Our latest issue focuses on vocation and how Maryknoll missioners around the world are continuing God’s work through their ministries. Read more about how these missioners respond to their call to serve.
Focused on Maryknoll missioners around the world working in solidarity among the poor and marginalized. Articles include issues of importance to people the missioners serve and to the Catholic Church.
A Maryknoll priest helps Small Christian Communities in Kenya get online during pandemic crisis. When the Kenyan government ordered the country into lockdown to curtail the spread of the coronavirus earlier this year, Maryknoll Father Joseph Healey remembered a quote from the movie The Sound of...
On the site of the killing of African-American George Floyd, a white, suburban Minneapolis man vows to combat racism. Late in April 1992, as I made my way home after dark in a West Philadelphia neighborhood, I was set upon by a small group of youths carrying bats and boards. Hours earlier,...
Priest from Malone, N.Y., lives out his call to missionas a Maryknoll priest associate in Bolivia.When Ronald Albarez began his internship in psychology last year, he dealt with cases of domestic violence, sexual abuse and suicide attempts. Feeling discouraged about how much violence and cruelty...
Maryknoll sister advocates for victims of Japan’s triple disaster caused by an earthquake, a tsunami and a nuclear accident. After Japan lifted its state of emergency, due to the coronavirus, on May 31, Maryknoll Sister Kathleen Reiley expressed relief that COVID-19 was settling down in the...
A Maryknoll brother teaches that love and dignity come from God.During his years of teaching English in northern China, Maryknoll Brother Joseph Bruener has found a unique way to share God’s love with his university students. He gives them a class exercise to write an affirmation about each of...
Middle school students learn how to respond as Jesus would to world needs today. After a year of participating in the Missionary Discipleship Institute with her class, a student from St. George Catholic School in Seattle said, “I have loved MDI because we don’t always stay in the classroom to...
A Maryknoll lay missioner from Kansas serves with love in Haiti, making masks for her neighbors during COVID-19 outbreak.Despite rapidly growing numbers of cases of COVID-19 and deaths in Haiti, where I serve as a Maryknoll lay missioner, many people still refuse to believe the virus is here. Yet...
Members of Maryknoll Affiliates chapters work globally and locally to make the world a better place.Pope Francis reminds us we are all called to mission. Being a Maryknoll affiliate has given me a way to answer my call. Maryknoll affiliates are lay people whose lives are centered around four...
Latest news from mission sites and countries around the world.
Jesuit Father Stan Swamy accused of being party to a conspiracy that led to violence in 2018. By...
In a new documentary, Pope Francis expressed openness to the idea of laws recognizing civil unions...
Hundreds of thousands still need urgent help following floods, with more rain expected. By UCA...
Many protesters are demanding the rewriting of the dictatorship-era constitution, under...
A 13-year-old Catholic girl abducted outside her home in Karachi, forced to marry her kidnapper....
COVID-19-related financial problems families face around the world make people more vulnerable to...
Catholic official condemns 'cruel and inhuman' act after a spate of attacks on Dalits. By Bijay...
At stake are the food security and livelihoods of millions in the region, say church and agency...
New wave of refugees prompts Church groups in Colombia to reactivate aid programs suspended when...
Italian teenager was known for using modern communication to share ‘values and beauty of the...
Maryknoll joint leadership calls Fratelli Tutti a ‘historic encyclical on peace and dialogue that...
A Philippine archdiocese expands food program in wake of COVID-19 MANILA, Philippines (CNS) -- A...
Professing faith in God as the creator of all human beings has concrete consequences for how people should treat one another and make decisions in politics, economics and social life, Pope Francis says in his new encyclical “Fratelli Tutti, on Fraternity and Social Friendship.”
Last Ash Wednesday we wistfully wondered what we might give up for Lent: Movies? Coffee? Dessert?...
My wife Geetha and I met while working in Catholic parish ministries in villages in south India. She is a medical doctor and I have...
Vignettes from the lands of mission, told by Maryknoll missioners and volunteers. These popular little stories are sometimes funny, often moving and generally inspiring encounters with people on the margins.
On Sunday, Feb. 23, 2020, there was a special ceremony for the blessing of the first child of Emmanuel and his wife Angelina at their modest tent home. Emmanuel is a member of our Church choir at our U.N. camp in Malakal, South Sudan. During the celebration, the choir...
U.N. official accuses various countries of alleged human rights abuses under the guise of coronavirus health restrictions. We are seeing a growing threat to human rights norms around the world...
Letters from our readers about past stories that include the example of women, young adults and Maryknoll missioners. Readers’ responses September 2020.
Maryknoll Magazine 2020 Centerspreads
