Jesuits
(From Joe Shum, WYHK '67)
With the passing away of Fr. Coghlan who was the youngest member among the more than a hundred Jesuit priests sent from the Irish Jesuit Province throughout the past century, it signifies the end of an era.
Since the first arrival of Frs. George Byrne and John Neary to Hong Kong in December 1926, for the next hundred years these dedicated educationists and learned men from faraway Ireland had contributed the prime of their lives to serve the people of Hong Kong, China, Malaysia, Singapore, and Macau. In particular, the two Wah Yan Colleges and Ricci HKU would not have been without their dedicated services, care, management, and intellect. In this particular forum group we are especially fortunate and grateful to have been personally guided and cared by them during our formative years.
The Vatican has just announced today that Pope FRANCIS has appointed the Reverend Stephen CHOW Sau-yan, a member of the Society of Jesus, as the new Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong.
Rev. Stephen CHOW, S.J., Bishop-elect, is aged 62. He was born in Hong Kong in 1959 and was ordained a priest in Hong Kong in 1994. He holds a Doctorate in Education from Harvard University, USA. Currently he is Provincial Superior of the Jesuit Chinese Province and Supervisor of Wah Yan College (Hong Kong and Kowloon).
Click here to read the whole article from Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong.
我不認識余理謙神父（Fr. James Hurley)，只從別人口中聽到過他的名字。報章近日報道他的死訊，我才從他的作品丶訪問和別人的敍述中認識他，驚覺香港曾經有一位這麼關心學生丶青年人丶工人丶基層人士丶人權和民主，一生奉獻香港的先知性人物。
The book was originally published in Fr. Naylor website which has since been decommissioned. A snapshot of the website was found in an online archival storage preserving most of the text but not the pictures. It is still a very precious find and is uncertain how long the archived web pages will stay up before taken down making room for other sites. Read the book while you can.