Author: Lynn F. Monahan

Today’s consumer-oriented societies revolve around youth culture, but it wasn’t always so. For much of history, and in some traditional cultures still, people were either children or adults. Boys were boys until they could work...

Something is often missing in the ongoing debate about migration and refugees: the “why.” Why are they fleeing from where they are? Maryknoll missioners working with the poor and marginalized around the world see firsthand what...

One hundred years ago, Sept. 7, 1918, to be exact, the fledgling Catholic mission movement in the United States that would become known globally as Maryknoll, sent forth its first four missioners. The iconic photo of those four...