England have experienced lockdown. Organised by Leeds Trinity University’s photography department, the competition was open to students in the UK. More than 30 students across 17... Read More
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October 7, 2020

Columbans launch schools essay competition to ‘End Racism’

‘Let’s Create A World Without Racism’ is the theme for a schools’ competition launched by the Columban Missionary Society, writes Ellen Teague. The objective is to encourage students aged 14-18 years old to use their media skills to look at a topical issue which is relevant to society today and resonates with Catholic Social Teaching.... Read More
News – UK and Ireland
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March 17, 2020

Columbans announce winners of ‘Throwaway Culture’ competition

A pupil from All Saints School in Sheffield, Kit Bell, has won the writing section of the Columban Young Journalists Competition in Britain on the theme, ‘Tackling our Throwaway Culture’. John Vidal, former environment editor at The Guardian, felt Kit’s article was a “strong” entry with “good links made between poverty and environment”. Ruth Gledhill,... Read More
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